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2006-07-07 06:01:48 · 15 answers · asked by jakobe 1 in Politics & Government Law Enforcement & Police

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Well, if the universe is infinite, as many scientists believe, than they are not only real, but there's a whole freakin' lot of em.

2006-07-07 06:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by Rings_around_Saturn 3 · 0 0

I'm pretty sure you mean aliens, as if from outer space.

We have not found any scientific evidence that this planet has been visited by aliens from another world. There is a lot of controversy about this, partly because some people claim that they have seen these aliens. Some have told stories about communicating with them and even having been taken up into their space ships.

The rest of us have no way of verifying these stories. None of those claimants have been able to show any proof of these visitations. Are these people making up these stories? Were they dreaming? How can we tell, one way or another.

There are many people who believe these stories. Even though they, themselves haven't seen the alien visitors, the believe that aliens exist. Some of them believe that scientific proof exists and that this proof has been covered up. They say that the governments have conspired to keep the proof of alien visitation a secret from the people.

My own personal feeling is that these outer space aliens have not been here. If they do exist, and have come close enough for a few people to see them, (and these claims have been gooing on for many years) that they would have made themselves widely known and we would all know the truth.

The aliens in the movies and TV are certainly NOT real.

2006-07-07 06:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0 0

Mathematically speaking --yes there is a very high probability that they do exist even though we have not seen them. There is an equation to determine the number of "intelligent civilizations/races out there. It is called the Drake equation it was developed by Frank Drake a researcher for SETI.

Here it is:
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

The equation can really be looked at as a number of questions:

N* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

Question: How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: Current estimates are 100 billion.

fp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them

Question: What percentage of stars have planetary systems?
Answer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.

ne is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life

Question: For each star that does have a planetary system, how many planets are capable of sustaining life?
Answer: Current estimates range from 1 to 5.

fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves

Question: On what percentage of the planets that are capable of sustaining life does life actually evolve?
Answer: Current estimates range from 100% (where life can evolve it will) down to close to 0%.

fi is the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves

Question: On the planets where life does evolve, what percentage evolves intelligent life?
Answer: Estimates range from 100% (intelligence is such a survival advantage that it will certainly evolve) down to near 0%.

fc is the fraction of fi that communicate

Question: What percentage of intelligent races have the means and the desire to communicate?
Answer: 10% to 20%

fL is fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live

Question: For each civilization that does communicate, for what fraction of the planet's life does the civilization survive?
Answer: This is the toughest of the questions. If we take Earth as an example, the expected lifetime of our Sun and the Earth is roughly 10 billion years. So far we've been communicating with radio waves for less than 100 years. How long will our civilization survive? Will we destroy ourselves in a few years like some predict or will we overcome our problems and survive for millennia? If we were destroyed tomorrow the answer to this question would be 1/100,000,000th. If we survive for 10,000 years the answer will be 1/1,000,000th.

When all of these variables are multiplied together when come up with:

N, the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy.


The variables of this equation change with each new star/galaxy discovered so the number of possible civilizations continues to increase. So to answer your quesiton,. yes they are real, although they may not have contacted us yet.

2006-07-07 06:20:34 · answer #3 · answered by Das_hammer 3 · 0 0

YOU BET THEY ARE. AS SAID BEFORE THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM HERE FROM MEXICO AND SO. AMERICA TOO.
NOW THE OTHER KND OF ALIENS. IN ALL OF THE VASTNESS OF OUTER SPACE, HOW MANY OTHER PLACES ARE THERE WITH THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT LIFE AS WE KNOW IT? MAYBE A MILLION OR MORE? NOW IF ONLY 1% OF THOSE PLACES ACTUALLY SUCEEDED IN PRODUCING A LIFE FORM, THAT WOULD BE WHAT 1,000 LIFE BEARING PLANETS OUT THERE. THE ODDS WOULD DICTATE THAT THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE. IF THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE, COULDN'T SOME OF THEM BE MORE ADVANCED THAN WE ARE? I AM SURE THERE ARE VISITORS COMING HERE ON A REGULAR BASIS CHECKING OUR PROGRESS AND WORRYING ABOUT US AS WE ARE SUCH A WARLIKE PLANET, WE WOULD PROBABLY GO OUT AND CAUSE TROUBLE ELSEWHERE.

2006-07-07 06:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by BOOMBOOMBILLY 4 · 0 0

Aliens most likely exist, if the universe is infinate.

2006-07-07 06:08:47 · answer #5 · answered by Existence 3 · 0 0

yeah,aliens is as real as you think,because aliens exist in your mind

2006-07-07 06:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by vebri r 2 · 0 0

I don't think so,because I think that there is somthing up high that may look like aliens.

2006-07-07 06:04:55 · answer #7 · answered by Sophia 4 · 0 0

well if there are people on this planet why cant there be other lifes on a different planet so possibly YES.

2006-07-07 06:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I do believe there are others besides us here!

2006-07-07 06:56:54 · answer #9 · answered by mizznini 2 · 0 0

only if u want them to be

2006-07-07 06:04:57 · answer #10 · answered by Val L 1 · 0 0

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