Project Bluebook

[Guest]

You needn't have gone to so much trouble John! But what are you doing with a glamorous pic of my missus?

[Guest]

There has to be other life in the universe, it is so vast that not to have other life is statistically impossible, or to be more precise 99.9999999999999999 ... % certain that alien life must exist. However, the chances that we will ever meet them is impossible to calculate, but with many of them millions of years in advance of us who knows what technology they may have developed? Think of the advances we have made in just the last 100 years. They may to be able to cheat light speed by warping space, or creating wormholes, or using technology we can not even comprehend. As the great Arthur C Clarke said, any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.

They are out there and it is quite reasonable to assume that one day they will contact us. I hope they make it soon, I am getting old.

[papa 695]

I'm an alien and so ' s my wife

[Ian M]

As for all that, if we are visited by another species it's quite likely they'll be much more technically advanced than us & will merely sweep us away inorder to exploit the resources of planet Earth.

Or sweep us all into a skip and fix the place up. Muttering under their breath "Well they buggered that right up. Lets reset and so how it goes with out the humans...!"

Ian M

[Steve Brodie]

Think I read somewhere that during the 50's/60's Americans were more concerned with the Russians invading than anything else, so as a decoy for any aircraft that may have been Russian probing american airspace they conjured up the Alien / UFO theory, better to be attacked by something you cant, perceivably stop than something you can and be and turned into as so eloquently put at the time, a 'commie'

Doesn't explain the foo fighters during WWII though and near misses with civilian airliners today but;

When I was at one of Waddington's air show's back in the 90's and one of the first appearances of the Nighthawk, I was speaking to the pilot and he just said - " This is old tech, what you should be really thinking is where are we now" and that was over 20 years ago !!

Aurora anyone

[Alan 45]

I'm an alien and so ' s my wife

No your not your just a very naughty boy

[ATTACH]98189.IPB[/ATTACH]

[john i am]

There are planets billions of years older than earth so that's a massive head start on the human race.Just try and imagine how much technology will improve in a billion years here on earth and as a species how much we will evolve in that time

[flyjoe180]

I read this article about a year ago about potential life in the universe. It relates to the Great Filter, or the theoretical stages of the evolution of life forms. If you get past one filter there is another and so on, until you colonise everything and therefore ensure the survival of your species.

In summary, depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we're left with three possible realities:

1. We're rare - he Great Filter is behind us -- we managed to surpass it, which would mean it's extremely rare for life to make it to our level of intelligence.

2. We're first - the Great Filter is ahead of us and we have the opportunity, if we make it through, to become super intelligent.

3. We're fu*ked.The Great Filter is ahead, suggesting that life regularly evolves to where we are, but that something prevents life from going much further and reaching high intelligence in almost all cases -- and we're unlikely to be an exception.

Have a read, it's pretty interesting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox_b_5489415.html

Professor Hawking has something to say about all this:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/life-in-the-universe.html