Aliens

This might seem a little far out, but what are your thoughts on the possibility of extraterrestrial life?

I've been thinking about this kind of stuff a lot lately, especially after finishing David Darlington's, The Dreamland Chronicles, which is about Area 51 and related subjects.

To me, it seems that the universe is so incomprehensibly huge and incomprehensibly old, with unimaginable numbers of other galaxies and solar systems, that it seems that the odds are incredibly in favor of other life being out there somewhere.

Of course, if there was, wouldn't it basically blow apart most modern religions and ways of thinking? So what do you guys think?

I think there are aliens or whatever out there, and I do think they have been to earth.  Theres been just too many citings.

Do any religions at all talk about extraterrestrial life?

Im a baptist and my bible doesnt mention anything about aliens but I think gods got life on other planets far far away from ours...and the life on those planets managed to find us

I dont think we will ever get advanced enough to find them (I think the world will end first) though

^^^yea, i guess I could say the same

BooksAndLeaves wrote: XENU

YES!!!

You realize you'll probably get sued now, right?

I definately do. I've seen some weird crap. When I was little, around 5 ish, my dad and I were at my grandma's house at night. We were laying on the hood of my dad's old Blazer parked in front of the pond, skywatching. I saw a light dash across the sky. I point to it and said, "Look, a meteor." Dad of course didn't see it, it was pretty quick.

Now for the kicker: It didn't fly straight. It flew in an "L" shape, going high speeds and switching to a right angle without even slowing. I was too young to know that meteors only fly straight, and planes don't turn like that.

The creepiest part of it is the crystal clear memory I have of it, over 12 years ago...

Hitman wrote: Last summer when I was camping I saw multiple lights in the sky that had movement patterns that seemed unexplainable. Similar to DeVreni explained. Three other people with me witnessed it too.

A lot of people have seen things like that: lights in the sky performing manuevers that no known aircraft can execute. I've always wanted to see something weird like that, but I live too close to Cleveland...damn light pollution.

Somewhere out there, there has to be a planet just at the right distance from their sun to create life. I also would think that we aren't the only ones with an atmosphere, to hold in oxygen and stuff, with the many other planets out there. I believe in ET life, maybe because God wants to expirement. But if God is supposed to be all knowing, he would know what would happen instantly.

Don't make this a religious debate ok guys, really. Just stay open minded, but don't act like we are pushing our religion on others.

interesting fact from history channel*
the most advanced plane in the world as far as we know it, the u2 bomber, was built using the computer technology of the 1980's. using the technologies we have available today, i can't imagine what is possible if the u2 was born of 1980's tech.
i'm totally open to the thought of alien life but just saying that maybe some of these unexplainable manuvers in the sky are classified military aircraft... whoknows

tippmannfreak wrote: interesting fact from history channel* the most advanced plane in the world as far as we know it, the u2 bomber, was built using the computer technology of the 1980's. using the technologies we have available today, i can't imagine what is possible if the u2 was born of 1980's tech. i'm totally open to the thought of alien life but just saying that maybe some of these unexplainable manuvers in the sky are classified military aircraft... whoknows

The U-2 is a spyplane, not a bomber. And it was in operation in the 1960's.

Perhaps you're confusing it with B-2 Stealth Bomber.


Edited by Benjichang - 18 August 2006 at 7:33pm