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Alien life -- good, evil, or non-existent?

EliseB0323EliseB0323
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So one of the smartest men alive -- Stephen Hawking -- recently said that he believes there is other life in the universe, but that we should not seek them out and should basically "hide" from them. He feels the other beings would destroy us.

What do you think?

I believe there is other life out there, and if they are more advanced than us, they will find us sooner or later. (My husband believes they have already found us and that they crashed at Area 51, but that's a whole other post.) If they are are set on destroying us, they will likely be able to do so, but I don't think we should necessarily believe that's the case. If they are intelligent enough to have survived, and to have contacted us, I would think they would be intelligent enough to want to communicate with us, rather than destroy us.

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Re: Alien life -- good, evil, or non-existent?

  • crazynervouscrazynervous
    nope i dont think so
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  • xbrooklyngrlxbrooklyngrl
    Someone's been watching too much Scifi
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  • nettienettie
    I think there has to be some other kind of life form besides us out there, but I have no idea what they would be like if they would be more advanced, probably, but I am not worried about it. I do think if our government knows something they will never tell us because there are too many freaky people out there that might freak out or do weird things..
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  • emilykristene2006emilykristene2006 member

    I believe they exist and do not think they want to destroy us.

    I just had a thought. Maybe they are our ancestors who somehow escaped our planet years ago and are just trying to get back? Silly thought... I know.

     

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  • EliseB0323EliseB0323
    I do think Hawking has a point. If you look at history (at least the history of THIS planet) people who have gone to other lands rarely do so to live peacefully with the natives. Look, for example, at what the English settlers did to the native Americans. The history of earth is filled with people violently conquering other people. Let's hope other civilizations out there are smarter than us earthlings.
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  • belle204belle204 member
    I think someone's imagination is overly active.
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  • Temp970088312507122Temp970088312507122

    I think there probably is other lifeforms in some other galaxy - but I bet they're sitting on their own planet, wasting time on their own version of The Bump, wondering when we're going to come and destroy them.

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  • Temp970088312507122Temp970088312507122

    I think there probably are other lifeforms in some other galaxy - but I bet they're sitting on their own planet, wasting time on their own version of The Bump, wondering when we're going to come and destroy them.

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  • EliseB0323EliseB0323
    imagebellabeck:

    I think there probably are other lifeforms in some other galaxy - but I bet they're sitting on their own planet, wasting time on their own version of The Bump, wondering when we're going to come and destroy them.

    Ahhh, so you are assuming the other life forms aren't more intelligent than us.

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  • nettienettie
    BUT if they do exist and know we exist and they are more advanced and could destroy us-what are they waiting for? I'm assuming if they have flying saucers that can reach us in another galaxy they may be a little bit smarter than us. Maybe they have some other plan or we have nothing they need?
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  • Temp970088312507122Temp970088312507122
    imageEliseB0323:
    imagebellabeck:

    I think there probably are other lifeforms in some other galaxy - but I bet they're sitting on their own planet, wasting time on their own version of The Bump, wondering when we're going to come and destroy them.

    Ahhh, so you are assuming the other life forms aren't more intelligent than us.

    I just don't believe the whole UFO, buggy-eyed version of aliens. I don't think anything has found us or wants to destroy us. If they were more intelligent, why would they want to just destroy us?  I think the universe is infinite so it would be naive to think nothing else was out there though.

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  • EliseB0323EliseB0323
    imagebellabeck:
    imageEliseB0323:
    imagebellabeck:

    I think there probably are other lifeforms in some other galaxy - but I bet they're sitting on their own planet, wasting time on their own version of The Bump, wondering when we're going to come and destroy them.

    Ahhh, so you are assuming the other life forms aren't more intelligent than us.

    I just don't believe the whole UFO, buggy-eyed version of aliens. I don't think anything has found us or wants to destroy us. If they were more intelligent, why would they want to just destroy us?  I think the universe is infinite so it would be naive to think nothing else was out there though.

    I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that another civilization would want to destroy us to get our planet and its resources. People destroy other people all the time for land and resources.

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  • EliseB0323EliseB0323

    imagenettie:
    BUT if they do exist and know we exist and they are more advanced and could destroy us-what are they waiting for? I'm assuming if they have flying saucers that can reach us in another galaxy they may be a little bit smarter than us. Maybe they have some other plan or we have nothing they need?

    Well, to destroy us, or take over the planet they would have to be able to sustain a lot of their population over the course of a really long journey.

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  • nettienettie
    True.. so maybe they are still working on their plan...:)
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  • EliseB0323EliseB0323

    imagenettie:
    True.. so maybe they are still working on their plan...:)

    Or they are on their way and it's taking a long time to get here. Wink

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  • DimplzDimplz member

    I think something is out there.

    DH and I visited this ranch run by James Gilliland and he claims it is a hot spot for UFO activity. 

    DH and I went one night and while DH (the ever skeptic) says all the lights streaking across the sky were satellites, there were two lights that couldn't be explained - even by him. There was a sudden quick big bright light on the side of the dark mountain there and there was another lower in the sky nearby.

    Also James G. had these night goggles you could look out in his field with and there were these big bright orbs flying around. Some people managed to get pictures of those but I didn't.

    It was an interesting experience to say the least! 

    James Gilliland's web page: https://www.eceti.org/Eceti.TenYearsofFootage.html

     

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