Alien cover up

[dyresand]

This has been on my mind i mean in this day and age more people are certain of alien life out there. 
I mean why cover it up in the first place if there is other life out there it wouldn't make since  to hide it from
general populace. Is it so bad that if everyone sorta found out alien life existed sure it may drastically change religion as we
know it. But yeah what are your thoughts.

[Aoi Magi]

Alien coverup = Conspiracy theory

There are no coverups, rather it is scientists and astronomers being careful in examining and verifying things before speculating,

Yes we expect there to be other life in the universe, though actually encountering intelligent life or creatures like which hollywood portrays the aliens to be, are pretty slim.

[Minimalist]

There is a huge difference between extra-terrestrial life and extra-terrestrial life that comes to our shitty little planet to stick probes up the asses of rednecks.

[Iroscato]

I'm fairly certain there is no cover-up.

[CapnAwesome]

If there were extra terrestrials visiting earth today, it would be impossible to cover up. Everyone is walking around with a 5 mp camera in their pocket. There are no aliens, not here.

[Gawdzilla]

Alien coverup = Conspiracy theory

There are no coverups, rather it is scientists and astronomers being careful in examining and verifying things before speculating,

Yes we expect there to be other life in the universe, though actually encountering intelligent life or creatures like which hollywood portrays the aliens to be, are pretty slim.

[Angrboda]

People like to think of themselves as special. If you are privy to a secret that no one else knows, that makes you special. Believing in aliens is just a hobby that makes people feel good about themselves.

[Anomalocaris]

If there were extra terrestrials visiting earth today, it would be impossible to cover up. Everyone is walking around with a 5 mp camera in their pocket. There are no aliens, not here.

How do you know aliens won't have effective means of camouflage or disguise?  Or ability to perform observation or manipulation from a distance outside of our effective surveillance?   Or for that matter tap into our systems to render those data we do gathering about them useless?

I think we have no evidence of alien visitation.  Without direct evidence of how many aliens capable of visitation there actually are, how they behave and what capabilities they actually have, we are in no position to assert whether that lack of evidence ought to be expected from well known principles, or if it requires an separate circumstantial explanation.

But we can not preclude the possibility that we are being visited by aliens who are effective to keeping their visit hidden.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The chance that there is intelligent life on other planets is a dead cert. I'm equally certain that humanity will never see one of these ETs, will never recover one of their artifacts, and will never exchange information with them.

Additionally, the idea that 'aliens walk among us' is so impossibly far-fetched as to rank as a childhood fantasy.

Boru

[brewer]

What the hell do think Trump's been going on about?!?!?!?!

Oh, those aliens. More than likely exist, don't give a shit about us. If they do give a shit, we're fucked.