Do you believe in Aliens?

[cannabis campbell]

Do you believe that somewhere out there,

There are other living people just like us that dont live on this planet, somewhere too far away on another planet that we will never be able to travel to.

Im sure everyone has thought about this before what do you think about it?

[phareye]

it's wierd.
i believe in life on other planets, but i believe it's probably SO different than ours that we might not even know it if we saw it.
as far as alien visitors here, i'm still divided.
the evidence for and against is strong.
i am a skeptic. not a cynic, just a skeptic.

[psychocat]

Probability says we are not alone.
Lots of possible planets where life could've developed.

[God v2.0]

Psh wherther you believe in it or not its out there. Are you so conceited that you think you're the only living things in the universe? DAMN, first of all they have already discovered life on other planets, remember when they found that fossilized bacteria on the meteorite or whatever? BAM! proof we arent alone *spooky x-files music starts playing*
what wonders await us beyond terra firma?











anyways im sure you can guess im toasted again, so all i have to say is YAY 4/20!!!!!!!!

[Oneironaut]

Is there life somewhere else in the universe? Most likely. If it can come into being here, and the universe is as huge as it is, it has probably come into being in other places. There's probably even other intelligent life forms out there somewhere. Very far away, but out there.

But are they visiting us? That's a different question. I think this interview with Carl Sagan (the famous cannabis-smoking astronomer) sums up the issue pretty well:

NOVA: Speculate for a moment on the parts of human nature, the commonality of believing in abductions, or aliens anyway, and the part of human nature that wants to search for other life forms in the universe.

SAGAN: I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life, and especially extraterrestrial intelligence from childhood. It swept me up, and I've been involved in sending space craft to nearby planets to look for life and in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence...

It would be an absolutely transforming event in human history. But, the stakes are so high on whether it's true or false, that we must demand the more rigorous standards of evidence. Precisely because it's so exciting. That's the circumstance in which our hopes may dominate our skeptical scrutiny of the data. So, we have to be very careful. There have been a few instances in the [past]. We thought we found something, and it always turned out to be explicable...

So, a kind of skepticism is routinely applied to the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence by its most fervent proponents. I do not see [in] the alien abduction situation a similar rigorous application of scientific skepticism by its proponents. Instead, I see enormous acceptance at face value - and leading the witness and all sorts of suggestions. Plus, the contamination by the general culture of this idea.

It seems to me there is a big difference between the two approaches to extraterrestrial intelligence, although I'm frequently written to [to] say how could I search for extraterrestrial intelligence and disbelieve that we're being visited. I don't see any contradiction at all. It's a wonderful prospect, but requires the most severe and rigorous standards of evidence.

NOVA: Could you please comment on the part of the quality of the evidence that is put forward by these so-called "abduction proponents."

SAGAN: Well, it's almost entirely anecdote. Someone says something happened to them...And, people can say anything. The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

To be taken seriously, you need physical evidence that can be examined at leisure by skeptical scientists: a scraping of the whole ship, and the discovery that it contains isotopic ratios that aren't present on earth, chemical elements form the so-called island of stability, very heavy elements that don't exist on earth. Or material of absolutely bizarre properties of many sorts -- electrical conductivity or ductility. There are many things like that that would instantly give serious credence to an account.

But there's no scrapings, no interior photographs, no filched page from the captain's log book. All there are are stories. There are instances of disturbed soil, but I can disturb soil with a shovel. There are instances of people claiming to flash lights at UFOs and the UFOs flash back. But, pilots of airplanes can also flash back, especially if they think it would be a good joke to play on the UFO enthusiast. So, that does not constitute good evidence.

And, a very interesting example of this sort of thing is the so-called crop circles in England in which wheat and rye and other grains -- these beautiful immense circles appeared and then -- this was in the 70's and 80's -- and then over progressive years, more and more complex geometries. And there were lots of people who said that these were made by UFOs that were landing and that it was too complex or too highly mathematical to be a hoax.

