UFO/Aliens?

[Guest Philosophy]

 the area I live in recently has had a quite a few UFO reports its even been on the news. People say they are seeing balls of light or triangles that fly in ways that planes cannot. What is your opinion?

[xox]

If you make people more clever, they will make up less things

[Unhelpful]

[XTankSlayerX]

Just like all other things, no one really knows for sure if its real or fake.

[Guest Philosophy]

If you make people more clever, they will make up less things

I take it you don't beleive... I live in an area with a high university graduate percentage.

[luke_2bossly]

 they are seeing balls

Thats what she said

[Admiaczking]

I have never seen a UFO but I've seen what could have been an alien, whatever it was it wasn't human and it wasn't normal and I doubt anybody would believe me if I told the story

[flibberdipper]

I think they need to lay off the bong and get a life.

[Osmium]

I don't believe them. At all.

 

If a race of beings are intelligent enough to get to earth undetected they wouldn't be making crop circles or they wouldn't leave any witness at all whatsoever if they did not want to be discovered. 

[killcomic]

I always found baffling that people believe that if aliens were to show up they would be teasing us with glimpses of their presence.

When the Spanish discovered America, they didn't sort of just sailed their boats back and forth from the shore to tease the natives. They landed and planted a big fecking flag and decimated the local population.

So no, I don't believe in alien ships visiting our planet. People see what they want to see.

[Unhelpful]

I think they need to lay off the bong and get a life.

[DIV1D3]

If aliens existed, we'd be dead, or under captivity by them. 

There are multiple games and movies illustrating a much more likely situation of the presence of aliens. 

They discover us > Kill us all

Done.

 

Edit:

Maybe the most likely situations are of Halo and The War of the Worlds.

Either they come along, and just decimate our entire colonisation (whether that is just on Earth or further), or enslave us for their uses. 

[Beskamir]

I have never seen a UFO but I've seen what could have been an alien, whatever it was it wasn't human and it wasn't normal and I doubt anybody would believe me if I told the story

I'm curious to hear the story.

 

Although if there are aliens that can travel great distances to earth would they really be so nice as to not make us all their slaves? Or are they being somehow kept from wiping out/enslaving an entire planet? Of course I wouldn't be surprised if tin foil hats thought aliens had somehow enslaved us without us knowing it...

[Osmium]

If aliens existed, we'd be dead, or under captivity by them. 

There are multiple games and movies illustrating a much more likely situation of the presence of aliens. 

They discover us > Kill us all

Done.

 

That's not true, you are operating under the assumption they are like us in any way. Not even mentally, but biologically they could be different than us on so many levels. for instance on another planet some form of life could conceivably evolve from something comparable to insects with a Queen/worker hierarchy or some form of intelligent microscopic life could have formed. It is naive to assume another form of life are remotely similar to us.

 

No offense but games and movies are not exactly the best things to base your opinions off of

[SpaceSquid]

I'm curious to hear the story.

 

Although if there are aliens that can travel great distances to earth would they really be so nice as to not make us all their slaves? Or are they being somehow kept from wiping out/enslaving an entire planet? Of course I wouldn't be surprised if tin foil hats thought aliens had somehow enslaved us without us knowing it...

What if aliens control the worlds governments... Spooky

[Beskamir]

What if aliens control the worlds governments... Spooky

Guess it's time to finally make that tin foil hat

[DIV1D3]

That's not true, you are operating under the assumption they are like us in any way. Not even mentally, but biologically they could be different than us on so many levels. for instance on another planet some form of life could conceivably evolve from something comparable to insects with a Queen/worker hierarchy or some form of intelligent microscopic life could have formed. It is naive to assume another form of life are remotely similar to us.

 

I wouldn't base your opinions off of games and movies

I wasn't assuming that they would be similar to use, almost all iterations of aliens invading human colonisation have similarities to us with legs, arms and other physical appearances and functions, but I'd think that if any unknown alien race were to exist than they would be significantly more complex and different to us. And they'd also have to be more advanced, because if we were the ones who are more technologically advanced then we wouldn't be the ones who are being invaded, instead we'd be the ones invading. 

