Extraterrestrials - do you believe they exist?

Question

I think people can be a little bit narrow minded in thinking that humans are the only inteligent life form in the whole universe. Just think how many other planets are out there in the solar system, and the many undiscovered ones! Surely theres inteligent life on one or more of them. we just haven't got the technology to travel to such planets yet! And area 51 and the many worldwide UFO sightings should all be considered as solid evidence...

I'm not lecturing folks but i feel the need to talk to people about this.

Answer 1

Yes for sure I believe it. In fact, I think it's possible that the newly discovered planet that's just been "found" in our solar system might carry our ancient ancestors.
Crazy story but fascinating book.
We are silly to think that we're the only "intelligent" life form around.

Answer 2

Most of us believe or would believe that there are intelligent life forms like ourselves in existence and that we are not alone in the universe. The probability of find such intelligence in a humanly recognisable form is great since there are almost entire expanses of the universe chartered and completely unknown to us. This is therefore settled that there are some people out there. The reason we do not know about them is that we cannot. We are not advanced enough to travel through space to reach even the neighbouring star systems within our own galaxy – we do not have means neither we have amount of time at our disposal.

If we can think of strange world inhabited by aliens but still people like us than why should we restrict our vision to reaching them only by conquering space and time first? May be they are closer to us than we have ever imagined that they are? May be there is a dimension in our very mind, entirely unknown to us just the way the object of our inquiry are unknown to us, that we can use to make contact, or even respond to other intelligent races trying to contact us for centuries now. May be they have discovered that dimension but we are not able to listens to them.

Then why is that our imagination cannot be complete without beings like fairies, angels, ghosts and all other creatures inhibiting it? Where do all these wonderful notions and fancies come from if they do not actually exist? May be these are our nearest intuitive guesses of actual people living in the far flung corners of space and farthest reaches of time but very close in our mind if we think not entirely physically. Our development has been scientific and that means materialistic so far. We see that we have insurmountable barriers all around us that our scientific development does not seem to conquer yet, and for centuries to come. May be we are looking and endeavouring in a wrong direction?

Answer 3

No, I do not believe they exist...Belief has nothing to do with science, and they may exist whether or not I believe in them. Science seeks evidence, hard facts, facts that you can reproduce, facts that are publicly observable and testable.

And that's the problem with Area 51 and UFO reports--they always happen to other people and I can't go and see for myself, so the alleged visitations by UFO's is not verifiable or confirmable by scientific investigation. If extra-terrestrials exist, then they need scientific proof, not belief.

I agree with you that the probability, the likelihood that there are intelligent, technological beings outside of earth (and I'm not all that certain that there are intelligent beings on earth!) is very, very high, almost a certainty. But we have no proof. I also think that the probability is very high that "bigfoot" or "loch ness" monsters exist, but we have no publicly verifiable proof of either one so far. Believing they exist gets you nowhere--all you can do is argue in a circle about beliefs. If you want to get somewhere, get the evidence.

The best I can do is not believe this or that, but support people who are investigating such unknown things. SETI (the search for extra terrestrial intelligence), the NASA project that has been going on for many years, is one such project of investigation. People who investigate UFO's help, but they haven't produced the "body" (where's the body?). Without scientific evidence, arguing about UFO's or loch ness monsters or big foot is like arguing about the existence of god--just a lot of hot air about beliefs. Beliefs belong in religion--not science.

And UFO's don't "prove" ET's...UFO's, for all we know, could originate from earth, from unknown (so far) places underground. For all we know, there could be a colony of intelligent beings inside the earth--and we are the unintelligent ones.

Answer 4

universe is endless, there are billions and billions of systems (like solar system) out there...it can't be that earth is the ONLY planet that can harvest life.

There IS life out there, there is not question about it. It is just a matter of time. Its WHEN not IF about discovering a life on planet other than Earth.

Just because you haven't discovered it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We humans, haven't even began searching life out side the door step, who is to say what exists miles from home.

Answer 5

i do believe that life exists elsewhere in the universe. at what stage of development i don't care to guess, but yes i do.
area 51 can't be considered as solid evidence though, nor can UFO sightings. nothing in either of these but hearsay and gossip.
contact will be made over the radio waves if at all. so keep listening, and let hollywood do their own job.
now, in which direction shall i point that ariel ?

Answer 6

the universe is endless. who knows what else os out there? who's got proves that we only are the intelligent form of life existing in the universe? who has travelled outside the solar system... unto the other galaxies?

we never know.

so, I'd say, I do. there's a great possibility...maybe they're human like creatures too.

maybe, they are wondering the same things that we are. do they think, if ever, that there are others aside from them in the totally far side of their world?

whatever the 'truth' is, not everything's meant to be answered, understand, or even known.

Answer 7

I believe that the tv showsStargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis have a lot of merit behind them and their storylines, as the governments of the world have for so long tried to cover up the truth behind other life forms. I think they helped to create these shows so the general public would be more understanding to the idea when extra terrestrials become public knowledge.

Answer 8

I think the same as you.I believe we are not alone the universe is vast so there has got to be some other form of life.Its possible there could be humans who are more advanced than us etc
which are called Aliens.Truth we simply do not know so I have a open mind.

Answer 9

Yes, there's absolutely no reason not to believe Intelligent Life exists elsewhere in the Universe. regardless of whether you believe or not they have visited Earth.
Even the Vatican as conducted its own search for life within the Cosmos along with NASA and some private enterprises.

Answer 10

Hard to say, you never know. But if there is, would that be a good thing or a bad thing for us. We already have enough trouble accepting other races in our world, could imagine the pain that we would go through if there were things walikng around earth from a diferent planet? That would be something else.