Ok TB folks. Lots of news the past week on UFO’S (Not a fan of UAP terminology). Do you believe in UFO’s or non human intelligent life? Would you want to know the answer if available? How much would confirmation change this?
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What ya think UFO’s
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They should statistically exist. By any reckoning, based on the number of stars and possible number of planets, it seem highly unlikely that ours is the only planet with life on it.
What life looks like on another planet is, I think, impossible to guess at, so it might be under our noses and we don't realize it.
As far as little gray men flying around in saucers abducting people and doing weird things to them, I'm a little skeptical. But I suppose it is possible that something from somewhere else has done a drive by on this planet.
Confirming the existence of something like that wouldn't be particularly world shattering to me since I don't take a human centric view of the universe. As a matter of fact, I would be sent into a tailspin of existential angst if there wasn't life on other planets.
What life looks like on another planet is, I think, impossible to guess at, so it might be under our noses and we don't realize it.
As far as little gray men flying around in saucers abducting people and doing weird things to them, I'm a little skeptical. But I suppose it is possible that something from somewhere else has done a drive by on this planet.
Confirming the existence of something like that wouldn't be particularly world shattering to me since I don't take a human centric view of the universe. As a matter of fact, I would be sent into a tailspin of existential angst if there wasn't life on other planets.
Why do they only crash in a vast field in Alabama at night? When one crashes in Manhattan during rush hour I will be a firm believer. 
All I can say, if there isn't any life anywhere else in the universe at all, then how disappointing and our arrogance factor would go thru the roof
Chandra recently helped astronomers discover a newly identified galaxy cluster, SPT-CL J2215-3537. A galaxy cluster is multiple galaxies. This represents hundreds of thousands of stars. Like our star, the sun, many other stars have planets and many planets have moons.
This newly discovered system has a mass of roughly 700 Trillion times our sun.
What kind of fool would think there’s nothing out there but rocks? There are roughly 2 trillion galaxies. It’s just irrational to think there is no other life. Look at our own planet. Microbes thriving in high acidity, or frozen in state for centuries or Steve Harvey.
They may not look like the green hotties on Star Trek. But it is impossible there is no other living thing outside earth. We may be one in a million but we’re not one in 900 trillion.
This newly discovered system has a mass of roughly 700 Trillion times our sun.
What kind of fool would think there’s nothing out there but rocks? There are roughly 2 trillion galaxies. It’s just irrational to think there is no other life. Look at our own planet. Microbes thriving in high acidity, or frozen in state for centuries or Steve Harvey.
They may not look like the green hotties on Star Trek. But it is impossible there is no other living thing outside earth. We may be one in a million but we’re not one in 900 trillion.
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Where do you think Pete Way got those pants?
My golf buddy swears he saw one off the coast of Pismo Beach in the 1980's.
I dunno... but I believe that he believes it.
He does smoke quite a bit of weed, though.
I dunno... but I believe that he believes it.
He does smoke quite a bit of weed, though.
Unidentified Flying Objects? Yes, of course they exist. I've seen a
-load of them, over the years; especially growing up - and then working - on airbases for most of my life. If it's flying - and you don't know what it is? Until you do find out - well, then yeah; it's a UFO... I was sure F-117 Nighthawks were UFOs, when I was stationed at Nellis AFB. Until one of them had to land there one day...Or, are you talking about... "Flying Saucers"? Maybe they exist; maybe they don't. I'd be much less skeptical if one was spotted hovering over the White House, before it landed in the Rose Garden. Instead of what they usually seem to do; buzz some country bumpkin in an old pickup truck, driving down a dirt road at night in rural Kentucky - or Arkansas - or Texas... And, no offense to those of you who are country bumkins from... wherever...
In the end, it doesn't matter whether I "believe" in them - or not. They'll exist - or not, regardless of what I think. There are many, many things for me to worry about, that matter a lot more than the problematic existence of Litttle Green (or Grey) Men from ... "OUT THERE"...
The fact is, a UFO is merely a figment of a science fiction writer's imagination. One that has remained in our collective imagination as well.
The universe is enormous. I can't imagine that we're the only quasi-semi-vaguely intelligent species in the entire universe.
The whistle-blower last week claimed that the U.S. military had a program to recover and study the wreckage of any alien craft, but he had no information about it. Of course, the U.S. military has a plan! They game out thousands of improbable scenarios and draw up plans should they ever occur. Doesn't necessarily mean that they've actually recovered anything to date.
Clearly, if there are alien visitors to our planet, they're not here to eat us, we'd have discovered that by now.
We're at an interesting point in human evolution. It's not impossible that an older, wiser civilization might find us worth studying right now (esp. since WWII). What's that old joke about "May you live in interesting times" being a curse?
The whistle-blower last week claimed that the U.S. military had a program to recover and study the wreckage of any alien craft, but he had no information about it. Of course, the U.S. military has a plan! They game out thousands of improbable scenarios and draw up plans should they ever occur. Doesn't necessarily mean that they've actually recovered anything to date.
Clearly, if there are alien visitors to our planet, they're not here to eat us, we'd have discovered that by now.
We're at an interesting point in human evolution. It's not impossible that an older, wiser civilization might find us worth studying right now (esp. since WWII). What's that old joke about "May you live in interesting times" being a curse?
As mentioned above, the mathematical odds favor there is other intelligent life out there. Just in the past 20 years, astronomers have already identified well over 4000 planets outside of our own solar system. For space vehicles to travel that distance would require a set of physics that at this time, mankind has no knowledge of. That said, the universe is close to 13.8 billion years old so there could be lifeforms out there that could be a million years ahead of us from a technical standpoint and have the means to visit the earth. In comparison, our solar system is relatively young and is only 4.5 billion years old.
Their insurance doesn’t cover them in New York state.Why do they only crash in a vast field in Alabama at night? When one crashes in Manhattan during rush hour I will be a firm believer.
Kinda a buzz kill take, may be true, hard to prove a negative they say
I’d go with the Gecko…he has verbal skills, which means he’s actually a Reptilian.
I'm on two sides of this, I believe in the science, which says that it is very likely that there are planets out there with intelligent life, but they also say that the barriers for traveling long distances makes it unlikely they are here. My only caveat is the adage, "If someone can think of it (Star Trek warp speed), someone can eventually create it."
I wonder if any creature could possibly be more intelligent than humans, while not also being more prideful and destructive. Is it even possible?
The first rule of spy craft is don't get caught. If all they know is there is a high probability of life, much like we have figured out the crux to any escape planet for us is it must keep water in a liquid state. If that's all they were working with while doing an initial probe, why not start in the sticks since it lowers your odds of discovery? It also allows harvesting some tasty bovine organs to see what the big deal is with us eating so many cows and assuming it is organs we crave. No, I'm not an extraterrestrial expert; but I did stay at a Holliday Inn last night...
