Do you believe in life elsewhere in the universe? Do you believe in UFO's (i.e. have they visited earth?)?
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Originally posted by MBM:
I'll throw something out. I'd love to see what others think.
The fact that there is life here on earth demonstrates that, by definition, there is life elsewhere in the universe. Our tiny little solar system and planet are just grains of sand in the broader sea of other galaxies, etc. If life occurred here, it has to have started elsewhere as well. In essence, we prove that life can exist. Therefore if the conditions exist here, (and we now know that there are millions of other solar systems that _could_ support life) it also exists in many many places throughout the universe.
Life is like a weed. If you see one growing somewhere, you can be pretty sure that there are others elsewhere.
The fact that we do not have current contact with "aliens" is probably more a function of our technological incapacity and the over-all size of the universe than suggesting that it doesn't exist.
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I really need to refresh my memory on some of the details regarding the statistics with respect to planets or systems that could support life.
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Originally posted by ricardomath:
No, I do not believe that any alien species have visited here.
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Originally posted by EbonyRose:
kresge ...
In this part of your post:quote:
I really need to refresh my memory on some of the details regarding the statistics with respect to planets or systems that could support life.
Are you considering the 'supporting of life' along the lines of life as we know it? Or our particular version of life? Isn't it possible that "life" could have a whole other form and different rules of existance than what humans believe it to be? And if that were the case, a planet like Saturn could have it's own variation of "life" couldn't it?
Just asking ....
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Originally posted by kresge:
I alluded in my first post for the possibility of various forms of life in the universe, including single cell organism that more closely resemble bacteria or even viruses.
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Originally posted by MBM:quote:
Originally posted by kresge:
I alluded in my first post for the possibility of various forms of life in the universe, including single cell organism that more closely resemble bacteria or even viruses.
It's interesting to contemplate that there might be life out there that is as much advanced beyond us as we are versus bacteria or a virus.
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Originally posted by EbonyRose:
My brother and I had a conversation about this on New Years and he brought up a very interesting occurrence of sorts. He pointed out that it was not too long after the alleged Roswell "incident" that the military suddenly came up with the stealth flight technology ... the ability to create and fly an aircraft that has virtually no sound. Typically, they chose to use this technology to fly aircraft that can drop bombs on somebody without being detected!!
Not to be rude or anything, but does anybody really believe that back in the 1940's that kind of technology could have been "invented" by our gov't? I mean, it was a long time before any other technology of such dynamic came out of this soil. I would only compare it to something like the telecommunications boom that only recently really took off!
I don't know, it just really gave me something to think about.
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Originally posted by ocatchings:
I do find it interesting that in that period we made severe leaps as far as air travel but know we can barely get a paper airplane to stay airborne. I look at the SR-71, developed in the 50's and still the highest flying and fastest plane on record.
There are 2 planes that do make be believe something is up
B58 Hustler, 1950's, scrapped b/c of technology. Identical to the B1 of today
The flying wing, 1940' and 1950's also scrapped but identical to the B2 of today.
Coincidence?
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Originally posted by bigdaddycc:
but I dont think they have visted the Earth...Its just way way too far.