Title: Do You Believe In Other Life Forms?
Zurawski - March 24, 2005 09:12 AM (GMT)
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Harvard astronomers and a team of scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announced at a press conference on Tuesday that they measured thermal radiation from two planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, marking the first successful direct observation of extrasolar planets.
Over the last 10 years, astronomers have detected more than 130 planets around other stars, but the detections have always been indirect, according to Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Charbonneau, who led the Harvard team. |
I've always believed in another existence somewhere out there. Assuming they exist I've come to two conclusions: (a) We are far more advanced than they are, or (b) They are far more advanced, and if sightings of UFOs are what people think they are, they see reason to hide from us. Perhaps out of fear or perhaps to scan the location for a possible attack.
I don't believe in UFOs however (that they are alien space crafts anyway). Seems to be perhaps a new means of travel (and attack) covered up by certain governments (US maybe?) that don't want potential war-time opponents (China, Russia) to know about, which would explain why UFO sightings are often during the night time. Besides, these sightings have been going on for decades now, you'd think if they could travel to Earth all this time then they truly would have to be the superior race. And if they were going to land to either greet us or kill us, they would have done it by now. Which leads me to believe choice (a).
Thoughts?
tedski - March 24, 2005 06:34 PM (GMT)
tricky one is that! the universe is that big than who knows just what is out there and how far away it is! ufo are puzzling,theres gotta be something out there for so many sightings to happen,i think there is something out there but where?
Neo - March 24, 2005 08:46 PM (GMT)
well by the sounds of this article maybe in planets very very far away that we will probably never see visited in our lifetime
tedski - March 24, 2005 09:17 PM (GMT)
very true but would you say thats a good thing for us or a bad one about not seeing "them" in our lifetime?
Neo - March 24, 2005 09:26 PM (GMT)
Well I don't really think they would come to harm us. Makes little sense to engage in war with someone who could very likely be an ally. It could be a great thing if we did encounter them, exchanging knowledge together we could improve our technology by light years, among other things. The positives extremely outweigh the negatives. The one negative being all out war, but I'd hate to think they'd be so primitive as to attack for no reason.
If and when we'd ever come in to contact with them, I'd be willing to bet that would single handedly without a doubt be the biggest and most significant day in our history (in terms of changes occuring because of that), our world would never be the same again.
Zurawski - March 31, 2005 08:33 AM (GMT)
Well another life-form would likely not be similar to us. Just because it doesn't make sense to us not to instigate a war with someone doesn't mean another life-form will agree. I mean for all we know, they could be a bunch of Hitlers or Stalins who want to get rid of anyone who might be a threat.
I would argue the negatives severly outweigh the positives. On the one hand - we make a breakthrough and obtain a new friend. However, let's say we exponentially improve our technology - is that always for the better? Was the Atomic Bomb for the better? As technology improves, so do bombs and war-time devices.
Let's not forget the possibility of the extermination of our species. Not knowing how strong this other existence may be, we can never underestimate the dangers they may bring. We may be to them as ants are to us - insignificant, and the mere destruction of such annoyances may be done without a second thought.
No one can know for sure whether meeting such an existence would be beneficial or not, at least not until we can actually have an existence we can observe and analyze.