Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Extraterrestrial visitors? Yea or nay

Hope intelligent life exist somewhere. The news shows daily it doesn't exist here.

Considering the vastness of the Universe, and the probability that the Universe is at least 26 Billion years old.

And considering that the Milky Way is half that age, and that Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and that ALMOST all life on Earth was made extinct a mere 66 million years ago.

All mammals, including bipeds and man have evolved from little furry rodent type critters which survived the K-T extinction event 66 million years ago.

It is inconceivable that intelligent life has not occurred on a multitude of varying planets within a multitude of varying galaxies, and gone extinct and risen time after time.

The question then becomes, is there intelligent life out there right now, in this microscopic slice of time that Man has existed as an intelligent species?

If the James Webb telescope could show us unmistakable proof of life in a far away galaxy 10 billion light years away, that would only prove that such life existed there 10 billion years ago. Long before the matter of Earth coalesced out of the gaseous clouds.

The question then becomes "Is there intelligent life out there right now?" and "Is it in close enough proximity to travel to Earth?"

I find the answer to that to be "It is extremely unlikely!"

There is some discussion that human life (or something similar) began and ended several times on earth as our globe went through catastrophic changes. Ice ages caused by asteroid strikes, huge destruction caused by gamma bursts from our sun, planet wide destruction caused by global warming on a scale we can't conceive , etc..... and yet we have survived- albeit possibly on our fourth or fifth version according to these theories.

So, if another species was to visit our planet from a place so far away, with the intelligence needed to construct craft that would need to travel faster than light, and they were looking for relatively intelligent species to study, assimilate, or cook for dinner- what do you think the chances are they would come upon us during one of our "more advanced" periods? About the chance of picking the lottery numbers for a billion dollar lottery ticket 10 times in a row?

Intelligence only counts for a small amount of discovery. Just plain sheer luck, timing, and chance account for much more- which IMO makes it virtually impossible that alien species have been here at any time we can recount. And even if they were, how would we know or prove it?

I sure hope so. Or at least out there… I’d hate to think that we are the best and only thing the universe has to offer.

I'm pretty sure my wife is an alien.

I find that theory to be very, very unlikely. If only because such earlier civilizations would have consumed the hydrocarbons we so easily discovered all over and very near to the surface of the Earth.

Couple that with pretty solid lineage of evolution since the K-T extinction event. Unless, maybe folks are claiming these advanced civilizations were of reptilian form and occurred during the Mesozoic Era.

Funny thing about aliens, they don't need hugging, kissing, loving or fuggin. They also don't need a fuggin husband.

Nay

Mea.

Extraterrestrials? Yes, it's a very big universe.
Visitors? No, not at all likely.

I am a creationist, and if anything like 'this' or close to 'this' was not done somewhere else it is a huge waste of space...... but yeah or nay, that was not my call.

If you are of the evolutionist or chance or blind luck camp, then it likely has happened somewhere else.....

IF, and that's a big IF, they have made it here we are not a threat to them. Why exactly congress is so worried about this is beyond me, because there's not a damn thing we can do about it.............

I believe there’s something we refer to as extraterrestrial. Don’t know what it is but there’s something we have not the knowledge to understand. We as humans surely don’t have the ability or the unknown scientific skills to explain everything out there in the rest of infinity. And then there’s that God thing.

I've seen the same. Darting across the sky, making sharp 90 degree turns, and then vanishing.

Jagoff......