Board 8 > So what's your take on aliens?

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I see lots of stuff about aliens possibly living on the moon/using the moon as a base.

Here's just one video of a compilation of different footage (might want to lower your volume since he decided to for some reason include some annoying music, but don't mute because people do commentate)



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Aliens definitely exist, doubt they've been on da moon though.

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I think it's pretty clear that alien life certainly could exist on the moon. Just look at this realistic simulation:



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Here's another one. Buzz Aldrin comments on it.

I get that people don't want to talk about it/people think it's a joke/don't care/are scared.

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Anomaly hunting is stupid. People look for anything they personally can't (or don't feel like trying to) explain and jump to the conclusion that it must be something ridiculous, like UFOs, aliens, ghosts, whatever.

I think the likelihood that life exists somewhere else in the universe is huge, but that video made me smack my forehead.

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I think the universe is way the hell too infinitely big for *something* else to not be out there, and it's downright egomaniacal to think we're the only ones. Probably too far away that we'll ever meet them, though

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Some form of life probably does exist on other planets in our own solar system, but likely just random bacteria.

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Also, regarding an actual astronaut saying things like "there's something out there!" that's not really any more convincing to me just because he's an astronaut.

Pilots are often thought to have more credibility regarding UFO sightings, just because they're trustworthy people of high standing who spend a lot of time looking at the sky.

They're still humans, and still capable of being deceived by their own brains, just like anyone else.

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They obv exist, just nowhere near us

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Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? It would be egotistical to say otherwise. Does intelligent life exist or has it existed elsewhere in the universe? More than likely. Has intelligent life visited Earth? I highly doubt it, but that's not to say it's impossible, and I would love to be proven wrong.

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FFaddict1313 posted...
Some form of life probably does exist on other planets in our own solar system, but likely just random bacteria.

There's most likely stuff going on on Europe and Enceladus.

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From: Ayuyu | #011
There's most likely stuff going on on Europe

I don't think there's any intelligent life in Europe.

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People who say no are kidding themselves, but I doubt we'll encounter aliens within my lifetime unless they come to us and are a lot more advanced.

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Are there intelligent, extraterrestrial creatures? The universe is unfathomably vast. If life is probabilistic, it's not out of the question that it evolved elsewhere.

Has intelligent life from another planet purposefully visited earth? The universe is unfathomably vast. Even if they were looking for us, they'd probably never find us. Ever.

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Yeah I'd say the possibility is incredibly high.

I'm guessing that if there is intelligent life out there, that they probably actually aren't as advanced as we are.

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Cloud and Squall posted...
I'm guessing that if there is intelligent life out there, that they probably actually aren't as advanced as we are.

Why? I don't see any reason why anyone would believe this and not the opposite as well.

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Aliens connote to me a species (or a civilization comprised of different species) that arrives on a planet other than their own. If we, as humans, were to arrive on Mars, we would become aliens, but as it stands we're just humans. Using these criteria I'll say that yes, I do think that there are other forms of intelligent life in the Universe, and there are doubtlessly at least a handful of them which have mastered interstellar travel (intergalactic travel just seems too daunting to me, and I don't think it will ever be perfected). That said, as far as we're concerned I don't think any of these civilizations have ever come into contact with the Earth.

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I mean, it's only taken us ~5000 or so years to get our technologies from the Bronze Age to here, while the universe has been around for billions. It'd be downright preposterous to think that no other species in the entire universe that could've reached sentience at any point in these billions of years would be further advanced then we are...

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That part where the surface of the moon is all flashing could possibly be a space battle with the moon as the battlefield. There have been "battles with the gods" on Earth in the past, apparently, but perhaps now they wouldn't battle here because it would ruin or civilization. Just thinking out loud!

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Aliens exist, but the simple fact that the universe is so motherf****** huge will likely prevent us from ever meeting any.

They are definitely not present anywhere "close by", be it the moon, Mars, anywhere in our solar system, and likely no where in the Milky Way galaxy.

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The other thing to consider is the fact that our Solar System didn't even exist for 9 billion years.

Now, it does take time for stars to develop, die, and feed the new stars with heavier elements, so there's a probably an earliest point at which life was feasible, some billions of years into the life of the universe. But it's always possible that some other system had a billion or 2 billion year head start on us.

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Also, there are definitely other intelligent species like us out there. Not only is this universe incredibly huge, but the chance that there are other universes is pretty high. So um... wow!

