What are your thoughts on UFO's?

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:00 pm

I like to deal in facts and probabilities.

Aliens may have visited Earth, but the probabilities are incredibly small. The chances of a relatively silent aircraft going off course are significantly better than the chances of aliens reaching Earth.

While the universe is not infinite (nor does it feature an "edge") it is very large. The probability of alien life developing somewhere are incredibly high.

Despite all that, I'd sure like for aliens to visit us. It would be a very exciting, world changing event.

I think the WorldWar series by Harry Turtledove gives the theme a cool twist. Alien scouts visit us in the 1600's, then they return enmasse just in time for World War II. They're technology is about on par with ours today, and they did not anticipate humanity's rapid technological progression (the history of their civilization is hundreds of thousands of years long, with little change). They only succeed in taking about half the planet before the United States, the USSR, and the Third Reich, and other allies are able to stall them, after which the aliens have little choice but to coexist with humans. Both sides are continuously plotting to overrun the opposite.

Great stuff.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:53 pm

teraflop122 wrote:I think the WorldWar series by Harry Turtledove gives the theme a cool twist. Alien scouts visit us in the 1600's, then they return enmasse just in time for World War II. They're technology is about on par with ours today, and they did not anticipate humanity's rapid technological progression (the history of their civilization is hundreds of thousands of years long, with little change). They only succeed in taking about half the planet before the United States, the USSR, and the Third Reich, and other allies are able to stall them, after which the aliens have little choice but to coexist with humans. Both sides are continuously plotting to overrun the opposite.

Great stuff.

That sounds pretty cool, I should read those.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:08 pm

didn't they make a game kinda like that recently

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:57 pm

If there was life that could reach us, it'd be known about by now. Why keep it hidden? Unless they are expecting a large sum of money from the major world leaders.

Aliens exist. But nowhere near us.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:28 pm

It is not so much That I think these theories are posperstorus, rather, highly improbable, we need to consider the possibilities as a conbimned group of humanity, not as little squabbles over who stole whose holy land, or who needs to give the other oil rights

I believe space travel would be a wonderful thing for humansto consider and Aliens, be it fictictous or fact, could be a motivating factor, however, I Think the people of the world have a lot of maturing to do before that could ever happen with the cooperation that it would need.

Another thing that bothers me about this is the people who are blatenly Idiotic,
Once there was a crop circle contest held in England, a group of people had to assemble a team, finish in one night under the cover of darkness and had to have not ben spotted, there was a million dollar prize and many newspapers advertised the event, However, UFO junkies were always there taking ecto-samples and claiming to have been visited, for goodness sake people get a life...

(more than 2 cents but who cares?)
~Krepticor

EnterTheHatrix · Post by **EnterTheHatrix** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:53 am

Look at this planet...

millions of species under one roof.

Different organisms living in different ecosystems.

Fish live in water, germs live in everything, worms live in the soil.. Even if we don't find anything remotely like us, you can bet that there are things that live in water, germs and bacteria and other things.

Ditto · Post by **Ditto** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:58 am

Probably just siting out there thinking. "Don't go to earth, its got humans on it. Humans are contagous"

benol · Post by **benol** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:20 am

dman762000 wrote:didn't they make a game kinda like that recently

Destroy All Humans?

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:34 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:
Jongamer wrote:there are no ALIENs at Area 51, you can wish but there is not, people claim they see UFOs there because they do, our UFOs that our country doesnt want the rest of the world to know, because they are Experimental Aircraft, hell I live next to a Air force base where they test flew the Stealth bomber and people around here claimed they saw a UFO Phttt, I dont Beleive in ALIEN UFOs, but I beleive on life on other planets in the Universe, Hmmm I wonder if the Universe is Infinite, or keeps repeating itself once you get past a certain point, or is there a wall at the End of the Universe, I still wonder about that when I try to sleep. hmmmmm, I dont wanna think about it to much or I might go crazy lol.
When did this happen,

