so, i was thinking...

im_invisible

..you know the way aliens, they travel across hundreds of light years of space, with thier vastly superior technology, and their faster than light-speed travel, to study us earthlings, and they end up crashing in a desert in arizona, i mean fair enough, they've got plenty of room on the journey, nothing but empty space and not much to avoid, but you'd think they'd be able to land the thing when they got here.
or maybe they were on their way to somewhere else, but that trans-galactic superhighway, that was on their map, hasnt been built yet, its 50 years behind scedule and trillians of dollars over budget... thats what i was thinking

so, what does anyone else think of the whole alien question, they've got to be out there, and well, maybe theres a civilisation that has the technology to travel the universe, but would they be bothered with us??

Ponster

im_invisible wrote:

but would they be bothered with us??

They aren't.

simu

There must be some somewhere...

Ruu_Old

They would eat us for breakfast!

Oryx

Id say they do their best to avoid us, and if they crash into us, they didnt mean to.

Binomate

They want our womens and childrens.

Cake Fiend

im_invisible wrote:

aliens, they travel across hundreds of light years of space, with thier vastly superior technology, and their faster than light-speed travel, to study us earthlings

They don't. Someone's been telling you porky pies.

emeraldstar

im_invisible wrote:

so, what does anyone else think of the whole alien question, they've got to be out there, and well, maybe theres a civilisation that has the technology to travel the universe, but would they be bothered with us??

they're definately out there

mawk

Binomate wrote:

They want our womens and childrens.

well as long as they stay away from my cows..

insafehands

Ponster wrote:

They aren't.

Ugh. Please don't post such sh1te.

Schlemm

I love the way those aliens visit the USA so often

biko

Well, I'm sure they can access our TV and radio and see for themselves what a destructive/violent race we are. If I was them I'd nuke this ball to oblivion before we can get off this rock.

But that's me. Maybe they follow the primary objective...

Gator

meh

Zillah

NASA managed to spend hundreds of millions getting a probe to Mars only to have it crash uncerimoniously into the planet never to be heard from again. These things happen.

While I agree that its ridiculously unlikely that an alien spaceship crashed in the Arizona desert, the logic "They got here so they wouldn't crash" isn't really valid.

Thrill

They get their kicks from doing anal probes, so sleep with your back to the wall. (unless you like that sort of thing)

source

They're not bothered with us, they told me!!!!

thelordofcheese

thrill wrote:

They get their kicks from doing anal probes, so sleep with your back to the wall. (unless you like that sort of thing)

I'm going to quote the ever brilliant warren ellis on this one

Spider Jerusalem: "you claim that their continual thieving of you, their probing of your ass, fractionating of your brain, and steam cleaning of your testicles is an attempt to make contact"
UFO nutjob: "yes"
Spider: "well, you see, it indicates a few things to me. I mean, either you have the most beautiful asshole in the cosmos, or there is no intelligent life in the universe..."

mloc

Ponster wrote:

They aren't.

We aren't.

:cool:

Feral Mutant

The universe is (I can't stress this enough) really really big. Odds are there's something somewhere but they'd be so far away, it would take so long to get here, they probably wouldn't bother.

Zillah wrote:

NASA managed to spend hundreds of millions getting a probe to Mars only to have it crash uncerimoniously into the planet never to be heard from again. These things happen.

It didn't crash, it was destroyed. I saw a documentary* about it last week.


*may not have been a documentary, may have been an ad for Transformers

irlirishkev

Feral Mutant wrote:

The universe is (I can't stress this enough) really really big. Odds are there's something somewhere but they'd be so far away, it would take so long to get here, they probably wouldn't bother.It didn't crash, it was destroyed. I saw a documentary* about it last week.


*may not have been a documentary, may have been an ad for Transformers

I agree with what you say, except, that probably like us, they're still exploring because the universe is so damn big. It's not that they're not bothered with us, they probably haven't discovered us yet.

It's naieve to think that we're the only life form in this vast existence. If we've made it this far.. who knows what else has!

mloc

Realistically, it is statistically unlikely the life exists outside of earth.

It is, in fact, statiscally unlikely for us to even be here at all.

thefinalstage

Look its simple as this. If aliens ever did travel such distances to our planet it would probably only be in the search of a new home world or resources. If you consider slaves a resource than the human race may survive.

Black Swan

Ruu wrote:

They would eat us for breakfast!

Oooooooo, why was I thinking there could be another meaning for this comment?

Drift

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Oooooooo, why was I thinking there could be another meaning for this comment?

