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Originally Posted by renegade50
Really might throw religion for a twist on what a higher power might be and has done....

Who knows......



I once asked some Christian friends if they believed space aliens existed.One quickly stated no,"Because God made humans in the image of God." My response was "Didn't He make man in his spiritual image?"

That certainly sparked a vigorous debate,which wasn't resolved by the time I left.



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It suddenly occurs to me that the NASA spokesman whose statements they used in the video might even be me. I was a NASA spokesman, and I said those exact lines many times.

Now, I was never TOLD to say those things. I was never "let in" on any "secret" studies or revelations. But the truth was that NASA did not study UFOs and had no opinion on them either way. So that's what I stated. The Air Force did at one time look at the UFO phenomenon and concluded that - whatever the unexplained cases were - they were not any obvious threat to the country. So they stopped collecting that kind of data. As far as I know, that's still the case: USAF is not interested in UFOs.

I believe that there must be other life in the universe. Some of it might even be more intelligent than yeasts and bacteria. But because of the distances involved, I do not believe that any "aviating" lifeforms will ever meet. And certainly that none of them have any reason to come here.

We keep discovering strange atmospheric phenomena. Sprites, a weird purple light in the polar region that isn't aurora, ball lightning, clear air lightning...the list goes on. As I said above, just because you can't explain something doesn't mean it has to be alien spacecraft. There are tribes in Brazil who see jets and probably "explain" them as gods.


I’ve heard that argument before. We visit those tribes also in the interest of basic human curiosity and for the advancement of knowledge.

Don’t you think that a far more advanced civilization with the capability of interstellar travel would want to visit other less advanced societies for the same reason?

Don’t you think we would do the same if we had that capability and knew of other inhabited planets?

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Originally Posted by sportingspecialist
Originally Posted by renegade50
Really might throw religion for a twist on what a higher power might be and has done....

Who knows......



I once asked some Christian friends if they believed space aliens existed.One quickly stated no,"Because God made humans in the image of God." My response was "Didn't He make man in his spiritual image?"

That certainly sparked a vigorous debate,which wasn't resolved by the time I left.



Every time this subject is brought up, invariably someone brings up religion. And there in lies the real reason I think some people can’t accept the possibility that we are not alone.

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Originally Posted by Dryfly24


I’ve heard that argument before. We visit those tribes also in the interest of basic human curiosity and for the advancement of knowledge.

Don’t you think that a far more advanced civilization with the capability of interstellar travel would want to visit other less advanced societies for the same reason?

Don’t you think we would do the same if we had that capability and knew of other inhabited planets?


I think that would kind of depend on whether they had something we could rip off and steal...going on our past efforts.


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Originally Posted by Santiam
Ancient Aliens is on top of it.. smile


they bring up a lot of interesting stuff. but so far it's just a theory.

they have a base case theory, but from there it all kinds of branches off into speculation and hyper speculation.

but, they do seem to be on the trail of something that so far has been unexplainable.

rather than urth being a zoo, i prefer to think it's an experiment gone awry and has been abandoned.

the good news is that every well written story has a beginning, middle, and ending.


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Originally Posted by Gus
Originally Posted by Santiam
Ancient Aliens is on top of it.. smile


they bring up a lot of interesting stuff. but so far it's just a theory.

they have a base case theory, but from there it all kinds of branches off into speculation and hyper speculation.

but, they do seem to be on the trail of something that so far has been unexplainable.

rather than urth being a zoo, i prefer to think it's an experiment gone awry and has been abandoned.

the good news is that every well written story has a beginning, middle, and ending.


Jeez Gus, tone it down a bit, you are starting to sound like Stick.


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Originally Posted by JSTUART
Originally Posted by Dryfly24


I’ve heard that argument before. We visit those tribes also in the interest of basic human curiosity and for the advancement of knowledge.

Don’t you think that a far more advanced civilization with the capability of interstellar travel would want to visit other less advanced societies for the same reason?

Don’t you think we would do the same if we had that capability and knew of other inhabited planets?


I think that would kind of depend on whether they had something we could rip off and steal...going on our past efforts.


Can’t argue with that. I’m sure we would find something to take though. Again, based on past efforts...

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Originally Posted by Dryfly24
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Originally Posted by renegade50
Really might throw religion for a twist on what a higher power might be and has done....

Who knows......



I once asked some Christian friends if they believed space aliens existed.One quickly stated no,"Because God made humans in the image of God." My response was "Didn't He make man in his spiritual image?"

That certainly sparked a vigorous debate,which wasn't resolved by the time I left.



Every time this subject is brought up, invariably someone brings up religion. And there in lies the real reason I think some people can’t accept the possibility that we are not alone.

In the book God snatched a rib outta Adam to make him superbabe Eve.

Sounds like cloning material to me...

Wtf....

Adam did his test tube sister in a roundabout way?????

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There is supposedly 100 billion galaxies and each may have 100 billion stars in it, and some have planets as well.

