Do you believe in Aliens?
4I watched a documentary the other night of some people, soldiers, civilians, etc seeing UFO sitings in the sky somewhere in London and Great Britain between 1980s and 1990s…
I would love to believe that is real if people have seen many sitings for years but I also don’t cause I don’t know what they would do to us. What do you think about Aliens? Do you think they’re real?
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I am agnostic when it comes to E.T.s visiting Earth.
I think it’s possible, but I’ve never seen any compelling evidence that it has happened.
I believe there must be plenty of life out there in the universe, but intelligent life must be rare.
I believe U.F.O.s are exactly what they explicitly claim to be - unidentified flying objects.
It bothers me that the term is synonymous with “alien spacecraft”.
Do I believe in UFOs? Of course I do, I frequently see flying objects that I can’t identify.
Do I assume any flying object I can’t identify is an alien spacecraft? Never.
That would be ridiculous, in my opinion.
Something in the sky…
Can’t tell what it is…
@DennisG2014 I agree with the caveat that “rare” when put in the scale of the universe probably would still be a large number of intelligent species.
they come across our border every day, and I can;t under them.
@joeylee1995 I have read your post a few times and I cannot seem to understand what you are trying to convey.
Before anyone accuses me of being political, this post is about sentence structure, not politics.
@ConAndLibrarian
/giphy can;t under them
@Pantheist OMG that is the last episode of Doctor Who I watched yesterday!!!
@ConAndLibrarian I’ll translate for you…
“They come across our border every day and I can’t understand them.”
It’d be pretty weird for extraterrestrial life with transportation powers we don’t think are possible to stealthily come by Earth, and then stay hidden.
@InnocuousFarmer Proof:
@InnocuousFarmer Anyone could camp out on the far side of the moon, and we would never know.
@Fuzzalini
/giphy sufficiently advanced boredom
The best argument I have heard against aliens having been found, and then hidden by the government (a.k.a. the conspiracy theories) on earth, is what a high level extended family member NASA employee once told another extended family member (in exasperation) when said person was bugging him about aliens… “If we had found aliens or their craft, NASA would be parading the evidence up and down the mall (the DC one that has the museums on it). It would be the biggest funding bonanza ever!”.
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz sounds logical, but doesn’t work for me. It assumes NASA found them. It’s a lot more likely that a crashed or captured spacecraft would end up in the hands of the military. Had a look at the military budget lately?
/image alien selfie
That’s me.
Ok, I didn’t say anything about “intelligent life forms”, did I?
@f00l
/giphy Bowie "the man who fell to earth"
@f00l
/image “the man who fell to earth”
@f00l the man who fell to earth looks a lot like a woman. Were men once women? I thought it was the other way around?
@elimanningface
Don’t know any history of biological gender.
The Man Who Fell To Earth was an alien. Surely you expect aliens to be a bit “off” the norm, don’t you?
David Bowie, known for gender bending, was cast in the role and did an amazing job. If you want to understand how that played out, you have to see the film. Way worth the time.
I certainly hope so. If the human race is the best the universe has to offer, then it is a whole lot of storm and fury to very little result.
"As Carl Sagan explained the Drake equation in his series “Cosmos,” the number of technological civilizations should literally number in the millions (in our galaxy alone). This view is challenged by the Fermi paradox, which contrasts that expected number with the fact that ET hasn’t phoned us yet, and perhaps suggests that technological civilizations tend to destroy themselves rather quickly."
https://www.google.com/amp/bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/is-there-intelligent-life-in-the-universe.amp
@dave
Compared to NY, Texans are considered alien.
So, you’ve sort of answered your own question.
@PlacidPenguin
Told ya.
@dave Would intelligent species even bother with Twitter?
I’d like to think that there is intelligent life out there somewhere… But it might be really terrifying if they show up here.
It seems like an awful waste of space if there was nothing at all besides us.
Two of the movies that gave me the worst creeps were “Fire In The Sky” and “The Fourth Kind”.
@RiotDemon I saw Fire in the Sky several times and it’s based on a true story. Haven’t seen “The Fourth Kind.”
@cengland0 I saw Fire in the Sky in the movie theatre when I was ten. I had my feet up on the seat. That night when I was trying to sleep, it was raining and lightning. My window in my bedroom had a smear on the outside of it that looked an awful lot like the scene in the phone booth. To this day, the scene with the tightening sheet gives me the chills.
