Do you believe in Aliens?

[TorqueConverter]

No, there is zero evidence to suggest that life outside our solar system exists. You could have all the building block of life just sitting there on an alien world and it could remain just that, building blocks of life just sitting there as lumps of carbon, oxygen and phosphorus. To think life must form whenever the the conditions are ripe is wishful thinking. Life values the formation of life from the building blocks over the building block of life just remaining lifeless building blocks. What's so much more valuable about animated, living, lumps of carbon over just lumps of carbon? Sounds life a bad case of wishful thinking to me.

I want to believe aliens exist. I really do. I want to believe they have visited earth throughout history. I don't confuse what I want to believe with what I do believe.

 

[rutger5000]

Yes and no. The existance of alliens is a statistical fact, the impossibility of them ever reaching eath a relativitical one. You're speed can not be higher then c (and it's still unthinkable for humanity that a spacecraft would reach a speed higher then 0.75c), Therefor it would still take at least 15 years or so for an alien species to reach earth (assuming they live as close as possible to us). That's an awfull long time to travel to a place, to meet people you're not yet in contact with. I would first try to communicate with them before I undertake the massive project of sending people there. If I fail to make contact I won't even consider going to all the trouble of getting there.

 

[joshuaayt]

I do believe in the possibility of alien life. I don't believe there's any real chance we'll encounter such beings- either due to distance and technical infeasibility or general disinterest on their part.

I just can't get over the idea that, for all we know, there are massive interstellar wars taking place as we speak. Wars that we'll never know of, that will never affect us. Lasers bouncing around in space we couldn't even begin to see with our limited vision.

 

[Chefodeath]

Yes and no. If they have, I imagine they would have exterminated the blight that is the human race, or at least close.

You know, even saying that you think the aliens would care enough to destroy us speaks of a supreme kind of arrogance.

I'm reluctant to either ascent to or deny the possibility of aliens because we still don't have a good idea of how often biogenesis occurs in nature. Still, the universe is disgustingly huge, so I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative.

As for aliens visiting earth, I highly doubt it. The same thing which makes me say that aliens probably exist, the utter hugeness of space, is the same thing which makes the chance of contact utterly miniscule.

Edit: So apparently this is my 666th post. Um...Hail Satan?

not really. When we manage to travel the stars we will sow destruction and death across the galaxy. It's a smart move to kill us now.

Thats not only arrogant but illogical as well. You assume that we as a species can reach a technological level capable of intersteller travel and wide range destruction before curbing our instincts towards violence. A perpetally aggressive species extinguishes itself long before it could ever threaten other sentient life.

 

[spartan231490]

Yes and no. If they have, I imagine they would have exterminated the blight that is the human race, or at least close.

You know, even saying that you think the aliens would care enough to destroy us speaks of a supreme kind of arrogance.

I'm reluctant to either ascent to or deny the possibility of aliens because we still don't have a good idea of how often biogenesis occurs in nature. Still, the universe is disgustingly huge, so I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative.

As for aliens visiting earth, I highly doubt it. The same thing which makes me say that aliens probably exist, the utter hugeness of space, is the same thing which makes the chance of contact utterly miniscule.

Edit: So apparently this is my 666th post. Um...Hail Satan?

not really. When we manage to travel the stars we will sow destruction and death across the galaxy. It's a smart move to kill us now.

Thats not only arrogant but illogical as well. You assume that we as a species can reach a technological level capable of intersteller travel and wide range destruction before curbing our instincts towards violence. A perpetally aggressive species extinguishes itself long before it could ever threaten other sentient life.

Based on what evidence. This is the most ludicrous statement I've ever heard, and it's based on who knows how many poorly thought out movies and animes and ect. All real life evidence points in the absolute opposite direction. We have been killing each other and becoming more advanced ever since we arrived on this planet. Neither of those things shows any inclination to change any time soon. Or any time in the future. Killing each other hasn't stopped us from reaching this point, if anything it's sped us up because it gives us a reason to have better tech than the other guy. I see no reason, logical or otherwise to cause this to change.