That would tend to make me believe in the possibility of life somewhere else in the universe.

The Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1902, and 67 years later we were able to put 2 men on the moon.

The universe is said to be 14.5 billion years old, our planet Earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

What do you think another civilization could do if it were just a mere 1000 years more advanced than us?

What if they were 10,000 years more advanced?

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I was floored when I discovered that stars are actually suns and the center of other galaxies.You could therefore,reasonably conclude there are millions of other planets.

In all of the universe,with these millions of planets,it would be quite arrogant to believe that humans are the only sentient beings who exist.


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Originally Posted by tpcollins
There is supposedly 100 billion galaxies and each may have 100 billion stars in it, and some have planets as well.

That would tend to make me believe in the possibility of life somewhere else in the universe.

The Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1902, and 67 years later we were able to put 2 men on the moon.

The universe is said to be 14.5 billion years old, our planet Earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

What do you think another civilization could do if it were just a mere 1000 years more advanced than us?

What if they were 10,000 years more advanced?


To be honest, they would still be working out how to drop the damned wind and solar farms and get back to coal so they can have cheap energy.


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Originally Posted by JSTUART
Originally Posted by Gus
Originally Posted by Santiam
Ancient Aliens is on top of it.. smile


they bring up a lot of interesting stuff. but so far it's just a theory.

they have a base case theory, but from there it all kinds of branches off into speculation and hyper speculation.

but, they do seem to be on the trail of something that so far has been unexplainable.

rather than urth being a zoo, i prefer to think it's an experiment gone awry and has been abandoned.

the good news is that every well written story has a beginning, middle, and ending.


Jeez Gus, tone it down a bit, you are starting to sound like Stick.

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Originally Posted by tpcollins
There is supposedly 100 billion galaxies and each may have 100 billion stars in it, and some have planets as well.

That would tend to make me believe in the possibility of life somewhere else in the universe.

The Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1902, and 67 years later we were able to put 2 men on the moon.

The universe is said to be 14.5 billion years old, our planet Earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

What do you think another civilization could do if it were just a mere 1000 years more advanced than us?

What if they were 10,000 years more advanced?


You’re presenting that argument to some who are absolutely cock-sure they are a member of a unique society on a planet that is only 6000 years old.

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Originally Posted by JSTUART
Originally Posted by Gus
Originally Posted by Santiam
Ancient Aliens is on top of it.. smile


they bring up a lot of interesting stuff. but so far it's just a theory.

they have a base case theory, but from there it all kinds of branches off into speculation and hyper speculation.

but, they do seem to be on the trail of something that so far has been unexplainable.

rather than urth being a zoo, i prefer to think it's an experiment gone awry and has been abandoned.

the good news is that every well written story has a beginning, middle, and ending.


Jeez Gus, tone it down a bit, you are starting to sound like Stick.



sorry, didn't mean to afend the pope, any of the royal blood lines on the planet, mega-governments, nor any of the mainstream science pundits.

there's some 200 countries in the world. some folks wonder why there aren't 400?

we all have to admit that technology is working wonders, for better or worse.

the global mega-cities are just now becoming emergent.


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It doesn't *have* to be extraterrestrials. It could be our descendants.

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Originally Posted by Dryfly24
Originally Posted by tpcollins
There is supposedly 100 billion galaxies and each may have 100 billion stars in it, and some have planets as well.

That would tend to make me believe in the possibility of life somewhere else in the universe.

The Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1902, and 67 years later we were able to put 2 men on the moon.

The universe is said to be 14.5 billion years old, our planet Earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

What do you think another civilization could do if it were just a mere 1000 years more advanced than us?

What if they were 10,000 years more advanced?


You’re presenting that argument to some who are absolutely cock-sure they are a member of a unique society on a planet that is only 6000 years old.

The great question of how long a bible day or year was and in what type of lenght compared to today of said given points in time.

I wanna see a pictograph calendar on how everything overlaps thru whatever 6000 yrs is.
And who can make a calendar like that and explain it all.

Fred flintstone operating a brontosaurus crane at the rock quarry type of stuff.

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Originally Posted by Dryfly24


You’re presenting that argument to some who are absolutely cock-sure they are a member of a unique society on a planet that is only 6000 years old.



That is not as silly as it sounds, my sister who is "mostly" normal is adamant the Earth is only a few thousand years old, I say "mostly" as she has some seriously weird-arse oddball christian ideas that really take the cake.

Okay...she is sometimes plain and simply straight out religous screwy...then she throws a curveball and appears normal.


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Another discussion I had with some friends was the concept of time.Was a "day",mentioned in the Bible,actually 24 hours or was it God's time.

Could God's time be 100 years for a day?

Could it be a thousand years?


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Originally Posted by sportingspecialist
Another discussion I had with some friends was the concept of time.Was a "day",mentioned in the Bible,actually 24 hours or was it God's time.

Could God's time be 100 years for a day?

Could it be a thousand years?



Since the damned thing was written by men the measure will be 24 hours.


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