 

What if aliens control the worlds governments... Spooky

ermahgerd, iloomenarty

[Osmium]

I wasn't assuming that they would be similar to use, almost all iterations of aliens invading human colonisation have similarities to us with legs, arms and other physical appearances and functions, but I'd think that if any unknown alien race were to exist than they would be significantly more complex and different to us. And they'd also have to be more advanced, because if we were the ones who are more technologically advanced then we wouldn't be the ones who are being invaded, instead we'd be the ones invading. 

 

Well what I am saying is basically the differences between ourselves and "them" could conceivably be too great for us to even have any sort of understanding of the other species.

 

A few examples of this would be if they were not even a carbon based organism(silicon based organisms are theorized to be possible, the Aliens from the "Alien" movies are silicon based), and as such they don't bother going to earth in the first place because they don't see any resources of value there since oxygen itself would more than likely be toxic to them(oxidization). Or if they simply exist on a totally different scale than us, as in they are the size of ants or they are the size of mountains. Or if they evolved with a queen/worker hierarchy to the point where they simply don't understand individuality or any other "human" concept. Or any combination of those factors. 

 

If we ever get destroyed by another race, or we destroy another form of life I would imagine it would be more likely to be due to some misunderstanding rather than malicious intent when taking into account the potentially infinite degree of biodiversity. 

 

Yeah I have actually put a lot of thought into this, I am kinda weird like that.

[Sky Daddy]

it is unknown until it is known, all assumptions are irrelevant and and not scientific

 

are we not aliens to everything but earth?

[DIV1D3]

Well what I am saying is basically the differences between ourselves and "them" could conceivably be too great for us to even have any sort of understanding of the other species.

 

A few examples of this would be if they were not even a carbon based organism(silicon based organisms are theorized to be possible, the Aliens from the "Alien" movies are silicon based), and as such they don't bother going to earth in the first place because they don't see any resources of value there since oxygen itself would more than likely be toxic to them(oxidization). Or if they simply exist on a totally different scale than us, as in they are the size of ants or they are the size of mountains. Or if they evolved with a queen/worker hierarchy to the point where they simply don't understand individuality or any other "human" concept. Or any combination of those factors. 

 

If we ever get destroyed by another race, or we destroy another form of life I would imagine it would be more likely to be due to some misunderstanding rather than malicious intent when taking into account the potentially infinite degree of biodiversity. 

 

Yeah I have actually put a lot of thought into this, I am kinda weird like that.

I can see that lol, I can't see a day (decade, millennia, whatever you want) where any type of foreign race encounters ours. 

I bet our solar system will have been destroyed by our sun going supernova before such time of an alien encounter.

Then the reasoning behind that falls into how freakin huge the Universe is, and where it starts, and how everything came to be, and what happened before the start of the Big Bang (my accepted theory of how the Universe was created, though I believe that it cannot be completely true because, well, we don't have any certain substance on the matter) and then what other systems and elements (not specifically referring to matter) exist. 

Maybe I should stop lol. 

[Osmium]

I can see that lol, I can't see a day (decade, millennia, whatever you want) where any type of foreign race encounters ours. 

I bet our solar system will have been destroyed by our sun going supernova before such time of an alien encounter.

Then the reasoning behind that falls into how freakin huge the Universe is, and where it starts, and how everything came to be, and what happened before the start of the Big Bang (my accepted theory of how the Universe was created, though I believe that it cannot be completely true because, well, we don't have any certain substance on the matter) and then what other systems and elements (not specifically referring to matter) exist. 

Maybe I should stop lol. 

 

Yeah I think we are getting a little too deep for LTT, QUICK GET THE CAT GIFS!

 

[DIV1D3]

Yeah I think we are getting a little too deep for LTT, QUICK GET THE CAT GIFS!

 

If you say so

The people who have no idea what we are talking about:

 

 

 

 

That wasn't a GIF, but you need to.......

 

[Tocsin_786]

I have never seen a UFO but I've seen what could have been an alien, whatever it was it wasn't human and it wasn't normal and I doubt anybody would believe me if I told the story

well now you have to tell the story. i want a thread linked about your story by sunday. ill be waiting. 

[connorpiper]

No.

No.

And no.

[Misanthrope]

There's unexplained stuff in the sky. However attributing it to aliens seems as primitive as when people attributed rain to a supreme being preoccupied with rain: it's not an explanation it's a cop out