I think the odds are more in favor of there being, has been, or will be life somewhere in the universe other than our small pale blue dot. I also think it is possible that aliens have visited our ancient civilizations and thats where the first god myths came from such as the Annunaki. I also think it's possible we are being visited now. Yes the universe is endlessly massive but if they know how to make time and space bend upon itself then they could be here almost instantly.

Lol, makes ya wonder, but then who made the aliens?

It's an alienception.



Oh also from X-COM(I think). Arthur C. Clarke "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

That's well said

Though personally i find the possibility of humans being alone much more terrifying

No

Aliens was pretty good.

Apollo, do you mean a Sun God? Apollo was in Rome and in Greece, which were closely related so that would make sense.

Nope.

i do. I mean c'mon, look outside at night, every star is a sun with a solar system. Every solar system planets. And out of those thousands of stars, all with planets orbiting them, One of those stars has a planet orbiting has to be supporting life.

Actually not all solar systems contain planets. Some contain just stars with several asteroid belts that never formed planets.

In the massive place called the universe, you seem to believe that Terra is the only place that has life. And, to quote Carl Sagan, the "billions and billions" of worlds, stars, solar systems, etc. you seem to let on that you think that the Earth has some privileged position in the universe. May I inquire why you believe that?

im 99.9% sure that there is life some where else in the universe. Where there is one there is pretty much always another (EVEN SNOW FLAKES). However, im also just as sure that I will never live to see some sort contact with other life forms.

But what would you do if we did contact extra terrestrials in our lifetime?

We would gain their trust, before we backstab them and steal their technology. It's the way of the human.

10000000000000% believe there is extraterrestrial, intelligent life. None of which have visited Earth.

That is if they don't try to enslave us first.

I honestly think we would revolt if the government tried to betray the first alien civilization we encounter. Or at least I would....

First one was better. Everything involving them after that svck. Well except directors cut of Alien 3, more or less, and Aliens vs Predator 2 game

here take these blankets......no way there could be a disease on it......

Sad but true. I would hope that maybe we could be enlightened and become better than that. I have a feeling though it would be like that scene in Halo Reach where they blow up that one Corvette ship and you feel all good and high fivey. and then 50 more warp in. Yeah I have a feeling if we did something that stupid we would have signed our extinction papers.

Of course they would lie about it though and probably stage some sort of false flag operation to make the masses think the aliens drew first blood.

Even better if we find aliens that are less devolped than us. Then we can exploit them, and their precious planet to our hearts content

Thinking about stuff like this makes my stomach turn. I understand that it is hypothetical but it is just too close to reality lol.

What can I say, the only people running the world are either greedy, selfish, evil, or a puppet being controlled by the former.

The fact that there are billions of other stars, solar systems, and other planets may not be all that irrelevant. It may be that the conditions for life emerging are very complex and demanding, and they only emerged on Earth because of a very fortuitous sequence of events. if so, the probability of life emerging elsewhere might be so low that it's irrational to believe that extraterrestrial life exists.

Here's an anology. Suppose someone offered you the following bet. He will toss a six-sided die ten times; he offers you odds of 2-1 that either a 1, 2, or 3, will appear in one of those ten die rolls. Sounds like a fair bet, right? But what if, unbeknownst to you, the die is loaded, so that 4, 5, and 6 are overwhelmingly likely to turn up? In that case it's clearly not a fair bet.

The anology is that we shouldn't be so quick to assume that the conditions for life emerging are distributed symmetrically throughout spacetime (like the symmetry of a six-sided die). Instead, the emergence of life may have been "loaded" on Earth (like the unfair die). If we found out that a sequence of fortuitous astronomical, geological, and chemical events were necessary for life to emerge, this might make extraterrestrial life extremely unlikely---no matter that there are billions of planets in the universe.

True, but lets say that most stars contain at least 1 plannet, each galaxy contains over a billion stars and there are estimated over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. If you gave a 1 in 100 billion billion chance there is life outside Earth that is still 1 chance. Whether it be bacterial or a cosmic empire there is still a chance and no amount of odds can crunch down that 1 chance. If it could then our existence could not be explained or accounted for unless you want to get into Creation but I would rather not.