UFO\'s/ Aliens

From the God thread - I thought this to be an equally interesting topic!!!

DO YOU BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE!!!! besides stars, planets and satelites

I do believe there is something out there, the universe is a big place. I just think the distances involved are so great, that we will never see any UFOs or aliens - too far to travel.

there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world, and a good portion of these stars are just like our sun capable of having planets like earth......i\'d say there is a pretty good chance

i know there is... i have done many seances, and i talked to my brother...it was frightening.

however, i do have the opposing opinion - perhaps it is a truly subconscious thing that causes the coin to move.

Even so, that\'s pretty intense in itself.

think about this while sitting on a beach beneath a star laden sky while under the influence....it\'s a good way to feel insignificant

Harvey: distances are too great, agreed on that one. But you cant discount other modes of travel, plus more advanced technology that we cant believe to imagine.

Ofcourse there is something else out there. If we are the most superior species in this or any other universe then that is a very depressing thought.

your world and life is a state of mind , a reflection of it , if i want there 2 b aliens and ufos theres big fuck off green ones and flying saucers capable of dimensional travel and precisely disecting cattle!!!

mmm.... to moi it seems a little arrogant to beleive that \'we\' could be the only \'intelligent\' beings in a vast multi-universe of planets....

but by the same token: there are so many cooky folks out there harping on about \'aliens ate my mum\' etc etc that every time I see/read/partake in discussion about aliems\' - it\'s with a big dollop of cynicism (and hold the spelling skills)

I agree with bounce! Think about your life like this:

If YOU beleive in something - you MAKE it real..

You give something \'substance\' when you give it a name... and the human mind is a powerful thing...

Must say, it\'s a bloody interesting topic (much like the religion debate - but I don\'t even wanna get started on that one!)

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do, chicken - even if you just give a little bit of yourself and your ideas.

I also tend towards Bounce\'s opinion. Large amounts of life\'s occurances are highly psychosomatic.

Such as what *bee* stated - the seance could quite possibly have worked through pure and unadulterated psychological entrancement.

It\'s amazing what thoughts are subordinated within ourselves - it\'s amazing how little of our brains we use.

Perhaps we are concocting the aliens and demons we dream about into true beings in our subconscious mind, and storing them in the backs of our minds until we are ready to see what we have created...and use them to our advantage (Or get fucked over by them).

How do we know WE aren\'t aliens...a ball of flint on a larger being\'s jersey? Part of someone/thing else\'s warped dream? Puppets on a string? A strategic game of chess?

Somewhat crazy thoughts, yes?

Petal

Alien - foreign, a foreigner

Therefore to we are all aliens to somebody.

Oh of course theres other life out there! Theres life here so they\'ll be life elsewhere. I tend not to worry about the distance thing. Sure, its too far to travel via conventional newtonian physics but sufficently advanced technology would probably sidestep that anyway.

On that note, old buddy-boy Hawkings got a new book \"The Universe in a Nutshell\". Make for a nice light bit of before-bed reading!

Too true. I also meant it in the sense of the word inhuman.

Petal: you read any terry pratchett books? He\'s created the \"disk world\" - and a series of books based on this world of his:

....\"for, as the world tumbles lazily, it is revealed as the Discworld - flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A\'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, a turtle ten thousand miles long, dusted with the frost of dead comets, meteor-pocked, albedo-eyed. No one knows the reason for this, but it probably quantum.

Much that is wierd could happen on a world on the back of a turtle like that\".....

A world the parodies this one.. classic. It\'s nice to get caught up in the imaginings of other people...

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have you ever thought that maybe most the people you see in your life are extras - a bit like truman show i guess - that the people we actually interact with are ones who have been set on a course to meet us right from the start -
all the others are just passers by - doin their thing..
sort of explains chemistry and why your\'e more interested some people than others..
also like the theory of displacement - that humans are not from earth at all but some far off place..
that\'s why we are prone to extreme sadness...

sounds like those books would be a little bit *too* science fiction/complicated for me!

Really, I\'m just a simple soul....who is very glad she has such chemistry with the few people in her life that she has met on her course in this psychotic, sad world!

think the last thing pratchett books are is complicated! They feel like a holiday from reality! (hey thats a good line!! I\'ll use that again methinks)

Watch K-PAX. Not really an outstanding movie... But kinda cool.

Pretty nieve to think we\'re the only ones

transtemp: Yeah, Hawking seems to have gone off his nut. Him and his bloody genetically mutated cyborg theories. *grin*

Hey, Stephen was having a bad day when he said that. I\'m sure he was just kidding. He\'d probably been brainwashed by that crazy \'Captain Cyborg\' guy.

I get that heaps Lilallygrl! Fuck, exactly exactly the same thought / description!

Space travel is no sweat. Anyone heard of zero point energy?

Problem with humans is we tend to have an attitude of \'What I see is what I know, and that\'s all\'.

I don\'t really buy into that.

I\'m not going to place a bet on either side of the fence, but I\'m gonna PhunkyDave here and be neither hither nor thither.

well it would be pretty sad to think we are the most intelligent life there is, so i would hope so somewhere

Well, to get over the whole distance thing there is the possibility of wormholes. But, wormholes, as described by the equations of general relativity, are too unstable. Any wormhole connection that happens to form between two points in space should close again so rapidly that material objects cannot pass through the wormhole. If you could create a wormhole and stabilise it we could have instantaneous travel.

harvey - cool, sounds like what i need sometimes, especially when i want something and i hate waiting......

I beleive that we can not be the only beings inhabiting this infinite universe. I think it would be niave to think that.