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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2006 edited
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    A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms....

    ...The four-year study - entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK - tackles the long-running question by UFO-spotters: "Is anyone out there?"

    The answer, it seems, is "no".

    The 400-page report puts it like this: "No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces." - link

    My own conclusions about an alien presence on Earth have rarely diverged from this conclusion. How about you?

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    Despite 40 years of effort, it has yet to produce a single result. Millions of pounds have been spent and thousands of man-hours expended, yet Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, remains the great unfulfilled hope of modern astronomy...

    ...'Twenty years ago, scientists were confident there were at least a million alien civilisations in our galaxy,' said the meeting's organiser, Dr Ian Morison of Jodrell Bank Observatory. 'No one thinks there can be anything like that number now.'...

    ...'I am sure life exists on other worlds,' said Morison. 'But it may be rather primitive. Few other worlds may have the right conditions for complex organisms to evolve as they have on Earth.' - link

    What would it mean for humanity if we were the only 'intelligent' life in the universe?
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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2006
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    Perhaps they have better things to do...

    Like you guys, it seems :-(
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2006
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    We're under quarantine.....we build hides to watch birds; and dont forget the Pime Directive.
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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMay 9th 2006 edited
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    You really think they are watching us?

    I always liked analogies with ants better.

    A whole million strong nest of ants can walk over the outstretched palm of a human without any of them having any comprehension whatsoever of the human's existence.

    Advanced life, were it to exist, may be similarly right under our ant-like probosese.

    The 3-dimensional sphere could only make circles in the 2-dimensional world of Flat Land afterall:
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeMay 10th 2006
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    YAH!
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