Do you believe in aliens?

[mythlover20]

I believe in Aliens, but I honestly can not think of what the fuck they would want with us. We're not really worth anything, despite the egocentric view that we are.

I think we will eventually make contact. that the first will go VERY badly, will likely end in centuries long wars and make us even more xenophobic than we are now. I mean, seriously, aliens are usually the BAD guys in our literature. We May eventually have a civil relationship but we'll likely end up slaves or something.

Those things in the movie are probably from some obscure film or "documentary" or some such shit. Don't even need to watch it to know that.

 

[Christopher Dudgeon]

I myself bloody hope there is intelligent life out there cause there fu*k all down here!

HEHEHE

 

[Laser Priest]

I've worked with a few, actually.

Martians are assholes.

 

[Cathosach]

Of course I believe in aliens; that's why I pray to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-BQDQRL2Ys

 

[Ithera]

I believe in other lifeforms on other planets. will they ever come to visit?

No.

As for all the spooky thing in the sky, either it's all made up B.S or the government is out flying it's latest high tech do-dad with sparkly effects.

 

[TheMann]

Oh, statistically with the size of the universe being what it is, I have no doubt there are other civilizations out there somewhere. I wager a few in our own galaxy. An important factor in determining this likelihood, will be what we discover in the near future. If we find microbial life either living or fossilized, on Mars for instance, it would show evidence that the development of biological life forms may be the rule rather than the exception. This means that life will develop on a given planet under a much looser set of environmental parameters. Those life forms will either take root on the host planet and continue to develop and complex itself (Earth), or it won't be able to maybe because planetary conditions will deteriorate so the lifeforms cannot develop further (Mars, theoretically). It would strongly suggest that biological life has a tendency to pop up all over the place, making civilizations also more likely.

Do I think they've been here to butt-probe us or whatever? I highly doubt it. For all we know we may be the most technologically advanced civilization in 100,000 light-years. However, when I do think of aliens visiting Earth I'm always reminded of this skit, which is pretty fucking hilarious.

 

[Michael Hirst]

It's defintely possible but I don't think it's right to obsess over it and definitely wrong to suggest they're on Earth now hiding in the shadows.

 

[Zac Smith]

Do i believe in ET? No, do I believe that there is a chance their is life on other planets? Yes. While I don't necessarily believe that we will find a technologically advanced civilization, I do feel we will eventually find small bacteria or even small animals and insects, to me that sounds much more plausible

 

[SemiHumanTarget]

Do they exist? Yes.

Have they visited our planet or attempted to communicate with us? Not a chance.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Considering we just found a solar system that has two planets within the green zone were life might exist 20 light years away, I think It's impossible that there aren't at least a few hundred intelligent species in our galaxy alone. But the galaxy is pretty fucking big.

 

[Coller]

I don't think my definition of aliens matches the one of the OP. I do think there are other life forms in the universe. I do not, however, think they are flying around looking at rocks in Jarusalem and abducting rednecks.

Also half of those "sightings" in the video coul fairly easily be done with a powerfull search light projector. Kind of like the ones on groud zero of WTC. But weaker ones work too. I have done it a couple times with a hand held searchlight before. Noone thought it was aliens though.

 

[KrabbiPatty]

In fact we had realistic designs for nuclear powered spacecraft on the table in the 60s, when they were talking about high-end estimates being ships the size of skyscrapers capable of traveling at nearly 80% of light-speed, IN THE SIXTIES. .

Citation. This sounds very false. Why didnt we use it? Why have we not built one? Why are we still launching with rocket jets that keep exploding. This seems far too illogical.We would have used them. Plans might have existed. But practical? 100% servicable? Impossible. Its like if we had fusion for 50 years and just never used it. It wouldnt happen.

Well, it's true. The Orion Drive concept is decades old and, unless a lot we think we know about relativity is bullshit, yes it would be possible to use huge ass nukes to propel a ship to sickeningly high speeds. If we had antimatter, even better--the bombs get smaller and smaller but their yield goes up.

Basically the bomb goes off behind the ship and a big ass metal plate gets hit with the blast wave, pushing it forward. It's a manned bullet the size of a skyscraper, and designs for Orion vessels as large as modern seagoing vessels were on the table. In fact, they had designs drawn up, practical and everything, for Orion warships armed with nuclear missiles. And again, this was during the Cold War.

The reason why it never got off the ground was quite simple: the people at the top were scared that it might escalate tensions between us and the Reds, and more importantly launching one of these ships would cost huge sums of money. The technology was there, and by all accounts practical, but the political will and money wasn't.

All I'm saying is, we were THIS fucking close to, basically, Star Trek. But we ran out of money and the boss man got spooked, so it got shelved. Then NASA lost it's balls, we started farming out biding spacecraft to the lowest bidder, and now we can barely get to the moon again. But at that time, we had the capacity to do it. Just do a google search for Orion Drive and see what I mean.

 

[GundamSentinel]

The universe is really big, so it's stupid to assume were the only sentient life form around. It's statistical probability bordering on certainty.

Will we ever meet them? Who knows. It will still take a long long time, but it may be possible.

 

[Aetera]

I think that the idea that, in the entire, mind-blowingly vast universe, we're the ONLY planet that can sustain life, is simply beyond arrogant. I sincerely doubt that any have contacted Earth, but the idea that we're on the ONLY habitable planet out there is absurd.

Frankly though, I think that any race with the technological capabilities to reach Earth would have better things to do. We certainly are an arrogant species.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Believe? No. The likelihood of their existence, however, is very likely indeed.

 

[FenrirsWilly]

Yes I believe there is alien life out there, but only on the definition that alien life is life that is on another planet. What that life is could go from the smallest bacteria to another species of intelligent life.

 

[Joccaren]

Do aliens exist?
Almost definitely, though maybe not in the form of an advanced race, or even animals. Cells as a form of alien are quite likely, though we haven't found anything yet.
Have we been contacted by them?
No. Plain and simple. I see no reason to believe that we have been contacted by aliens, and would compare it to believing in god (No offence to either side): There is no hard evidence for the existence of either except for the numbers of people saying they exist.
Will we meet them?
If we manage to get of this rock, and travel the stars, then almost definitely, though it will be thousands of years in the future. If we don't, there is a chance that we might recover a satellite of some kind, even if just an asteroid with cells on it, and call that a 'first contact', though I find it unlikely. Then there is also the chance we will die off before we do, so take it how you will.

 

[Dethenger]

I do, and looking at the other replies, I'm sure I don't need to specify why; everyone here understands.

 

[BanicRhys]

I believe that aliens exist, I don't believe they've ever made contact with us, I doubt they ever will. There are possibly over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe so if it's just us... it seems like an awful waste of space.

Although I'm kind of hoping we are alone in the universe seeing as any race advanced enough to achieve interstellar travel would probably just be after our resources if they found us.

 

[atol]

Aliens are mathamaticly guarenteed. the universe is infineite, so anything that has a non zero chance of happening is guarenteed to happen, and life has happened at least once (here) so it will have to happen elsewhere.

The universe itself is likely infinite, but the observable universe is finite. Whatever you want to believe, that's a fact.

As for why I believe the universe has limits: The Big Bang created matter, but how much can it possibly have created? When the matter runs out, what then? Nothing? Nothing is not possible.

Matter does not "run out" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass].