Alien life and Earth

[Tinker Gnome]

Well, it is raining pretty bad where I am, and when it first started to rain I haerd that classic sort of whirring-beeping noise that one might associate with flying saucers(I think it was probably a car alarm.) So, do you think any alien life might have ever visited Earth in the past or present?

 

[Truth Seeker]

Well, it is raining prett ba dwhere I am, and when it first started to rain I haerd that classic sort of whirring-beeping noise that one might associate with flying saucers(I think it was probably a car alarm.) So, do you think any alien life might have ever visited Earth in the past or present?

Yes...*teleported*

 

[The_Universe]

*shrugs* sure. Don't see why not. Anything is possible - very few things are likely. I'll chalk this one up in the unlikely category, but I can't and won't deny the possibility.

 

[Crothian]

Who do you thing brings us "reality" TV? Its not our reality, so who's is it really?

 

[Umbran]

So, do you think any alien life might have ever visited Earth in the past or present?

Given the laws of the Universe as we now know them? Visitation by living beings would be unlikely. Visit by a robot probe would be more plausible.

Given the possibility that we don't know all the laws of the Universe? Well, then anything goes, now doesn't it?

 

[Algolei]

Well, it is raining pretty bad where I am, and when it first started to rain I haerd that classic sort of whirring-beeping noise that one might associate with flying saucers(I think it was probably a car alarm.)

I said I was sorry!

So, do you think any alien life might have ever visited Earth in the past or present?

Yes. I think it. However, I don't believe it.

 

[Ranger REG]

So, do you think any alien life might have ever visited Earth in the past or present?

I dunno. If they have visited the past, they would have terminated humaniti the same way we terminate infestation in our houses, though I doubt we can find a tent big enough to cover the planet.

If they're visiting us in the present, then they're probably trying to find a way to kill us.

I don't blame them. Humaniti is way overrated and long overdue for extinction.

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[Hand of Evil]

We are here are we not, if we are not the by-product of an alien life form I don't know what is!

 

[Umbran]

I dunno. If they have visited the past, they would have terminated humaniti the same way we terminate infestation in our houses, though I doubt we can find a tent big enough to cover the planet.

Oh? When you visit someone else's home, do you go on a campaign to eradicate all the mice that might live in the walls? When you go out to a park, do you start trying to kill off all the squirrels? Why should visiting aliens try to eradicate anything?

When you visit a place, you don't try to make it your own. That only happens when you move in for good. And there's no sign that such happened.

Plus, the planet has had millions and millions of years of history in which the human species was negligible. It is only in the last few thousand years that we've become populous enough to be worth notice. Only in the past few hundred have we had technology enough to be a threat. Darned little motivation for action by visitors there.

 

[Dakkareth]

Mmhh, probability seems to indicate, that some alien civilization's probe may have visited the solar system at some point, but it's highly unlikely, that it was during the existance of mankind (a mere 30k years out of 4 billion years of the earth's existance). Then again, we don't know what possibilities such a civilization might have, so it could be, that robot probes haven't even reached us. Von Neumann machines could easily continue probing about long after a civilization's death/whatever and explain the incredible number of probes needed, though.

Mmhh. Undecided, basically