Why do people say aliens dont exist ?

Question

We are aliens to any other living organism of any 1 of the trillions of earth like planets.
To me it seems people who dont belive are very very childish, or they are very very afraid. Maybe they are uneducated or trying to get attention, like the poeple who protest the arrest of Saddam. Maybe they are big mouths small brains.
Maybe they are like the people who said the world was flat or man will never fly etc.
I feel sorry for them but whats your opinion ?

Take into account the fossil(s) found in the meteorite from Mars, maybe 10 years ago now, possibly just before the Mars Rovers were sent up

Also Read about all the extra solar planets found and the calculations made for Earth like planets out there.

Answer 1

To answer the first part of your question, for some people, seeing is believing. They'll only believe if there is strong enough evidence that aliens in fact do exist. I feel bad for these people though. It would seem that they don't live in a very imaginative world.

To answer the second part of your question, I believe that aliens do exist. I don't believe it's possible to have so many planets in our universe to only have one that supports life. It's just plain silly, and gullible to believe otherwise.

Answer 2

If anyone seriously takes a look at the size of our universe, it's a virtual certainty that other sentient beings exist -- it's so big that if we were to get into a spaceship going the speed of light, we'd be travelling more than 14 billion years (!!) and still not get to the farthest reaches (!!!). There are billions of solar systems out there that we don't know about -- to think we're the only planet in this vast region that developed life would be extremely arrogant and overwhelmingly parochial. That said, there is no evidence that any sentient life has ever visited this planet. Many experiences of alien visitation and abduction can be explained by things like sleep paralysis where the mind projects its fear outward onto an external form, according to the symbols of the culture. Others are explained as wishful thinking or intentional hoaxes.

Answer 3

Okay, please provide the evidence you have for the existence of 'trillions of earth like planets' and any extraterrestrial life at all.

There isn't any. You may, as many have, infer their existence from the fact that the universe is very large, and that out of the very large number of planets that probably exist, it is reasonable to assume that a proportion must be earth-like. But that is just speculation - the only extra-solar planets discovered so far are very un-earth like.

It can also be speculated that in a large universe there is a high probability of life arising more than once, but there is an equally valid school of thought that points out the amazingly large sequence of conditions that are needed for life, and that such combinations could have a very low probability of occurrence. This 'rare Earth' hypothesis is currently backed up by evidence, such as it is.

So the denial of the existence of aliens is not the product of childish, fearful or uneducated thinking, as you suggest, rather it is the best appraisal of current observations.

Further, it is a leap of logic to go from accepting the hypothetical notion of life on other planets to the concept of alien visitation of our own planet, which is what most people mean when they talk of aliens. Such belief is actually a demonstration of colossal ignorance of astronomical and physical reality.

Answer 4

I believe you're just as ignorant as them. We really don't know how life began, but we have really good theories. I happen to believe that the goo that created life probably exists elsewhere in the vast universe, but I'm not sure if it exists in this same galaxy. I'm not sure if aliens have traveled to earth. I think intelligent life is much harder to find than simple organisms. Intelligence capable of creating space vehicles to travel hundreds of thousands of lightyears is not even found on this planet. The amount of time required to travel that distance at slow speeds is incredible and the energy required to travel at near the speed of light is also incredible. Maybe they have the same problem with the relativistic effect that we do. If they didn't I'd be really interested how they got around the problem. All we are doing is speculating at this point. In the end I really don't care if aliens exist until you show me a little gray creature with a big head because I don't expect to see one within my lifetime.

Answer 5

Aliens do exist and there are hundreds of millions of them right here on Earth, right now. Anyone who is not a citizen of your country is an alien, so right away that means that if you are an Australian like me there are at least 220 million aliens who are called "Americans". "Alien" just means something or someone that has no links or ties to something else. No liens, in fact.

It is more than probable that there are living beings on other planets, but the most complex and smartest of them might be no bigger or smarter than a snail, or a cow, or a bacterium.

Answer 6

i todally agree us humans think were so superior we think were so good expecilly americans (no offence but u do). cause we think were soo good we dont want to belive that there is something that we dont no about (eg aliens) as a resault of not wanting to accept that we hardly no anything about the universe we simply say that they dont exist which is bullshit seriously there has to be over 100,000,000,000,00 proberly even more planets and the chances of one of the being like earth and having life on them is pretty high so to all u people who dont belive in aliens come on man get real

and i agree that we are aliens to any other living orginism i mean their proberly thinking the same thing to us hmm i wonder if there is life on other planets. they proberly have their own answers web page lol and asking the same questions but to them they think were the aliens which isnt that suprising so again to all u people who dont belive or dont WANT to belive just think for 1 second how much do we really no about the universe ( i would say less than 1%)

Answer 7

Aliens probably do exist. But you have to put it in context. The ones flying around crashing into american mountains or someone's garden are figments of imagination. We evolved upon a planet against all the odds, and statistics say that if it happens once then it can happen again. Especially if the there is a immeasurable number of opportunities, you try counting the number of stars in the night sky. Travelling faster than light is impossible so they could never visit us nor we them, but they still could be out there.

Answer 8

most people live by the theory "i wont believe it until i see it" (except in the case of religion where it seems everyone can believe with out seeing), and no one has seen or had any recordings of other life forms on other planets thus far. the likely case is that there are millions apon billions of other galaxies out there with colonies and civilisation, advanced life forms such as ourselves, asking themselves "i wonder if there are aliens out there?".
But the fear factor is probably also i big part of believing they don't exist. ignorant bliss as they call it. and most people believe if there are aliens some where out there in space, they want to attack us and/or destroy us. which could be the likely case, looking at what we would do if found aliens.. lets hopefully discover them when george bush is not in power

Answer 9

I would say that people are afraid of what it would mean if we are not alone in the world. When I was getting my MS in Psych we studied concepts concerning how people, in general, attribute actions around them that cannot be readily explained to the supernatural (in most cases to a God or Gods). If we are not alone in the universe, I think it throws a big problem into what life is and why we are here, to include the entire religion phenomenon. It is scary to someone that has dedicated their entire lives to concepts that could be proven wrong in a second. I think their is life out there, but I doubt they are anymore advanced than us, or we are simply not worth their time.

Answer 10

Are you apart from would non-non secular? No data for God, subsequently He would not exist. there is not any recorded data of miracles or an out-of-physique connection. there is not any data that there is extraterrestrial beings. whether, there is data of trillions of stars and planetary systems. To think of that no longer one in each of those planetary systems has a planet able to holding existence is ridiculous. additionally, there have been unearths of planets able to holding existence- Goldilocks, Gliese 581g, case in point, and so on. They incorporate water, which, with the presence of carbon, is a existence starter. in an attempt to think of that there is not any existence on different planets is so plenty extra ridiculous than to think of that there is not any God. i'm hoping this reasoning will convince you in any different case. If no longer, then i can't help which you're so ignorant. understanding is a few thing that accrues over the years and experience, and that i in basic terms can no longer coach that.