Do you believe in extra-terrestrial life?

[soccerstryker10]

Originally Posted by picard102

I think our concept of God's could be alien visitiors fucking with people in their spare time.

Fucking Great

[dr.chode]

Originally Posted by DudeEMETIB

Statistically, it might make sense for tons of aliens just as "smart" as us to exist....but if we encounter extra-terrestrial life, I think it'll be more like in some several hundred, or thousands years...we find like...a planet with some.."swampy" like shit...hard to explain, because who knows what sort of "ecosystems" and "life" another planet would have...but hopefully you catch my drift...I think we'll just find "animals" and "plants" ...not necessarily societies or "peoples."

sounds like dagobah, beware that vader cave.

[Junkenstein]

If i have to go on a writer's point of view on God and the Universe, i'd go with master Harlan (as Tony already quoted Sagan)

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by John Galt

I agree with the physicist in you. Where did you meet him?

He was a dick I hung out with a lot in college.

Originally Posted by standardman

I suspect Earth would be viewed as a bad neighbourhood.

I disagree. I bargain that Earth is viewed as nothing more than like, a windowsill planter. It's got a lot of plants with little things crawling all over it.

[stabbyhappy]

I think aliens come to America to learn a few things about freedom, ass kicking and eagles. Then they go back to thier planets and talk about how America is greatest place in the universe. USA! USA!

[Medium Brumski]

Sure, there's life out there somewhere.

I prefer the Ender Wiggin universe, after a few thousand years of space-travel, we've only encountered 3 other sentient species, all pretty drastically different, and we dominate all of them, Humans #1

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by Medium Brumski

Sure, there's life out there somewhere.

I prefer the Ender Wiggin universe, after a few thousand years of space-travel, we've only encountered 3 other sentient species, all pretty drastically different, and we dominate all of them, Humans #1

But what if I don't want to be turned into a tree?

[fubaya]

Originally Posted by EastTexas

I was just thinking about our media culture and aliens. It's interesting that the proliferation of "the greys" seems to be a relatively new thing. Like the last 30 years. If you watch old sci-fi tv and movies, aliens are never the greys that we now commonly associate with alien life. You'd think the beginning of the idea of the greys would coincide with Roswell from the 40's. However in tv and movies the aliens we think of weren't portrayed up until about the 80's.
I'm kind of curious where this change in perception of aliens came from and why the current one has stuck.

H.G. Wells wrote two books around the turn of the century. One featured humans who had evolved to be short with big heads and grey skin. The other was about short gray aliens with big heads and large black eyes.

Then in the 60s, the first abduction was reported. The people involved, Betty and Barney Hill, were hypnotized a few years later and described similar "greys". Oddly enough, there was a sfi-fi TV show that had aired a couple weeks before their hypnosis that featured aliens that looked and acted a lot like they described.

Then in the 80s, Roswell- which is bullshit- made the greys famous again. After that a guy named Whitley Strieber wrote a book about being abducted by these same greys. It became a bestseller and the greys became the prototypical alien in pop culture.

[Chronicle615]

I believe that there has to be something out there. Maybe not even whole adavanced civilizations, but possibly simple organic cells. The universe is just too big to say absolutely, "There is nothing out there."

[Chronicle615]

USA!! Fuck YEA!