Are we about to get full disclosure?

[Glassfan]

They must have been the Greys. The Lizards would have crashed into the silo - they're such lousy drivers without opposable thumbs.

 

[Azale]

Why people insist on taking the UN seriously is beyond me.

Pretty cake job though, a six figure gig to do exactly nothing.

Hur hur hur.

The UN does a lot of good work and you know it.

 

[SG-17]

Am I the only one here who takes this seriously? I mean the Universe is 14 billion years old (as far as we know), life on Earth developed intelligence (for presumably the first time) in 3 billion years. There are 11 billion years there for intelligent life on other planets to have evolved to our level and beyond.

"Oh but wait the Universe is so vast there is no way that aliens could get here!"
Well damn... no one thought that we could travel to the Moon in 1469, yet look where we landed 500 years later.
Our understanding of the Universe is constantly changing, just because we think that we know the physical laws of the Universe doesn't mean that they are even all correct let alone immutable.

"Hold on, if they exist they would evolve on a completely alien environment. They shouldn't look anything like us at all!" Well the only type of life that we know of to exist right now is carbon-based life and all carbon-based needs water to survive (most need oxygen too, but there are exceptions). By acknowledging this we assume that other life in the Universe would most likely carbon-based and also need water. We must also therefore assume that there is a sizable amount of water on any alien planets with CB life. Depending on the age of the planet it should also be tectonically active. This means the recycling of landmasses and transfer of species to new lands and environments. We must also recognize that the only intelligent life to invent (that we know of) on our planet has had the ability to manipulate its environment with dexterous appendages. We also know that they were superpredators who are also omnivorous.
This posses two things, intelligent tool using life must have dexterous appendages (hands or even tentacles) and it must have binocular vision. The life must also have a large brain mass to body ratio. These traits on another lifeform would give it a vaguely humanish (rather than humanoid) appearance. Something that would be alien, yet not completely alien, to us.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Am I the only one here who takes this seriously? I mean the Universe is 14 billion years old (as far as we know), life on Earth developed intelligence (for presumably the first time) in 3 billion years. There are 11 billion years there for intelligent life on other planets to have evolved to our level and beyond.

"Oh but wait the Universe is so vast there is no way that aliens could get here!"
Well damn... no one thought that we could travel to the Moon in 1469, yet look where we landed 500 years later.
Our understanding of the Universe is constantly changing, just because we think that we know the physical laws of the Universe doesn't mean that they are even all correct let alone immutable.

"Hold on, if they exist they would evolve on a completely alien environment. They shouldn't look anything like us at all!" Well the only type of life that we know of to exist right now is carbon-based life and all carbon-based needs water to survive (most need oxygen too, but there are exceptions). By acknowledging this we assume that other life in the Universe would most likely carbon-based and also need water. We must also therefore assume that there is a sizable amount of water on any alien planets with CB life. Depending on the age of the planet it should also be tectonically active. This means the recycling of landmasses and transfer of species to new lands and environments. We must also recognize that the only intelligent life to invent (that we know of) on our planet has had the ability to manipulate its environment with dexterous appendages. We also know that they were superpredators who are also omnivorous.
This posses two things, intelligent tool using life must have dexterous appendages (hands or even tentacles) and it must have binocular vision. The life must also have a large brain mass to body ratio. These traits on another lifeform would give it a vaguely humanish (rather than humanoid) appearance. Something that would be alien, yet not completely alien, to us.

No, you're not. I maintain that there is a very high possibility (in fact, I maintain it would be really illogical and abnormal if there were not) of intelligent life other than humans in the universe.

I don't really think they know we exist yet, though.

 

[Rashiminos]

There was a report like this back in 2001. People are going to pay just as much attention to it now as they did back then. If something special happened, most people wouldn't notice it hitting them squarely in the face.

Spoiler :

people posters

 

[Haseri]

Sorry SG, but Doctor M. Othman is not head of the ET liason team.

 

[History_Buff]

Am I the only one here who takes this seriously? ...

No. The statistics overwhelmingly indicate that sentient alien life does exist out there. However, even if we assume that they could travel here in a reasonable amount of time (the fact that scientific theories can be wrong is no reason to assume they are wrong), it strikes me as insanely unlikely that the best thing they would have to do with their time is fly around tampering with various weapons systems, killing cows, abducting red necks, and making crop circles. To extend all that effort to come here and screw around seems kind of silly don't you think?


I disagree entirely with your thesis that aliens would have to be humanoid though. They might be, but they almost certainly would not be. I had a biologist explain this at length to me once.

 

[Azale]

We're just raining on your ET parade because we don't see the particular specialness of this "revelation". It sounds like tinhat stuff we've seen thousands of times.

AND YES I am talking for everyone on CFC

 

[fishmonger]

Am I the only one here who takes this seriously? I mean the Universe is 14 billion years old (as far as we know), life on Earth developed intelligence (for presumably the first time) in 3 billion years. There are 11 billion years there for intelligent life on other planets to have evolved to our level and beyond.

"Oh but wait the Universe is so vast there is no way that aliens could get here!"
Well damn... no one thought that we could travel to the Moon in 1469, yet look where we landed 500 years later.
Our understanding of the Universe is constantly changing, just because we think that we know the physical laws of the Universe doesn't mean that they are even all correct let alone immutable.

"Hold on, if they exist they would evolve on a completely alien environment. They shouldn't look anything like us at all!" Well the only type of life that we know of to exist right now is carbon-based life and all carbon-based needs water to survive (most need oxygen too, but there are exceptions). By acknowledging this we assume that other life in the Universe would most likely carbon-based and also need water. We must also therefore assume that there is a sizable amount of water on any alien planets with CB life. Depending on the age of the planet it should also be tectonically active. This means the recycling of landmasses and transfer of species to new lands and environments. We must also recognize that the only intelligent life to invent (that we know of) on our planet has had the ability to manipulate its environment with dexterous appendages. We also know that they were superpredators who are also omnivorous.
This posses two things, intelligent tool using life must have dexterous appendages (hands or even tentacles) and it must have binocular vision. The life must also have a large brain mass to body ratio. These traits on another lifeform would give it a vaguely humanish (rather than humanoid) appearance. Something that would be alien, yet not completely alien, to us.

Why would aliens come here, disable a single nuke, and leave? It's completely illogical.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

fly around tampering with various weapons systems, killing cows, abducting red necks, and making crop circles. To extend all that effort to come here and screw around seems kind of silly don't you think?

maybe they're having fun