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Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?

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Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 20, 2011 at 10:10 pm
(September 20, 2011 at 9:44 pm)TheouLive Wrote: I have a feeling very soon, many people are going to get blown away when extraterrestrials are proven to exist.

And even if that were to happen, and the world got undeniable proof that aliens have visited this planet ... then what?
I'm still going to work tomorrow. I'm still going to need to feed my family. Not you nor I nor anyone else is suddenly going to be invited to cruise around the universe in the enterprise jumping through worm holes and visiting distant planets looking for avatars.

Alien infatuation is a waste of a life's pursuit. The morning after aliens show up - you're still going to need to pay the bills.
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 20, 2011 at 10:20 pm
When are people going to understand that UFO does not mean alien spaceship? Seriously, this shit is fucking elementary! Of course unidentified flying objects exist. Until something flying is identified, it is a UFO.

As for extraterrestrials, aliens it is quite possible that they exist. Do we know for sure? No. How is this even on page two? It doesn't even qualify as a conversation.
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 4:13 am
Do UFO's exist? Yes, anything that flies through the sky that we have no positive identification of is a UFO.

Do extraterrestrials exist? In all probability yes, given the amount of planets in our known universe the odds of life on another planet is very high.

Do extraterrestrials come to the Earth in UFO's to burn cows and perform medical procedures that are likely to yield the least interesting medical data on humans? Very very improbable.
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 4:25 am
There are billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each of them, the likelihood of there being other lifeforms appears to be quite large.
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 4:59 am
Time to close this thread??

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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 5:15 am (This post was last modified: September 21, 2011 at 5:16 am by Napoléon.)
I'm very confident that life exists out there somewhere. If we exist then that's enough reason for me to think it could happen somewhere else out there seen as the universe is so uncomprehendably massive. Whether we have been visited is an entirely different matter, I have seen plenty of people who claim to have been abducted, and yes more often than not when they are hypnotized or similar techniques are used to discern the truth it actually appears they believe what they are claiming. Problem is, just because they believe what they are saying, doesn't make it true. Just like all the douchers who believe in god.
(September 21, 2011 at 4:59 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Time to close this thread??

No way it's an interesting topic.
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 5:37 am
mk Big Grin

If you think so... Think
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 9:25 am
Dunning did a pretty fair episode on this - it's short enough that I don't think you'll mind reading it.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4272

Btw, we already have an ancient aliens thread - you might want to look it up and see the conversations we've already had.

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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 9:29 am
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RE: Are UFO's and extraterrestrials real?
September 21, 2011 at 9:38 am
(September 21, 2011 at 9:29 am)frankiej Wrote: [Image: 305070_10150304768209563_651709562_79889...8252_n.jpg]

damn that dude has got some crazy fucking hair.

I think maybe he was infatuated with Doc Brown and the movie Back to the Future when he was a kid, so he went out and got his own "crazy scientist hair" as an adult.





I mean seriously --- WTF?!
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