EPTThe difference between believing that and believing there are little secret green men running around in our .0000000000000000001% of the universe probing our anuses is very large. People who believe that space men have beamed them up and experimented on them are usually delusional.
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United States6225 Posts
The difference between believing that and believing there are little secret green men running around in our .0000000000000000001% of the universe probing our anuses is very large. People who believe that space men have beamed them up and experimented on them are usually delusional. | ||
micronesia
United States24513 Posts
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
Seriously tho. I just rather believe in what provides me a practical solution to a problem. That sentence resumes 100% of everything I believe, it just makes more sense. So while I do admit that it's plausible that aliens might exist and we might never know for sure. Believing it's true simply doesn't brings me as much practical solutions in my life than believing it isn't. It's simple as that. | ||
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GGQ
Canada2653 Posts
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ktp
United States797 Posts
On July 01 2009 08:48 VIB wrote: We don't believe them because their liars. You lend them money, they disappear out of this galaxy and you never see your money again. and they make you build derby race cars with only the parts from the kit | ||
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B1nary
Canada1267 Posts
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On July 01 2009 08:49 GGQ wrote: you're a dumbass (no offence) you smell like shit (no offense) | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On July 01 2009 09:07 B1nary wrote: I do believe that other intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe but I don't believe we'll ever encounter them. I love Star Trek, but I really don't think we'll ever invent the warp drive. Chances are, we will have depleted the earth's supply of natural resources before we get anywhere near FTL travel. Eh humans use natural resources mostly for energy consumption. Once we figure out fusion, and I have no doubt that we will within the next century, most of our natural resource problems will completely vanish because of just how much output fusion reactors have. So much actually that all the oil companies would be put completely out of business within two to three years. | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
On July 01 2009 08:29 Liquid`Drone wrote: erm a lot of americans believe in aliens and ufo's.. I do. There can't be THAT many sightings and reports for all of them to be fake. What kind of crack are you smoking if you think there are no aliens | ||
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
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ZeeTemplar
United States557 Posts
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Etherone
United States1898 Posts
On July 01 2009 09:16 KurtistheTurtle wrote: I do. There can't be THAT many sightings and reports for all of them to be fake. What kind of crack are you smoking if you think there are no aliens by aliens are you referring to the intelligent life form that abducts human beings, anally probes them and then returns them? | ||
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DhakhaR
United Kingdom721 Posts
On July 01 2009 08:50 ktp wrote: and they make you build derby race cars with only the parts from the kit hahaha! Dont take their space cash though... | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
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Z-BosoN
Brazil2590 Posts
They believe in God because it makes them feel happy, and God is a perfectly good answer as to why we exist. Conspiracy theories they believe because it is much more fun to believe Air France was a secret terrorist plot bringing the plane down than a crappy storm. Ghosts because it can explain a lot of weird noises and sounds things make by random variables. Better believe in ghosts than think you are crazy. Now aliens what do they mean to humanity? Just means that someone is better than we are. When people think of aliens they think of creepy, weird, intelligent and hostile beings. Rather not think they exist. Some people don't believe in actual facts like global warming, what makes them believe of unheard of things? | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
On July 01 2009 08:47 micronesia wrote: Personally I think the Drake equation is not very useful. Chances of there being any life that will ever be close enough for us to meet: tiny. Chances of us communicating through radio signals: slightly less tiny. Chances that there is life out there SOMEWHERE: not bad. Given millions of years, humanity could do a fair job of colonizing our entire galaxy even at sub-light speeds. The technology isn't there yet, of course, but it almost certainly will be very "soon" relative to the age of the universe. From there, we could branch out to other galaxies and explore a lot of space on a billion year time scale. In that scenario, even if someone does meet an alien species, 99.99999999% of humanity wouldn't ever know about it, but it'd still happen! | ||
KizZBG
u gotta skate8152 Posts
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Nemesis
Canada2568 Posts
On a more serious note, there have been confirmed "aliens" in mars I think. Well bacteria and micro organisms anyways. In terms of intelligent lifeforms, it is just the chance of meeting them is so unlikely because well they most likely live very far away from us and if Einstein's theory of relativity is correct that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, then the chance of us meeting an intelligent lifeform is very slim. | ||
Arrian
United States889 Posts
Duh. | ||
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Clasic
Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
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) Dude, most kids I know my age ALL believe in extra terrestrial life.. idk what your talking about. | ||
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