Do you believe in aliens?

NoQuarter · 02-01-2010 6:02pm #1

Theres no point posting this in another forum as its a question for the general public (or culchie rock lovers as it is today).

So, do you believe in other life out there or are we alone in the universe? Its a debate i have with my girlfriend over and over (its great:D)

I definitly believe we are not alone! I would even be open to the fact that there is other intelligent life out there! I dont believe its as we see on TV, little green martians etc etc but i certainly believe its possible!

So seeing as I believe, im looking for people who dont, so if you dont believe, why not? Logical arguments would be a bonus too!

*lets assume that all the sh1t after hours jokes have been said already, my ma has been insulted and the 2nd poster got loads of thanks and perhaps we can have a real discussion now, woohoo!*

Ive also limited the poll to get a better idea and in a bold move ive left out the atari jaguar option so if you dont care just dont vote!

Archeron · 02-01-2010 6:03pm

Definitly not.

I'm monitoring this thread from my intergalactic control ship which is hidden from view behind the moon.

So yes, I do.

philologos · 02-01-2010 6:04pm

You should have left a maybe option open.

NoQuarter · 02-01-2010 6:06pm

Definitly not.

Jakkass wrote: »

You should have left a maybe option open.

Was going to but it doesnt really answer anything! Im looking for the extremists here!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-01-2010 6:07pm

Definitly not.

Is there intelligent life out there, you ask? Well, let's just try and find some intelligent life down here, first.

MagicMarker · 02-01-2010 6:09pm

Definitly not.

If I had to pick an option then I'd say yes.

mikom · 02-01-2010 6:10pm

king-stew wrote: »

So, do you believe in other life out there or are we alone in the universe?

Aliens are real, I've met them.
They are abducting all men with big cocks, so most of you lads are safe.
I'm just posting this to say goodbye, as I leave on the mothership tonight..

thatsa spicy · 02-01-2010 6:13pm

Definitly not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

Watch this and see if you believe that the conditions for life to arise could only have happened on our planet; the universe is pretty fukking big so it is!!

KeithAFC · 02-01-2010 6:15pm

Definitly not.

Yep. No doubt.

Most likely other life with technology which would amaze us.

galwayrush · 02-01-2010 6:19pm

Definitly not.

Since the nearest Star to us that might contain life on some piece of rock that might me in orbit around it is 80 light years away, it would take many generations of them travelling for a period of time that is longer than the age of the Earth to even get here to say hello so i think we can forget about them, unless they can travel faster than the speed of light, which potentially is using entering a higher dimension to us, so with that, we couldn't communicate with them.
They are probably all around us, but are so far away and probably have no interest in us what so ever , they may as well not exist as far as we are concerned.:D anyways, back to my Vino, the bringer of clarity.;)

Sulmac · 02-01-2010 6:32pm

Definitly not.

I for one welcome our new... you know the rest.

CrazyRabbit · 02-01-2010 6:35pm

Oh course there is alien life. It quite probably is just micro-organisms, but there is little doubt it exists.

Perhaps you meant intelligent life. Well...trillions upon trillions of galaxies with trillions of stars in each, and with perhaps an average of 4-5 plants around each. It's logical to believe at least one of them can support life as we know it, and has existed long enough for intelligent life of some sort to have evolved.

Have they visited us? That's much much less likely.

My name is URL · 02-01-2010 6:37pm

Definitly not.

Of course life exists on other planets but I doubt there's any as advanced as we are

Jesus Wept · 02-01-2010 6:38pm

Definitly not.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

galwayrush · 02-01-2010 6:38pm

Definitly not.

My name is URL wrote: »

Of course life exists on other planets but I doubt there's any as advanced as we are

I hope not.:eek:

Corkfeen · 02-01-2010 6:44pm

Definitly not.

I'd say there probably is.