On the topic of intergalactic travel - it is just science. Once you know how everything in this world works, what can be manipulated, etc, you could probably achieve any scientific wonder.

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Emporer_Kazbar posted...
Aliens exist, but the simple fact that the universe is so motherf****** huge will likely prevent us from ever meeting any.

They are definitely not present anywhere "close by", be it the moon, Mars, anywhere in our solar system, and likely no where in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way alone is **** huge, I'd say there's a big chance there's something alive somewhere, nothing big but something.

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Leebo86 posted...
The other thing to consider is the fact that our Solar System didn't even exist for 9 billion years.

Now, it does take time for stars to develop, die, and feed the new stars with heavier elements, so there's a probably an earliest point at which life was feasible, some billions of years into the life of the universe. But it's always possible that some other system had a billion or 2 billion year head start on us.

True facts, but most people go on the assumption that once a civilization becomes advanced enough then it goes on forever, colonizing every planet it can. I don't know about you, but I'd be very, very, veerrrrrrry (as in I'm as close to 100% sure about this as I can be without being 100% sure) surprised if we ever get out of the solar system. Our species is kind of scummy. We're the Don Draper of species - intelligent, smooth, and calculated, but we're awful when it comes down to it. We won't survive another thousand years, much less however long it takes to form a galactic civilization.

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From: Ayuyu | #025
The Milky Way alone is **** huge, I'd say there's a big chance there's something alive somewhere

"Something alive" doesn't usually equate to "something that will be showing up on Earth at any point in time". Which is what I was referring to. Of course there's life somewhere else in the galaxy. But I highly doubt there's human-or-above intelligence creatures somewhere else in the galaxy.

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Part of my point was that it's not just physical distance that keeps us from finding aliens, it's the age of the universe and the likelihood that 2 planets will have life on them, be close enough for contact, at "exactly" the same time.

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From: Leebo86 | #012
I don't think there's any intelligent life in Europe.

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Leebo86 posted...
Part of my point was that it's not just physical distance that keeps us from finding aliens, it's the age of the universe and the likelihood that 2 planets will have life on them, be close enough for contact, at "exactly" the same time.

Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, that's a great point, actually. For all we know the events in Star Wars or Star Trek could have actually happened, only a billion years ago.

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It's possible that after the Sun explodes, the new stars born from the cloud of gas that will contain what is us will have planets with life on them... and they would have no way of knowing we were here. Every piece of evidence would have been vaporized.

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FreakinLincoln posted...
Leebo86 posted...
The other thing to consider is the fact that our Solar System didn't even exist for 9 billion years.

Now, it does take time for stars to develop, die, and feed the new stars with heavier elements, so there's a probably an earliest point at which life was feasible, some billions of years into the life of the universe. But it's always possible that some other system had a billion or 2 billion year head start on us.

True facts, but most people go on the assumption that once a civilization becomes advanced enough then it goes on forever, colonizing every planet it can. I don't know about you, but I'd be very, very, veerrrrrrry (as in I'm as close to 100% sure about this as I can be without being 100% sure) surprised if we ever get out of the solar system. Our species is kind of scummy. We're the Don Draper of species - intelligent, smooth, and calculated, but we're awful when it comes down to it. We won't survive another thousand years, much less however long it takes to form a galactic civilization.

Heh, we survived 200000 years, one more thousand is nothing !

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199950 of those years we didn't really have any way of killing ourselves and everything else on the planet.

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FreakinLincoln posted...
We won't survive another thousand years, much less however long it takes to form a galactic civilization.

if we don't blow each other up we will be. what I'm most concerned about now is that I've noticed the least intelligent among us tend to be the ones that have the most children, I think the human race is literally going to breed itself out of existence and back into neanderthals, but this will take much longer

Hope they exist. Don't know if they'll appear in our lifetime.

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You know my biggest problem with people saying we've been visited and they helped build the pyramids or Machu Pichu. It's insulting to the hard work of ancient civilizations.

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Do they exist? The odds of them not existing are incredibly small, so yes, I'd say they almost certainly exist.

Have they visited us? Who am I to say? Although I have quite seriously seen what I'd identify as one of the famous/infamous UFO designs once when I was thirteen or so. Just once and it was rather uneventful but there it is, it happened.

"Unidentified Flying Object" doesn't automatically mean aliens, though. I've always been well-aware of that. Rather slim chance that's what it was, no doubt.

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