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Thoughts?

"UFO sightings are escallating at a phenomenal rate..."

Yeah, because of increased access to communication, and increased population, which yields a spread of information that otherwise would have been unreported.




No, I do not, even in the slightest.

I lack the atmospheric vocabulary to explain most of those 'sightings', I haven't studied out of my discipline in years, lol. :(

edit: I don't 'believe', in the sense where people are inferring that these objects are extraterrestrial visitors.

I believe in life on other planets.
I do not believe that aliens have ever, or will ever visit this planet. Especially in flying round discs that - dispite being technologically advanced to get them here - are not so advanced as to avoid detection.

I want to believe in aliens or ghosts because then we'd know that the world is more interesting than we think.

Boy these aliens sure have a lot of different kinds of starships -__- Unless we're being visited by multiple species..

I bet it's just some viral marketing thing...

I read an article or something recently talking about how you would expect that Alie sightings would go up with the rise of handheld technology, but statistically that hasn't happened.


In general I think there's definitely life somewhere else...but I highly doubt they're coming over here to just hover in the sky.

given how massive the universe is, it seems that there must be ET life, as for whether it has visited this planet...

I don't necessarily believe in aliens, but I believe in the idea that "we are not alone in the universe" (cliche, I know) and the concept that our eyes may not be advanced enough to see everything in front of us (like the extra dimensional being mentioned in the phone call). I do not agree with the typical portrayal of aliens, specifically the flying space craft idea that is so amazing that it is able to enter our planet with no repercussions, yet constantly gets detected by people on cameras and by the naked eye. I think those theories are way overblown. As for Area 51, yeah, some messed up stuff is going on there, but I don't belief in the alien autopsy theories and stuff like that. I wouldn't be surprised if they were dabbling into new forms of weapons (i.e. new forms of energy weapons) or scientific strategies (e.g. weather manipulation and control - I'm not crazy, it is actually happening), but as for alien lifeform and/or technology being present there.. no, I don't buy into that.

I think considering the size of the universe, even the long odds of life aren't too bad. If it does exist somewhere, it probably wouldn't even be considered life by Earth standards - some Si based bacteria or something crazy like that.

[You guys remember that Trek episode where the mind meld was first used (first time ever!), and they found a Si based alien in a mine? They had this problem - SI based life, didn't register until Spock figured it out...]

I think it is selfish to assume that we have this entire universe to ourselves.

There has to be something, even if it's just primordial soup. Aliens do not necessarily have to be little green men.

I don't know. I saw this documentary that strongly advocated the presence of aliens with reference to the Egyptian and Aztec civilizations - how those people didn't have enough tools to design the pyramids, and even in the heiroglyphs, the 'gods' are supposedly the aliens.

I wonder where the idea of alien originated from, anyway. I mean, if we hadn't ever heard of the possibility of their being someone else out there, would we actually think about it?

Originally Posted by Faer

I don't know. I saw this documentary that strongly advocated the presence of aliens with reference to the Egyptian and Aztec civilizations - how those people didn't have enough tools to design the pyramids, and even in the heiroglyphs, the 'gods' are supposedly the aliens.

I wonder where the idea of alien originated from, anyway. I mean, if we hadn't ever heard of the possibility of their being someone else out there, would we actually think about it?

I've noticed you post quite late.

I can never sleep so I just end up staying awake. What's your excuse?

Originally Posted by RememberTwce

I've noticed you post quite late.

I can never sleep so I just end up staying awake. What's your excuse?

I'm not in Canada anymore! Home for the summer, oh yeah.

Good enough?

EDIT: The best thing about MI is, it's active all around the clock.

Originally Posted by Faer

I'm not in Canada anymore! Home for the summer, oh yeah.

Good enough?

EDIT: The best thing about MI is, it's active all around the clock.

Much better reason than me.

I'd better go to sleep, enjoy your summer!

Originally Posted by RememberTwce

Much better reason than me.

I'd better go to sleep, enjoy your summer!

Haha, isn't it?

I think of it like this:

Carl Sagan once said that the number of stars in the universe far outnumber the amount of grains of sand on our planet's beaches. It is highly likely that many of these stars have some kind of planetary system. If you were to tell me that there is nothing out there like us, I would think you were being ridiculous... or religious.

On the topic of UFO sightings, I find it highly unlikely that we would ever detect a foreign species capable of travelling trillions and trillions of miles. Not that we're that interesting to observe anyways... Have we been visited? Perhaps, but it would definitely have been in the same way we can try to communicate with a bird or a chicken, and to them, it doesn't even seem like we're there at all.

Yay for the universe. Spock is out there somewhere.