Loading ...
« Coming Soon: Mind-controlled Technology | Home | Invisible Aliens »
You Don’t Believe in Aliens? That’s Ridiculous!
By mentor24 | August 11, 2008
It used to be that if you admitted to believing in aliens you were subject to severe ridicule. Not so much any more. A recent poll conducted by the Scripps Howard News Service showed that 56% of American adults believe that it is likely that aliens exist, while only 35% believed it is unlikely and 9% were uncertain.
And Americans are the the skeptics. Asians are more convinced. A poll conducted in in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Korea showed that 64% of Asian adults there is intelligent life on other planets.
To be accurate, the American poll showed that only one third of people believe it’s likely that aliens have actually visited Earth. But still, that’s hardly a fringe movement. Believing in aliens is mainstream.
That really shouldn’t be surprising given the massive amount of supporting evidence. The Scripps poll also showed that one in 12 people have actually seen a UFO personally, and one in five know someone who has. And if you haven’t seen one in real life, there certainly is no lack of video evidence on TV and the Internet. There is so much compelling footage that it actually seems less likely that Occam’s Razor might suggest it is more likely that ther are actually aliens than that all that material could have been so convincingly faked by so many different people.
And then there’s the secret UFO archives of France’s National Center for Space Studies website. The government institution posted more than 100,000 pages of witness testimony, photographs, film footage and audiotapes it had collected since 1954.
And if all that wasn’t enough, there have been some very credible proponents of the theory, most famously Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who has stated publicly that he believes aliens have visited Earth and that governments are covering it up.
And why should it even take so much evidence to convince us? Think about it logically. We’ve already discovered over 300 planets orbiting other stars, many of them Earthlike in composition. Given the number of stars in our galaxy, simple probabilities dictate that there are many billions of planets like ours. And given that there at least one of these (ours) is teaming with life, and at least one other one (Mars) has H2O, it follows that there must be a vast number of life-supporting planets. Knowing what we know about life, we know that some percentage of those planets must have given rise to intelligent life. And some percentage of those must have evolved to very advanced states over millions of years.  So you either have to argue that humans are completely unique in the entire universe, or that there are many highly advanced civilizations out there. Which is more likely?
And if there are highly advanced beings in our galaxy, what are the odds that not one of them would notice this very interesting planet where the inhabitants are building space ships, nuclear bombs and black hole generating super colliders?  Of course they’re going to come check us out.
So abundant is the evidence for aliens that these days when you see debates between believers and debunkers it is the debunkers who seem to be reaching for specious arguments in support of their position.  The idea that we’re alone in the universe sounds silly to most people, as the polls show. Invariably, when pressed into a corner by the overwhelming evidence, debunkers fall back on their old chestnut–Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Their claim is that aliens couldn’t possibly visit Earth because the laws of physics wouldn’t allow it. Since they can’t travel faster than the speed of light, it would take them far too long to finally reach Earth.  But that is probably the weakest argument of all. First, quantum mechanics has shown relativity to be an incomplete theory.  Einstein died trying to find the missing key to complete his theory, but now, nearly 100 years after the theory was first published, quantum physics suggests that the light barrier is anything but unbreakable. We don’t fully understand how wormholes or time travel work, but quantum theory all but proves that they are real.
Now if we are advanced enough to figure that out, what is more likely: that a 100 year old, incomplete theory is the final word on space travel? Or that advanced alien civilizations that have existed for thousands or even millions of years have figured out how to use wormholes to visit Earth?
To me the evidence and the logic are so compelling that I don’t see how anyone could not believe in aliens. But I would love to hear some reasonable arguments to support the other side.
Meanwhile, assuming aliens are actively visiting Earth, the big question is, what’s their plan? Are they manipulating our leaders? Steering us to our ultimate doom? Or are they guardians trying to help us navigate through a tough time. Are they engineering a planet full of slaves? Or grooming us to enter the galactic community?
What do you think?
Technorati Tags: aliens, alien life, ufo, intelligent life, space ships, spaceships, extraterrestrial
Topics: Conspiracy, Extraterrestrial |
November 16th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Assuming an intelligent civilization ever visits/visited Earth, its intentions are, more than likely, neutral. The only useful thing an advanced race can get from Earth is information, which seems compatible with craft (probes) merely flitting about, unconcerned with the civilization beneath them except to examine its biochemistry and social order, as seems to be the case if the sightings are genuine.
Of course, that is a human perspective on a question about non-humans. We cannot really say with any certainty if alien civilizations are not sadistic and arbitrary, or angelic in their benevolence. All that we can say for certain is that Earth has avoided any significant influence from them, for whatever reason, and that Earth provides them no significant utility or food source.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
This is pretty much how I see it. I’m not 100% sure either way that we have been visited yet. I myself have seen a handful of things you could call UFO’s in the past, and each time it has been a very strange experience. Whether they’re alien craft or not is a matter for debate, but I am sure of one thing… they must be out there someplace. Several places in fact.
It’s really strange to look out on a clear night and think that around some of the lights you see are other ‘people’ going about their daily lives. Really it’s almost hard to imagine, but at the same time you KNOW it absolutely has to be true, or at least I do.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
It would be ludicrous to assume that human life is an evolved life form
December 20th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
“It would be ludicrous to assume that human life is an evolved life form”
Well, human life IS an evolved life form. But more evolved that other life in other star systems? Not if they reach us first.
December 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Maybe they are still looking for intelligent life in this planet. What a lost of time…
December 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
cribcat just hurt my head. Was that an attack on evolution, on humanity, or on some undecipherable 3rd party?
December 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
My guess is that cribcat’s goal was not to slam evolution or humanity, but rather to advocate for the theory that humanity was seeded here by an alien species, which I also consider a likely possibility. But seeding (or creation theory for that matter) and evolution need not be mutually exclusive. Humanity, as all life, *is* evolving. The question is, in what form did we start here on Earth? Primordial goo? Created by God? Or planted by aliens? Or…?
December 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
i don’t know where you got the information that we’ve found over 300 planets orbiting other stars when just a couple of weeks ago scientists announced that they found the first planets outside of our solar system. There are three of them and scientists said that their composition is related to that of Jupiter. Also, the particle colliers don’t and never will generate a black hole. To make a black hole you have to have a super massive star, many times the size of our own.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
No Evil Plan.
No Enslave Humanity. ack ack ack
No Devour Human… yet
January 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
It would be so cool if we blasted “DNA bombs” towards slower moving, earth-like planets. The species’ would evolve faster there, compared to us, because of the difference in velocities (the slower you’re moving, the faster time flows). An intelligent species could evolve there and we would have cousins to visit.
January 18th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
It seems a little scary to me that humans would be the most intelligent life form in the universe.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Who’s to say the aliens are more advanced than us? What if there’s a planet of a species just going through its “caveman” stage of evolution? Or what if there’s an entire solar system of planets with intelligent life, and they have no reason to search the rest of the universe?