DangerWench answered Monday January 30 2006, 2:10 am: ...
Ok, here is what I honestly think.
I do believe there are "aliens", but that they are not what television and movies portray them to be.
I believe aliens are demonic in nature. Yes, that may sound crazy to some people, but so does the concept of "aliens", period. I've never understood why some people would gladly believe in "aliens", but refuse to even contemplate that perhaps they are demonic entities.
To give you a good example, have you ever heard of Aleister Crowley? About 100 years ago, or so, he was a noted occultist who called himself "The Beast 666". He wrote how-to books on magick and contacting "astral" guides whom he called "angels". This guy was a straight-up satanist.
In 1919 he drew a picture of one of his "astral contacts". To see the picture he drew, go to this page and scroll down a bit:
Edited to add: I personally believe that "aliens" may play a big part of the "end-times deceptions" talked about in the Bible. What could be more perfect than for the demonic forces to show up looking like aliens and claiming that they created us, or that Mary was abducted by them and artificially inseminated, or whatever else they think would get most of the world to turn away from Yahweh (God) and Yeshua (Christ).
The deceptions of the end times are supposed to be so convincing that "if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect." I believe the world is being set up to receive the alien/demonic deception with open arms. [ DangerWench's advice column | Ask DangerWench A Question ]
Teza answered Sunday January 29 2006, 9:03 pm: Earth is a planet and there is life on it, so there could be a posibility. I don't belive in green monsters, but life on other planet maybe. I don't think they would be humans though. [ Teza's advice column | Ask Teza A Question ]
Michelley answered Sunday January 29 2006, 8:45 pm: life on other planets- yes
MikeCFT answered Sunday January 29 2006, 8:37 pm: A question that has intrigued mankind for centuries and will continue to do. Some scientists believe the universe is still expanding from the Big Bang from background radiation waves detected so the sound is still traveling from billions of years ago and will eventually cause a "Big Crunch" one day that will bring the whole universe back into its original super ball of energy. Personally I believe there is life in other places simply because of the sheer probability ( a good example is the fact that our nearest neighbor of a galaxy- Andromeda is moving towards our Milky Way galaxy at roughly the speed of light, but this merger wont happen for another few billion years. Billions of stars multiplied by billions of galaxies leads to a pretty big probability. Our search for life has been based on looking at host stars similar to ours (Main sequence star- yellow in color around 3,000 degrees celsius surface temperature) and the relative distance of the satellite from its host star. The problem comes with the distance between star systems, light travels at around 186,000 miles per second and can circle the Earth 7 times in a second so it therefore travels around 6 trillion miles in a year, the closest star to our Sun is roughly 4.3 lightyears away. Placing an actual object on a vessel that travels at the speed of light has never been done and according to Einstein- couldnt happen. Our fastest probe only goes around 11 miles a second which causes a much larger travel time, so if we received a message from a star system 10 lightyears away- that message is 10 years old and we would have to duplicate the speed of light (if we even could in the 1st place) and wait 10 years for our message to come back. An interesting theory that hasnt been proven is the theory of Wormholes in the universe which are like little portals. If they do in fact exist- this would cut down the distance between star systems dramatically, changing everything we perceive about the Space-Time Continuum. It has been theorized also that if life is to exist in our Milky Way galaxy it would have to be in a either the 3 star system of Alpha Centauri or Zeta Reticuli roughly 7-10 lightyears away. This stuff intrigues me also- for more interesting info look up SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) which is a good organization started by Frank Drake. Think about this- The probe that sent the Apollo mission to the moon was powered by a computer that took up the size of a whole room and had the power output of a modern handheld calculator...we are just breaking into amazing new technology that wwill only get more advanced as our generation gets older. [ MikeCFT's advice column | Ask MikeCFT A Question ]
Kr4z3y_Ch3lly answered Sunday January 29 2006, 8:22 pm: yea i do.
earth and all the other planets arnt the only planets out there.
theres probibly another planet just like ours realllyyy far away.
people who go to outer space havnt travled all over outerspace..
so how would we know if there is or isnt?!
it would take years to go all around space thats what scientific studies say anyway..
