Do UFOs / Aliens exist?

No, they don't.

Please remember that television shows are entertainment, and should be viewed with great scepticism. People make these shows for a living, so they have a self interest in making people watch them based upon their sensationalist value.

Yes there are trillions of stars. You have to ask why. Why is it that the universe is so vast, surely if life arose easily on planets then we would find ourselves in a tiny universe with just a few stars. Just as the earth only needed a few continents for one to be inhabited, then the universe should only need a few stars if life is easy to incubate. So no, the size of the universe argues that we are alone.

You are also confusing technology with science. Technology is advancing at an enormous rate on earth, but there have been no scientific breakthroughs to match those of a hundred years ago. There may be no more significant science to discover, and technology can only do what science allows. However fancy our computers and biotech it may never be possible to cros the abyss of interstellar space.

Future developments in technology may also render the possibility irrelevant and undesirable. The great advances possible with virtual reality and biotech may make interstellar travel look totally boring. Why do it if there are better things to do on on'es home planet?

Here is some more reading as an antidote to the discovery shows:

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/faking_ufo_photos_fo...

http://home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/50years.htm

http://www.debunker.com/texts/ObergCuttySark.html

http://www.debunker.com/texts/astronaut_ufo.html

http://magonia.haaan.com/1976/experimental-ufo-hoa...

http://www.webmesh.co.uk/overlord/eye.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20060717082036/http://w...

Cheers!

Cheers!

The only problem I have with your question and statment is that you say "there are definitely lives...".

We really don't know that. What we know is that there is some probability (perhaps large, perhaps small) that other planets that support life may exist or have existed in the universe.

The likelihood is small that extraterrestrial intelligent life would be interested in us. Remember Captain Kirk's (fictitious) request, "Beam me up, Scotty... There's no intelligent life down here."

Your statement is much more of a philosophy or religion statement than a science one, since we don't know how faster than light travel could be accomplished. That does not mean it cannot -- only that we have no evidence of a method that could make it possible. A whole lot of the argument is couched in the subjunctive "may be" clause. Not everything on TV, even on the Discovery channel, is science. Some of it is speculation about things science only knows part of the answer about.

Well, i'm going to focus on aliens versus life. There are so many variables in calculating the chances of there being life on another planet, and there are so many planets, the probability that one is in the exact right spot (distance from sun, atmospheric makeup etc) is both nearly impossible, and almost completely definite at the same time. Life on a planet is like winning the lottery, except the odds are millions of times more against you. It's been compared to throwing a grain of sand, highlighted pink, into the ocean off the coast of california, and picking up the same grain of sand in japan. But like winning the lotto, somebody has to win, and sometimes, multiple people win. The more people involved, the more likely it is that multiple people will win.

Aliens are a completely different story. Life can be anything from bacteria, to tad pol. Aliens are self thinking beings, like many of those found on earth. This takes too many variables into account to come up with a simple yes or no answer. But, with life, it is both completely impossible, yet, we are here because it is definite, too.

Yes. The universe is big. Really really big. So I'd seriously doubt we're alone.

Also, the US government allegedly is in contacted with EBEs, or Extraterrestria Biological Entities. The government is having a disclosure right now - it has been going on for years and it will continue until we know it all. You can go to www.serpo.org for some mind boggling info from an anonymous source from the Defense Intelligence Agency. Presidents Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagen, and Obama have all been debriefed on the subject. You can find a recording of Reagan's debriefing on the serpo website. So not only do they exist, but also they are in contact with officials.

As for UFOs, they most definately do exist. Not all are alien craft - some are weather balloons (hehe), or top secret military craft. I've seen 4 myself.

If you choose to suppose that "their technology may be so high that they can travel in speed faster than light speed" breaking the laws of the Universe the way we understand them, then it is just a short step to "they are already here, disguised as Dick Cheney".

You said it yourself, the Universe is so huge. So huge we may never find the answer to your question about aliens.

As to UFOs, of course they exist. ANYTHING you see in the sky that you cannot identify is a UFO, be it jet, cloud or goose. If you mean, "do Flying Saucers exist?" well, no, of course not. The Earth has never been visited by secretive aliens eager to "probe" bi-curious hillbillies.

To clarify what you said; Yes, there are billions trillions of solar systems, however there aren't billions of stars inside solar systems - there are billions of stars inside galaxies.

According to a scientist, he estimates there to be 10,000 planets just in our galaxy with intelligent life on. I do believe there is more intelligent life out there than us. But I don't believe they have visited us. You have to understand the distance in-between stars. Alpha Centauri is our nearest star (excluding the Sun) which is at 4.37 ly away; which would take 4.37 years to travel to at the speed of light.

Space is just too vast to travel around so simply. Our nearest galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.5 million ly away. Our Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 ly across

Yes of course they exist. We are not the only one in this huge galaxy. Everything that is created has a purpose. The other planets also has a purpose.

I think aliens do exist, but it will be very hard to contact with them.

The universe is very big, there are plenty of galaxies, stars and planets in the universe.

even if there did exist another intelligent race in this galaxy, we may not be that easy to find. if you shrunk the size of our entire solar system (as far out as the orbit of Neptune) down to one inch across. on that same scale, the Milky Way would stretch from LA to Cleveland (over 1600 miles).

we're a pretty small needle in a very large haystack.

I hope they exist. Thats kind of a strange feeling when someone thinks that were the ONLY living beings in the HOLE Universe.