Aliens do exist. That is a fact. If there is a God, why would they create trillions of planets, and only one that has any life? Rather inefficient, in my opinion.
In terms of aliens visiting Earth, I do believe that they're here, or at least they visited long ago. However, I don't think that they helped TOO much with ancient civilizations, if at all. If aliens are here now, they are most likely here to study us and see if we are fit for contact, or they could have gone AWOL and integrated into Earth society.
In terms of aliens' disposition towards us, they would most likely be benevolent. If they needed water, minerals, or drones, they could mine another planet in the Solar System or clone drones (cwutididthar?).
This is a large stretch, however.
TL;DR: Aliens exist, they might be here studying us, and they would most likely be good.
Really, it's stupid to say aliens don't exist and you should feel stupid if you think that. Of the thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of galaxies and the *insert mother****ing HUGE number here* stars, there MUST be something out there. The math says yes, and I will believe that.
The "math" says no such thing... I don't know why people continue to use this pseudo-argument but it is in error.
You can not call anyone stupid over their beliefs anymore than they can call you stupid for yours.
Criticism of the Drake equation follows mostly from the observation that several terms in the equation are largely or entirely based on conjecture. Thus the equation cannot be used to draw firm conclusions of any kind.
One reply to such criticisms is that even though the Drake equation currently involves speculation about unmeasured parameters, it was not meant to be science, but intended as a way to stimulate dialogue on these topics. Then the focus becomes how to proceed experimentally. Indeed, Drake originally formulated the equation merely as an agenda for discussion at the Green Bank conference.
There should be sentient lifeforms somewhere in this universe, but they are probably still primitive like us.
However,should there be advance race out there,they would avoid us as we would be deemed as a self-destructive species( wars, terrorism)
They may be humans from another planet, except more advance. If "aliens" where to visit us, It would end in three ways:
We would be colonized.
We would form a mutual alliance.
Extinction. (To harness our resources completely)
Plus there would be different beliefs,culture and language. So till we are more advance, I think it is better for us to not meet any "aliens"
How come whenever anyone brings up aliens everyone gets all misanthropic? We're the only sentient species we have to observe, so it's difficult to back up that we're a relatively "self-destructive" race (compared to other sentient species). This also presupposes that aliens have extremely similar morals to us (e.g. the social unacceptability of causing pain, death, rape, racism, etc). Even if we look back a couple hundred years we can find rampant slavery that most of the (white) people of the time really didn't see as a problem, yet it'd be difficult to call them more monstrous than us because the general populace actually thought they were doing a favor or at the least only a small disservice for a greater cause.
It's my roundabout way of showing how proving a demographic of people as "evil" is very subjective.
In terms of aliens visiting Earth, I do believe that they're here, or at least they visited long ago. However, I don't think that they helped TOO much with ancient civilizations, if at all. If aliens are here now, they are most likely here to study us and see if we are fit for contact, or they could have gone AWOL and integrated into Earth society.
In terms of aliens' disposition towards us, they would most likely be benevolent. If they needed water, minerals, or drones, they could mine another planet in the Solar System or clone drones (cwutididthar?).
This is a large stretch, however.
TL;DR: Aliens exist, they might be here studying us, and they would most likely be good.
The "math" says no such thing... I don't know why people continue to use this pseudo-argument but it is in error.
You can not call anyone stupid over their beliefs anymore than they can call you stupid for yours.
The so-called "math" you're referring to was an equation that utilized variables based around complete conjecture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Dammit! I was just going to say that...
Because, aliens.
Anyways, as the first reply says, the universe is so big there has be some life outside of Earth.
;'''
How come whenever anyone brings up aliens everyone gets all misanthropic? We're the only sentient species we have to observe, so it's difficult to back up that we're a relatively "self-destructive" race (compared to other sentient species). This also presupposes that aliens have extremely similar morals to us (e.g. the social unacceptability of causing pain, death, rape, racism, etc). Even if we look back a couple hundred years we can find rampant slavery that most of the (white) people of the time really didn't see as a problem, yet it'd be difficult to call them more monstrous than us because the general populace actually thought they were doing a favor or at the least only a small disservice for a greater cause.
It's my roundabout way of showing how proving a demographic of people as "evil" is very subjective.
But I have this to say:
Assuming we are the only living things on the only planet with life in the universe is the most selfish thing someone can think.