The Fourth Kind… Probably helped that it was again raining and lightning when I watched it. I was also watching with someone in another state while I stayed on the phone with him. The phone would disconnect occasionally and once when some really creepy shit happened. I’ve watched it again during the day, and it still freaked me out. It wasn’t based on a true story, but pretended to be. I think they have it on Netflix now. Worth a watch.
@RiotDemon Movies don’t scare me anymore.
The exorcist did when I was a kid but that’s not something children should be watching anyway. Today as an adult, I cannot find any movie that keeps me up at night.
Don’t like the gory chain saw cutting off heads closeups but not because they are scary but because they are gross and disgusting (like the Saw series).
@RiotDemon Fire in the Sky was so creepy… I don’t think one could ever forget that probe going right down into his eyeball, yikes. And that one with Mel Gibson, Signs? That alien foot being pulled back into the cornstalks, that was waaay too freaky
@cengland0 hardly anything scares me anymore. This is why when something does, I remember it well.
Instead of being the one scared at haunted houses, I laugh. Even though I love going to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal… It’s not because I’m scared. It’s because I enjoy other people being scared. Same thing when I dress up at Halloween and scare people. The adults are my favorite.
@moonhat the eye… Ugh. Anything with eyeballs is a weakness. If I ever have laser eye surgery they are going to have to give me anti anxiety medication.
@RiotDemon
I can think of something which would scare you so badly, you wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore.
@PlacidPenguin is it being forced to watch all the clips of Scrappy Doo?
/image gif scrappy doo
@RiotDemon
I’m thinking of a headline, but I don’t want to terrify OldCatLady.
@RiotDemon I laugh during horror/scary movies too. I expect things to jump out at unpredictable times. I remember one movie where a girl was crawling on the floor between the walls in an old house and the floor gave way so she fell through. They played a loud sound and Mrs. cengland0 screamed and jumped – I laughed. It was her reaction to it that was so funny.
When someone opens the medicine cabinet with a mirror, I expect something to be in the mirror when they close it. Nothing seems to surprise me anymore. Maybe they used up all the common surprise techniques already and keep recycling through them.
When they play the tension music at a scary moment, I don’t expect anything is going to happen because that would be too predicable. For example, they play the music when someone is slowly opening a door and most people expect something to happen. Then when nothing happens, you feel relaxed (whew). Then the girl turns around and the monster is behind her and there was no music to warn you. That makes me laugh.
@PlacidPenguin do share.
@RiotDemon @OldCatLady
“Donald Trump wins 2020 election.”
When we traveled through New Mexico, we stopped in at the Roswell U.F.O Museum.
It was very interesting, all the exhibits, photos, taped interviews and mock-ups.
In fact, there seemed to be absolutely everything a person would need to prove the existence of Aliens in the Universe (except actual proof).
Good enough for me…
@daveinwarsh Hmm you need evidence? I have UFO’s in my freezer - Unidentified frozen objects.
@Kidsandliz
I’m lost to our kind. I have Unidentified Fuckedup Objects in my brain.
I used to think maybe, but now it’s demonstrably untrue.
@OldCatLady
Ha.
/giphy "alien Trump"
@f00l
Try again.
/image “trump as alien”
@OldCatLady priceless
Considering the huge number of planets that have been discovered out there in the last 20 years, and the fact that they have found one in the habitable zone around the closest star to our own, the chances are very good that there is life out there. Who knows if there is intelligent life; perhaps they can view our transmissions and consider them a warning to keep away.
@PocketBrain Let’s try to find some intelligent life on this planet first.
@thismyusername
I don’t see that the calculations including factoring in intergalactic cooties.
I bet fixing that resolves the apparent paradox.
It seems very unlikely that intelligent life from another planet has visited Earth, but I can’t say it’s impossible, so I have no “belief” on the matter.
Do I believe that aliens have visited Earth? No
Do I believe that aliens have not visited Earth? No
Do I doubt that aliens have visited Earth? Yes
well, remember they could be living among us for all we know.
I’ve tried to find the 50s Alien Address Form PSA, but it’s nowhere on the web. Another instance of the Govt. covering up the existence of aliens?
Personally, I don’t believe in aliens 'cause I have never seen one. But I have read on {the internet} that there is such a dwarf planet Ceres. Over the course of the past year, Scientist have speculated as to what these bright lights were. The lights even appeared to brighten and dim periodically. This discovery spurred on a host of conspiracy theories on the existence of aliens on Ceres. However, research has proven that these are in fact from natural occurrences and not from alien civilizations.
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