Why is the idea of Alien existance so far fetched??

Question

To me it seems like it is a very real possibility. We are here so why is it so far fetched that they may exist? We are continuesly finding new planets as our technology advances and we have even found proof of dried river beds on planets with bacteria(dead) imbeded in the rocks. There are so many different solar systems out there and science is realizing exactly how small of a fraction our solar system is in compairson to the entire universe. So why is their possible existance so criticized and considered "crazy"? Is it just me or does anyone agree? Why or why not??

Answer 1

What I'm not totally sure I believe are the people who claim they were abducted. That sounds a little far-fetched to me. Do those people really want us to believe that an alien came down while they were sleeping and took them to their "ship" and poked and prodded them and impregnated them? I mean c'mon, that is a little ridiculous.. Don't you agree??

Answer 2

Because societies have insecurity knowing that there could be a mightier race than humans in the universe. It's the fear of "they can exterminate us if they wanted to and there's nothing we could do about it" that makes this insecurity.

Governments understand this. For a long time, governments of the world have been denying the possibility of aliens for fear of public panic, if not public shatter-of-confidence in the least. The act of addmiting to the world that aliens exist is most powerful and most influential if it came from a government, namely the superpower United States. Therefore it is difficult to predict how the world would react. Warried families might start building bomb shelters once again like they had during cold wars. Economies may be shaken a bit.

Confidence and security are key to any nation's prosperity, and perhaps that is why the world, namely governments, have been turning a blind eye against the possibility of alien existence. Recently however, governments such as that of France have recognized that the people of the world are by now ready to accept new information and ideas. The French government has released its once classified files on suspected alien activities.

Answer 3

Given the distances between the earth and other possible inhabitable planets, they would need to overcome time, as using the normal human lifespan of 60-80 years as a parameter. Thusly these aliens would have to have an extended lifespan of perhaps thousands of year to overcome the colossal distance. Even at the speed of light, it would still require a very long life. While we have not yet discovered a means of achieving light speed, it is in theory, a time warp may exist to boost speed or a displacement of time. Einstein believed that time could be altered by acceleration. Has it happened? Perhaps, but always remember there is a lunatic fringe that clutters scientific investigation. Some 'researchers' claim the Jesus Christ was an alien. Was he?

Answer 4

The idea of alien existence isn't far-fetched. A large majority of us don't consider it far-fetched at all. Most people feel it's extremely likely that life exists on other planets outside our solar system, we just haven't found any evidence for it yet.

BTW, we haven't yet discovered dead bacteria in rock from other planets. A while back, there was talk of a meteorite of martian origin showing signs of such, but it turned out that the evidence wasn't all that conclusive.

Thus far, no signs of life - present or past - have been found on Mars. There are signs that the planet once had large amounts of water on its surface, but that doesn't necessarily mean that life ever evolved there. I suspect it did, and it would be tremendously thrilling to find fossils on Mars, but we haven't found anything of the sort yet.

Answer 5

I don't think it's far-fetched, or even unlikely for that matter. Most objectively-minded people would possibly agree. Apprehension to discuss or even invite the topic into people's worldview, i think, is more a cultural issue than anything. People are told throughout their entire lives that they MEAN something, and any elementary study of ego/superego quickly shows us where this type of thought leads us. I mean, maybe we do mean something, and maybe our lives have an external purpose. But maybe they don't. From a realistic perspective, though, the only evidence for or against is the fact that the universe is the next best thing to infinitely expansive. Therefore, probability is the only tool that we could possibly apply to the question. And probability is the next best thing to pure speculation.

Our logical heirarchies are still in their infancy, at least compared to what they will have evolved into in a thousand years. By then, we will have much more powerful tools in our arsenal, and maybe by then people will have detached a bit from their unconditionally accepted dogmas, and things like 'reality' may be therefore brought into scope.

Answer 6

The idea of life elsewhere isn't considered so far-fetched. In fact, it is how NASA receives a lot of its funding. No, what is considered far-fetched is the people that walk around with tin foil on their heads to keep the aliens out. But the fact is, odds are that if life did occur again elsewhere it would be way too far away for any contact to occur between us and them.

Answer 7

It's only far-fetched among the sheep. These people believe what their shepherds tell them to believe and don't bother to question.

The rest of us fall into two categories. Category A HOPES we are the only ones around and will cling to that hope until someone actually knocks on our door. Category B guesses we are not the only ones here and is actively looking for evidence of life on other worlds.

Answer 8

The idea of the existence of aliens is not far fetched but the many reports of sightings of them is.

Answer 9

It's not far fetched, in fact, it's the opposite! Some people just like being skeptics!

Answer 10

It's only far-fetched to skeptics and idiots. ANYONE with any astronmy backround knows that there are billions of stars and trillions of planets. SOME of them must have life on them.