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When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 12:03 pm
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I am not looking for a date, but I think they will visit when we truly start exploring space (i.e. spaceships) or at less become a level 1 society (were the people of earth are united and everything is universal).
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RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Did you not see E.T? It already happened, dude.
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RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm
They'll probably come after mankind is extinct as a bunch of space traveling archeologists.
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RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 12:52 pm
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Perhaps when we've grown up. That could take a few million years! We're still in our infancy, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet, let alone keep our planet clean and tidy. We still have imaginary friends and have a terrible fear of the big wide world.
Simply put - We're far too fucking primitive to interact with a far more advanced race. We're still dumb dumb. We still think we're the purpose of the universe.
I would of been dead for a few thousands years before mankind grows up. If we don't kill ourselves before then that is.
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RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 5:21 pm
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1. If they had the technology for interstellar travel, how the hell would aliens even know we exist? Our planet is an insignificant pale blue infinitesimal spot in the vast cosmos.
2. Why the hell would they even care about coming here? If they're all that advanced then I'm fairly confident they'd be smart enough to know this trip isn't exactly what you'd call "necessary" and horribly uneconomical at best. If they're violent, then what's stopping them from invading?
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RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 7, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Never. There is more of a chance that all the religions are true than we will be visited by little gray men.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.