Cryptids

[Anomalocaris]

In all honesty, I feel the truth is somewhat a lot less exciting.
Maybe light speed travel is an impossibility.
Then, even if there if other life out there, the vast majority will never ever make contact with anyone else.

I think if we insist on looking forward to a future that resembles what we have been conditioned by our idiotic pseudoscience pop fictions to imagine now, we will surely be disappointed. But the future will turn out to be vastly more exciting than we can imagine, but in ways which we have not imagined.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think it's entirely possible for alien intelligence to have evolved, but I don't think they've visited the Earth. I mean, you've flown across the galaxy to visit fucking Nevada? That's hardly intelligence in action.

Be reasonable, not just to visit Nevada, they also make some very pretty patterns in farmers’ fields!

Silly me! That explains everything.

[Statler Waldorf]

Why did this one? (I bet I know what you are going to say.)

For the sake of argument I’ll play along and say that life arose here naturally, that does not mean however that it arose anywhere else. Knowing the orbital distances of these speculated planets is not enough. I just expect more from people who always claim to need evidence and proof.

I used yahweh the bloody handed because it seems to be the extent of your interest. Nonetheless....all other gods can be traced to a distinct culture. This is not rocket science.

That’s a non-sequitur, it does not follow that if all conceptual gods are fabricated that no god is likely to exist. That’d be like saying, “Well since all UFO sightings are fabricated therefore no extraterrestrial life likely exists.” There is no way of knowing whether the existence of aliens is more likely than the existence of a god if we are simply dealing in the realm of probabilities.

[Minimalist]

I think it's entirely possible for alien intelligence to have evolved, but I don't think they've visited the Earth. I mean, you've flown across the galaxy to visit fucking Nevada? That's hardly intelligence in action.

Nevada would be a bad example.....

[vorlon13]

The aliens might visit Nevada for the legal brothels.

It's a long, lonely trek across the galaxy . . .

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think it's entirely possible for alien intelligence to have evolved, but I don't think they've visited the Earth. I mean, you've flown across the galaxy to visit fucking Nevada? That's hardly intelligence in action.

Nevada would be a bad example.....

They have nothing to pawn but their spaceships ... I hope they're good at balckjack.

[ignoramus]

Since exist on this planet, then it stands to reason that the chance of life occurring elsewhere MUST be >0%.

I fell that we are all in agreeance that even if we were created by an intelligent being, that the being in question wouldn't be the one as described in any religious texts.

So basically, bible god, Qur'an god =0% possibility.

[Nine]

Bigfoot/Yeti – 0.01%
Aliens- 20%
Aliens that have visited Earth- 0.01%
The Loch Ness Monster- 0.01%
Chupacabra- 0.01%
The Jersey Devil- 0.01%
Mokele-mbembe- 0.01%

[Tobie]

Yeti - 1% (People probably saw a bear or something in the dark, and thought it was apelike)
Aliens - 90% - they probably exist somewhere in the universe, but life may have such a vanishingly small probability of arising that Earth could be the only planet with intelligent life in the galaxy.
Aliens who have visited Earth: 0.000000001% - if an extra-terrestrial civilization had he technology to travel to Earth, they would probably destroy us/enslave us/colonize Earth - like Europeans going to the Americas.
Everything else - 0.1%

[LivingNumbers6.626]

A lot like the question regarding the existance of a god, a more important question would be: how is this information suitible, applicable, and beneficial?

It is my wager that if we assume god and cryptids to exist, without exposure or evidence, what does that mean in the end? Nothing, essentially nothing.

My belief in god 10 months ago means just the same amount of relevancy then as it does now in my disbelief: zero.

The beleif does not cure cancer, solve world hunger, or lessen/ end human suffering. So what use does a belief have if it does not inspire progression? Nothing. Nothing at all. And I have not experienced anything in my life that would make me place any real importance in such questions.

But on the subject of extraterrestrial life, I stand with Neil deGrasse Tyson who said something which goes something like: there is only one truth to two possoblities and either possibility is equally as frightening as the other, either we are alone in this universe, or we are not.