About UFOs and Aliens - Page 2

Yorbon

Netherlands4272 Posts

February 10 2015 21:38 GMT

#21

On February 11 2015 00:27 [SXG]Phantom wrote:
Talking about StarCraft this made me remember that there wasa time where I would think what would I do if the zerg invaded earth.

Now on topic, I think there is life on other planets, but the planets are so far apart from.each other that j don't think an alien race could communicate or be check in us

"legacy of the confederacy" or something was a fanmade (?) campaign where the zerg nearly completely took over earth before the protoss rescued us. That sure was a fun campaign. A lot of effort was put into it, like voicing over and such. Great memories.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6642 Posts

February 11 2015 00:32 GMT

#22

I've actually been reading quite a lot about UFO abduction accounts recently because I find it interesting (and have done since I was a kid, like OP I had a book about UFO sightings and abductions). I don't believe they actually happen but I find it strange that so many people, including young children, are convinced that is has happened to them and so many of them share similar details.

The phenomenon is similar to the demon and ghost stories of the past. It's also believed to be influenced by real world technologies and science fiction, before the invention of the plane when there were only airships there were a lot of mystery airships "from other worlds" being reported and then after planes were invented the number of reports of fast moving and "flying saucer" type crafts increased.

I presume most cases are people having really vivid sleep paralysis or severe psychotic episodes or hallucinations.

I'm pretty certain that aliens do exist somewhere out there in the vast expanse of the universe, perhaps in great numbers, but I really don't believe that any have ever visited earth.

Here are a couple of examples of curious events:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_incident (This article was quite a lot longer when I last read it...there was a suggested explanation that he had seen a mirage of Venus and had an epileptic fit causing him to hallucinate the whole thing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction

And the full list (dating back to 214 BC): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings

repomaniak

Poland324 Posts

February 11 2015 15:20 GMT

#23

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs (he is a smart guy)
watch it than u can come back to this thread

MielieZA

South Africa25 Posts

February 12 2015 08:30 GMT

#24

It's simple math imho, it's pathetically arrogant for us to think that in a universe of this scale that we are the only intelligent life. It might not be life as we expect it or as we view it, but we are such a tiny spec of consciousness in such an enormous ebb of time and space that I can't understand how intelligent people can still believe we are alone.

The flip side of this of course is that the size of the universe makes it highly unlikely that we have or ever will be visited by extraterrestrial life. I sincerely hope that they do though although I doubt it would be on friendly terms.

tldr: I am sure that they are out there, but I don't believe they have or ever will be visiting the third rock from the sun in the SOL system.

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