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makes sense to me. We crazy ZonkerHarris Jul 2023 #1
Sad, but true. peppertree Jul 2023 #75
Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2023 #2
Ahhhh wuz wonderin who changed awww dem trump votes to biden Fullduplexxx Jul 2023 #3
No sane aliens Pantagruel Jul 2023 #4
SANE ALIENS ???? Would they have 2 legs or four ??? Trueblue1968 Jul 2023 #32
+1 progressoid Jul 2023 #39
Alien - the short version. paleotn Jul 2023 #57
CATS ARE ALIENS ;;;; LOLOL Trueblue1968 Jul 2023 #64
Dogs have their points, as well.... nt DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #100
Maybe we are just average in terms of wretchedness Shermann Jul 2023 #5
Aliens passing by Danascot Jul 2023 #52
+1 n/t area51 Jul 2023 #77
I Know Your Tongue Is In Your Cheek, But... ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #6
I see you've visited 41 countries. Cyrano Jul 2023 #7
That's Up To Them! ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #8
OK, that is where I put my foot down...They don't understand Golf? Shame on them...Now, seriously Escurumbele Jul 2023 #40
i REALLY WONDER if they are not just TIME TRAVELERS YoshidaYui Jul 2023 #50
You're gonna love this! Marthe48 Jul 2023 #93
Half of us on earth do not understand that, either.... DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #101
Not necessarily. intheflow Jul 2023 #9
Because You Can't Crash At 5 Million Miles Away? ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #10
Can they crash? intheflow Jul 2023 #12
Don't anthropomorphize an alien species. paleotn Jul 2023 #60
As I understand, atmospheric visits are needed to release the pidgins sanatanadharma Jul 2023 #13
Wouldn't They Had To Have... ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #31
Perhaps they don't need to travel here to treestar Jul 2023 #33
Best Explanation So Far! ProfessorGAC Jul 2023 #34
Yeah, That's My Question Beetwasher. Jul 2023 #45
Could they just beam us up I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2023 #111
OR (just spitballing) the distances between us and likely inhabitable planets is too far for travel brooklynite Jul 2023 #11
It used to take a couple weeks to cross the Atlantic. Who woudda thought we could fly someday? rickford66 Jul 2023 #16
I'm looking MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #21
Unless you've found a way to exceed the speed of light (Star Trek notwithstanding).... brooklynite Jul 2023 #27
I suppose MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #38
"Quantum Leap" was one of my favorite shows.... Remember "Ziggy"??? DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #106
The Universe is what it is anyway... WheelWalker Jul 2023 #86
Extraordinarily bad analogy. paleotn Jul 2023 #69
The one thing we should be mindful of is that we don't know what we don't know. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #97
"We don't know everything" doesn't lead to "anything in possible". brooklynite Jul 2023 #104
This assumes that another civilization perceives or experiences time the way we do. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #107
Believing something is true and THEN looking for evidence is equally flawed thinking. brooklynite Jul 2023 #109
Technologically, we've only just begun.... DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #105
And it's possible we're getting attention because they've started picking up on our radio signals. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #108
That's as good a solution as any to the Fermi Paradox paleotn Jul 2023 #73
Until physicists can show a way to travel faster than the speed of light, this is doubtful. Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #14
You are talking about OUR physicists. edisdead Jul 2023 #18
And yet they are crashing here on earth millions of years ahead of us? Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #22
They are? edisdead Jul 2023 #82
Also do us a favor edisdead Jul 2023 #83
oh yeah. It is difficult to capture an airplane or a chopper even with the best phone ecstatic Jul 2023 #113
exactly! edisdead Jul 2023 #118
Maybe the flight to Earth took 15+ years or thousands of years ecstatic Jul 2023 #121
We are a product of our time and place. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #25
Unfortunately some find it Disaffected Jul 2023 #51
Post removed Post removed Jul 2023 #94
