OK, there are two different questions at work here, the first one is I think what the OP meant, which is:

Why don't people believe it to be possible there is life elsewhere in the universe

but what some people are interpreting it to be is

Why don't people believe that UFO's and other supposed extra-terrestrial sightings are aliens and that these sightings (or at least some of them) are true?

I think for most the obvious answer to question 1 is yes, while the answer to question 2 is along the more conspiracy nutjob kind of question that makes people question your sanity.

D10

Brazil3409 Posts

July 08 2009 05:15 GMT

#202

Why dont people believe tesla actually could build all that crazy shit ?

heres a cool UFO vid

United States496 Posts

July 08 2009 06:54 GMT

#203

wow the video is crazy stuff.
but still can't believe it's not fake

or maybe the "objects" are just some space garbage left by mankind

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

July 08 2009 07:20 GMT

#204

On July 08 2009 11:06 Shindrah wrote:

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I read some stuff on the internet, that is how I researched it. It's not like I found remnants of fallen angels or something man.
Anyways I do believe trolling is against forum rules and your first post was trolling. Maybe even this one but we can't prove that.

do you not know what trolling means?

if you honestly believe that aliens built the pyramids and that there was a group of superhumans with space flight centuries ago and all that religious stuff then you either do not think about your beliefs at all or you are crazy.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

July 08 2009 07:31 GMT

#205

That is a really cool vid indeed. I found another one, just as reliable. It clearly shows we are not alone:

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24492 Posts

July 25 2009 00:56 GMT

#206

VIB that could easily be a government/military craft

oh oops i just accidentally bumped a super old thread rofl

blame the aliens blog post
don't blame me

TimeShifter

Singapore235 Posts

July 26 2009 05:06 GMT

#207

aliens are out there, but less than half of them would like saucer shaped craft-.-..
and whichever alien race would sweep in and out for attention?

its actually so hard to not believe that they are out there, somewhere-_-

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

July 26 2009 05:31 GMT

#208

On July 01 2009 08:31 NaW-Runa wrote:
I think most people belive in aliens somewhere in the space (?) but not on the earth.

If they were on the earth they wouldn't be aliens..?

Aegraen

United States1225 Posts

July 26 2009 05:56 GMT

#209

It's all but guaranteed for alien lifeforms to exist. You would have to be naive to actually believe the Earth is home to the only lifeforms in the universe. The universe is of a magnitude no human can fathom, period.

Just think about this...there are more galaxies (There are billions of stars in a galaxy) than grains of sand on the earth, and this is only what we can see (We can't see from one end of the Universe to the other).

Have aliens visited Earth? Hell no. If they have they would have made themselves known and or blown us to kingdom come. No sentient lifeform capable of interstellar travel is going to fly in and out of our atmosphere abducting what amounts to such a miniscule amount of people for what purpose? Just because?

TL:DR Aliens exist, mathematically proven. Aliens have never visited Earth, nor even been in our solar system.

Mah Buckit!

Finland474 Posts

July 26 2009 06:07 GMT

#210

Of course I believe in aliens when I see one. Just like I believe in anything else only when I have seen myself. Of course it´s highly probable that there is aliens, the world is that big.

x89titan

Philippines1130 Posts

July 26 2009 06:40 GMT

#211

aliens are real all right. them aliens are taking er jerbs!

ActualSteve

United States627 Posts

July 26 2009 06:47 GMT

#212

Has an X Files link been posted, yet?

This thread will not be // until the inclusion of that series.
Scully and Molder FTW

starfries

Canada3508 Posts

July 26 2009 07:59 GMT

#213

I actually took an entire course on extraterrestrial life.. and there's actually a decent chance that we will discover signs of life (probably microbes) within 20 years. People are discovering new planets around other stars at a rate of about 1/day.. you don't hear about them anymore because it happens so often. Right now its mostly the giant ones (size of Jupiter) but in 10 years or so our resolution will be good enough to find Earth-sized planets.. give it another 10 years and we will have found most of the planets in our area of the galaxy. and once they're spotted it's pretty easy to look for chemical signatures that indicate life.. so if there's any kind of life we'll know about it soon. Considering we are looking at thousands of planets like Earth the odds are not bad at all.

ChaseR

Norway1004 Posts

July 26 2009 08:09 GMT

#214

Why don't people believe in Savior? (-_-)

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6635 Posts

July 26 2009 14:53 GMT

#215

On July 26 2009 14:31 FabledIntegral wrote:

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If they were on the earth they wouldn't be aliens..?

He means that they haven't VISITED earth.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

July 26 2009 15:12 GMT

#216

of course aliens exist, they drive by my house every day in modified, lowered f-150s blasting spanish rap music.

SkylineSC

United States564 Posts

July 26 2009 16:34 GMT

#217

no doubt other life forms exist. but maybe billions years ago? or even billions of light years away.

but the chance of there BEING NO extra life forms somewhere in the existing universe sometime during its existance, is about the same as humans EVER in its own existance EVER encountering them. if that makes sense... so yes to some life form exist outside of earth, but no to the UFO sightings or... any kind of alien sighting on this planet.

JIJIyO

Canada1957 Posts

July 26 2009 17:31 GMT

#218

Did anyone hear about the alien sighting last night? Damn that alien was badass.
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But ya, aliens do exist. I mean it would be crazy to think Earth was the only planet with life in the entire universe.

Trezeguet

United States2656 Posts

July 26 2009 18:23 GMT

#219

Even though the earth is only 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe, the odds of us happening was even less than that, soo.....

EmS.Radagast

Israel280 Posts

July 26 2009 18:38 GMT

#220

Trez: honestly we don't have enough knowledge to quantify the odds of intelligent life happening one way or the other, or for humans to have happened specifically. It's very possible that you are right - if one of the evolutionary steps was far less likely to occur than we realize. Odds are that if it is indeed the case, it's one of the earlier stages, simply because the later developments were occurring more and more rapidly - though the same argument can be made for them, it's just less likely to be correct.

For instance, if we find out that the expected time it takes for DNA based life forms to emerge from whatever organic compounds preceded them on earth's environment as it was then, is about say 10 ** 25 years, then intelligent life as we are familiar with is a freak chance -- and may very well not exist anywhere else in the universe - even if there are trillions of other earth-like planets in it.