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Old 01-05-2012, 05:00 PM
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I just checked out your list. You have a wide array of interests. I'm trippin that you have a whole laundry list about the universe, but don't believe in UFOs, though. How so? You don't believe the Roswell story? I'm not trying to open this up for debate, I'm just trying to see where your mind is. Have you ever seen the movie "Fire in the Sky"? I think that was the name of it. It was about an abduction, and dude passed the lie detector test 3 times or something like that. Lie detector tests can be passed, but I kind of believe his story. I also don't think our government is telling us everything they know about UFOs visiting us.
I believe UFOs exist, it's just that I don't believe that aliens are the ones piloting them lol. I think what people are seeing are top secret military aircraft that's being tested. The rest of what's being said about visitors coming to Earth from elsewhere are all hoaxes. I'm not saying that your perspective is wrong, it's just that I have a much more different perspective from what others believe about life outside of carbon-based life.

If there is any alien life forms out there, I don't believe they're visiting us. I mean, I don't even believe they even know about our existence. Let's just assume for the sake of argument, that humans are the only species in the history of life on Earth to evolve high-level intelligence. If life on Earth offers any measure of life elsewhere in the universe, then intelligence must be rare. It's just that I'm going off of knowing that there have been more than 10 billion species in the history of life on Earth. I just believe it follows that among all ET life-forms we might expect no better than about 1 and 10 billion to be as intelligent as we are, not to mention the odds against intelligent life having an advanced technology and a desire to communicate through the vast distances of interstellar space. It's just that the chance that such a civilization exists, I'm thinking that radio waves would be the communication of choice, and that's because of their ability to traverse the galaxy unimpeded by interstellar gas and dust clouds. It's just that humans on Earth have only understood the electromagnetic spectrum for less than a century. What I'm trying to say without confusing you is that, had aliens tried to send radio signals to Earth, we would have been incapable of receiving them. I mean, for all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. I just think that they would now be looking elsewhere. Honestly, if and when we discover ET intelligence, I think it will impart a change in human self-perception that may be impossible to anticipate. My only hope is that every other civilization isn't doing exactly what we're doing because then everyone would be listening, and no one would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. Fire in the Sky was a great movie, if something like that was actually true, but since I don't believe it to be, then it was just another movie, to me.
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