Why don't people believe in aliens? - Page 6

On July 02 2009 06:15 KissBlade wrote:the lifespan of this world is just a blink in the scale of the life span of the universe. As a result, not only do we have to factor in mind that Earth offers a variety of flukes that allow the planet to support lifeforms but also the time frame of our existence is very minute making the chances of there being another alien life form existing at the same time a lot smaller than most people think.

On July 02 2009 06:15 KissBlade wrote:
There are actually a lot of factors in the argument against the belief of alien lifeforms as well. Yes, Earth is just one of a gazillion planetary bodies and it seems unlikely that not one of them will harbor alien life form but at the same time we need to realize, the lifespan of this world is just a blink in the scale of the life span of the universe. As a result, not only do we have to factor in mind that Earth offers a variety of flukes that allow the planet to support lifeforms but also the time frame of our existence is very minute making the chances of there being another alien life form existing at the same time a lot smaller than most people think. (Not sure if that last part makes any sense but I'm too lazy to really clarify it) Personally I do believe there are alien lifeforms but I don't believe homo sapiens will be encountering any.

On July 03 2009 04:16 irishash wrote:


the thing is we don't really know how long we've (human beings) have been on earth or in existence in general. there are findings every week that change scientists' view on all sorts of things related to how and when human beings got to be on earth, and what is needed to sustain life. not much is set in stone in science nowadays, there are breakthroughs that totally reverse the way of thinking on similar subjects such as the uni vs multiverse, 10, 11, and even 25 dimension theories, dark vs anti matter, etc.

on another note, for shits and giggles check this edited photo from the 1994 Clementine mission of obviously a building or starship on the moon. keep in mind this is an official photo from the navy/nasa. http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/clementine/clib/multires.pl?click.x=42&click.y=153&clickres=5&ox=0&oy=0&res=0&size=768&latitude=0&longitude=0&sensor=UVVIS&filter=415_nm

this is the page i found that from. click anywhere on the moon to see pics of that area.

On July 02 2009 06:28 Chef wrote:

I think that's a really weak argument. Just because the time span is relatively short, doesn't give any reason to believe that among the trillions and trillions and trillions of other planets there isn't one experiencing the same phenomenon as ours. When people are calculating the likelihood a planet can support life, calculating distance from the sun, atmosphere, size, etc... All those obviously include time. No one is talking about planets that were or will be capable of sustaining life, we're talking about right now at this moment. To me, saying it's unlikely a planet is experiencing the same conditions as the earth right now isn't any more foolish than saying it's unlikely out of 7 billion people that 2 of them will blink at the exact same time, every second of every day. Now imagine that with a number of people you can't even imagine and that's how likely it is another planet is doing the same things as ours, give or take a million years, like you might give or take a nanosecond of difference between two people blinking.

On July 01 2009 08:34 eMbrace wrote:


According to that small survery, only 60% believe

On July 03 2009 04:50 Louder wrote:




85% of Americans believe in a sky wizard who is omnipotent and created all things (yet he's a dude with a dick), is compassionate and loving (yet sends people to hell for eternity), and is intimately concerned about every doing of every person on earth. I mean, they believe in a god.

But ALIENS? What nonsense!

On July 03 2009 04:33 CharlieMurphy wrote:
obvious? what? I don't see anything wtf.


Just because there is a blurr on an image doesn't mean there is alien life there. It could be a number of reasons.
1) error
2) gov't is building shit up there (that is uknown to the public)
3) military security (also related to 2 maybe)
4) stuff that just looks questionable and they don't wanna cause a stir before they actually get a chance to check it out themselves.

etc etc , there are literaly hundreds of things it could be, and outright assuming that it is alien is completely closed minded. You have to look at all the possibilities and evidence for all of them.

On July 03 2009 04:35 KissBlade wrote:



Your metaphor doesn't work out though . Blinking is a frequent common occurrence. Having planetary conditions able to support life is not. And also note, I never claimed any thing about it being impossible, I simply said it's more unlikely than the argument originally appears.

On July 03 2009 05:03 irishash wrote:


if you look at a photo of that same area from a more recent mission there's nothing there at all, it's been completely edited out. back when that one photo was released (1994) computer photo editing wasn't good like today. you can obviously see there's something behind the smudge in that pic, whether it's alien or not i didn't say, i just said there's something there.

edit: another pic for fun http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/hrp76.jpg

On July 03 2009 05:39 Jakalo wrote:


So you imply that nasa released a foto possibly containing evidence of alien life forms but being government and all they ''edited'' to prevent its citizens from revolting in terror from martians instead of simply not publishing it at all? Makes perfect sense to me, I mean government is retarded, after all it is representive of people,

On July 01 2009 08:23 eMbrace wrote:
People believe in all sorts of unbelievable things: conspiracy theories, ghosts, gods (no offense), etc...

So why is it that it seems many people refuse to believe in extra terrestrial life? They have no problem defending other things that probably don't exist, but they can't accept something extremely plausible? I bet if you took a poll in the United States, more people would be believe in ghosts than aliens -- or it would be pathetically close.

Earth is like 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe, and you can't even entertain the possibility for a second, that some sort of life exists somewhere else?

That doesn't mean it's intelligent, or has spaceships, or lasers -- it could simply be some bacteria or microbes.

No, I'll stop -- It's a ridiculous idea after all

(and no this has nothing to do with the stupidity that is UFOs)