Do you believe in Aliens? If so...

[DaGip]

...what else do you got floating around inside that freakin' melon of yours????

[grifftron]

Aliens? No...

Bigfoot? Yes.

[DaGip]

Aliens? No...

Bigfoot? Yes.

I heard they are the same thing. No?

[denominator]

Statistically speaking, aliens almost certainly exist.

[betiko]

it's quite egocentric to think our planet holds the only living creatures in the entire universe...

[warmonger1981]

David Icke and lizard people anyone?

[DaGip]

Statistically speaking, aliens almost certainly exist.

Statistically speaking, you must watch this video or DIE!

[grifftron]

it's quite egocentric to think our planet holds the only living creatures in the entire universe...

And that's a bad thing?

[denominator]

Statistically speaking, aliens almost certainly exist.

Statistically speaking, you must watch this video or DIE!

In the words of the black woman at 3:00,

Wut.

[muy_thaiguy]

Statistically speaking, aliens almost certainly exist.

Technically, Bigfoot did exist (well, the Yeti, to be precise).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

[iAmCaffeine]

If an alien in a galaxy 65 million light years away was looking at us through a telescope right now, they'd be looking at dinosaurs.

[betiko]

it's quite egocentric to think our planet holds the only living creatures in the entire universe...

And that's a bad thing?

yes because it leads to wrong conclusions. of course there has to be aliens somewhere! some life form, intelligent or not that happened to spawn under very special conditions on very special planets. the universe is unimaginably huge with uncountable glalaxies.

[grifftron]

Evidence? Show me the "aliens".

[betiko]

Evidence? Show me the "aliens".

If you stare long enough at uranus you'll see aliens I heard.
Given that the odds are on our side, you are the one that needs to provide with evidence that no life form exists anywhere else in the universe.

Epic win from betiko!

[DaGip]

This isn't really proof of aliens, but a very interesting interview with scientist Boyd Bushman of Lockheed Martin:

[notyou2]

Statistically speaking, aliens almost certainly exist.

[mrswdk]

I don't remember the part where God created the Heavens, the Earth and the aliens.

[oVo]

People are so dumb they can barely remember they're a part of nature and it is likely the aliens walking among us who have given us all of our technology. Probably because they got bored living along side the walking dead.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Evidence? Show me the "aliens".

Read Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Toilet-Head Asimov. Pretty good argument why it's pretty much a guarantee that there is e.t. life out somewhere, and accessible to the lay person [the book].

-TG

[DaGip]

I don't remember the part where God created the Heavens, the Earth and the aliens.

Your bible was plagiarized from the ancient Sumerian account known as the Book of Enki (Lord of Earth).

Here is part 1 that you can listen to for an hour or so:

[warmonger1981]

Most of Christianity comes from Ancient Mystery Religions. The cross and fish symbols were borrowed.

[iAmCaffeine]

Most of Christianity comes from Ancient Mystery Religions. The cross and fish symbols were borrowed.

[oVo]

I'm confused, is Christianity alien to most people?

[warmonger1981]

If you were a Christian in the first century it would seem so today.

[patches70]

There is between 60-90 trillion consciousnesses in this galaxy alone. All of them live in some type of civilization, though quite a few of them we human beings would be hard pressed to recognize. But there are plenty of souls with cities, technology and what not.

Across the entire universe, the number of individual consciousnesses far exceeds our ability to count. And then there are multitudes of other creatures that simply have sentience, though no consciousness. Such organisms are irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Who cares about a bacteria somewhere on some far off planet when the OP is asking about aliens and showing a picture of a fictional xenomorph.


And what is even odder, is that if we were able to develop a "universal translator" and tried to talk to virtually any of these consciousnesses, we'd get a somewhat surprising conversation. That is, the "alien" would identify itself as "human" and we would be identified as the "alien". The alien's homeworld would also translate into "Earth".
Just a non sequitur there.

The 60-90 trillion individuals may sound like a lot, but considering the vastness of just this galaxy, it's not very much at all. Considering the galaxy is approximately 186,000*60*60*24*365.25*120,000 miles across, the galaxy is sparsely populated.

Now, some of you may not believe me when I say there are that many thinking, reasoning individuals in this galaxy, and that's fine. But you could take that figure to the bank if ever the actual need arose to where you were forced to guess the number of inhabitants. Just pick a number between 60 and 90 trillion and you'll be relatively close.


And believe me when I say, of all those individuals living in the galaxy, we'll be far better off never encountering most of them. Lucky for us, we live on the edge of the galaxy, kind of the "the sticks" in galactic terms. The last thing we would want to do is to attract the attention of most of those individuals. It won't go over very well, not well at all.