Current Events > Do you believe in Aliens?

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Let's see what people think
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I don't understand people that don't.
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If there are intelligent aliens out there that have already conquered space travel, then they must be intelligent enough to know interfering with us would have disastrous consequences.

I think, if they do exist, they might wait until we perfect light speed travel. We gotta prove ourselves tbh
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I really don't know. Aliens freaked the hell out of me as a kid (I watched Sightings, X-Files, read that book Fire in the Sky about the alien abduction in Oregon which had freaky pictures in it, read other Young Adult fiction about aliens), and every time it just made me really anxious but I couldn't stop.

I had realistic nightmares about aliens from which I woke up completely calm (which was also nervewracking in its own way since I am very sensitive to dreams in general and if it were any other nightmare I would have woken up sweating or upset).

I've maybe grown out of it but I still think it was really intense for my childhood :\

But ultimately... I think there are other forms of life out there for sure, but I don't know any more if I believe in "the grays" (even though they still freak me out a little if I see them... couldn't sleep for two days after watching The Fourth Kind).
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Hexenherz posted...

I really don't know. Aliens freaked the hell out of me as a kid (I watched Sightings, X-Files, read that book Fire in the Sky about the alien abduction in Oregon which had freaky pictures in it, read other Young Adult fiction about aliens), and every time it just made me really anxious but I couldn't stop.

I had realistic nightmares about aliens from which I woke up completely calm (which was also nervewracking in its own way since I am very sensitive to dreams in general and if it were any other nightmare I would have woken up sweating or upset).

I've maybe grown out of it but I still think it was really intense for my childhood :\

But ultimately... I think there are other forms of life out there for sure, but I don't know any more if I believe in "the grays" (even though they still freak me out a little if I see them... couldn't sleep for two days after watching The Fourth Kind).

the x-files theme song still haunts me
the show itself not so much
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I think there are all kinds of aliens. Ones more advanced than us. Ones just like us. Ones primitive to us. There are civilizations of all stages scattered around

Oh yeah the theme song is a classic for sure.

Unsolved Mysteries, too. And they also had episodes about alien abduction and the supernatural >_>
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Humans are 4th dimensional beings.
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Yes and they could launch from their UFO launchpad in Antarctica at any moment to wipe out human civilization.
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I saw a reddit post today about how young the universe is. Only 13 billion years and it will be around for quadrillions or something. Earth IIRC is 5 billion years? Im sure there is life out there but its reasonable that they havent had enough time to progress to the point where they can travel to our system. Who knows.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I saw a reddit post today about how young the universe is. Only 13 billion years and it will be around for quadrillions or something. Earth IIRC is 5 billion years? Im sure there is life out there but its reasonable that they havent had enough time to progress to the point where they can travel to our system. Who knows.

See the thing is that time is all relative. All scientists have done is looked through time and space to a point when the galaxies were closer together and compared twinkling lights to try and get a scale on the spacetime.

Fact is they dont really know
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Yes the Universe is very big.
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If life exists on other planets, why haven't we established contact with them or they with us yet?
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I believe they exist, somewhere out there.

I doubt they've been in contact with Earth though.
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gguirao posted...

If life exists on other planets, why haven't we established contact with them or they with us yet?

1. Because the universe is too big
2. Even though there are probably many earth like planets out there, they are few in number relative to the size of the universe
3. No alien civilization has advanced far enough to communicate with us
4. Alien civilization killed themselves off before being able to contact us (nuclear technology maybe?)
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yes and they're taking our jobs!
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I think people who don't believe they are out there don't truly understand the size of the Universe. Between just the Milky Way and Andromeda, there's an estimated 1.3 trillion stars. That's 2 galaxies out of hundreds of billions and possibly trillions of galaxies.

However, contact is probably impossible due to the limits of c.
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Where's the option for "They're already among us, shaping our planet's destiny"
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