Why are people so skeptical of UFO's?

[Piper Maru]

If those asteroid mining companies are created in our lifetime I think at some point we'll make contact. Whether it be accidentally or on purpose....

All in all....I just really hope so. And if we do...I hope its made public.

The sooner we start drilling under Europa's surface and diving thru the spouts on Enceladus the better.

The real question is would they even tell us if they did. I dont think a lot of people would be ready for such a contact. Imagine the chaos and panic it would create in some to know for a fact we're not alone...

I wonder how the human race would react to such a discovery? Whether it be intelligent or otherwise.

 

[NickNitro]

I wonder how the human race would react to such a discovery? Whether it be intelligent or otherwise.

Honestly, its public knowledge that 1/3 of the population at least in the U.S. people believe there is other life in the universe. Half or more of them believe we have made contact in some way.

I think they media keeps bringing up "well there would be mass hysteria if we ever found out there was other life!" Its complete BS in my eyes.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/28/one-third-americans-believe-in-ufos-survey-says/

 

[Mr.M]

Infinitely? There's still billions of systems to comb thru. I just don't like how easy you make all this sound. I think it understates how ****ing vast just our Milky Way is. It is inconceivably gigantic.

Forget travel. An engineered message would suffice. The universe should be teaming with broadcasts. But here is the kicker, a quote from a SETI researcher, "there have to be millions of communicative civilizations in the galaxy for us to have a chance to hit." So if the actual number of civs is closer to a few thousand, or even a few hundred civs, our chances of intercepting a well placed signal are nil. Add to the fact that in this digital/information age, radio transmission become less effective as we move to more efficient and more silent modes of digital communication. Add this up, and you basically have no shot of hooking up with someone over the 100+ so years humanity has been in the game so to speak. It's probably a case where we haven't been around long enough. Even more unlikely is the fact that civs in our galaxy possess the means of interstellar travel.

 

[Solouk]

And even if contact is established via radio waves. Message sent.100 year wait. Reply received. Reply sent. 100 year wait. (Yaaaaawwwwn)

 

[NickNitro]

The universes 56k modem

 

[Thundercrack85]

Really humanity's reaction would be very dependent on the nature of first contact.

If alien ships just show up over major cities (a la the Phoenix Lights), and announce their presence to the world, you would have pandemonium.

Humans would have to accept the fact that not only are they not alone, they're "not all that". Whether the aliens are friendly, or hostile, humanity would never be the same. What happens next is up to the aliens.

Now if SETI just picks up a discernible alien signal, it would be a big deal (up there with the moon landing), but day to day life would go largely unchanged. Unless of course the signal said "we're coming", in which case see the first scenario.

 

[Solouk]

Maybe they have tried to communicate and we're all just too dumb to have noticed because we've all been brainwashed into thinking its going to be a Hollywood style 'thing' if it does.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I don't think they are, at least not with the laymen.

Though some former military personnel have speculated that them buzzing and deactivating missiles at missile bases may be them trying to send a message.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Sightings from different cameras over Turkey

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[james-in-cali]

The sooner we start drilling under Europa's surface and diving thru the spouts on Enceladus the better.

It pains me that we probably never will drill into Europa in my lifetime, it should be top priority . Water + billions of years = life . At least microbiological life.

Im not buying into the ufo stuff 100% yet. I think advanced life has to be out there somewhere, billions of stars, the majority with planets just in our galaxy.Billions more galaxies too many stars to comprehend. I just can't believe we have been visited yet, I think it would be hostile if we were.....well if they are anything like us

 

[Mr.M]

It pains me that we probably never will drill into Europa in my lifetime, it should be top priority . Water + billions of years = life . At least microbiological life.

Im not buying into the ufo stuff 100% yet. I think advanced life has to be out there somewhere, billions of stars, the majority with planets just in our galaxy.Billions more galaxies too many stars to comprehend. I just can't believe we have been visited yet, I think it would be hostile if we were.....well if they are anything like us

Or they could just be avoiding us like the plague. Most likely because we have nothing to offer them. I don't buy resource gathering, because they could probably synthesize any elements they needed from scratch with fushion or fission reactions. The only reason why they'd want to come here is to perturb our natural development and screw our species over. I don't really see what they'd have to gain, assuming most life is DNA based, there would be little to study on their part. It's going to take some "First Contact" scenario, where we don't catch their attention until the advent of Cochrane's Warp Drive (Star Trek) and interstellar flight.

