Aliens...

[Asthaloth]

to quote the, in my opinion, awesome movie "Contact":

I high five you. You are awsome.

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But yes, I do believe they exist... But here's a thought... What if they were shaped like rocks and never moved? :O

That leads to another question. What if rocks are actually living creatures? We throw em', we hit people we don't like with them, we tread on them, in my brother's case we eat them (he really did used to eat rocks when he was younger), we do loads of things that would be considered downright cruel if done to an animal, but these poor rocks could in fact be animals themselves! I will never abuse a rock again. Never.

You just hit upon the Gaia theory there
Basicly the theory is that the planets themselves, and maybe even stars, are alive, but their plans are so far reaching that we just see them as random acts (Earthquakes etc)
Only example of this I could find in fiction was Games Workshops C'Tan.
Just hope that Sol isnt like a C'tan.

... because the way we know life is the end all and be all? The only way?

There are plenty of things in this vast universe that we haven't even begun to understand (including our own planet).

I'm sure aliens exist, but if they exist in a form that we would understand, I don't know. Like I said, even if they are like the aliens we imagine them to be, it doesn't mean they're advanced enough to visit us. And even if they are, why would they want to? What if they have better things to do? Or they've already made contact with other aliens elsewhere? Who knows.

Unfortunetly thats the swizz.
They may already be here.
Just our minds are too freaked out by it that we refuse to accept their existance.
In which case we may never meet them anyway.

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[bone garden]

I'm quite frond of the quote, "“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it hasn’t tried to contact us.” from Bill Watterson.

I believe there's life out there. Maybe some like ours, and some drasticaly different. The posibilities are endless.
As stated in the origional post, I, too, find it rather arogant to think that we are the only living being in all that space.

We watched a vidio in grade nine science class about the universe and how all the waves (radio, etc) go out into space and travel farther each year.
But do they get weaker? I forget.
Anyways, that's a lot of distance to travel. Maybe someday we'll catch something from another planet, but the wave would be very very old.
Maybe human existance will be over by then. Who knows? That's the beauty of it.

[Asthaloth]

I, too, find it rather arogant to think that we are the only living being in all that space.

Why?
The universe isn't all that old, and little olf Earth has existed for a thrid of the universes ago.
It took Eight billion years for life to come to our little dingy corner, for the enviroment to be just right, and that was because of a series of amazing flukes.
Who's to say it ever happened elswhere?

Besides, humanity as a species needs a little more arrogance, It took us The better part of Four billion years to get to the top, and now that we dominate we ourselves try and tear us down.
And that was because of a fluke too...

[pipsqueeek]

I'm not sure what I think. I think I think that there is some form of life out there, but I definitely don't think it's humanoid. The chance that life developed elsewhere is small, the chance that it developed the same way as on earth is about as close to zero as you can get. It may not even be life as we would consider it life. Maybe, as ginger wrote, there are living rocks. Maybe there are telepathic beings somewhere. Maybe there are beings with no physical body. I'm just throwing things out there. There could be beings that we would call 'magical'. Because all magic is, really, is an explanation for what science cannot explain. Just because we don't understand something doesn't mean it can't be done. But I'm getting into a whole nother topic here. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that I think there is life somewhere out there, but not like life as we know it.

[alien]

ever read Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card? if you havnt, it presents the theory (kinda) that aliends do exist, but they cant actually speak, its more of a telekinesis (bleh) thing, which also would explain why they havnt tried to contact us before.
But it also rules out crop circles at the same time.

[NeoPet_online]

OMG, I totally forgot!

Who here believes Crop circles are real? And that that whole Aztec calendar ending on December 24, 2012, meaning we'll either...

A. Perish.
B. Enter a new era of human intellegence... or whatever.

I'm skeptical an both subjects..