Originally Posted by Verbal (Post 6437112)

We are lovers

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 6437058)

I think it's safe to say that there are countless planets in this galaxy alone that are host to life as intelligent / more intelligent (and more advanced) than we are... however, I personally don't believe that aliens have or ever will visit Earth (nor will humans visit worlds with intelligent alien life), because I strongly suspect that FTL (faster than light) travel is physically impossible. So all of these intelligent lifeforms will be confined to their own little corners of the galaxy, never having contact with any of the others... well, except those who are lucky (or unlucky I guess?) enough to have an alien neighbour "next door", within the same solar system or in the systems of the closest stars that would be possible to reach fairly easily at sub-light speeds.

Anyway... HYPOTHETICALLY they would probably be better to keep it from most people. Most people don't even like to face the uncomfortable truths of the world as it is outside their own little bubble (family, work, friends). Most people don't even "want to know" when it comes to domestic politics... certainly not global concerns... so, they definitely would prefer to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to extraterrestrial matters.

Then again, considering that, they might as well make the information easily "findable". THen those who want to know will know, and those who don't want to know will go on in ignorant bliss / pretending that it isn't happening... as they do with anything else that doesn't "fit" in their comfortable mindset.

Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 6437200)

I can tell that you guys have very spicy hot sexualness.

Originally Posted by Simple Minds (Post 6437274)

And I can tell you want in on it, you only have to ask sweetcheeks.

Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 6437214)

exactly. some religious people can't even handle the truth about evolution. imagine if we found out that aliens had manipulated our genetics and our evolution? they would lose their minds. they would probably think that they are demons or satan or the anti-christ or whatever. they would go insane.

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 6437616)

I don't think they would, "faith" and (to be blunt) habitual selective blindness are built into religion from the ground up. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes (actual aliens and ships) they would claim that it was a lie / hoax / it didn't happen / false evidence was planted by God for unknown reasons (I have heard 7-day hardcore Christians claim that Dinosaurs were around a few thousand years ago, and that God deliberately made it SEEM like fossils are older, for... some reason??).

If it was indisputable that they were really here, their ships were in the sky, and they were talking to people then they would go for the second fallback: that God also made the aliens and that any meddling they did with our DNA / hand they had in the creation of humanity was part of a plan set in motion by God, so really, everything is the same. You'll see this in the "Scientific Christians" who do believe in evolution and that the Earth formed over billions of years. They simply "reinterpret" (read: alter) the meaning of religious texts to suit, so all of a sudden the 7 days of creation are a metaphor, evolution did happen but it's all part of a design set in motion by God, etc. etc.

They'd find a way to warp the facts to make them fit, basically. They always do. You'd probably have a cult or two springing up claiming that Jesus was in fact an alien sent by God to get us back on track.

Originally Posted by Salman! (Post 6437691)

Originally Posted by Simple Minds (Post 6437727)

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth. Each star has the potential to house orbiting planets and even if just a minute percentage of those planets are within the bounds of the habitable zone then There is every chance that life outside of the solar system exists.

Originally Posted by Jesus. (Post 6436498)

I wish the government of TIBB would keep thetruth from us.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 6436506)

You'd have people abusing it if they knew about though, Oh I can't come into work today, was abducted by aliens last night and I have a pounding headache now

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 8914924)

There's life in the universe, there has to be but I don't think we've ever encountered it and I hope we never do unless we're the ones to find it.

If a more advanced race managed to find their way to Earth it would end in a bloodbath. If an Alien's psychology was anything like ours then there's no way they'd come in peace.