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So do you think Aliens have ever visited Earth?

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I THINK you need to define ALIENS. Do little bacteria count? If so, I think it's possible they visited and then got destroyed in the earths atmosphere. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: So
Sigh. Do I have to address this again. See my post here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ght_key=y&keyword1=UFO

Believing UFOs are actively visiting earth requires the following assumptions.
1. There has at some point been life off earth
2. That there is currently life off earth.
3. That there is currently life off earth but relatively nearby (in this galaxy).
4. That the nearby life off earth has evolved intelligence and still exists.
5. That this intelligent life has developed a scientific civilization (see whales / elephants).
6. That the life off earth and nearby with a scientific civilization has developed spaceflight.
7. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight has noticed us.
8. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us has a means to get here in a timely manner.
9. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner has visited us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks.
10. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner and visits us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks has been able to be covered up by the government as easily explainable phenomenon.

I will accept 1-3 as extremely likely, 4 as possible and anything else as highly unlikely at best. Especially when the alternate explanation is "crackpots are seeing patterns where there are none"
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Theoretically possible, statistically, improbable almost to the point of certain impossibility.
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i don't think anyone has ever sounded like more of a douchebag in the history of the internet. no offense, i'm just sayin
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Aww, did my pointing out ridiculous of believing in UFOs hurt your feewings?
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: So
Sigh. Do I have to address this again. See my post here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ght_key=y&keyword1=UFO

Believing UFOs are actively visiting earth requires the following assumptions.
1. There has at some point been life off earth
2. That there is currently life off earth.
3. That there is currently life off earth but relatively nearby (in this galaxy).
4. That the nearby life off earth has evolved intelligence and still exists.
5. That this intelligent life has developed a scientific civilization (see whales / elephants).
6. That the life off earth and nearby with a scientific civilization has developed spaceflight.
7. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight has noticed us.
8. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us has a means to get here in a timely manner.
9. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner has visited us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks.
10. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner and visits us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks has been able to be covered up by the government as easily explainable phenomenon.

I will accept 1-3 as extremely likely, 4 as possible and anything else as highly unlikely at best. Especially when the alternate explanation is "crackpots are seeing patterns where there are none"
Click to expand...

Theoretically possible, statistically, improbable almost to the point of certain impossibility.
Click to expand...
i don't think anyone has ever sounded like more of a douchebag in the history of the internet. no offense, i'm just sayin
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Aww, did my pointing out ridiculous of believing in UFOs hurt your feewings?
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not at all. just pointing out that you sound like a fuckin douchebag.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: So
Sigh. Do I have to address this again. See my post here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ght_key=y&keyword1=UFO

Believing UFOs are actively visiting earth requires the following assumptions.
1. There has at some point been life off earth
2. That there is currently life off earth.
3. That there is currently life off earth but relatively nearby (in this galaxy).
4. That the nearby life off earth has evolved intelligence and still exists.
5. That this intelligent life has developed a scientific civilization (see whales / elephants).
6. That the life off earth and nearby with a scientific civilization has developed spaceflight.
7. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight has noticed us.
8. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us has a means to get here in a timely manner.
9. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner has visited us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks.
10. That the current life off earth nearby with intelligence and a scientific civilization and spaceflight and that has noticed us and a means to get here in a timely manner and visits us yet refuses to make contact in a public way, preferring to kidnap rednecks has been able to be covered up by the government as easily explainable phenomenon.

I will accept 1-3 as extremely likely, 4 as possible and anything else as highly unlikely at best. Especially when the alternate explanation is "crackpots are seeing patterns where there are none"
Click to expand...

Theoretically possible, statistically, improbable almost to the point of certain impossibility.
Click to expand...
i don't think anyone has ever sounded like more of a douchebag in the history of the internet. no offense, i'm just sayin
Click to expand...

Aww, did my pointing out ridiculous of believing in UFOs hurt your feewings?
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not at all. just pointing out that you sound like a fuckin douchebag.
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Read whatever you want into my post, it doesn't make my point any less valid.
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Do I believe aliens exist? Yes somewhere in the universe.

Do I believe that aliens have visted Earth? I doubt it. The vastness of space, the amount of planets, and life that is "new" to this planet (in galactic timescales).
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Do they exist? Yes.... Have they visited Earth? No....

I just don't think we are interesting enough for them to visit us. Though, the same could probably be said for Ants and humans. Ant farm anyone?
 
I say yes.

Give our species a hundred thousand, even a million years. We have done so much with just 100. If we ever find the ability to travel through space at the speed of light, a theoretical maximum velocity that may even be surpassed, wouldn't we try to find and visit other lifeforms?

And if they were developing, wouldn't we want to observe them, without frightening them while trying to learn about them?

Take a look at those released UFO sighting documents where there are signed police statements by multiple people observing a glowing ball floating and them ripping through the air at ridiculous speeds, and all the other stories of UFO's we have heard about [fake or real], and historical paintings depicting spaceships when people were traveling on horseback.


We've either been visited by aliens or (a) god, at least something unearthly with power and understanding of the universe far beyond what we have now
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Do I believe aliens exist? Yes somewhere in the universe.

Do I believe that aliens have visted Earth? I doubt it. The vastness of space, the amount of planets, and life that is "new" to this planet (in galactic timescales).
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Agreed. They're out there, they're just not coming here.
 
Yes/No question like that you'd think there'd be a pulle.

Course not. Stop taking movies literally.

Gotta wonder, if movies/tv didn't exist would threads like this ever pop up?
 
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