Aliens clearly exsist.

Ah yeah I guess it could be. For all we know, this whole world could just be our/someones imagination and we don't even exist!



Well it would be pretty dangerous to just assume they will be nice, but then if they have the technology to come here I'm sure they have the technology to destroy us. Thats assuming their race is even as remotely evil as the human race though. They could be tollerant, friendly aliens who have no crime/wars where they come from - they'd be in for a shock arriving here!

I believe that we're not the only intelligent lifeforms in the grand scheme. And I don't understand how people can freak out over other lifeforms visiting us, like its some amazing, not possible thing. We visit other planets, right?

That was my second Q.
Go to the first page, near the middle - middle/bottom and I asked a second Q, "do you think they'll be hostile?"
You have the same sort of theory my mum has; that if they can get here, clearly there is nothing we can teach them, so its a safe bet they'll be hostile.
Then again, if we go galavanting off to see other aliens (if/when we find them) its just as likely they'll think we are coming to attack them and defend themselves.
Upon first contact, both sides will have to keep a very, very open mind me thinks.

I'd like it if w were calm about a visit. However, I think most people would see any visit as this:

If they do come, I'm sure we'll be quite freaked out when they wave their death-rays!

Haha! I know I'd freak.
However, you're right, we do just assume that aliens will be hostile.
Which I think is in no small part the fault of Hollywood films, and I don't think that's such a stupid thing to suggest.

I think they'd at least be partially like us (or I'd hope so) in the fact that they are eager to see what else is out there. Then again, I agree with her that its likely-er that they are hostile. Anyway, your views on that too?

I think they'd at least be partially like us (or I'd hope so) in the fact that they are eager to see what else is out there. Then again, I agree with her that its likely-er that they are hostile. Anyway, your views on that too?

I don't necessarily think they will be hostile - but most people would assume so.

If instead of spending the trillions and trillions and trillions of pounds on weapons etc each year, that was spent on research, we would be far more advanced by now. I guess that actually makes it more likely that they will be peaceful than hostile.

I know what you mean, the movies paint no pretty pictures. Only good things could come from visits from our distant brothers! They'll have gone a step further than us and been able to contact another lifeform, hell, maybe they've contacted a load of others! Im sure if we're lovely to them, they'll share their secrets.

And I bet theres some pretty awesome music they could share from space.

Those are things I'd like to see shared. Music, literature, media etc etc.
We assume that ours is "right" as we've made it. I'd like to see if they've made music, written books or made films.
And a first empire, eh?
Who knows, maybe, like you say, there is a massive one spanning millions of galaxies right now, and (if its not too far fetched a theory) I'd like to imagine an empire type-set up that knew the answers to everything between each other.
One that spanned the whole of Space (if it ends).

Now, that would be a sight! Nod to Star Wars here :P

Eee, I dont know wether I'd like to know everything. I mean, I'd probably just get depressed if I knew how the world was made and it ended up being some really dire thing. The aliens can keep all their knowhow!

Do you mean:

This Alien Race (X) has spent its time investingating space travel and exploration rather then weaponry and warfare - Thus its likely its a peaceful nation as it has a "need" per se to go out and find things?

I like that theory.
However, to flip it, you could say that they are a race that wants to create an Empire, and thus we will be seen as slaves.
Although, that's one of the better theories that I've heard.

Well not necessarily just space travel etc. but basically yeah. We waste a complete fortune on violence/weapons/military/police etc. - imagine where we would be without all that expense.

That other theory is equally valid I guess - just hope mine will be the right one!

Really? Oh I disagree there, I'd give anything to know all that sort of stuff.
The big questions are the ones I'd really like to know though.
The meaning of life, etc etc.

Then again, though - The meaning of life is a question that has caused many great things. Maybe I'll just leave that one, so we can keep "growing" answers to it from there.
Other things, hell yeah I'd love to find out!

Sod knowing it, would you not like to MAKE the meaning of life?

Hmm, you raise a good point here.
Well if I had to chose my meaning of life, it'd be:

Live each day like its your last, enjoy every ****ing moment of it!

Either that or:

Ride hard, or go home, and I'm a long way from home...

Scientists have just found that the night sky in which we see makes up only a tenth of one of the "tendrils" that make up our galaxy. There are 18 of these tendrils spiraling off of our galaxy, which means that there are 179 other tenths in our galaxy alone.
Now, seen as there are predicted to be 330 million planets in our galaxy, and we've found at least another 50 million galaxies, some millions of times larger then our own. So some are likely to have, what, 330 trillion (is that right?) planets in? And this is going barely, what could be compared to an inch on the length of Europe, Asia and America combined, out towards the distance we've found. So basically, if you look at the distance in which we know around our galaxy, and scale that to Asia, America and Europe if they were next to each other, and then took the longest distance from end to end, all the galaxies we know of, are contained within the first inch of that distance.
Yet we know of distance well, well beyond that. (The only way we know that its that distance, is because they saw a Star go Supernova and they calculated (I dont know how the calculation works) the time it took etc etc...)

And people still don't believe that aliens exsist? How can we be, in those teeming trillions of billions of planets, the only life? How could all life just be here and people still say that there is nothing else out there...

Anyway, your thoughts. As that, to me, pretty much ensures me that aliens exsist.