And it turns out that two blokes in Southern England, at their regular bar one night, thought it would be a good idea to make a kind of hoax to see if they could lure in UFO enthusiasts. And they succeeded every time--every time an explanation was proferred: a peculiar kind of wind, they then made another one which contradicted that hypothesis. And they were very pleased when it was said that no human intelligence could do this. That gave them great satisfaction. And for 15 years, they succeeded in these nocturnal expeditions using rope and board -- all the technology they needed.

And in their 60's, they finally confessed to the press with a demonstration of how it was done. And, of course, the confession received very little play in the media. And the claims of alien influence had received prominent exposure.

NOVA: I want you to comment on John Mack.

SAGAN: Many of the principle advocates of UFO abduction seem to want the validation of science without submitting to its rigorous standards of evidence. When John Mack talks about parallel universes or other dimensions, he's using scientific ideas. Those have long been in play in the Physics and Astronomy community. But, there is no evidence for them. He also criticizes the current paradigm that is the skeptical scientific method. But, this isn't validated. We don't believe it just out of prejudice; we believe it because it works.

NOVA: In the absence of hard physical evidence about alien abductions, what does science tell us about the plausibility of what these aliens are supposed to do?

SAGAN: Well, if you look at the advantages in human technology in just the last few hundred years, the Voyager spacecraft on its way to the stars, compared to what we knew in the time of Charlemagne, let's say, that's less than a thousand years. And the progress is simply stunning.

So, if you postulate the existence of highly technical civilizations, thousands, much less millions of years in our future, unless the hypothesis strongly contradicts known laws of physics, I think you have to say it's possible. So, travel at very high speeds between the stars, that's by no means out of the question. Walking through walls is a little tough for me. I don't see how it could be done. And the basic reading program idea of the alien abduction, the paradigm, they seem strangely backward in biology for all their advances in physics, if you take it seriously. Why are they doing breeding one on one at such a slow pace? Why not steal a few humans, sequence our DNA, look at variations and make whatever genetic engineering changes they want. We almost have the ability to do that. It seems naive in terms of molecular biology.

...Precisely because of human fallibility, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Now, I know that Budd Hopkins responds that extraordinary claims require extraordinary investigations. And I have two kinds of responses to that.

There is a claim that a brontosaurus is tramping through the jungles today in the republic of Congo. Should a massive expedition be mounted with government funds to find it, or it is so implausible as not to be worth serious sustained systematic attention?

And my second point is that to the extent that extraordinary claims require extraordinary investigations, those investigations must be true to the spirit of science. And that means highly skeptical, demanding, rigorous standards of evidence. And it's not a hint of that from alien abduction enthusiasts ... I think that the alien abduction enthusiasts understand the need for physical evidence. It's the pathway to some degree of respectability. And for 40 years, they've been telling us that real evidence is just around the corner, it's about to be released, it's being studied at this moment - and nothing ever comes of it.

NOVA: Well, now we've run into this alleged alien abduction footage. Have you heard about this? What do you make of the film footage of this alleged animal autopsy?

SAGAN: I haven't myself seen it, but I have talked in some detail with those who have, and I've read an analysis in the Times of London. There are several things to notice. One is that the creature in question has a strong resemblance to the alien abduction paradigm, although with six fingers on each hand. It is dissected in a movie taken with lots of blocking of the body and numerous out of focus excursions by the camera. And the humans involved in the autopsy are all dressed in these 1950's radiation suits which are covered head to toe and there's just a little rectangular window to look out, which means that nobody can be identified.

The key piece of evidence that it's not a fake is said to be a leader from the beginning of one of the rolls that was -- you know, and they're all encoded, and it was submitted to Kodak, the manufacturer. And Kodak came back and said this was shot in 1947 or some year close to that. And that demonstrates that its not a fake. But, an important proviso is that Kodak was not given a reel that had the autopsy on it. They were just given a snippet, give to Kodak, and then alleged that it came from the beginning of the autopsy film. So, I think that it's a clever fake, if it's a fake. But, it's certainly not compelling

NOVA: According to Hopkins and others, the main evidence for these stories--in the absence of other evidence--is the similarity of details. In your opinion, what other explanations might account for the similarity and the details of the stories or hallucinations of these abductees?

