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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb
Interesting  ... at least the Russians have released some of their "unexplained" sitings over the years.
One thing that bugs me is whenever someone mentions UFO's everyone just goes  "little green men from mars lolz" . I believe that is a very naive perspective on the universe. The sheer size of the universe is so impossibly huge that we can not even begin to attempt to comprehend its scale. We are one solar system, in one galaxy... which in itself has billions of star systems, which is just one galaxy amongst millions if not billions of galaxies...
And we are to believe that we are the only example of intelligent life? We are a very young species, there is nothing to say that in the long life of the universe there isn't a species or many species that may have cracked quantum physics and created machines capable of bridging the immense distances between the stars. Wormholes/Warp drive are all sound theories, we just don't have the technical prowess or knowledge to create them... perhaps somone out there has?
One thing that would puzzle me, is why would such an advanced race even want to come to this backwater planet (if they have)? We are pretty barbaric still, killing each other for petty little things like money or power.. we can't even mix with each other properly because we believe in make-belief God's or don't like the colour of their skin, whilst killing the very planet we live on because it would "cost" too much to impliment the drastic changes to our economies and lifestyles...
We have quite a way to go before I think someone would stop and take notice of us... 
PS: And before anyone asks, there are no green men on Mars... its a dead world the only chance of finding life would be frozen bacteria in the polar regions.  |
I do not believe in extra-terrestrials. I also do not believe in god. However, it strikes me as odd that many of those who so vehemently scorn the belief in a creator-god are the same who so ardently support the belief in extra-terrestrials. This, I find amusing due to the fact that they both rely on the same logic to support their claims:
1. It is impossible to conceive that the universe, with it's infinite vastness, plethora of matter, and abundance of potential sources of energy, is home to but one intelligent species.
and
2. It is impossible to conceive that the world, with it's numerous specialized and codependent species, food chains, and water and climate cycles formed singularly by chance.
In truth, there is little evidence to support either claim, and most of that which exists is observational. Both support their stands by citing a few individuals who claim that 'I saw something'. In this, it makes the testimony of a pilot claiming that he saw a UFO little different than an old woman claiming to have seen the Virgin Mary in a Pop Tart. For both camps, belief really stems from the fact that they
want to believe, and little more.