Do you beleive in UFO's, and life elsewhere in the cosmos?

[RBull4life]

Don't think I am weird, but I do beleive in UFO's, and have for the longest time. I also beleive that the universe is filled with intelligent life, and that intelligent life has, and still does, drop by and check us out from time to time. Though there has been no "concrete" proof, and I beleive that there has been, of being visited, certain sightings, and events lead me to belive that there has been visitation.

The best cases are:
Southern Illinois in 2000
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1287.htm

Shag Harbour in 1967
http://www.ufocasebook.com/Shagharbor.html

and the strangest of them all.
http://ufocasebook.com/colares1977.html

[Maggie&meSFGAm?]

I believe in them. Sylvia Browne on Montel has said that they are real. She even said that they have created the pyramids whether you want you want to believe it or not. So many people have made videotapes with flying saucers, and all don't look like they have too much time on their hands.

From what have heard is that most of them occur in the south states. If all these people wrote books I wouldn't feel a need to believe them. If they seen an alien, they are considered crazy. So, why would they want to risk the publicity of that magnitude??

[Danhockey04]

simple answer, yes.

Why? There is just way too much space in space to not have other intelligent life forms out there, it only makes sense.

[Aero737]

I don't believe any life has visited us, but I do believe that there is life out there. When you look at a picture of the Hubble deep field and see all those galaxies, the sheer size of it all is mind boggeling.

[newjedi]

I do believe in UFO's. In the easly '90's I did see something flying that I had no idea what it was. It was triagular and had lots of lights on it and made no noise. But since most of it was hidden behind trees I could not get a good look and I'm sure it was just a helicopter or something easily explained.

[RBull4life]

When you look at a picture of the Hubble deep field and see all those galaxies, the sheer size of it all is mind boggeling.

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There are ten times more stars in the universe, than there are grains of sand on all the worlds beaches, and deserts. With our most powerful telescopes, we can see around 10,000 galaxies, and 70,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. With numbers like that, the chance of a star like our sun is extremely strong, and with those number of suns, who can only imagine the number of planets orbiting them. There could be a good chance that one of them has evolved intelligent life. Intelligent life that could have been evolving while mammels were still rodent size creatures running under the feet of dinosaurs. Life that could have figured out interstellar travel.

[w00dland]

^That looks like its somethin strait out of Star Trek

I agree with Dan, it seems only logical that somewhere out there, there has to be something. Whether or not they visit us I don't know, I would hope they were peaceful though!

[Aero737]

Interstellar travel is tricky.. In order to do it effectivly, you need to break the laws of physics. Unless wormholes do what they are said to do (rips in the space time fabric that allow you to pass great distances without expending much time).

Pearsonally I don't believe the human race will ever make it beyond our solar system. Depressing, yes, but we only have so many resources and at the rate that spacetravel is being researched, it will never happen.

In the short term our best bet for a high speed interplanetary cruiser is a pulsedrive ship. This ship is strictly interplanetary...it cannot enter or escape the atmosphere. It's powered by nuclear bombs. The ship has a huge flat plate attatced to a large spring (dampening system) that absorbs the impace of the shockwave from the bomb. This is translated into forward thrust. A bomb detonated every 30 or some odd seconds at varying distances from this huge shield will continualy propel the ship at about 2 g's. However, due to the nature of this ship, it cannot reenter the atmosphere or escape into orbit, It would be an interplanetary tugboat so to say ferrieing smaller ships (like our space shuttel) into orbit where they can ascend into the atmpsphere. Such a ship would have to be inserted outside the earth's magnetic field, as world regulation prohibits detonation of any nuclear device in the magnetic field due to fears of ratiation being trapped and eventually deposited back on earth.

And right now, I believe the world's stance on colonizing another planet is a "no". We steralize any ship that visits another planets surface. This cleans the ship of any earth bacteria that might find the new planet a sutable home. I believe one of the recent mars expaditions (I think it was the polar orbiter) tried an Aerobraking maneuver (where you dip into the atmosphere very little many times to slowly slow into a suitable orbit) but it ascended too far into the atmosphere and crashed into the planet. It was never steralized and it was believed that a certain bacteria might have survived the trip and fall to mars. Whether it lived, well, we will have to wait and see.

[RBull4life]

rips in the space time fabric that allow you to pass great distances without expending much time

Kind of like a warp drive. I remember a few years back some scientist thought that warp drive was possible, but that turned out to be false.

Pearsonally I don't believe the human race will ever make it beyond our solar system. Depressing, yes, but we only have so many resources and at the rate that spacetravel is being researched, it will never happen.

Never doubt the human race my friend. We may never see it in our lifetime, but I beleive that it will someday happen. Put men on the moon and return them safetly, it will never happen. Or so people thought before 1969.

[Aero737]

I don't doubt that we COULD do it..but we seem to be too cough up with international fueds and silly stuff to care much about advancing the Human Knowledge.