<p>ok to help clear the anxiety of the new school year coming i thought i would come up with an interesting discussion to start it off</p>
<p>Do you believe in alien life?
If so when do you think first contact will occur?
Do you think within the next fifty years interstellar travel will be possible?</p>
<p>Yes for single-celled organisms. No for weird, slimy, Star Wars-like creatures.</p>
<p>This is the most uninteresting discussion i have encountered.....My answer-NO.</p>
<p>Do you believe in alien life?
Maybe. I haven't quite decided.
If so when do you think first contact will occur?
In a couple hundred years maybe.
Do you think within the next fifty years interstellar travel will be possible?
Probably not, but who knows.</p>
<p>I would just like to add on a side note, this is a very good topic that has taken my mind totally off of the upcoming school year. You must be very smart RWC0613. You must have millions of dollars and a nice car and house. If you don't then you should think about going to Capitol Hill and begging them for that stuff to compliment your great brain. SDMS12, you are by far the rudest person I have ever encountered. RWC0613 went out of his way to try to make you feel less worried about the upcoming school year. I am ashamed to even have your name in my post. SDMS12.......... :( :( :(</p>
<p>"I would just like to add on a side note, this is a very good topic that has taken my mind totally off of the upcoming school year. You must be very smart RWC0613. You must have millions of dollars and a nice car and house. If you don't then you should think about going to Capitol Hill and begging them for that stuff to compliment your great brain. SDMS12, you are by far the rudest person I have ever encountered. RWC0613 went out of his way to try to make you feel less worried about the upcoming school year. I am ashamed to even have your name in my post. SDMS12.......... "</p>
<p>-- lol wth?</p>
<p>troll? (10 chars)</p>
<p>haha yeah I think so</p>
<p>Alien life: No.
First contact: See above.
Interstellar travel: No. See: NASA.</p>
<p>Cynical? Yes, but not disillusioned.</p>
<p>Alien life: yes. Why not? How many billions of billions of planets are there?
First contact: why would they contact us?
Interstellar travel: no, unless we've got some crazy stargate program going on that we don't know about.</p>
<p>of course aliens exist.. the recipe for life is a set of circumstances (stable atmosphere & temperature, existence of water, an energy source like a star).. and how is it possible that this simple set of circumstances has only occurred ONCE in the entire universe?</p>
<p>little green men with super laser guns? probably not.. but anything from a single-celled organism to an alien bug to a humanoid is conceivable.</p>
<p>o course alien life exists
ET and I are always on aim chatting</p>
<p>ET has aim, but not a phone? The horror!</p>
<p>I agree with EchoX, I mean, the universe is never ending, how can we be the only life? There has to be something else out there.</p>
<p>alien life? probably. contact with earth, highly unlikely</p>
<p>Alien life? No. I don't believe so.</p>
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<p>Wellll, I'm a Creationist so yeah. XD The Big Bang theory just doesn't do it for me.</p>
<p>There are definately aliens. For all we know, there are other humans in another solar system. We really don't know what's out there and chances are there are more life if the univese goes to infinity.</p>
<p>^Forgive me if this sounds rude...but how do you know there are "definitely" aliens? Can you show me proof?</p>
<p>And I'm not talking about a fuzzy photo of a "UFO".</p>
<p>Anyone here ever heard of the Drake Equation? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation</a></p>
<p>The probability of aliens are quite high - there are more galaxies in the universe than there are people on this planet. And considering that there are billions of stars per galaxy... yeah, do the math. It's the power of statistics - even if the odds of life are very tiny, the fact that there are so many "chances" of it that there's life elsewhere. The question, of course, is whether we'll ever see or communicate with any of them.</p>
<p>Again, refer to the link for a little more details. It is a fascinating topic.</p>
<p>It just doesn't make sense to me. How were these "aliens" created? By what or whom?</p>
<p>I just don't get it.</p>
<p>Heh. So all the stars and galaxies were put here for our personal amusement (even though we can't see the majority of them)? How egocentric. </p>
<p>And who said that there was a creator? Besides, who would create a creator? (Infinite regression ftl)</p>