These after hour name changes are freaking me out.:D

fizzynicenice · 02-01-2010 6:47pm

LOOK OUT LADS!!!
Here comes half the CT forum with thier talk of malicious Lizards!!

bluto63 · 02-01-2010 6:49pm

Definitly not.

king-stew wrote: »

Was going to but it doesnt really answer anything! Im looking for the extremists here!

Being an extremist in any sense usually means ignoring the possibility of the other side of the argument being wrong, so your poll is just wrong.
However, I do believe in the possibility of alien life, intelligent or not. I don't believe it'll ever be possible for us to contact them in person

Abi · 02-01-2010 6:56pm

king-stew wrote: »

So, do you believe in other life out there or are we alone in the universe? Its a debate i have with my girlfriend over and over (its great:D)

I could think of something else you should be doing over and over with your girlfriend.. whats wrong with you?!

OT: Yes.. no.. maybe.

Needs multi-option poll :pac:

MaybeLogic · 02-01-2010 7:03pm

In an infinite universe with infinite possibilities,I'd be extremely surprised if we were the only lifeforms floating about.And given our psychology still rests in the paeliolithic age,technology only existing in a relative instant,I'd hazard a guess that some of those existing lifeforms,if any, are more advanced than ourselves.
Definitely? Maybe.
Considering the Dogon/Sirius conundrum or, perhaps less pertaintly, the UMMO mysteries,could give pause for thought.

Daemos · 02-01-2010 7:16pm

Definitly not.

THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!

Diabhal Beag · 02-01-2010 7:18pm

Definitly not.

People who don't believe in aliens are normally closed minded anyways. It's such a big universe filled with millions of planets. There is no doubt that there are aliens, just maybe not little green fellas.

Beasty · 02-01-2010 7:19pm

Keith Richards - what more proof do you need

keith-richards.jpg?w=400&h=620

KeithAFC · 02-01-2010 7:21pm

Definitly not.

My name is URL wrote: »

Of course life exists on other planets but I doubt there's any as advanced as we are

You would be naive to think that. I have no doubt in my mind there is life on similar planets to this that have life and technology which would just blow us away if we seen it.

Riddle101 · 02-01-2010 7:24pm

Definitly not.

I believe in the possibility that there is life on other planets, but I would say they're proberly very very very very very very very very very very far away, and proberly at the same technology level as Earth. Maybe there is another type of human species living someone in the Universe.

ciano1 · 02-01-2010 7:24pm

Ugly Fúckers so they are

http://www.spacejay.com/Evidence/Alien-Fotos/alien-37.jpg

MaybeLogic · 02-01-2010 7:30pm

ciano1 wrote: »

Ugly Fúckers so they are

http://www.spacejay.com/Evidence/Alien-Fotos/alien-37.jpg

...but great in the sack.

NoQuarter · 02-01-2010 7:45pm

Definitly not.

thatsa spicy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

Watch this and see if you believe that the conditions for life to arise could only have happened on our planet; the universe is pretty fukking big so it is!!

Thats the vid that made me ask this question in the first place!

galwayrush wrote: »

so i think we can forget about them

True, I doubt the human race will ever meet other intelligent life as no doubt they are too far away but the answer to the question is either there is or there isn't so I just thought i'd ask!

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Oh course there is alien life. It quite probably is just micro-organisms, but there is little doubt it exists.

Perhaps you meant intelligent life.

Read my original properly!

My name is URL wrote: »

Of course life exists on other planets but I doubt there's any as advanced as we are

Why do you doubt that? I wouldnt be surprised if theres hundreds of different civilisations much more advanced than us! If you need any proof humans are the perfect example, if we can produce what we have with only the things we have found on this planet why couldnt anything else? And their planets probably have different substances and elements on it so therefore the potential for completely different technologies!

bluto63 wrote: »

Being an extremist in any sense usually means ignoring the possibility of the other side of the argument being wrong, so your poll is just wrong.

The poll equates to the real answer of the question, I mean, there either definitly is or definitly is not other life!

