Do you believe in ailiens?

United States
January 5, 2007 9:23am CST
Why or why not? Ever been abducted? How do you know?
4 responses
@rusumihai (195)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
this is like the question DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? - no proof but i believe and yes i believe in aliens and other creatures
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• India
5 Jan 07
One common thread with most Sci-Fi films and television shows is that the universe is full of alien life (and they all speak English), so just how realistic is this? There is an unimaginably huge number of planets in our galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies in the Universe. The probability that there is life on other planets must be high, although the probability of them speaking English has got to be pretty low :-)Seriously, the question should be not whether there is life on other planets, but whether there is intelligent life on other planets. We believe if the conditions are right, then life will spontaneously appear. That life will continue to evolve and develop in complexity over time until the life matches the needs of the environment. For example dinosaurs were the dominant species on Earth for millions of years, compared with hardly any time at all for humans. However, they never evolved any significant levels of intelligence. They didn't need to. Man learnt to walk upright, freeing his hands to use tools. He had the need to think, to plan, to develop strategies for survival. Man became intelligent. Now don't get confused between intelligence and technology; a cave man, a Roman soldier and a "modern" man are all just as intelligent. The difference between them is time - the time needed to develop technology, to record progress for future generations and the desire to discover.What about aliens? The same applies. If the conditions are right on a planet then we believe life will emerge. Whether the life will become intelligent will depend on the environment and the needs of the life form. How intelligent they become will depend on the time they have - just imagine a civilisation that was technologically as advanced as us now a million years. We could not even begin to imagined what they could be like now (we believe that at that level of technology their biological processes will be blended with technological innovations, so that the two are merged together, but that is just our opinion).Civilisations will have a life span, some could swing between technological brilliance and the stone age. The reasons could be natural disasters (the probability of a large meteor hitting the Earth is small but over 100,000 years the chances don't look so good), wars, diseases, or even self destruction. Even so, the universe is sufficiently large that we believe there are alien worlds out there right now which have a wide range of technological abilities, from planets where the highest form of life is bacteria to planets with such advanced technology we could not even begin to imagine.
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• India
5 Jan 07
Depends on what you mean. I highly doubt that aliens have visited this planet. However, given that we keep finding more and more places on Earth where life has somehow managed to thrive, I would be amazed if there is not life elsewhere in the universe. If I were to make a best guess, it would be: There is unintelligent (animal) alien life on the other planets and moons in our solar system, as well as probably most of the solar systems near us. However, because intelligent life can be seperated in TIME as much as in SPACE, I doubt we'll come across any anytime soon.
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• India
5 Jan 07
hmm, thats a very interesting question. i have never been abducted though! and by the way, aliens don't just mean little green men from mars in saucer spaceships in search for prisoners on earth! alien life may not be about intelligent life. infact, i have heard there actually is life on mars-microscopic though and nasa seems reluctant to publish its findngs due to political reasons(don't we all know that?!) about intelligent life, i am not too sure. they may be billions of light years away, who knows? i really don't think we are anything special, and there may be life elsewhere too. by the way, it can also happen that earth is the "hell" for some other planet! we may never know!