What do YOU think, are aliens real or just a myth?

Question

What do YOU think, are aliens real or just a myth?

Answer 1

real

Answer 2

Yes I believe there is life on other planets. Now whether or not any aliens have visited Earth is open for debate.

The Drake equation gives a means of estimating the number of civilizations capable of communication that are in the Milky Way Galaxy.  Dr. Frank Drake devised the equation in 1961 while working on "Project Ozma", a search for artificial signals from two nearby stars.  People involved in the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) use the equation today to show that their searches are not in vain.  

The Drake Equation, as far as mathematical equations go, is quite simple.  It consists of a string of unknowns multiplied by each other - that's it, no integration, no differentiation, nothing more difficult that multiplication.  This means that the equation is accessible to pretty much everyone.  

Here it is N = R* fp ne f l fi fc L

Where:

• R* is rate of formation of suitable stars (stars like the Sun) in the Milky Way galaxy

• fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets

• ne is the number of planets capable of sustaining life around each of those stars having planets

• fl is the fraction of planets capable of sustaining life that actually evolve life

• fi is the fraction of those planets where live has evolved that evolve intelligent life

• fc is the fraction of planets with intelligent life that develop the capability to communicate

• L is the fraction of the planet's life during which the intelligent life can communicate

The equation looks simple enough, but several of the quantities are unknown, even with our "advanced" knowledge of astronomy.  In fact, the only quantity that we can currently say we know with any accuracy is the rate of star formation in the galaxy.  Current estimates of the star birth rate in the Milky Way range from about 3 to 10 per year.  However, the criteria that these stars be suitable means that they must be F, G or K stars, and these stars account for about 10% of the stars in the Galaxy.  That means that 0.3 to 1 suitable stars are born each year.

Astronomers are currently able to detect large planets around other stars, so the fraction of planets with stars may one day be an observable quantity.  However, currently only large planets can be detected, so the challenge is extrapolating the number of Earth like planets from the observed systems with large planets.  In the not-too-distant future, we may be able to detect smaller planets around nearby stars.  In fact, at least one project, Darwin , is underway to detect Earth sized planets around other stars, but it will take many years before this project gets off the ground (literally).  Once we've detected extra solar, Earth sized planets, we can make more accurate predictions about how many planets per system are capable of sustaining life.  For our own solar system, we would guess that three planets lie in about the right places and are of the right size to sustain life - Venus, Earth and Mars.

Answer 3

The Earth has never been visited by aliens.  In the future, the Earth will be visited by Martians.  Once humans have gone to Mars and returned.

Even though there are 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, we are probably the only technological life form currently existing in our galaxy.  Consider, however, that there are many, many more galaxies in the Universe than stars in the Milky Way.

Answer 4

I don't think that we should be arrogant enough to assume that ours is the only planet with life on it.

Answer 5

There are a huge number of suppressed videos that not only show any number of stray but weird spacecraft, but show any number of very close approaches to the observers. One particular video that NASA has shows an absolute "flotilla" of them beneath the shuttle craft's orbital path, as clear as a bell. From very objective and scientific, in some instances, eye witness reports over the several decades such things have been under scrutiny, there are supposed to be not less than eighteen distinct (based on huge numbers of collected and corroborated reports from all over the planet) Off- World species of "folks"., some nice and some not so very nice! I have sat on the beach very late at night in Florida and actually watched any number of undeniable "ships" maneuvering very far out over the Atlantic. I do not have the type of wild imagination it would take to make up something like that, plus, I have absolutely no reason to fabricate and embellish, as I have nothing but pure senses to use on such occasions.

Answer 6

I did until a few months ago!  I sense that they are real but have no proof!

Answer 7

My knowledge of Aliens is from the Newspapers articles,

TV and of course Movies.

There has been many movies about Aliens.

If people did not believe in them they would not have gone to see  all those movies.

If the famous authors of the books about aliens didn't believe in aliens then  they would not have spent their time researching, writing and getting their work published.

I think they exist.

Answer 8

there are so many galaxies that we dont even know about or even get to, so how do we know that there isnt life out there? we dont maybe someone out there is asking the same thing.

Answer 9

I pretty much believe this is the only planet with life on it. My guess is that if there were aliens in the universe, we'd know already and be able to get to them. God has given man the ability and intelligence to travel as far out in space as he possibly can safely. So if there IS life on other planets, we must not be meant to know it.

Answer 10

myth

Answer 11

I think they are a myth. Certainly more people would have seen them and scientists have definative proof of their existence. We would have a much better picture than that silly, grainy  hoto that one of the gossip rags produced years back.

Answer 12

IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Aliens don't exist! They say stuuuuuuupid stuff about them but there aren't any aliens. If they really exist, why can't men from earth go and see them, make frends with them or maybe bring them to earth so they can be a tourist??? Why dont they do this?

Because there is no oxygen in outer space. No one can survive... God created the universe and the earth. And He put life in the earth!

Aliens are a myth!

