Aliens don't exist

[Sam Slater]

Also, why would aliens send manned craft to explore Earth?

A sort of 'spyplane' with no living life to feed would be easier to build because:

1. No life to sustain would mean no supplies apart from fuel (unless this alien life can live without any time of energy source).

2. Less space for food means a lighter craft, which is more energy sufficient, thus cheaper to run (unless these aliens are completely selfless and have no need for financial reward).

3. A lighter craft with no life on-board could be faster because there's a less need to worry about g-forces and ultra speed affects on the body (unless these aliens' bodies aren't affected by such forces).

4. An unmanned craft is less likely to contaminate Earth with alien diseases, or become contaminated by our diseases (unless these alien bodies are immune to bacterial/viral attack. But how would they know until they'd been here and checked? Bodies with no immune system would be completely eaten alive within days and such an attack could wipe out their civilisation completely.....they wouldn't risk it).



I believe in alien life. Even if the probability of life evolving is 100 billion to one every million years, there are enough stars -thus planets- and has been enough time for alien life to be a certainty. What we don't know is how probable 'intelligent' life is likely to evolve; intelligent enough to ponder their own existence to have strong feelings of wonder; an inherent desire to explore the unknown. We may never know.

What I don't believe is that this super-intelligent life can overcome the immense physical difficulties in travelling between galaxies, getting around the problems of relativity where time speeds up the faster you go (so upon their return, their 25 Earth-year voyage to Earth means that, say, 250 Earth-years had passed on their own planet) and yet they haven't got the technology to avoid being seen by Bob and his Handycam while he's out walking the dog.

What we have done is discover radar and how to become invisible to it within 80 years, yet these space-travelling aliens seem to get caught by it; what we are on the verge of discovering is how we can bend light on the small scale which means invisibility (or close to it), yet these alien crafts get seen enough for us to assume they haven't got that technology; what we can achieve right now is teleportation (don't believe me? Oh yes. It's only atoms at the moment but everything's built of atoms so in theory it's possible), and yet these aliens are still hovering around in bulky old spacecraft......that's so yesterday.

Alien life across the universe?; yes. Aliens whizzing around Arizona and Lincolnshire?; bollocks.

[Sam Slater]

I'm sorry, Mr. Entertaining.

[Sam Slater]

And I never claimed to be popular.

You're really bitchy tonight, Keith. Whatever's the matter?

[Sam Slater]

Meeeow! I think Robches has upset you and you're taking it out on the one you love the most.

I forgive you.