SAGAN: The culture contaminates movies, television programs, books, haunting pages of aliens, and television interviews with passionate abductees - all communicate to the widest possible community the alien abduction paradigm. So, it's not as if each abductee has been hermetically sealed from the outside world and has no input about what others are saying. It's all cross contaminated and it has been for decades. I think that's the clearest evidence for it not being good evidence -- that many people tell the same story.

NOVA: If you could speak directly to the multitudes of people who believe they're going to bed and perhaps being abducted by aliens, what is it you would like to say to them?

SAGAN: If I were speaking to a group of abductees, I think the first thing I would do would be to tell them that I'm sure to many of them the pain that is expressed is genuine, that they're not just making this up. And it's very important to be compassionate. At the same time, I would stress that hallucinations are a human common place, and not a sign that you are crazy. And that absolutely clear hallucinations have occured to normal people and it has a compelling feeling of reality, but it's generated in the head.

And that being the case, I would ask them to try to be as objective as they can and see if anything like that might, in fact, explain what they said happened to them. And I'd remind them that children, universally, have terrible nightmares, especially around 7 to 11, and wake up from sleep absolutely terrified about a monster, a witch, a goblin, a demon, and why shouldn't some of us retain that? I mean, there's no question that those monsters don't exist and they're hiding in the closet or under the bed. That's something generated in the mind. Why should it all go away when we grow up? We should retain some of that. And could not something like that be an explanation?

I would try to simply ask them to adopt the scientific method of multiple working hypothesis. Right now, they have only one hypothesis and their minds are, in many cases, closed to the alternative. I would ask them to do a serious consideration of the alternative, see if it makes sense.

NOVA: Can you tell us how you feel if someone came to you with good evidence that there was, in fact, alien life trying to communicate with us? How would that make you feel as a scientist?

SAGAN: If someone came to me with compelling, bona fide evidence that we're being visited, my reaction would be "Whoopee!" And I'd want to play a role in analyzing the evidence. I would try very hard to bring in the absolute best scientists in the world to study it, depending on what the evidence is like. And I don't doubt that there would be a lot of cooperation from the scientific community. I don't think that scientists are prejudiced to begin with. Prejudice means pre-judging. They're post-judice. After examining the evidence they decide there's nothing to it. There's a big difference between prejudice and post-judice.

[cannabis campbell]

Wow, thats gonna take a while to read.

I seriously doubt that its just one planet with living people on i think theres thousands of them out there that we just dont know about.

We should be able to connect to them and talk through
the internet or something :D lol would be interesting to
find out how they get high.

[kushman45]

I am amazed we have landed rovers on mars, one day maybe not in my lifetime we will be traveling the universe. There is already talk from nasa that they are building nuke powered rockets that will travel at least to mars. The universe is infinite does it ever end who know's.................happy 420......................:stoned:

[God v2.0]

Wow, thats gonna take a while to read.

I seriously doubt that its just one planet with living people on i think theres thousands of them out there that we just dont know about.

We should be able to connect to them and talk through
the internet or something :D lol would be interesting to
find out how they get high.



DUDE, what if there is a species out there that doesnt even need to get high, what if one of their brain chemicals that is always there was THC or some other hallucinogen. hahaha aliens that spend their entire lives baked!!!!

hahahaha wow just thinking about how awesome this species is is making me crack up, imagine people who are permanently chink-eyed and are always laughing and giggling at stupid shit all the time. oh wait, thats me. the non-stop munchies are a downer though.

[cannabis campbell]

DUDE, what if there is a species out there that doesnt even need to get high, what if one of their brain chemicals that is always there was THC or some other hallucinogen. hahaha aliens that spend their entire lives baked!!!!

hahahaha wow just thinking about how awesome this species is is making me crack up, imagine people who are permanently chink-eyed and are always laughing and giggling at stupid shit all the time. oh wait, thats me. the non-stop munchies are a downer though.

Lmfao, your talking about heaven:D

[God v2.0]

well it wouldnt be much of a change for me except i wouldnt have to smoke anymore. but id still smoke, because it makes me look cool ;)

[SmokinStella]

well it wouldnt be much of a change for me except i wouldnt have to smoke anymore. but id still smoke, because it makes me look cool ;)

lmao....I'd prob still smoke aswell...really likeing the sound of that planet though!