Answer 13

I'm afraid they are real... I saw a big spaceship very close, about 450 feet above our car on the Highway....It was not a UFO, it was a big Space Ship with windows, and doors, I remember perfectly its sound and was flying at a very slow speed, about 5 miles per hour....

Answer 14

It's best to be sceptical about this topic, but I was convinced that, at least, some types of "alien" spacecraft exists about 25 years ago...  When this young guy flying from Tazmania (an island south of Australia) to Sydney radioed for two-three hours to the airport that he was being followed.  It was tracked by radar and some eyewitnesses saw the craft, too, for the duration of his flight.  He eventually disappeared, his airplane, too. Caused headlines for a couple days - but nothing ever came of it and his body was never found.  That was my tilting point and everything since then tends to confirm it, although I always consider the sources, first.

I would think it primitive nowadays, that is, somewhat of mythological to NOT believe that life didn't exist elsewhere in the universe considering all the experiences and documentation for thousands of years that humanity has had with unexplained 'visitations' of one type or another.

Too many varieties exist here on earth under really stressful environments already (so life is extremely adaptable), there are enough planets and moons even in our own solar system to think that there could be life in some even microscopic forms (environmental variety increases likelihood of presence), and while there are plenty of tricksters and media hounds looking for attention here on Earth - plenty of reliable histories point in the direction that we have been visited by alien lifeforms...  

All we have to do is catch just one and hopefully be able to communicate well enough with him-her-it to be interviewed on 60 Minutes.   But ohhh, myyyy....   What do you think the Church would say about that?  Human faith would never be the same - except Zen Buddhism.

Think - if one were caught tomorrow, would Bush have his special ops use torture to extract the information they wanted it to say... particularly if they asked, "Do you read or have the Bible where you live"??  - - - Ha!!

Answer 15

of course aliens are real, aliens are people that enter the country illegally. Or do you mean the discovery of the bacteria in space?

Answer 16

It depends, are you talking about immigrant people or lifeforms elsewhere in the universe? I'll assume the latter...

I heard someone say somewhere, that the true sign that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they have chosen not to get in touch with us. Seriously, I think it terribly arrogant to assume we are the only ones floating out here. Think about the huge number of other suns with planets. What are the odds we are alone with that large number of potential places for life to exist? So, yes, I think there is life in other places in the universe.

Answer 17

I believe that there is life somwhere else in the Universe. Possibly even intelligent. However, I do not believe that they have visited us.

Answer 18

To assume we are the only life form in the universe is preposterous. We just must be ready to accept that 'life' on other planets might not come in the forms we are comfortable with. As long as they are technically living on a foreign planet, they will be considered aliens... since they are so alien to us (thus the name aliens) . I read on an article (cant remember the name) alien life forms might have actually contacted us but due to the distance , we just have not received their signal. It will probably take many years to  many light years for the signal reach us. Just remember we could also be aliens since scientists do believe that life might have come to earth on a crashing meteriod long long time ago....

Answer 19

I believe they are real. I believe our technology we enjoy today is manly from alien technology. How else do you explain for thousands of years everyone walked or rode horses and life was mainly unchanged for all these thousands of years, but then all of a sudden during the time in history that people were reporting alien space craft crashing and athourities seazing these craft is when our technology boomed to what is is today.

My graddad wasborn in 1897 during horse and buggy days and there were few cars, he lived to see man on the moon. When i was a child in the 1950's I remember talking to old folks who were born in like the 1870's and remember their parents talking about the civil war like my parents talked about WW 2. During the 1900's we went from horse and buggy to space travel, cell phones computers and all the things we experience and enjoy today. I find it hard to believe this jump in technology happenned without alien help.

Cal me crazy, I don't care think about it how else can you explain this increase in knowledge when for thousands of years life was basically the same as far as technology.?

BB

Answer 20

I think that extraterrestrials are real.

Answer 21

real!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 22

I believe there is intelligent life on other planets yes. but as for actual visitors I must say no. first, why would they bother. we'd be like bugs to them as thier technology must be some much more advanced than our own, we wouldn't be worth the trouble. and distance, it would require a multi-general craft with it's own fuel source and food source to get here. No, I don't believe we've ever been visited.

Answer 23

just the illegal ones

Answer 24

Very confusing especially as to why they haven't themselves gone public. It makes me wonder who is working for whom.

Answer 25

I think they are real, why they shouldn't be?

only opening ourselves to knowledge we're able to learn new things

Answer 26

I don't really think that it is just a myth.

I even do think that if ever we find another life form outside earth (except for astronauts), I guess, those lifeforms are smarter thatn us

Answer 27

of course there are aliens. the universe is too big not to support other life

Answer 28

The human race is just about stuck up enough to believe that they are the only beings in existence.

Answer 29

I think it's possible, if not probable, there are other life forms in addition to the ones on the planet we call home.

Answer 30

Just stand on this side of the Rio Grande and watch for yourself!

Answer 31

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