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Do you believe that extraterrestrials exist?

Yes, and I believe that many or even most of them would be just as advanced or more advanced than we are.
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Yes, but I believe that extraterrestrial life would be more like what the OP said.
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Yes, but I believe that extraterrestrial life would all be primitive.
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No, Earth is the only planet with life.
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Postby Pot Noodle » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:14 pm

Yes, but I believe that extraterrestrial life would all be primitive.
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Postby Soji » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:20 pm

Well duh!

We cannot be the only planet with life!

[I know extraterrestrials exist due to the Goldilock's (sp?) Zone]
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Postby Tlaceceyaya » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:32 pm

Soji wrote:Well duh!

We cannot be the only planet with life!

[I know extraterrestrials exist due to the Goldilock's (sp?) Zone]

You know that extraterrestrials exist because at a certain distance away from a star, with a certain rotation, a planet can have a temperature similar to Earth's without massive variability?
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Postby The Tectonic Plates » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:35 pm

Tlaceceyaya wrote:
Soji wrote:Well duh!

We cannot be the only planet with life!

[I know extraterrestrials exist due to the Goldilock's (sp?) Zone]

You know that extraterrestrials exist because at a certain distance away from a star, with a certain rotation, a planet can have a temperature similar to Earth's without massive variability?


You forgot the whole "which may allow water to exist on said planet". Which, at least on Earth, is a huge requirement for most life.
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Postby Distruzio » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:37 pm

Of course I do.
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Postby Pultridus » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:38 pm

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Pultridus wrote:iv seen ufos for my entire life and have been abducted three times.My body is often the same as human-alien hybrids so i might be an alien myself.Also,what if humans are the aliens?What if this planet belonged to the greys and we came here.What if our ufo crashed and the crash devolved us into neanderthals?

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:41 pm

With the vastness of the Universe, it's just foolish to think that there isn't extraterrestrial life; however, it seems unlikely that any level of technology would allow any kind of contact with anything beyond microbes, which could very well be in the Solar system.
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:43 pm

Damn right I do. I believe they exist without a doubt in my mind, and I think they've visited earth.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:44 pm

Trollgaard wrote:Damn right I do. I believe they exist without a doubt in my mind, and I think they've visited earth.

Why would you think the last part?
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Postby Occupied Deutschland » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:47 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:Damn right I do. I believe they exist without a doubt in my mind, and I think they've visited earth.

Why would you think the last part?

To quote the great George Sokol- Soucal Sockol- Tsolkol- Tsouckal- T.:
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:51 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:Damn right I do. I believe they exist without a doubt in my mind, and I think they've visited earth.

Why would you think the last part?


Thousands of eyewitnesses, abduction stories, military people who have come forward about events in the 50-60s and WWII.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:52 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:Why would you think the last part?


Thousands of eyewitnesses, abduction stories, military people who have come forward about events in the 50-60s and WWII.

Anecdotes aren't permissible in scientific inquiry.
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:54 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
Thousands of eyewitnesses, abduction stories, military people who have come forward about events in the 50-60s and WWII.

Anecdotes aren't permissible in scientific inquiry.


So what?

Well all the proof is hoarded away and discredited.

Aliens are real, and they've been to earth.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:56 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:Anecdotes aren't permissible in scientific inquiry.


So what?

Well all the proof is hoarded away and discredited.

Aliens are real, and they've been to earth.

Aliens are real, but it's practically impossible for them to get to Earth.
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:57 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
So what?

Well all the proof is hoarded away and discredited.

Aliens are real, and they've been to earth.

Aliens are real, but it's practically impossible for them to get to Earth.



Mmmhmm....yeah, I don't buy that.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:59 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:Aliens are real, but it's practically impossible for them to get to Earth.



Mmmhmm....yeah, I don't buy that.