 

[Thundercrack85]

It pains me that we probably never will drill into Europa in my lifetime, it should be top priority . Water + billions of years = life . At least microbiological life.

Im not buying into the ufo stuff 100% yet. I think advanced life has to be out there somewhere, billions of stars, the majority with planets just in our galaxy.Billions more galaxies too many stars to comprehend. I just can't believe we have been visited yet, I think it would be hostile if we were.....well if they are anything like us

To be fair, if they were anything like us, they wouldn't be an interstellar civilization. We waste most of our resources on petty pursuits (war / defense).

Now that's not to say they have to be peaceful, but they would probably be fairly sophisticated and rational.

I was rather surprised when Stephen Hawking (a genius) made that claim that aliens might come to attack us. He said they would come here for our resources, as if a species that had mastered time and space would need our resources. What do we have to offer them they can't find on any terrestrial planet? Corn?

 

[hammerhedd11]

To be fair, if they were anything like us, they wouldn't be an interstellar civilization. We waste most of our resources on petty pursuits (war / defense).

Now that's not to say they have to be peaceful, but they would probably be fairly sophisticated and rational.

I was rather surprised when Stephen Hawking (a genius) made that claim that aliens might come to attack us. He said they would come here for our resources, as if a species that had mastered time and space would need our resources. What do we have to offer them they can't find on any terrestrial planet? Corn?

Why do you assume that being advanced = peaceful?

 

[Thundercrack85]

Why do you assume that being advanced = peaceful?

How could a warlike civilization achieved such a level of sophistication? We consider ourselves "civilized", yet we can barely maintain our current, limited infrastructure. Just look how much we spend on our militaries, for the sole reason of killing each other.

And we have yet to face our crisis point (running out of oil).

We will be very lucky if we survive this century. I am sure there are a ton of civilizations that simply don't make it. With each technological advancement come some very deadly byproducts (germ warfare, nuclear warfare, space warfare, etc).

Just imagine how bad that would be with anti-matter.

 

[Teelie]

Most modern technology is a direct or indirect result of warfare. So I'd rather not run into someone whose technology consisted of killing more efficiently.

Although it would be nice to find those mysterious peaceful hippie aliens who somehow didn't smoke enough of their version of marijuana to get off the couch (planet) and come looking for us. Naturally, they'll probably end up trying to get us to get high too.

 

[Piper Maru]

What would you guys do if you saw an alien?

 

[Teelie]

Hope that they don't have the space flu.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Most modern technology is a direct or indirect result of warfare. So I'd rather not run into someone whose technology consisted of killing more efficiently.

Although it would be nice to find those mysterious peaceful hippie aliens who somehow didn't smoke enough of their version of marijuana to get off the couch (planet) and come looking for us. Naturally, they'll probably end up trying to get us to get high too.

That's true. But as those weapons get exponentially more powerful, the species will have to either get more sophisticated... or die out.

Fortunately, so far, human attitudes have evolved with the weaponry. Well, most anyway.

Once you start messing with antimatter and things that travel at fractions of the speed of light, it doesn't take much to wipe out the entire planet.

 

[Thundercrack85]

What would you guys do if you saw an alien?

Well, you're going to have to provide more of a scenario.

Are we talking about an abduction? Or something more like what happened to Lonnie Zamora?

 

[moviedoors]

Who says an alien species would be internally violent towards its own species? They could be hive-like and direct their hostility outward. There's zero reason to make any assumptions about the peacefulness or the bloodthirst of an advanced alien civilization.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Who says an alien species would be internally violent towards its own species? They could be hive-like and direct their hostility outward. There's zero reason to make any assumptions about the peacefulness or the bloodthirst of an advanced alien civilization.

Outward to whom? That civilization will have to go thousands (hundreds of thousands of years) in isolation.

Actually, I think that civility and advanced technology go hand in hand are pretty safe assumptions.

Could there be some aliens who go around killing other civilization for kicks? Probably. But it seems a stretch.

 

[Bim]

What would you guys do if you saw an alien?

Well how exactly do you mean? a spaceship or an alien being?

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well how exactly do you mean? a spaceship or an alien being?

In a cornfield at night.

 

[Howlett]

I think what I would do after seeing an alien would depend more on what the alien did after I saw it.

 

[Piper Maru]

Well let's say your walking down the street one night and an alien appears before you. What would you do?