Do YOU believe in space aliens?

innerSpaceman · 06-30-2005, 12:52 PM

Today's preternatural is tomorrow's ho-hum natural. With all the ways we are discovering, even now in early mankind history of 2005, of working with laws of physics (as we presently understand them) to beat time and space and gravity and thus achieve interstellar, faster-than-light, or space-doesn't-matter travel ... I have to assume that one or more of the trillions upon trillions of civilizations in this universe or one of the many alternate universes will come up with a way of doing it.

Not that Earth is going to be a chosen visitation point for 5 societies out of all the societies in 250 billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars apiece (in this universe alone), but not only is extraterrestrial life an absolute given ... the ability to travel from one inhabited planet to another is impossible only to those with hubris to think we now know it all.

Moonliner has thoughtfully provided links to chinks in the cosmic-speed-limit armor. And here we are in only 2005. We are but children.

I don't really believe Earth has been visited by E.T.s, but there is something going on with the alien-abduction phenomena. It may not be aliens per se, and the vast majority of this stuff may be hoaxes or misunderstandings ... but there is so much of this stuff, so similarly reported through the ages, and some of it with such forceful crediblity (other than the conclusion that it must be green spacemen) that I am convinced there is something quite real behind the phenomena. (As, similarly, there is something quite real about the ghost and haunting phenomena that may or may not be actual spirits of the dead).

Oh, and I hate Tom Cruise in all but a handful of movies (which movies really surprise me, cause I frelling hate Tom Cruise).

Tref · 06-30-2005, 01:27 PM

Its not so much that I believe in the space aliens, but its that the space aliens -- stopped believing in themselves.
You can do it little guys. I got faith in ya!

scaeagles · 06-30-2005, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

the ability to travel from one inhabited planet to another is impossible only to those with hubris to think we now know it all.

I always thought hubris was possessed by those who think man has the capacity to know it all. But that's beside the point.

The laws of physics, as we understand them, change all the time, as do most of the things we think we know about the makeup of the universe. I am not a physicist or a scientist, so I really know very little about such things beyond the traditional and widely accepted theories. Einstein was wrong on more than one occassion.

06-30-2005, 12:52 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Today's preternatural is tomorrow's ho-hum natural. With all the ways we are discovering, even now in early mankind history of 2005, of working with laws of physics (as we presently understand them) to beat time and space and gravity and thus achieve interstellar, faster-than-light, or space-doesn't-matter travel ... I have to assume that one or more of the trillions upon trillions of civilizations in this universe or one of the many alternate universes will come up with a way of doing it. Not that Earth is going to be a chosen visitation point for 5 societies out of all the societies in 250 billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars apiece (in this universe alone), but not only is extraterrestrial life an absolute given ... the ability to travel from one inhabited planet to another is impossible only to those with hubris to think we now know it all. Moonliner has thoughtfully provided links to chinks in the cosmic-speed-limit armor. And here we are in only 2005. We are but children. I don't really believe Earth has been visited by E.T.s, but there is something going on with the alien-abduction phenomena. It may not be aliens per se, and the vast majority of this stuff may be hoaxes or misunderstandings ... but there is so much of this stuff, so similarly reported through the ages, and some of it with such forceful crediblity (other than the conclusion that it must be green spacemen) that I am convinced there is something quite real behind the phenomena. (As, similarly, there is something quite real about the ghost and haunting phenomena that may or may not be actual spirits of the dead). Oh, and I hate Tom Cruise in all but a handful of movies (which movies really surprise me, cause I frelling hate Tom Cruise).
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