Do you believe in UFO?

[JPGhost]

instantly sold after watched that one ^

http://www.webpronews.com/ufo-sightings-in-california-on-new-years-eve-2014-01

 

[cityboy-stl]

I assume you mean UFO = extraterrestrial spacecraft? There are plenty of Unidentified Flying Objects but all that means is they are unidentified. So yes, I believe in UFO's. They are objectively there and we do not know what they are. I do not however believe they are space aliens. It would be really cool if one would land though. Klatu Barada Nikto.

 

[chrisrobin]

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I would believe if there was just one calling card... something of unfamiliar matter... a deposit of weird DNA. The anecdotes about abduction intrigue me though, especially the parts about the anal probe.

*he inserts Twilight Zone episode - "To Serve Man." *

 

[gsdx]

instantly sold after watched that one ^

That video is almost laughable. There's nothing whatsoever in it to make me think of 'little green men'.

As has been mentioned above, I believe in UFOs only because they have yet to be identified. Are they extraterrestrial? Not at all. If aliens have, in fact, smashed the laws of physics to allow faster-than-light speeds, we are hardly important enough to warrant a trip to Earth.

 

[unloadonme]

Other posters have already covered what I would have said. Are there are flying objects which are sometimes unidentified? Certainly. Do I believe in little green men in flying saucers? No.

 

[Ganoderma]

No, No & No.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Absolutely.

But I don't believe there is any extraterrestrial explanation. As a philosophical and mathematical consideration, I don't believe higher life exists outside Earth within a zone that would enable contact between galaxies. It is imaginative. It is consoling. But it is a fiction.

Unidentified? Most certainly.

What makes you think intelligent life need be so far spread in the universe that they'd all be in separate galaxies?

 

[xbuzzerx]

I do think life and evolved life are well beyond our mathematical formulas that calculate such likelihood. It is a human vanity, I think.

I think it's greater vanity to presume that a massive set of mathematical variables enabled us to exist but absolutely no other intelligent life anywhere in the universe.

That's a religious belief, not the one that makes the most mathematical sense given the vastness of the universe. You could say our guesses are off by almost any amount and the universe is still so enormous it would mean there overwhelming probability still is that similar, identical or better conditions for life exist elsewhere.

 

[gsdx]

until actual evidence is put forth rather than endless speculating based on numbers.

Sometimes numbers are the only evidence available. They constitute a 'preponderance of the evidence', meaning that the likelihood is more probable than not.

Since we can't travel the galaxies looking for life, we often have to rely on numbers.

Numbers told us that black holes should exist. We found them. We can't see them, but we know they are there. Numbers told us that there should be other planets orbiting other stars. We found them.

With all the billions of galaxies, and with all the billions of stars and planets in each galaxy, numbers point to the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, and numbers also point to intelligent extraterrestrial life. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're touring the universe in search of other life - at least not in our neighbourhood.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

UFO? No, I don't.



Captain Scarlet, however....



...poor alley cat.

 

[-Kane-]

As the question is posed; NO.

If you ask me if I believe that life exists beyond the multicellular life here on earth; I would say YES.

If we use some of Albert Einstein's theories, we'd see that mass cannot travel faster than the speed of light. And even if man finds a way to travel 'at the speed of light', the distances and time it would take to reach other worlds would still be an ineffective way to move through space. So unless an alien race has mastered time travel, then it is unlikely that the lights you see in the sky is that of little green men.

 

[Nishin]

I don't believe in Unidentified Flying Objects... all objects are identified if only by their maker... that is to admit the necessary presence of a "maker" and thus we are here talking of manufactured objects... Of course I suppose here Unidentified refers to the observer and in this sense it is an evidence that no-one being omniscient "unidentified" objects may be encountered...

But yes I guess you meant alien life? Then yes I too believe there is such life somewhere, whatever form it takes... evolved... microbial... etc Copernicus taught us how UN-unique earth is in our universe... why then would we attribute being alive as a unique monopoly of our planet's inhabitants?

 

[medic1]

Yes i do. The arrogance of man to presume that we are the only life-form, anywhere, is quite frankly astounding.

 

[Orlandude]

Given that the human race has existed on this planet in what amounts to a spec of time, I think anything is possible out there and possibly way beyond our understanding or even our ability to understand...no matter how intelligent we think we are. The intelligence of the human race could be primitive and neanderthal to any other form of intelligence that may be out there. In that regard, I question the idea of UFO's. Why would any advanced life form out there, that might have the ability to travel through the universe in ways that transcend our understanding, have any desire to stop here? We would have to appear to them as totally primitive and dangerous.

 

[Nishin]

Given that the human race has existed on this planet in what amounts to a spec of time, I think anything is possible out there and possibly way beyond our understanding or even our ability to understand...no matter how intelligent we think we are. The intelligence of the human race could be primitive and neanderthal to any other form of intelligence that may be out there. In that regard, I question the idea of UFO's. Why would any advanced life form out there, that might have the ability to travel through the universe in ways that transcend our understanding, have any desire to stop here? We would have to appear to them as totally primitive and dangerous.

But if we had the ability wouldn't we actually travel space to observe even primitive and dangerous alien species if we found any?

 

[xbuzzerx]

No, your imputation of religion is a guess, and a bad one. I have no belief that mankind need be unique or any such notion in order to marry to someone's notion of significance.

I simply believe that man is so vain as to believe that he understands the universe well enough to understand the real factors that lead to the occurrence of life. Just as in safety engineering, factor stacked on factor stacked on factor eventually creates numbers and odds that simply don't correctly predict failure rates.

Until we do that little amino acid and lightning thing in the lab here, and create actual life from non-life, all the odds in the world won't be compelling enough.

I'm not in the least opposed to finding life in the universe or being found by it. It has no bearing on my religious beliefs at all. I'm just not convinced the science and mathematics mean as much as their proponents imply.

If alien life, bacterial or intelligent, were proven tomorrow, I'd be ecstatic. But, for now, all the talk of it is about as meaningful to me as flying machines were to the Medici. It might be fun or fanciful to imagine it, but there is every reason to hold that it is wholly irrelevant to my existence until something more than mathematical probabilities turn into a reality.

For now, whether I relegate it to fiction or just remote possibility seems the same.

Those same calculators might be turned to calculating the likelihood of us encountering said life forms in our span, and the same math would be fairly brutal to our aspirations.

"Whether or not aliens exist is irrelevant to my day-to-day existence until we discover it" is a different position entirely from "I don't believe they exist and I reject probability as a basis for a rational belief that they likely do."

 

[Stardreamer]

UFO? No, I don't.



Captain Scarlet, however....



...poor alley cat.

I LOVED UFO!!! Its a real kick watching in now it 2000's with the "1980 'This is the Future!'" bit flashing in the credits. The tech looks so lame looking back but it was not all that far fetched as far as the look of computers in the 1980s. Pretty cool for a show made in the 60's.

 

[gsdx]

Giorgio believes:

 

[Sausy]

Yes, to an extent. Most apparent UFO sightings can be explained away... but maybe 10-15% just cannot be explained away as illusion, swamp gas, hoaxing, planets in alignment or misidentified.

 

[windsors]

When I was younger, I use to believe in UFO's, but I don't any more. But I do believe in the Bogeyman ( Boogie man )