Thinking About… Extraterrestrial Life

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Thinking About… Extraterrestrial Life

  • Gil

    If the universe has no end, doesn’t it seem rather presumptuous to think that in all that space there are not some other life forms?

  • Josh

    More articles like this. The Hawk man is awesome.

  • jeff

    It’s ridiculous to think that there isn’t extraterrestrial life out there. It’s equally ridiculous to think we’ll ever run into it.

  • Skipper

    There is life here and no reason to believe that we are it in the entire universe. They may not be life forms we would even recognize. Star Trek is as good a guide as any to the unknown out there.

  • Skipper

    Moderation… moderation????> Phazers on stun, that’s moderation!

  • mooseloop

    Reading scifi makes one aware that many “ridiculous” predictions have already come true, so why not believe that our vast cosmos also is home to other intelligent life forms! We may be more advanced than some and less advanced than others, but they are out there! As ee cummings has said, let’s try to preserve this planet because there are not a lot of options for human life off this planet, or if you like sarcasm,
    “There’s a hellofagood universe next door, let’s go.”

  • Curtis

    It would be completely along the normal train of thought for human beings to think, very selfishly, that we are the only cognitive beings.

  • Jim Wilson

    What got me about Hawking’s conclusion was that his aliens might act like those creeps in Independence Day. Maybe we should quit sending our TV and radio transmissions out to the stars (which we’ve been doing for about the last hundred years). It’s like a beacon. Come and get us!

  • http://AOL Steve B

    They are out there somewhere, but we will never cross paths,
    but if we did … wow what a day that would be !

  • KendoTek

    If an alien civilization was watching us, they probably know how messed up we are as an overall planet-society. Imagine, some sort of alien interstellar warning sign for the other advanced alien travelers… like how the State Department issues advisories and warnings to travelers going unstable and dangerous nations. Yeah, if they are out there and watching, they know better than to just show up and say “Hi there!”

  • Katrinka

    If we can conceive of the vastness of the universe, then why do some refuse to believe in the possibility that we are not alone?

  • Christopher B.

    If there is life out there, and if they are more advanced than us, their advancement would be incomprehensible to us. Simply because we use common fuels to access the moon or years to hit Mars. Light year travels that take hundreds of thousands of years are completely beyond our realm of understanding. Yet if “they” can overcome that then why would they even try to explain their existence to us. Do we try to explain our existence to a roach?

  • Sengye

    I think that a proclamation about the proable outcome of an alien encounter made by a “genius” married twice, whose first wife, a nurse, deliberately left the
    paralyzed man out in the sun to over-bake, is indeed perhaps half baked!
    KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!

  • http://none Teddy Philips

    If they’re out there “watching” us , they’re surely not impressed . Look at how mankind is destroying itself . Looking at us , the ffirst thing that comes to their mind would be “Planet Earth ? Stay away .”

  • Frank

    Witnessed a very dark grey,three level disc fly over hwy. 53 in Hamilton Ont. Canada
    on December 24th 1978 in the late afternoon.
    Another time, I was up north fishing on an island in Georgian Bay with eight others.
    We all witnessed four glowing lights that looked like street lights; until they started
    moving. By the way, there aren’t any street lights there on the island.

  • Rusty

    Fermi paradox is solved,no space traveling life form would bother with a planet where there are still religions and the killing of each other ,we are simply too primative!!!!Unless they want the planet!!!!!

  • Kelly

    The universe is too big for ours to be the only planet with life. However, life exists in a great number of forms even on our small planet. To imagine that life on other planets is similar to our own is a stretch. To imagine that they would be similarly warlike breaks the stretch for me.

  • Danson

    If there is intelligent life somewhere else in the Universe, they would probably know about Earth, and be intelligent enough to stay away. Oh, and by the way, there IS and they DO.

  • Danny

    We can’t be alone out there can we?

  • Rashiiiii

    Extraterrestrial life forms doesn’t phase me at all. Have believed in them since i was a child. Very ignorant of us to believe we’re that important. What freaks me out is how all the alien encounters that have been reported, aliens tend to look like strange human beings? Same shape, same poistioning of limbs and facial “features”? Like in Transformers (HAHA).. if god made us in his image, who the hell made him? Makes me think they’ve been here for a while and are adapting to look like us so we don’t get react badly. I always imagined aliens to resemble Kane and Kodos from the Simpsons more than a human looking creature. But i’m sure they’re more than one species out there.. Who knows..

  • Ian

    So long as we remember the universal greeting from transformers, we should be ok.

    ‘Ba-weep-gra-na-weep-ninny-bong!’

    Realistically though, we probably wouldn’t have a chance. Besides, who’s to say that the current state of the world wasn’t caused by actions of long-living alien species who wanted us to get rid of ourselves so that they could have the planet after? Or for that matter, who’s to say that we weren’t seeded by another race of aliens? With the rising evidence to suggest the crossbreeding between modern man and neanderthal in a time where it was believed that neanderthals died out, who can say for sure that it isn’t just an intergalactic genetic/social experiment?

    Makes you wonder sometimes

  • http://Yahoo Jack Dyer

    Well it’s a hell of a big universe out there; so ‘Who Knows’

  • leon

    Its understandable that if aliens of superior life form were out there and if they were aware of us that they dont want anything to do with us in our present state because military forces and attitudes have much influence and power in the earths most powerful countries, as well as other primitive institutions and attitudes. So until that primitiveness of humanity goes I doubt if any advanced alien race would want anything to do with us and would rather just observe us anonymously.