I don't. Not for a minute, and I wonder how and who is planting these stories. Einstein says it's impossible, or so extremely costly and long term; i.e. there are going to be no alien joyrides or invasions of Earth.
shareNo. I doubt any aliens have visited Earth, can't say for sure; nor can anyone else for that matter. There appears to be no evidence of space people, or just plain beings from other planets and galaxies, ever having paid our planet a visit, and yet for all we know a space person may arrive here today, when the sun comes up! In other words, this can't be ruled out. No one can know for sure.
shareI always thought it was bs.
The odds of extra-terrestrial life are extremely high, imo; conversely, the odds of a civilization so advanced as to be capable of interstellar travel fucking up enough to crash here or be captured by us seem quite low.
shareHahaha, well said.
I think there is life on other planets, and probably a lot.
Probably given enough of the right stuff and some stability it will evolve in different ways almost everywhere.
Whether it gets to be intelligent, and clearly we are not yet because we have no global consciousness enough
to unite to keep up from killing ourselves and our planet, tells the tale; But also, how long do they live and is
it possible to construct a generation ship with enough smarts to reproduce living conditions in raw space for
hundreds of years, and then what?
I’ll never forget the moment some teacher at some school I can’t remember drew a tiny square on a Post-It, stuck it on one of the walls and explained the Hubble Deep Field photograph. Totally mind-blowing moment for me.
tl;dr: the Hubble space telescope took a ten day-long exposure of an “empty” piece of sky the angular/size equivalent of a tennis ball seen from a hundred yards away, and found three thousand GALAXIES (average star count in each being 250 BILLION stars). Last I checked the most recent similar exposure topped ten thousand galaxies.
So yeah, we are almost certainly not alone in the universe, but any visitation from afar would either be undetectable or undeniable imo.
Yeah, the chance of intelligent life is above zero, since we exist.
If you take any number that is above zero and multiply it by another number that is large enough...and we know the number is large enough at this point...well, the outcome is obvious.
The question isn't whether there are other civilisations out there, it's how many, when, where and how far?
It’s a huge question that I can’t wait to see answered.
Film on the subject I plug quite often: UFO (2018). Think small indie film like The Man from Earth (2007) with a slightly higher location budget. Have seen it multiple times and love it to bits.
No. Advanced aliens could possibly exist and travel here, but it would be impossible for the U.S. government to possess this type of evidence and maintain its secrecy for any length of time.
shareThere's a thought.
I'm pretty sure life, intelligent life, and vastly more intelligent life than us exists in the universe. I don't think there's any way to get from one place to another besides putting one foot in front of the other .... metaphorically ... and moving through and past intervening matter and space by employing various forms of energy while following the laws of motion ; that we know so far.
There may even be systems on a scale of galaxies that can generate and create such forces but the laws of information do not allow it is be possible in our realm.
There are proto-theories regarding wormholes, warp drives, etc. As far as I know (which is not very far), they do not violate our current understanding of the laws of physics. Of course, none of it seems practical from our perspective, but it could be within the abilities of a vastly more advanced alien race. For them, it might be as commonplace as jumping in the car and driving to the supermarket is to us.
share> As far as I know (which is not very far), they do not violate our current understanding of the laws of physics.
They sure don't bother the Star Trek fan base. It's nonsense, but even if it is possible it's not for people people to ride on.
Going 100% Fox Mulder on this one
"I want to believe"