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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I don't doubt, given the size of the universe, that life exists elsewhere--somewhere. It seems virtually a mathematical certainty that given the vastness of the universe, the infinitesimally rare conditions that support life must exist in a few other places; it seems far less likely that Earth is somehow unique.
But that same math dictates that we are very unlikely to ever see a UFO or meet an extra-terrestrial. Aliens would face the same logistical challenges to coming here as we would to going there--that the distances to be traveled are so amazingly vast that they constitute a virtually unbreakable barrier to long-distance space travel.
So--I can imagine extraterrestrial life somewhere else in the Universe. Intelligent extraterrestrial life I'm less sure of, but I could at least imagine it. Intelligent extraterrestrials coming here and taking mini-tours of earth and posing for grainy photographs? Highly unlikely.
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While everything you say makes sense to me and most humans you also have to consider if you told a person a mere hundred years ago that we could fly airplanes 2000 miles in an hour and stand a man on the moon nobody would believe that either, i still remember an old girlfriends dad who refused to believe we actually landed on the moon...said it was a hoax and was faked..he went to his grave believing that!
The same math that makes it probable that life exists elsewhere also would say life similar to humans with large brains started much earlier than we did.
A thousand years is like a nano-second in space time and I can't even imagine what we will be capable of in a 1000 years.
There is also a large group of people in the UFO world who believe UFO's are actually
us time traveling to the past.
I'm one of those people who need to see it with my own eyes before I truly believe it but I do admit there is some strange things happening that don't make sense.