Aliens exist

[ManBearPig]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...-covered-60-years.html


What i dont understand is, if they've made contact for more than 60 years, HOW has all that contact been covered up?

Meaning, do aliens only contact the relatively few people who work at NASA compared to the world's 6 billion+ population?

Eh.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...-covered-60-years.html


What i dont understand is, if they've made contact for more than 60 years, HOW has all that contact been covered up?

Meaning, do aliens only contact the relatively few people who work at NASA compared to the world's 6 billion+ population?

Eh.

Ya dont, you just ridicule people who talk about it. You fund newspapers like the Enquirer (which didnt make a profit for the first um 8-10 years of existance [supposidely funded by the CIA back in the day]) to constantly publish 1/2 truths until anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately assumed to be nuts.

In short, its easy

 

[Fenixgoon]

we need to develop warp drive before they'll actually land on earth.

 

[StevenYoo]

three letters.

MIB

 

[BudAshes]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Kazaam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...-covered-60-years.html


What i dont understand is, if they've made contact for more than 60 years, HOW has all that contact been covered up?

Meaning, do aliens only contact the relatively few people who work at NASA compared to the world's 6 billion+ population?

Eh.

Ya dont, you just ridicule people who talk about it. You fund newspapers like the Enquirer (which didnt make a profit for the first um 8-10 years of existance [supposidely funded by the CIA back in the day]) to constantly publish 1/2 truths until anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately assumed to be nuts.

In short, its easy

It does seem odd that magazines like that were always around, yet no one seemed to actually buy them.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
three letters.

MIB

:beer:

 

[Ruptga]

Plausible deniability, see this episode of Stargate for reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_Extreme

Granted, I don't really think there are any government coverups, but that's a really funny episode and you asked

 

[halik]

I don't see why they would keep that secret

 

[Cogman]

Dr Mitchell, 77

Who knows, maybe he isn't crazy. But 77 seems about the right age for dementia to set in.

It would be cool though if it where true.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: halik
I don't see why they would keep that secret

Panic + riot = bad

 

[LikeLinus]

So all governments are conspiring to cover up the existences of aliens in some massive joint effort. I mean we can't get along with half the world, but for some reason we're all working together to not let people know about aliens!!!!

Also, it's funny that the Gov has been able to cover up every single communication or trip aliens have made to earth. They travel how far? With what technology? Yet they can't make a trip to earth without the CIA knowing?

Ok. lol

 

[olds]

List of things that don't exist:
Aliens
Tooth Fairy
Easter Bunny
Santa Claus
Fairness in life

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
List of things that don't exist:
Aliens
Tooth Fairy
Easter Bunny
Santa Claus
Fairness in life

What about the Kwaanza Bunny?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
List of things that don't exist:
Aliens
Tooth Fairy
Easter Bunny
Santa Claus
Fairness in life

What about the Kwaanza Bunny?

She's good since Madonna took over the role.

 

[Arcadio]

If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

So they won't have legs or arms or prehensile 'thumbs".
What if they drop their Visa?

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

So they won't have legs or arms or prehensile 'thumbs".
What if they drop their Visa?

There are millions of variations of body designs, depending on the environment in which the being evolves. Why should aliens look like us? It is not impossible, but very unlikely. People tend to anthropomorphize everything around them.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Arcadio

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

So they won't have legs or arms or prehensile 'thumbs".
What if they drop their Visa?

There are millions of variations of body designs, depending on the environment in which the being evolves. Why should aliens look like us? It is not impossible, but very unlikely. People tend to anthropomorphize everything around them.

If I keep replying, will you keep backtracking?

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Arcadio

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

So they won't have legs or arms or prehensile 'thumbs".
What if they drop their Visa?

There are millions of variations of body designs, depending on the environment in which the being evolves. Why should aliens look like us? It is not impossible, but very unlikely. People tend to anthropomorphize everything around them.

If I keep replying, will you keep backtracking?

Nevermind.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: Arcadio

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

So they won't have legs or arms or prehensile 'thumbs".
What if they drop their Visa?

There are millions of variations of body designs, depending on the environment in which the being evolves. Why should aliens look like us? It is not impossible, but very unlikely. People tend to anthropomorphize everything around them.

Yet everyone is so anxious to find "the chemicals of life" (as we know them) on extra terrestrial objects. Who's to say an alien species has cells like an earth being?

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

i would make the following presumptions:

1) life arises and thrives under a certain set of circumstances, similar to the circumstances on earth.

2) similar traits would be advantageous in both locations, ie limbs to provide motion, etc.

3) intelligence only arises in social animals, and advanced intelligence is only useful for social creatures that have the physical capacity to manipulate their environments, ie humans with opposable thumbs.

with all these assumptions, we can assume its possible or even probable that aliens would be roughly similar in structure, but perhaps very different in the specifics of their form.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Intelligent life probably exists, but the likely hood of us making contact with each other is pretty much nil, even if we survive as a species until the sun starts to die, expands, and swallows up the planet.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

i would make the following presumptions:

1) life arises and thrives under a certain set of circumstances, similar to the circumstances on earth.

2) similar traits would be advantageous in both locations, ie limbs to provide motion, etc.

3) intelligence only arises in social animals, and advanced intelligence is only useful for social creatures that have the physical capacity to manipulate their environments, ie humans with opposable thumbs.

with all these assumptions, we can assume its possible or even probable that aliens would be roughly similar in structure, but perhaps very different in the specifics of their form.

I would almost come to the same conclusion, but then I would realize that we're using a sample size consisting of only one planet and only one intelligent species. It seems kind of fallacious to assume that because we used the social animal/standing upright/opposable thumb path to intelligence, that that's the only possible path.

It DID happen with us so we know that it can happen that way, but that's all we know. I'm of the opinion that aliens, should they exist, would likely be wildly different from anything found on this planet.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Kazaam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...-covered-60-years.html


What i dont understand is, if they've made contact for more than 60 years, HOW has all that contact been covered up?

Meaning, do aliens only contact the relatively few people who work at NASA compared to the world's 6 billion+ population?

Eh.

Ya dont, you just ridicule people who talk about it. You fund newspapers like the Enquirer (which didnt make a profit for the first um 8-10 years of existance [supposidely funded by the CIA back in the day]) to constantly publish 1/2 truths until anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately assumed to be nuts.

In short, its easy

I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

 

[imported_Devine]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Arcadio
If aliens exist, they should not look anything like us. There is no reason why aliens should share ANY physical similarities with us.

i would make the following presumptions:

1) life arises and thrives under a certain set of circumstances, similar to the circumstances on earth.

2) similar traits would be advantageous in both locations, ie limbs to provide motion, etc.

3) intelligence only arises in social animals, and advanced intelligence is only useful for social creatures that have the physical capacity to manipulate their environments, ie humans with opposable thumbs.

with all these assumptions, we can assume its possible or even probable that aliens would be roughly similar in structure, but perhaps very different in the specifics of their form.

That's a lot of assumptions coming from an idiot jk