Quite a while ago, before I was born most likely.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:39 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:
Jongamer wrote:there are no ALIENs at Area 51, you can wish but there is not, people claim they see UFOs there because they do, our UFOs that our country doesnt want the rest of the world to know, because they are Experimental Aircraft, hell I live next to a Air force base where they test flew the Stealth bomber and people around here claimed they saw a UFO Phttt, I dont Beleive in ALIEN UFOs, but I beleive on life on other planets in the Universe, Hmmm I wonder if the Universe is Infinite, or keeps repeating itself once you get past a certain point, or is there a wall at the End of the Universe, I still wonder about that when I try to sleep. hmmmmm, I dont wanna think about it to much or I might go crazy lol.
Do you think they have periods and spellcheckers on their planet?

ok no need to act like a smart ass.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:51 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:
Jongamer wrote:there are no ALIENs at Area 51, you can wish but there is not, people claim they see UFOs there because they do, our UFOs that our country doesnt want the rest of the world to know, because they are Experimental Aircraft, hell I live next to a Air force base where they test flew the Stealth bomber and people around here claimed they saw a UFO Phttt, I dont Beleive in ALIEN UFOs, but I beleive on life on other planets in the Universe, Hmmm I wonder if the Universe is Infinite, or keeps repeating itself once you get past a certain point, or is there a wall at the End of the Universe, I still wonder about that when I try to sleep. hmmmmm, I dont wanna think about it to much or I might go crazy lol.
Do you think they have periods and spellcheckers on their planet?

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dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:51 pm

benol wrote:
dman762000 wrote:didn't they make a game kinda like that recently
Destroy All Humans?

no I think it was for xbox360 and it had a war theme,,,, it was like call to arms with aliens

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:29 pm

dman762000 wrote:
benol wrote:
dman762000 wrote:didn't they make a game kinda like that recently
Destroy All Humans?
no I think it was for xbox360 and it had a war theme,,,, it was like call to arms with aliens

I think your thinking of Resistance: Fall of Man for PS3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_fall_of_man

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:11 am

Harshboy wrote:Why are we always the planet being visited. Why are we the dumb beings that cant go trillions of miles into space. Seariously, I'm sure that there is other life out there, but they are certainly not little green men comming to our planet with their super UFOs.

Just my 2 cents

That's pretty much exactly what I was going to say

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:46 am

Hmm... I'm just gonna copy and paste my post from the LAST UFO topic I posted in here.

I wrote: I don't really know what to think. I've never seen a ghost or a UFO, but my mother and stepfather have BOTH seen a UFO at a certain point in their lives. When my stepfather was in the Navy, he was looking up in the sky (for one reason or another), and he saw what looked like it could be a shooting star. But as it flew at a relatively fast speed across the sky, it all of a sudden made a sharp 90 degree angle turn and instantly flew off in a different direction.

I don't remember this story very well, I suppose I could ask my mother to tell me again, but she's in bed right now, so I'll do my best. In 1980-something, my mother and her family were driving home from some concert late at night, when they all saw a huge tube-like floating object in the sky with two red lights on both ends. It was flying very slowly, and was making a low humming sound. After they gazed at it for a while, it all of a sudden disappeared into the night... This was in Farewell, Michigan. When they got home, they called everyone they knew in the area and many of them saw it as well. My mother told me this story several years ago. About a year or so after she told me, I was watching one of those voiced-over educational CD things (You know, with the pictures 'n stuff?) on the computer about space. (It was part of my home-schooling.) On the CD labeled "Space Speculation," there was a chapter about UFOs, which included several pictures and drawings of different "sightings." I flipped out when I saw exactly what my mother described to me on that CD... Apparently that same UFO also traveled through Wisconsin. Someone took a picture of the area where it was seen, and drew in what the UFO looked like. I dug out the CD and copied the text and picture from that part of the CD to show you guys. This is the picture, with the caption underneath it.

That Space CD thingy wrote:
In the mid-1980s, several police officers saw something in the sky near Belleville, Wisconsin. Although radar tracked the object, no one has been able to explain what it was. This picture was taken near Belleville, and the UFO has been added by an artist to give an idea of what people saw.
Here's what I know. One, too many honest people saw it to be lying about it and two, by definition it had to be a UFO, at least to the general public. For all we know, it could have been a government test or something. Hey, a lot of what we think are "UFO" sightings could be government tests gone bad. But whatever it was, it was there in plain sight...

Anyone have any thoughts about this? I'd like to know what you guys think about this particular case...