do you think aliens are real?

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Sorry, reminded me about the aliens an the gas pump joke....

I like this thread!!

lol Just say away from the ear twisting ones...

 

[Beekissed]

Or the ones who quote bad poetry....

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Those poetry guys are scary/ugly but those ear twisters seem to have a thing for farmers the way I hear it so they really scare me...

 

[Moabite]

I think there are inter-dimensional entities that can manifest as all sorts of weird things like Bigfoot, Aliens, flying saucers, demons, angels, etc. I don't really believe, but I can reason with that better then someone flying here from several hundred light years away to mutilate cattle.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

That cow stuff happened a few times on year in Jackson County Al. I dont remember the year but I do remember it.

That was around the time I saw there flying Buick...

 

[chickened]

Yes there are aliens... they are among us... they are here to help us... they come in peace... as moderators on BYC.

 

[OldGuy43]

Ever heard of the short story, "To Serve Man"?

"It's a cookbook!"

 

[WooingWyandotte]

I think all alien movies are cheesy. Sure, they're scary like Signs..but come on, they are ridiculous! Don't even get me started on Stargate....ugh.

 

[AquaEyes]

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Miniscule probabilities are those in which the denominator is large and the numerator small. For example, if scientists say the odds of life existing on another planet are 1 in a million, those are small odds.

But...the universe is HUGE. When there are billions of planets, then there are thousands of 1 in a million planets. Saying 1 planet in a million has life means that, statistically, it's more IMPROBABLE that this planet is the ONLY one with life. So it is mathematically more probable that there IS life somewhere else than that there ISN'T. I hope our species survives long enough to advance technology to find it.

At the same time, I'm pretty sure that the majority of "alien encounter" reports by people are the result of our faulty perception of stimuli as a result of our overactive brains. I can't say with accuracy that they're all fake, but there's another set of explanations for "encounters" that doesn't require the event to have actually happened as its described. Our brains are very easily tricked.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

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Miniscule probabilities are those in which the denominator is large and the numerator small. For example, if scientists say the odds of life existing on another planet are 1 in a million, those are small odds.

But...the universe is HUGE. When there are billions of planets, then there are thousands of 1 in a million planets. Saying 1 planet in a million has life means that, statistically, it's more IMPROBABLE that this planet is the ONLY one with life. So it is mathematically more probable that there IS life somewhere else than that there ISN'T. I hope our species survives long enough to advance technology to find it.

At the same time, I'm pretty sure that the majority of "alien encounter" reports by people are the result of our faulty perception of stimuli as a result of our overactive brains. I can't say with accuracy that they're all fake, but there's another set of explanations for "encounters" that doesn't require the event to have actually happened as its described. Our brains are very easily tricked.

I don't want to start an argument, but UFO sightings and 'life on other planets' is mostly false. Many UFO sightings are our U.S. military doing who knows what again.