Too many late night shows on the *ahem* "sci-fi" channel Blue

Black Swan

Drift wrote:

Too many late night shows on the *ahem* "sci-fi" channel Blue

Ha! And all this time I thought it was cause I was young, single, and on the wild side?

LovelyTom

Maybe they didn't land right because they crashed here by accident?

Mahatma coat

it was just a weather baloon Dude, whats all the fuss about?

Thrill

If aliens ever crashland on this planet they better prey they dont crash down here in cork. The compo claims would keep them tied up in court for decades.

monkeyfudge

I'd be very dubious about any form of faster than light travel, so I don't think any alien race will be traversing the vastness of the cosmos to get here.

But Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri are just about 4.3 light years and it's possible that they could have Earth type planets in orbit around them.

We'll know a lot more once they get the SIM Planet Quest mission up and running, but the launch date for that is constantly being pushed back. It's basically a space telescope designed to seach for extrasolar planets.

Lump

im_invisible wrote:

..you know the way aliens,......

No becasue there are no Aliens.

Tar.Aldarion

If aliens like that existed OP, they wouldn't be bothered with us becasue we would only be primitive animals to them.

radiospan

Aliens are just us from the future....

lucernarian

They probably wouldn't bother to visit our bad selves, as if they had the technology to travel that distance, they would have most likely seen us beforehand. You decide if we're worth travelling billions of miles for:cool:

Pigman II

im_invisible wrote:

but would they be bothered with us??

Well for one thing I imagine we taste pretty good.

bytesize

They Took Ma Boooyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

Red Hand

Funny how they show up the same era that science fiction takes off, eh?:) Coincidence? Naaaa...

Some believe in Gods...therefore, for an era where science takes off, you are going to get UFO nuts.

emeraldstar

Lump wrote:

No becasue there are no Aliens.

There are. But sssshhhh.

chamlis

Fermi Paradox: If they existed, they'd be here.

aidan24326

Lump wrote:

No becasue there are no Aliens.

Maybe not, seems a bit odd that we'd be the only eejits here though, in such a vast universe.

chamlis wrote:

Fermi Paradox: If they existed, they'd be here

Not necessarily. Lots of reasons why alien lifeforms could exist (or have existed) but us not know anything about them, and maybe they not know anything about us either. We could well be separated by immense distances.

Even a highly advanced intelligence from a far away galaxy would need unimaginable technology to be able to travel here. They would likely (or even necessarily) be so far ahead of us in their devolopment and their technology that even if they knew of our existence (which they probably wouldn't) they'd have little reason to bother with us. We'd be no more than a primitive animal in a zoo, a mild curiosity (especially if they were aware that life was common enough and that we were nothing unusual in the grander scheme of things).

Lump

Lump wrote:

No becasue there are no Aliens.

Yes there are! here we're all aliens, according to the yanks

Muineach

I'm surprised that no ones mentioned these

Aliens live on earth under the ground !

hmm maybe your all part of the conspiracy !!

Takeshi_Kovacs

It is a funny question all right.... for example the chances of life spontaneously emerging from primordial, is pretty small, yet we live in a universe too large to even to comprehend its dimensions (and not to mind possible parallel universes..), that the chance of life occurring elsewhere is reasonably possible.

It may be just that any other life out there, only came into being around the same time as us (give or take a few million years), assuming that a sufficient amount of time (couple of billion years) has passed for the first and second generation of stars to have converted enough Hydrogen and helium, into the heavier elements, needed to create organic molecules, hence building blocks of life...
And even if an alien race has evolved to the stage where they can build ships that can approach the speed of light, and withstand intergalactic flight, it still would take millions of years before they could colonise a galaxy and document every star system (and inhabitants). And that is but one galaxy out of hundreds of billions.
Once they haven't nuked each other to oblivion in their early spacefaring days, like we nearly did (and still have the potential to do so..).

Then again we just may be the sole keepers of this here Universe..... feel kinda lonely?

jesus smith

stupid thread, first off if they have the ability to cross the vastness of space then they most certainly are as far ahead of us as we are ahead of the mice, so to try compreheand what the **** theyre up to is stupid. i mean im sure theres mice running about going "why the **** have i another ear growing out of my back?" but its on that scale.

Peteee

jesus smith wrote:

first off if they have the ability to cross the vastness of space then they most certainly are as far ahead of us as we are ahead of the mice

Not really.

It took humans only 66 years from first flight to landing a man on the moon.

Aliens might only need to be a few hundred years more advanced then us to master interstellar travel.

randylonghorn

They're already here and masquerading as AH moderators. The most recent arrival is encountering some difficulties in adapting to earth, and has occasional gender identity crises as a result.