I beleive in aliens...no, not the aliens your thinking of with the big green head and the huge eyes...but think about it. There are billions of galaxies right? Well why would we be the only planet in one little galaxy that has life on it? its just that galaxies are to far away to even think about traveling to, so how could we ever know if somethings out there?

i bet in every galaxy there is a planet that can support life, like earth. but whatever thats just me 2 yen...so tell me what you guys think?

AMEN!! Look at the two discussion boards: "Understand this..." and "the space project." Both are very in depth and interesing...

coo ill do that :)

I see an earthling scout
They have found us out.

Damn! They have found out the truth! Exterminate! Exterminate!

lol...oh come on...like you guys don't believe..."the truth is out there" lol

haha...now back to the subject...what do you guys think about aliens? do you think they're out there?

absolutely...God help us if we're not...

I like that Southpark episode...I shudder to admit that...where Cartman has been probed by aliens...and it turns into a huge radio tower type thing...and the aliens say that the planet Earth is just their inter-spacial reality tv series...it's actually quite comical!! (for Southpark...)

Space goes on forever, right? I mean it just doesn't suddenly wall off a trillion light-years out...so that means there would be an infinite number of chances for a hospitable planet to be formed... ;-)

yeah i beleive that space goes on forever...and yes very good point chamealon :) i only wish we had the technology to travel to other planets besides the moon :(

Unsure of my belief
But my planet so in leaf
I know my God could
Create what He would
Either alien planet
Or living granite

again...in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams declares that we don't exist...and that God doesn't exist...i'll get the exact quotes for you this weekend...

good im wanting to hear this!! thanks jessiac

No problem...I have the big version of that book...all five titles or however many are in the series...i'll just hafta find them...it's actually quite interesting! (even though it is a work of fiction...)

wow sounds like a big book lol..well whenever you get the time this weekend i would love to hear some info from the book...sounds very cool

I don't know if you're referring to the babelfish theory Jess... Let's see if I can remember:

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything
so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that
some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching
proof of the non-existence of God.

"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I
exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am
nothing.'

"`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it?
It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so
therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

"`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly
vanished in a puff of logic.

"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to
prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next
zebra crossing.

"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of
dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a
small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-
selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God. "

(Actually I couldn't remember so I copied it from a website...)

very interesting concepts...i wonder what goes on in his brain?? thanks very much for posting that samatar :)

Douglas Adams died whilst over-exerting himself in a gym, so, sadly, nothing much goes on in his brain at the moment. The man certainly had a great imagination though.

yes he did

good job sam...that's one of the quotes I was thinking of...here's the other one...

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At the End of the Universe

wow thats crazy thinking there

I think it makes sense, actually...

Douglas Adams was a very clever man (oxbridge educated) and had a very dry sense of humour of the kind that seems to flourish in this country (odd really, because it is so wet here). He came up with all manner of amusing ideas like the above as he, like so many people before him, found humour to be a potent weapon. I enjoyed reading his work.

As did I...but even though his works were fictional, and supposed to be merely for entertainment...he came up with somethings that aren't too hard to believe are truthful...I wish they would make it into a movie...it would be hilarious!!

Um, they filmed it a long time ago. Quite amusing, as I recall. It was a radio series originally.

Yeah...I thought that was just a tv show though? It's only been released in England...I would need to buy it online...I thought I had heard tell that they were going to make it into an actual movie...that would be great!

A movie would be good, but I don't know how well it would fit the format. Yes, the original film was a TV series.

Well, people can do quite a bit with movies nowadays...provided they have the moolah to do it with...but I hope they would have enough sense to make several films...not just one that loosely (sp?) brushes the surface. Maybe I am just able to really visualize it in my head...I would probably be disapointed with a film...

I just want to be able to share it with my boyfriend...I can't get him to read it!!

Interesting that most people think in galaxies as where they may come from. It's more likely to be a star in our own galaxy. If I remember right the nearest is alpha. To travel there at near light speed would take 29 years I believe. That’s darn close. They’d just need to travel from a near by star. And that’s with in 4 to 12 million light years. And think about plasma drive and folding space.

There is so much we still need to learn...but it is ridiculous to say that other beings out there haven't figured it out. I love sci fi movies like "Sphere," "The Astraunaut's Wife," "Mission to Mars," and the like...they have great ideas for how this is all possible. And "Signs" totally freaked me out. Seriously...I couldn't sleep for a month or more...I lived out in the boonies surrounded by cornfields at the time so I guess it isn't hard to believe why.

(thank you, by the way prisim, for getting us back on track...)