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Originally Posted by rivaridger1
When you take into account an infinite number of stars and the recent revelation there are an equally infinite number of earth like planets and couple that with the passage of billions of years, how can there not be alien life somewhere, sometime. This does not even take in to account the possibility of a multiverse which postulates an infinite number of alternative realities. The likelihood of intelligence developing and a species surviving its " formative " years ( the propensity to want to kill all members of the species who are different in some respect ) and then developing the technical capability to travel the stars seems to be a very remote probability. Humans would still be in but the " infancy " stage in that respect. All species also presumably come to an end. Considering the vastness of the universe and the passage of time alien life might once have existed, might exist, or will exist that will know of our little planet but the probability they will ever interact with our civilization I believe is infinitesimal. With all of that said, they will no doubt be landing tomorrow at 3:00 PM EST.
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As I've said previously, it is silly to think that we're the only life forms that exist in all of the cosmos and the likelihood that there are aliens from
'somewhere'...is extremely high.
However, until such time as incontrovertible proof is provided, peer-review is performed and there is a consensus that we have (and are) being visited by an alien race (races?)...I'm going to have to withhold my buy-in on whether anyone outside this rock has stopped by to say hello.
If actual proof of a Roswell or other visitation actually does exist, it is hard for me to believe that 'the government' has been able to keep a relatively tight lid on it all this time.
I do believe though, that publicly stating such could create a world-wide panic on a scale...that has never heretofore been seen on this planet.
I mean cripes, if a nutjob with a gun can go to a pizza parlor based on an obvious lie that a child-prostitution ring was being run out of it...what do you think would happen if it was acknowledged that alien races were among us?
Just imagine how fast the rumor that they are 'shape-shifters' and can look just like us would produce panic never before seen...and humans start killing other humans with the excuse that they are
'one of them.' 
Not to even mention, the upheaval in the worlds religions...who believe we're totally unique.
PS. And what's up with all of the anal probing...by those purporting to have been 'abducted?'
