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There is no conclusive proof reality exists either. Everything you and I know is simply electrochemical signals interpreted by the brain and built up into a model, all in our heads. There is no possible way of getting a truly objective observation from a human being.
It's an easy system to fool too, as shown by all those annoying brain games that keep getting passed around in our email accounts.
So are UFOs tricks on the brain or is the entire universe a trick on our brain? My conclusion...the universe is much bigger and complicated than I thought it was before.
Everybody's "reality" is just the model in their head. People don't question it and accept it as truthful and objective. Causes a lot of problems...
The universe is a big place, and doubters and debunkers are selling it short.
If they are here, what are they doing besides bellybutton experiments? I would think we would be one of the dumber species in the universes, so why would there be a fascination with us?
And why would they not just steal us and take us to their planet? Are there reports that there are people together during a sighting and one of them is stolen? That would be interesting.
Why wouldn't they go on TV and radio and make announcements? Why would everything need to be so super-secret?
You don't have to necessarily match or surpass the speed of light; even astronomers have theories about worm holes or bending space to get to areas in a faster manner, a short cut if you will. Also, we have found a few planets that are at the right distance from their star to support life. Unfortunately our telescopes are not strong enough to get much more detail on them.
The worm holes you refer to are mathematical constructs only. Not only that, but those equations prove that worm holes are inherently unstable and could only last nanoseconds before falling apart. Bending or folding space would require more energy than an entire galaxy of stars can provide. These theories are fantasies, or more appropriately, science fiction, nothing more.
Some time ago I heard someone say that in our galaxy there are more stars than there are grains of sand on earth. If just a tiny fraction of all those stars have planets around them, the likelihood of higher life out there is huge.
Not necessarily. While it is true that we are finding far more planets than we ever thought was possible, damn few of them (so far) are within the "Goldilocks Zone" where water can remain in a liquid state and can support life.
The Drake Equation, for example, assumes that if a star has planets then at least two of those planets will fall within the "Goldilocks Zone." That assumption has proven to be false. We have found well over 500 planets within the last decade, and fewer than five of those planets fall within the "Goldilocks Zone."
Does extraterrestrial life exist? I am absolutely certain that it does. Is there another advanced alien civilization co-existing in our galaxy? I seriously doubt it.
Our solar system is 4.8 billion years old, but the Milky Way is over 13 billion years old. Which means that there is a gap of over 8 billion years before our solar system existed that other intelligent life could have developed in the galaxy. There may have been advanced civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy that existed billions of years before ours, or even hundreds of millions of years before ours, but for one to exist at the same time as us seems highly improbable.
Not necessarily. While it is true that we are finding far more planets than we ever thought was possible, damn few of them (so far) are within the "Goldilocks Zone" where water can remain in a liquid state and can support life.
Does extraterrestrial life exist? I am absolutely certain that it does. Is there another advanced alien civilization co-existing in our galaxy? I seriously doubt it.
Our solar system is 4.8 billion years old, but the Milky Way is over 13 billion years old. Which means that there is a gap of over 8 billion years before our solar system existed that other intelligent life could have developed in the galaxy. There may have been advanced civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy that existed billions of years before ours, or even hundreds of millions of years before ours, but for one to exist at the same time as us seems highly improbable.
A) You mean life as we know it - carbon based.
B) You mean they all die off at some point?
I certainly do not mean life as we do not know it, that would be silly.
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B) You mean they all die off at some point?
Going by the only example I have, 99.9% of all the species that have ever existed on this planet have become extinct. There is no reason to believe the same would not be true on other planets.
I did see some disc looking things flying back in the 1960's... I was a young girl and with my dad stopped in traffic. We were going to pick up some pizza's in a shore town we lived in. Back then there was huge windshields on cars. My dad was leaning toward the windshield leaning on the steering wheel and he looked up.. his exact words were,, what the hell, flying saucers. . I leaned foreword and sure enough there were five discs flying in formation in a v shape... they were matte dark grey in color and they made no sound..I watched in amazement with my dad. I watched them go toward the east toward the ocean till they were specks.. Now my dad knew there was no technology to do this.. I thought, hey , they are flying these things in front of us.. I thought they were from the government and was a secret. I thought for sure they would be on the front of the paper the next day which was a Sunday. I was surprised it was not in the paper at all. My dad didn't talk too much about it.. he was perplexed as I was and I am sure it bothered him more than me. I just thought it had to be from us. These disc things.. I just didn't believe in another world. Today I still question what I saw that day.. they were discs.. sometimes I think they had to be birds or planes but every time I see a bird or plane in the sky they don't look like disc shapes. I still wonder today. what they heck were they???
I did see some disc looking things flying back in the 1960's... I was a young girl and with my dad stopped in traffic. We were going to pick up some pizza's in a shore town we lived in. Back then there was huge windshields on cars. My dad was leaning toward the windshield leaning on the steering wheel and he looked up.. his exact words were,, what the hell, flying saucers. . I leaned foreword and sure enough there were five discs flying in formation in a v shape... they were matte dark grey in color and they made no sound..I watched in amazement with my dad. I watched them go toward the east toward the ocean till they were specks.. Now my dad knew there was no technology to do this.. I thought, hey , they are flying these things in front of us.. I thought they were from the government and was a secret. I thought for sure they would be on the front of the paper the next day which was a Sunday. I was surprised it was not in the paper at all. My dad didn't talk too much about it.. he was perplexed as I was and I am sure it bothered him more than me. I just thought it had to be from us. These disc things.. I just didn't believe in another world. Today I still question what I saw that day.. they were discs.. sometimes I think they had to be birds or planes but every time I see a bird or plane in the sky they don't look like disc shapes. I still wonder today. what they heck were they???
They were flying saucers built by the USAF. They built a few in the late 50's.
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