Aliens
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Topic: Aliens
Posted By: Benjichang
Subject: Aliens
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 3:44pm
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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? -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
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Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 3:47pm
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I think it is very possible, for the same reasons you said. The vastness of the universe etc etc. But im still not ready to make a statement on if i think they exist or not. Ill get back to you.
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Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 3:48pm
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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? ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 3:53pm
I've been raised a Catholic, and I've never heard anyone (priest, religious person, teacher, etc) ever talk about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. My guess is that some would believe in it and others would deny it. It just seems that there's no way anyone can deny the existence of extraterrestrial life based soley on the fact that there is so much out there that we don't know about, yet as far as we (everyday citizens) can tell, there hasn't been too much solid evidence that there are aliens, that we know about. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
The American wrote:Posted By: DracoPlasm
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 4:53pm
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:15pm
| I'm undecided, but open-minded to the possibility. |
Posted By: Bird-Dog
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:20pm
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^^^yea, i guess I could say the same ------------- 
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Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:28pm
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:29pm
YES!!! You realize you'll probably get sued now, right? |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:45pm
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Definately possible and most likely out there. As for religion. The bible mentions God creating the universe and earth in 6 days but says nothing of him creating life elsewhere. If you want to take the bible literally (yes, Penn & Teller have an episode on that too), then there is no life anywhere besides Earth. I don't know what the other religions have to say but I'm sure no main stream religion mentions alien life either. I, not being religious and not caring what the books say, believe that there IS, without a doubt, intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. They just haven't contacted us yet. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 5:58pm
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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... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:16pm
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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.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:20pm
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Posted By: SuperXero
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:43pm
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I don't believe so much that aliens have visitied earth, but I think that people who say there's can't be/isn't life on other planets need to hit the restart button on their life, get a new perspective.
I've always had a logical/rational way of thinking, and life on other planets seems like it should be common sense by now, as it has been to me all my life. If we don't even know all the organisms on our own planet, how can anyone claim that it's unlikely for there to be life on another. ------------- Tenacious and Versatile |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 6:44pm
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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. |
Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:15pm
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very possible, i dont know, i would be very interested in them, but im sure some wierd wacko hick would assault them and they wuld kill usd all with their minds, so..... ------------- 
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Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:22pm
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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 ------------- Tippmann 98 Custom Psycho Ballistics X-Chamber P.B. Drop Forward Polished internals Lapco Bigshot 12" Macro Line Rufus Dog Double Trigger Dye Stickies Polished Receiver Halves |
Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:32pm
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yeah, but like none of the US's hardware has changed since the vietnam war, weve been using m-16s for like 30 years, abrams for how long, kinda strange, youd think we'd have new weapons, england and like every other country does
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:33pm
Perhaps you're confusing it with B-2 Stealth Bomber. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 7:36pm
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what does computer technology have to do with m-16's? and they have changed some since vietnam. what about the AK-47, it's been around since the end of WWII and some still argue that's it's the best assault rifle in the world (i disagree)
and actually the army is looking into changing the service weapon to this sexly little number by h and k of germany. last i heard it was being called the XM-8 i think. crazy sexy. the abrahms has some pretty advanced features too, it has been around a long time, but has also undergone extensive upgrades. ------------- Tippmann 98 Custom Psycho Ballistics X-Chamber P.B. Drop Forward Polished internals Lapco Bigshot 12" Macro Line Rufus Dog Double Trigger Dye Stickies Polished Receiver Halves |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:06pm
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:30pm
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Of course. I've had my share of experiences, but I'll share those later.
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Posted By: Savage93fvss
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:46pm
| Who says the life forms need oxygen? They could breathe sulfur like we breathe oxygen for all we know, or they could just not breathe, we dont know. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:47pm
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Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:48pm
| RoboCop did. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 August 2006 at 10:52pm
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Oh, I missed it then. Yeah, what Savage said...Oxygen isn't a prerequisite for life. Ever hear of anaerobic respiration? Many types of bacteria on earth produce energy this way, without oxygen.
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Posted By: darkSIDEofMOON
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 12:58am
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i believe some people think about alien life as being intelligent life. now different life forms, imo, exsist. no matter what you tell me about god or odds, i think that if we are the only planet in the entire universe that has life, what a waste we are. intelligent life i think also exsists but they don't look like us. but who knows if they act like us. which makes me wonder if they haven't gone and killed themselves and had to start over a few times. because the only thing that will bring Humans together is something HUGE, like mass extintion or aliens from another planet. and i would think it would be the same for another alien civilization. ok, i am off topic. but yes, i think there is life out there, there has to be. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 2:00am
SHARE NOW! YOU SHARE NOW! I believe life exists elsewhere. I also believe it's going to be a daaaaaaaamn long time before we encounter them whether it's us going there or them coming here. Who can say for sure though, maybe they've already visited Earth. If this is the case, somebody had better give Randy Quaid and/or Mel Gibson a call. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 3:43am
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I beleive there is life out there but I dont beleive its ever visited us, unless Einstein was a quack or these aliens chose to spend several hundread years at very least traveling here. EDIT: The real question would not be weither or not alien life forms breathed air but if they had proteins or amino acids. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 4:12am
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 4:16am
| In all probability, there is other intelligent life out there, however, I think people have much too narrow a view of 'life.' We can't think of Sentient life as only carbon based, oxygen breathing, water drinking, humanoids. |
Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 4:42am
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i do not think we are the only ones out there ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 4:52am
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there has to be life on other planets in other galaxies. I find it hard to beleive out of all the planets out there, we're the only one with life on it. ------------- X |
Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 3:11pm
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sorry bout that, Benjichang was totally right, back on the second page er so. i meant the B-2, not the u2. i'm not an idiot i just had a brain fart. ------------- Tippmann 98 Custom Psycho Ballistics X-Chamber P.B. Drop Forward Polished internals Lapco Bigshot 12" Macro Line Rufus Dog Double Trigger Dye Stickies Polished Receiver Halves |
Posted By: Jim Paint
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 4:00pm
Ya sure about that? Cherubium angels sure bear some similarity to alien citings. And really, is water and carbon based life forms necessary? ------------- 
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 5:29pm
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As to religions - Scientology is based entirely on space aliens. Then there was that suicide cult in California a few years back... And there have been others, I'm sure. As to the existence of aliens, I express no opinion, but I specifically do NOT believe or accept ANY of the currently circulated "sightings" of aliens visiting here. |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 5:45pm
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I'm sure there's life out there, probably some intelligent beings too. The Universe is just too big for there not to be anything else out there. What I also believe, is that there is probably life out there something like us if not very similar. Think about it, the universe is pretty much infinite. Somewhere in infinity, will be something resembling something else, maybe only differing very slightly. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of those out there.
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Posted By: tecumseh
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 5:47pm
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my opinion is i dont think there are any aliens out there ------------- what? |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 5:49pm
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I'm undecided but its a deffinate possibility, We dont even know all the animals and bugs and junk that exsist on this earth, let alone what all exsist out in space... ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: pbdude985
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 6:00pm
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i agree with most of you in saying that i do believe that their are other organisms out there. Like stated before the universe is just to big to not have something else out there. ------------- 
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