Aliens?

[Parsa44]

How do you know that's true? How do you know that's not an illusion?

1. How do you know it IS?

2. If those plannets didnt exist a whole bunch of things wouldn't work out for example we can mesure the gravity of a large star affecting other plannets around it.

[farscapeone]

You just think you can measure it

[Parsa44]

You just think you can measure it

You cant but there is nothing stopping us from making a scentific based educated guess on the bare minimum amount of earth like plannets out there.

[fempower]

I think it's very likely that aliens exist on a another planet in another galaxy. Statistically, it's possible and it would be arrogant for us to assume that we're the only "intelligent" life in the universe(s). I agree with sourfacedcyclop that really intelligent life might want to stay away from us.

As for why many non-scientifically non-statistically people might believe, well, for some cases, people have a need to believe in something greater than themselves (people are more likely to be depressed if they don't have a particular religion/world view/scientific view). Also, there are so many stories of sightings and many legends have a core of truth. And you just KNOW that the government does hide many things; one of which could very well be the existence of extraterrestrials (Roswell! Roswell!).

People do seem to love kitschy things hence the purchasing of the t-shirts and audio tapes, but yes, that's just dumb, especially since it's been shown to be a hoax.

[Parsa44]

I think if people learned to realise how large the universe is they would believe aliens exist, but so far away its likley we will never come into contact. (well not till year 50,000 anyway)

[chingola]

IF there are aliens... how do we know they are not more violent than we are, how do you know they just look at us like we do Utopia.... If the other planets are so old, maybe they all are gone....
The only Aliens I think are out there are the ones coming to a new country.
That does bring a good question, if a alien from another planet visited us would they be illegal aliens?

[stunna]

I have no clue but if anyone believed that their really stupid. lmao.

[Jonthefisherman]

I wouldn't call alien life a stupid lie, just I don't think its really how the media portrays it. (Little green men flying around in disks).

[One ofMany]

A few things you can never get rid of:

Poverty
Greed
Hate
Jelousy
Fear

And all of these cause conflict.

I believe that emotions came along by natural selection (luck in diversity) and because of these traits certain species began to expand in numbers due to better survival instincts and create more life and diversity of species and so on.
So it may take many thousands of years to supress these emotions of greed, jealousy and other anti-social thoughts from our species.

It's sad to think that there will always be corruption, subjugation, fear of differences, irrational preconceptions and ... ,
all we can try to do is promote understanding, tolerance, respect and enforce common (commonsense) law - even if other people believe in points of view that are generally outside rational thinking with no proof - as long as those people are not harmful and we are friendly - doesn't mean they have to be my friends.

- It's funny how the more people that have video cameras - the less UFO sightings there have been.
- If there is intellegent life somewhere out in space it would be great, because there is bugger all here on Earth.
- If there is something stupid that people will buy into (fake or not) then there is usually someone trying to make money from it.
- in the sixties people use to take drugs to make the world look weird, nowadays people take drugs to make the world look normal.

Whether or not any sought of life exists somewhere else in this galaxy/universe or it is just a phenomenon on this planet alone is unknown.
Probability suggests that it does exist elsewhere.
I think that it is probable that if intelligent life does exist in this universe that they are to far away to travel or signal here.

In an infinite universe - there are an infinite number of different probabilities.
I don't know if the universe is infinite, the big bang theory suggests it is't.
But I gotta tell you - it's really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really big. I mean, it is so big that ...

[ashhhevil]

I think people just get scared thinking that there's someone else out there. And they just wanna make sure that it isn't true. like. if someone says that your backpack is open, even though you remember closing it, you still gotta check if it's still closed.