[hindu420spade]

For once I will side w/a god. God2.0 that is.....lol


To think we are the only creatures in the vastness of the universe is utterly insane. We still don't know what all lives on this planet.....how would we know whats on others?....

I figure there is lots of inteligent life forms. inteligent enough to leave that "earth trash" alone.

Alien #1: What's that blue plant bleep?

Bleep: That's where the Gods sent the rejects in the 1st millinium, and they have been trying to destroy it every since.

Alien #1: Wanna go have some funny w/the earth trash?

bleep: Naw, I have my go to church clothes on......

[Its a Plant]

honestly, if you watch xfiles a lot like I do, you start to buy in to all the govt. conspiracies they talk about.

Because they are true, and x-files rules. The truth IS out there!

[420purplehaze420]

billions of light years of space and were the ony life? please theres gotta be somthin else out there

[Wesley Pipes]

billions of light years of space and were the ony life? please theres gotta be somthin else out there
my thoughts exactly, i believe we're not alone in the universe... but i dont believe in U.F.O.'s or abductions, why would extra-terrestrial life want to examine us, just another example of mankinds ego, thinkin that we would matter to alien lifeforms.

[AmericanTerrorist]

Yeah and they havent made contact with us because if they could they would have to be highly advanced and therefore wouldnt want to make contact with us fucktards....

You think our planet is bad? You should see the others.....

[cannabis campbell]

Proof

http://area51central.com/aliens/evidence/AlienAutopsyPhotographs.html

Where is the proof they do not exist?

[dog420]

We cant be the only ones out there......

[hipEstoner]

its not really to say that i dont believe in aliens, i just believe that there is something out there among the millions of galaxies out there that we just cannot start to understand

[beachguy in thongs]

I bet, on some planets (or moons), life started but couldn't make it. Like stuff they find on other planets.

Maybe, an alien race is so advanced that they are living underneath the surface of a nearby planet. Maybe, all the planets, or moons.

They're crashing something into the moon within the next couple of months.

[mulltie]

there is so much space out there it is stupid to say that there isnt any other life forms..but then again it is possibal there isnt in the end its blind faith..idk:S

[Bong30]

here ya go..... i love this stuff

[Oneironaut]

Proof

http://area51central.com/aliens/evidence/AlienAutopsyPhotographs.html

Where is the proof they do not exist?
Those pictures could easily have been hoaxed. And the alien seems to have the same body structure and all the same body parts as humans, although somewhat distorted. Why is this? The answer is simple: the hoaxers weren't creative enough. On a far-away planet in a radically different environment, don't you think life forms would evolve into forms completely unlike anything we've ever seen or imagined?

[buddymyfriend]

Do you believe that somewhere out there,

There are other living people just like us that dont live on this planet, somewhere too far away on another planet that we will never be able to travel to.

Im sure everyone has thought about this before what do you think about it?

Hell yes!! I'm pretty sure my ex might used to have been one. She always had this funny look in her her eye and I guess the spaceship parked outside was a dead give away! Jokes aside yes i do believe there's something out there, why not? It's one of lifes mysteries we havent solved. It's a few of the things that make life interesting.

[psychocat]

Wow, thats gonna take a while to read.

I seriously doubt that its just one planet with living people on i think theres thousands of them out there that we just dont know about.:D lol would be interesting to
find out how they get high.

I remember watching a movie where an alien lands on earth to harvest their drug of choice, it is an endorphin released by the human brain at the moment of death. It was a cool movie but I'll be damned if I can remember the name of it.

[Dplaya4life03]

It is possible for there not to be aliens obviously, but I think there is just way too much space out there for life not to have begun somwhere else besides Earth. I mean Earth is in one galexy out of who knows how many other galexys. There is just too much of a chance that there would be than there not to be any other forms of life.