but yea i do!
and aliens dont just have to be mean they could be just like us!
just from another planet and more advanced. :]
hopeihelped answered Sunday January 29 2006, 8:15 pm: DUH! I mean.. space is HUGE, it would be extremely unintelligent to think we're the only ones. Superior life forms? Maybe not. But maybe so. For all we know, greater things are looking down on us under a microscope. [ hopeihelped's advice column | Ask hopeihelped A Question ]
SaturnMoonie answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:42 pm: I believe in life on other planets...but I'm on the fence about INTELLIGENT life on other planets. Frankly it would be very egotistical of us to think we're the only planet that has life. Earth is just a speck on our solar system, and our solar system is just a speck on our galaxy, and our galaxy is just a speck on this universe. Think about it, our galaxy has billions of stars, a lot like our sun, they have their own planets, and we have billions of galaxies. So you do the math, can we really say that this one planet is the only one with existing life...I think not. [ SaturnMoonie's advice column | Ask SaturnMoonie A Question ]
Krupple answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:40 pm: The Hubble Space Website estimates there is hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.
Imagine each of those galaxies had only 20,000 planets.
bigboy13 answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:37 pm: there could most defanlty be aliens. you know those people who belive in god but say aliens don't exist. well there's just as much proof that aliens exist as there is of god so yeah i think there could be. [ bigboy13's advice column | Ask bigboy13 A Question ]
Goob answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:31 pm: Sure! But not necessarily in a "ooo..eek.. there's a scary green man with big eyes and antennas coming at me from that flying saucer with his ray gun to steal my brain" sort of way.
Think about how tiny we are compared to the size of the earth. Think of how tiny the earth is compared to Jupiter. Think of how tiny Jupiter is compared to the sun. Think of how tiny the sun is compared to the galaxy. Look at all the stars in the sky! The universe is HUGE.. and the distances between things are unthinkable!
As tiny as we are, we would have to be pretty arrogant to think that we are the only intelligent (and I use that term loosely) life forms in the entire universe! Sure... there's life out there somewhere. There has to be! Might even be some just like us! Might even be some that we would be a pretty tasty snack for! (just kidding).
TheOldOne answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:12 pm: It's tough to answer a question when we have so little information to work with.
However, observations have shown that there are almost certainly a high number of planets in the universe. The most recent news (from last week) includes Earth-like planets. Given the size of the universe, that makes it very likely that alien life exists out there - quite possibly many different species, even intelligent ones.
But the speed of light is such a strict limiting factor that there's no way that we know of for aliens to have ever visited us. So flying saucers and aliens who probe frustrated suburbanites and backwoods yokels are purely imaginary.
Just so you can get a clearer idea of the distances involved: Alpha Centauri is the closest star to our own, and it's 4.22 light years away.
A light year is the distance that light travels in a year, and it's 5,865,696,000,000 miles - that's nearly six TRILLION miles.
Times 4.22 is 24,753,237,120,000 miles. Which is just under 25 trillion miles.
That distance is, unfortunately, completely beyond human understanding (just like the US national debt, which is over 8 trillion as I write this). But it's impossibly, insanely far.
So my answer is yes, they're probably out there. But they've never visited, and the human race is not likely to ever meet them, unless some way of exceeding or bypassing the speed of light is found. There have been some faint indications that something of the sort might be imaginable, some day, but as it stands FTL (faster-than-light travel) remains in the realm of science fiction. [ TheOldOne's advice column | Ask TheOldOne A Question ]
mn731 answered Sunday January 29 2006, 7:01 pm: I don't believe in aliens. I think that idea is just silly. However, there may be growing bacteria, etc. on other planets..you never know. :) [ mn731's advice column | Ask mn731 A Question ]
KiSSxMYxPEARLS answered Sunday January 29 2006, 6:40 pm: I don`t. It just seems totally nonsense. They'd be attacking by now & we`d have alot of more proof.
xomegaroni answered Sunday January 29 2006, 6:39 pm: i'm not totally sure i believe in aliens er what not, only because if there was aliens living on other planets, i think we would've had more proof by now.
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