Do you believe in aliens?

I believe there may be millions, if not billions of lifeforms in the vast universe.

I also believe that unless one of those lifeforms figures out how to travel through a wormhole, we will never be able to communicate with them given the distances involved (assuming Einstein was correct and you can't travel faster than light).

"RevRick wrote:

I believe that there is intelligent life in our galaxy. You can run any kind of filter from Drake's equation on down to the most pessimistically oriented version available - the sheer magnitude of the universe would greatly tend toward indicating that the probability of life would so high as to be a virtual certainty. That may not be the case, but I feel that such a case would be an variation from the norm. Even in this Galaxy, the estimates range from 100,000,000,000 to 400,000,000,000 stars, with a high probability that the great majority of those stars will have a planetary system around them, and this is a small galaxy. With the conservatively estimated number of galaxies in the universe have a low value of 100,000,000,000, and a serious number of them larger than the Milky way, and the possibility that more galaxies will be discerned with greater photographic and/or telescopic resolution..... that number slips more and more toward the ludicrously large. That does not take into account that life, even intelligent life has to exist in solely a bipedal, upright, mammalian form, let alone a multipedal variously locomotive corporeal form, and life may even exist in (or, as my profession would dictate the existence of) a non-corporeal form. (Corporeality would tend to make it easier for us to communicate with them, though (I think!) ofttimes there is a question of communication ability between humans!)

It is my belief that such beings do exist, but it may be a very, very long time before we have any form of definitive communications with who ever they are. The current transmission bubble around the Earth is approximately 130 light years in diameter. That is a very long way by current human means of mobility, but is minuscule compared with the galaxy itself. This does not take into account that the reality of a reply would only be only from the most optimist guess of a number of variables from a (we hope) civilization about 37-40 light years because nothing transmitting anything with enough energy to carry a discernible signal originated much before 1935 or so, and if they are intelligent, one could have reasonable doubts about whether anyone reading most of those early signals would want communicate with us.

Now, all of this could blow up like a soap bubble in a prickly pear. Maybe, just maybe, some of the UFO reports are not "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese or a fragment of underdone potato. If so, all bets are off, but it will not affect my thoughts about the existence of life, intelligent, at that, elsewhere than on the Earth.

You could have just said, "yes". :shifty:

He means "yes", Rob.

"CashInFist wrote:

I voted "Yes" because of how vast the universe is.

Also, the Vatican recently came out and said that it was probable there are aliens out there. I thought this was very peculiar because their stance forever until this was that there were none. What do they know now?

How does the belief in extraterrestrial Aliens and intelligent life mesh with your "Christian Beliefs"? Are you also Catholic?

Personally, I'm agnostic and pretty sure that we're the alien life forms on planet earth. :tongue2:

"cuchulainn wrote:

You could have just said, "yes". :shifty:

He means "yes", Rob.

Just saw this. :lol:

"cuchulainn wrote:

How does the belief in extraterrestrial Aliens and intelligent life mesh with your "Christian Beliefs"? Are you also Catholic?

Personally, I'm agnostic and pretty sure that we're the alien life forms on planet earth. :tongue2:

I've seen an alien spaceship in the sky. I was drunk though, and peeing over a balcony at a party. It was a green light in the sky very close. Then it made like a NIKE swoosh mark and was gone. Everybody laughed at me when I ran inside and told my story. LOL

That REALLY happened though...

"cuchulainn wrote:

How does the belief in extraterrestrial Aliens and intelligent life mesh with your "Christian Beliefs"? Are you also Catholic?

Personally, I'm agnostic and pretty sure that we're the alien life forms on planet earth. :tongue2:

Also, I was raised Catholic and was even an Alter Boy. Went through 2 Priests and wasn't molested even once. And I was a DAMN cute kid. Went to CCD my whole childhood.

"CashInFist wrote:

I've seen an alien spaceship in the sky. I was drunk though, and peeing over a balcony at a party. It was a green light in the sky very close. Then it made like a NIKE swoosh mark and was gone. Everybody laughed at me when I ran inside and told my story. LOL

That REALLY happened though...

"CashInFist wrote:

Also, I was raised Catholic and was even an Alter Boy. Went through 2 Priests and wasn't molested even once. And I was a DAMN cute kid. Went to CCD my whole childhood.

Mesh these two posts together.

Thats all we will ever need to know about anyone from West Virginia.

"CashInFist wrote:

I've seen an alien spaceship in the sky. I was drunk though, and peeing over a balcony at a party. It was a green light in the sky very close. Then it made like a NIKE swoosh mark and was gone. Everybody laughed at me when I ran inside and told my story. LOL

That REALLY happened though...

Sounds like you were drinking Mad Dog 20/20, staring at ceiling light, and peeing over the side of a tub.

No wonder they didn't believe you. :shifty:

"bigbry wrote:

Mesh these two posts together.

Thats all we will ever need to know about anyone from West Virginia.

Go smoke your weed you hippie. LOL

"Aqua4Ever04 wrote:

You mean the two priests went through you, right?

Lol

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Aliens or not, there sure have been a lot of foremost authorities coincidentally dying over the years.

"ToddPhin wrote:

Aliens or not, there sure have been a lot of foremost authorities coincidentally dying over the years.

Seriously?

#1 Aliens don't think of themselves as aliens.

#2 To them, we're the aliens

"Bpk wrote:

#1 Aliens don't think of themselves as aliens.

#2 To them, we're the aliens

That was very profound Bpk.

Said nobody ever. :lol:

"CashInFist wrote:

That was very profound Bpk.

Said nobody ever. :lol:

I wanted you to get it.

"CashInFist wrote:

Seriously?

Too many names to list so I'll direct you to the article.

"Is Someone Killing our UFO Investigators". http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_scientistkilling03.htm

"ToddPhin wrote:

Too many names to list so I'll direct you to the article.

"Is Someone Killing our UFO Investigators". http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_scientistkilling03.htm

Holy S**t...

I had to fire a couple of aliens.
I would rehire them if they got legal.

"WELDERPAT wrote:

I had to fire a couple of aliens.
I would rehire them if they got legal.

Why would they ever want to become legal? They get free healthcare, education, a driver's license, a social security card, food stamps, and welfare checks by being illegal in the USA...

"CashInFist wrote:

Why would they ever want to become legal? They get free healthcare, education, a driver's license, a social security card, food stamps, and welfare checks by being illegal in the USA...

One word, WestVirginia

"bigbry wrote:

One word, WestVirginia

Pretty sure there aren't many illegal aliens here bro. However, there are numerous losers on SSI. Pisses me off when I know they are very capable of actually, ya know...WORKING...

To be honest, I think there is life of some kind on a majority of planets. Especially if the planet has water.

"bigbry wrote:

One word, WestVirginia

it's two words you dolt.

West "by God" Virginia

"McLovin wrote:

it's two words you dolt.

West "by God" Virginia

That's 4 words. LOL

"CashInFist wrote:

That's 4 words. LOL

ha.