[d00d989]

my thoughts exactly, i believe we're not alone in the universe... but i dont believe in U.F.O.'s or abductions, why would extra-terrestrial life want to examine us, just another example of mankinds ego, thinkin that we would matter to alien lifeforms.
lol....you dont think aliens would want to examine us?

if we humans found some life on mars or something, you think we would just leave it there and not examine it?

[SweetRedLips]

No I dont believe in aliens ...apart from ET
and yes I can imagine most of your exs apart from moi
are aliens lol lol ..Joking hun

Seeya

SweetRed

[Looker]

ABSOLUTELY....

[Az.]

Do you believe that somewhere out there,

There are other living people just like us that dont live on this planet, somewhere too far away on another planet that we will never be able to travel to.

Im sure everyone has thought about this before what do you think about it?

yeah i believe in aliens....but I don't believe there are people just like us living on another planet somewhere.

But imo there has got to be some sort of lifeform somewhere other than on earth.

What would it tell us about this life we are living if alien life was proven to exist?

[robert42]

yes i have been anal proped plent of times

[Wesley Pipes]

lol....you dont think aliens would want to examine us?

if we humans found some life on mars or something, you think we would just leave it there and not examine it?
would we secrectly abduct members off it's society or would we extend the hand of peace? (thats if it was intelligent life with some sort of humanoid form :D)

[cannabis campbell]

haha lol! :D

[lateralus]

Yes. In fact, my dad was an alien when he came to the states, prior to becoming a citizen.

Of course I believe in aliens, though, and I think there's a good chance we've already come in contact with them.

[king kong bong]

they're round here runnin round somewhere...

[lateralus]

Hey, some New World Order theorists think the organization is secretly run by E.T.'s, heh. But that seems a little far fetched. Or does it? :eek:

[king kong bong]

45 to 4. the masses are wakin up or are they?

[lateralus]

Nah. There've been television shows on the subject, but I doubt many people didn't dismiss it as some off-the-wall, impossible theory.

[enthused]

I definitely think aliens exist. I don't think they are like "OMG LETS KILL EARTHLINGS GO!" They probably study us but I doubt they would ever want to take over this shithole. Unless its possible that their shithole is worse. I just wonder if any other planets have humans just like us living in a media controlled world.

[cannabis campbell]

yeah i agree but i dont believe they look are they are anything like in the movies.

[dog420]

We are not the only one's out there..........The truth is out there...........

[RIH]

Yeah, I believe in aliens, bigfoot, all that shit.

[Skink]

If were talking about the litte guy that looks in my bedroom window at night,Yeah...

[Funkamander]

Uh... that's me. I thought you couldn't see me. I'll stop.

[JunkYard]

I won't get started on this topic, so it will have to be enough to say that I believe. :cool:

[GrimReefer420]

yep.
and i think that space is the #1 mystroius existince out there

[minnesota man]

IMHO, the leaders of the world have already negotiated with the aliens about a coexistence. They will not disclose their existence as long as they can sample a few humans once in awhile.

I'm a big fan of Coast to Coast (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/). Thursday night (central time), John Lear, a UFO expert, will be on the show.

Richard C. Hoagland is is a frequent guest who makes convincing arguements about alien structures on the moon. His site looks a bit fake but you can check it out here (http://www.enterprisemission.com/).

[activedenial]

Yes, and if they were to wipe us out they would use a deadly plague not weapons.

[king kong bong]

I won't get started on this topic, so it will have to be enough to say that I believe. :cool:

so you from Zeta Riticuli? i thought so.

[torbaci]

i just wonder that If an aliens left leg is Thanksgiving, and this aliens right leg is Christmas, can I visit this alien between the holidays?

[OtterPop]

maybe there arent aliens maybe its just humans from the distant future that have evolved into something higher


hey it could happen!

[RevolverBlaze]

Ok, heres a GREAT excercise to do [especially when stoned], try to imagine the end of space, where it stops. You can't, and its a weird ass feeling you get when you try isn't it? Space is virtually limitless in my opinion, which also in my opinion is full of strange shit like other life, /both/ more advanced more than us, and less advanced [you gotta figure we can't be the top 'beings' but we have to have evolved a little bit, probably another planet out there in its 'early' more 'primitive' ages.