How would they get here then, hmmm? What interest would there be in hiding their existence? If they have the power to get to Earth from other star systems, then our governments wouldn't be able to hide their existence if they wanted to be known.
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:03 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:

Mmmhmm....yeah, I don't buy that.

How would they get here then, hmmm? What interest would there be in hiding their existence? If they have the power to get to Earth from other star systems, then our governments wouldn't be able to hide their existence if they wanted to be known.


I don't know how they would get here. Warp speed? Hyperspace? i'm not a physicist bro. Maybe they are studying us, or manipulating us and don't want to be known.

I believe that governments know about them, and have known for a long time, and have been doing their damndest to keep a lid on it, and discredit people who come forward, along with mainstream media and science.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:05 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:How would they get here then, hmmm? What interest would there be in hiding their existence? If they have the power to get to Earth from other star systems, then our governments wouldn't be able to hide their existence if they wanted to be known.


I don't know how they would get here. 1) Warp speed? Hyperspace? i'm not a physicist bro. Maybe they are studying us, or manipulating us and don't want to be known.

I believe that governments know about them, and have known for a long time, and have been doing their damndest to keep a lid on it, and discredit people who come forward, along with mainstream media 2) and science.


1) Which explains why you don't know that those break the laws of physics.

2) That makes you no different from creationists and the "vaccines cause autism" thing; I suggest you stop before you embarrass yourself.
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Postby Occupied Deutschland » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:08 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
I don't know how they would get here. 1) Warp speed? Hyperspace? i'm not a physicist bro. Maybe they are studying us, or manipulating us and don't want to be known.

I believe that governments know about them, and have known for a long time, and have been doing their damndest to keep a lid on it, and discredit people who come forward, along with mainstream media 2) and science.


1) Which explains why you don't know that those break the laws of physics.

2) That makes you no different from creationists and the "vaccines cause autism" thing; I suggest you stop before you embarrass yourself.

1) Electrons break the laws of physics (well, as they were in the 1900s).

It is entirely possible a theoretical alien race that is out there (which statistics says exist) has also developed technologically (once again, statistics) to a point wherein a mode of transport has been found that seems impossible to our level of technological development. From there it's just averages before they start showing up on or around Earth to check things out.
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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:11 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
I don't know how they would get here. 1) Warp speed? Hyperspace? i'm not a physicist bro. Maybe they are studying us, or manipulating us and don't want to be known.

I believe that governments know about them, and have known for a long time, and have been doing their damndest to keep a lid on it, and discredit people who come forward, along with mainstream media 2) and science.


1) Which explains why you don't know that those break the laws of physics.

2) That makes you no different from creationists and the "vaccines cause autism" thing; I suggest you stop before you embarrass yourself.


Anything view that is advanced that is not the norm is met with vehemence and bile. That's what I mean by mainstream science, but what I meant was by scientists/scientific establishment.

Also, wormholes? I'm sure there's probably a way to travel around the universe relatively quickly. I by know means know what it is though.

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Postby Beta Test » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:12 pm

I believe that there is life on other planets definitely. I also believe that it could be highly evolved and intelligent life like ours.

And yes, I believe UFO's and all could have visited Earth, what with all of the sightings of them.
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Postby New haven america » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:12 pm

Yep, the Galaxy is big, it must have something else out there.
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Postby Advelard » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:13 pm

Life has been created before, evidence of us and all other living things on Earth in the past.

If it has been created before, it has the ability to be created again.

It is possible, so why not on another planet?
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Postby Aureus Justitia » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:15 pm

I believe that in all things like this (supernatural, E.T.s and stuff)
Could maybe exist, simply because nobody has proof either way
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Postby Khanastan » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:16 pm

I know that in reality, there will be life out there in the galaxy, definitely at a microbial level, most probably at a primal level, possibly at a level of pre-civilized sentience, a few at a civilized standing and very, very little as advanced as us.

But, who knows? I look towards this optimistically. Space is the last great frontier, and it is practically endless. Anything could be out there.
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