Abigayle wrote: »

I could think of something else you should be doing over and over with your girlfriend.. whats wrong with you?!

*cries*

Riddle101 wrote: »

proberly at the same technology level as Earth.

Where did you pull that guess out of?

Quite a specific thing to say no?

lugha · 02-01-2010 7:52pm

Definitely not.

NoQuarter · 02-01-2010 7:55pm

Definitly not.

lugha wrote: »

Definitely not.

Why not???

MaybeLogic · 02-01-2010 7:56pm

thatsa spicy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

Watch this and see if you believe that the conditions for life to arise could only have happened on our planet; the universe is pretty fukking big so it is!!

:eek:
Just,wow.

lugha · 02-01-2010 8:13pm

king-stew wrote: »

Why not???

Well there are only two options, defo yes and defo no. Definitely yes is definitely silly so all that's left me is no.

Whether there definitely is or is not other life, they definitely don't come a calling the way many folk think they do and they don't kidnap us to perform intergalactic hanky panky with us either.

julien05 · 02-01-2010 8:13pm

wheres the proof and the youtube videos all i can find on youtube is youngones strutting their stuff. whats the big secret where are the aliens?

My name is URL · 02-01-2010 8:29pm

Definitly not.

king-stew wrote: »

Why do you doubt that? I wouldnt be surprised if theres hundreds of different civilisations much more advanced than us! If you need any proof humans are the perfect example, if we can produce what we have with only the things we have found on this planet why couldnt anything else? And their planets probably have different substances and elements on it so therefore the potential for completely different technologies!

Well if they do exist and are more advanced than us then the chances of them contacting us increases exponentially, as do the chances of them destroying themselves, yet SETI have not detected any signal from alien sources in over 50 years of 'listening'.. surely if other civilizations existed we'd have had some degree of evidence by now..

then there's the Fermi Paradox...

jd007 · 02-01-2010 9:01pm

This proves aliens are real!

/thread

jd007 · 02-01-2010 9:02pm

julien05 wrote: »

wheres the proof and the youtube videos all i can find on youtube is youngones strutting their stuff. whats the big secret where are the aliens?

Child porn?

ScumLord · 02-01-2010 9:14pm

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Oh course there is alien life. It quite probably is just micro-organisms, but there is little doubt it exists.

I don't know why this would be the assumption considering all the set backs life on earth has had. If there was a planet out there that developed at the same rate as ours but didn't get hit by giant asteroids they could be seen to be potentially millions of years ahead of life on this planet. Although it's always been the set backs and disasters that drove evolution on.

dannydiamond · 02-01-2010 9:22pm

It makes no sense no to.

julien05 · 02-01-2010 9:26pm

yea child porn at its best and they are making it themselves..sweet maybe theres already a load of aliens living here with us and thats what them hollywood cnts were trying to say ,well we already knew

laugh · 02-01-2010 9:35pm

Definitly not.

We need FTL travel, get to work monkeys.

4leto · 02-01-2010 9:43pm

There is life out there its probably teeming with it, but is there intelligent life I doubt it if so it is rare. This perfect stablish hospitable world of ours perfect for high multi cellular organisms only once in 4.5 billion years was intelligence selected as an evolutionary advantage, but what an advantage.

chopperbyrne · 02-01-2010 9:47pm

Definitly not.

Of course there is more life in the universe and almost certainly there is more intelligent life too.

Quite possibly more advanced than ourselves too.

ashyle · 02-01-2010 9:51pm

Definitly not.

Aliens I don't believe in, not the Hollywood variety anyway. But life on other planets, yeah I do. It seems highly presumptious and unfair to assume Earth is the only planet that can support biological organisms.

4leto · 02-01-2010 9:58pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Of course there is more life in the universe and almost certainly there is more intelligent life too.

Quite possibly more advanced than ourselves too.

What gives you that assumption, look at our own planet, billions of species have lived here but only one became intelligent, look at the world away we are from our closest intelligent animal on this planet, our intellect may be very unique. How we got it too is a freakish bunch of coincidence we really should not be here. But the dice rolled and landed all the right conditions, we are freaks of nature. I doubt it could happen again anywhere.

ashyle · 02-01-2010 10:04pm

Definitly not.

4leto, you are right, if any of the conditions had been different at the big bang/creation of the universe (or whatever you call it :P) we wouldn't exist, at least not in the same way! But the universe is pretty much infinite and our knowledge is so little - we know more about the centre of the sun than we know about the deepest part of the oceans on Earth for example! - that it's crazy to think we are alone in existance!!

4leto · 02-01-2010 10:12pm

ashyle wrote: »

4leto, you are right, if any of the conditions had been different at the big bang/creation of the universe (or whatever you call it :P) we wouldn't exist, at least not in the same way! But the universe is pretty much infinite and our knowledge is so little - we know more about the centre of the sun than we know about the deepest part of the oceans on Earth for example! - that it's crazy to think we are alone in existance!!

But we are not alone, we share this world and perhaps the universe with infinite amount of species, but with our level of intellect that would be truly rare. If the laws of physics are the same across the universe so are the laws of biology and evolution, its doubtful it could happen again. This is it and we are it in a universe of evolved radiation.

MaybeLogic · 02-01-2010 10:16pm

4leto wrote: »

What gives you that assumption, look at our own planet, billions of species have lived here but only one became intelligent, look at the world away we are from our closest intelligent animal on this planet, our intellect may be very unique. How we got it too is a freakish bunch of coincidence we really should not be here. But the dice rolled and landed all the right conditions, we are freaks of nature. I doubt it could happen again anywhere.

Or Aliens came down during one of our last evolutionary phases to give us a helping hand.
A possibility.

Agricola · 02-01-2010 10:17pm

Definitly not.

4leto wrote: »

What gives you that assumption, look at our own planet, billions of species have lived here but only one became intelligent, look at the world away we are from our closest intelligent animal on this planet, our intellect may be very unique. How we got it too is a freakish bunch of coincidence we really should not be here. But the dice rolled and landed all the right conditions, we are freaks of nature. I doubt it could happen again anywhere.

Well considering the mind boggling number of galaxies that exist and the multiply mind boggling number of stars that they each contain, id say its far from an impossibility that another species on another planet could develop to the level of humans, or even surpass them.

Personally I think Gene Roddenberry is onto something. The universe is probably a vast, largely empty place but here and there where the right conditions for life exist, there are numerous lifeforms present. Everything from planets of primordial soup like early earth, right up to species who are possibly much more technologically advanced than ourselves. The great distances involved probably mean we'll always believe ourselves to be unique.

unreggd · 02-01-2010 10:20pm

Definitly not.

The way I see it, the sun is a star, so every star in the sky could be a sun, all with their own solar systems

I agree that its a bit of a fluke that earth > humans were formed, but as space is infinite
[something I just can't comprehend :P]
several human-like species would still be an irrelevant
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000001 chance

ya-ba-da-ba-doo · 02-01-2010 10:21pm

Definitly not.

The universe contains millions and millions of galaxies, inside of them there's billions of stars which mostly contain a set of planets. chances are theres more than one of the billions of planets out there that has suitable conditions for life.

Lets say 1 in every billion stars has a planet with suitable conditions for life, that still leaves hundreds, even thousands, of planets with suitable conditions for life. Out of these planets i highly doubt it's just us. I'd say it's a near certainty that there's other intellegent life out there and it's only a matter of time until we, or they, come accross eachother.

MaybeLogic · 02-01-2010 10:21pm

unreggd wrote: »

I agree that its a bit of a fluke that earth > humans were formed, but as space is infinite [something I just can't comprehend :P] several human-like species would still be an irrelavant 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 chance

I think you missed a zero,there.

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