John Titor is that you? edisdead Jul 2023 #15
Timetravel_0 (2009) Celerity Jul 2023 #84
hahaha yep! edisdead Jul 2023 #96
Interesting hypothesis.... anciano Jul 2023 #17
Why do we assume that "intelligent life" cyclonefence Jul 2023 #19
We cannot get beyond being human centric, earth centric. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #61
There are theorists Danascot Jul 2023 #110
Who is assuming that? brooklynite Jul 2023 #102
It's just that phrase "intelligent life-forms" cyclonefence Jul 2023 #117
If true, that would blow the big bang theory out the window ecstatic Jul 2023 #114
Nailed it! MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #20
Do you have kids? Rafi Jul 2023 #36
I don't think anyone here thinks Disaffected Jul 2023 #53
And all this time I thought the monitoring was because Mars needs women. Xavier Breath Jul 2023 #23
The rest of the Universe put yellow police tape around our solar system. Irish_Dem Jul 2023 #24
Occasionally seen? There are tens of thousands of reports every year in the US. Rafi Jul 2023 #26
Amusing that someone living in Israel MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #30
WOW, must be a full moon tonight. nt Disaffected Jul 2023 #59
For the last time, Mork, you are messing up our control group! Beastly Boy Jul 2023 #28
Thread winner! AKwannabe Aug 2023 #122
And they love beef....... Goonch Jul 2023 #29
You didn't address the most important question sarisataka Jul 2023 #35
We are the Junkyard Dog nocoincidences Jul 2023 #37
To solve the alien debate once and for all, we could launch several enormous rockets into allegorical oracle Jul 2023 #41
Actually, Demobrat Jul 2023 #42
Hey, it's your fantasy, so have at it. n/t elocs Jul 2023 #43
This is probably the reason we don't all have flying cars. They were promised sixty years ago. JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2023 #44
Klaatu barada nicto nolabear Jul 2023 #46
Makes sense Wild blueberry Jul 2023 #47
I bet when they fly past us they roll up their windows and lock their doors. n/t Mr.Bill Jul 2023 #48
Nice theory but it collapses at the first sentence. Disaffected Jul 2023 #49
link? orleans Jul 2023 #54
They've done enough already. Marcuse Jul 2023 #55
To a species that's figured out how to traverse interstellar space... paleotn Jul 2023 #56
Most humans wouldn't recognize an alien intelligence if it bit them on the ass. hunter Jul 2023 #58
Big Star Trek/Sci-Fi fan here Martin Eden Jul 2023 #62
Makes Sense Jazz Jon Jul 2023 #63
NOT NEW...A MOVIE WAS MADE IN THE EARLY 50S..."DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" Stuart G Jul 2023 #65
Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still... Duncan Grant Jul 2023 #115
Maybe. moniss Jul 2023 #66
I wholeheartedly agree. Snackshack Jul 2023 #67
I'm guessing we've been very closely monitored ever since we detonated nuclear bombs. OMGWTF Jul 2023 #68
I can live with this reality. Meantime, ancianita Jul 2023 #70
I loved that book. Supposed to be making it into a movie. A bit of a tease - this is *not* your... electric_blue68 Jul 2023 #87
Me, too. It would be an amazing film if Hollywood could do it. ancianita Jul 2023 #90
Definitely a whole lotta computing power for that alien! ... electric_blue68 Jul 2023 #91
Found this. Glad that Matt Damon is the lead, since his mom was a teacher. ancianita Jul 2023 #92
I always hoped this was a documentary: Pinback Jul 2023 #71
Our species orangecrush Jul 2023 #72
KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Jul 2023 #74
We are the aliens, my friends. nt chowder66 Jul 2023 #76
Klaatu barada nikto. nt AndyS Jul 2023 #78
This message was self-deleted by its author Wednesdays Jul 2023 #85
Or you can take the Stephen Hawking POV on aliens Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2023 #79
Have you seen Battleship? AKwannabe Aug 2023 #123
Man's tryin' to keep us down..... Red Mountain Jul 2023 #80
Got to thinking about this. If they are watching us then they would have killed Trump off. LOL Quixote1818 Jul 2023 #81
I know this is for shits and giggles...but... Xolodno Jul 2023 #88
It is VERY risky for them to make contact. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #98
Precisely. Xolodno Jul 2023 #120
They are here to probe our asses Kaleva Jul 2023 #89
That is one of the theories. Renew Deal Jul 2023 #95
I guess you're a "Trekkie" ??? DemocraticPatriot Jul 2023 #99
First sentence, numbers are wrong Snooper9 Jul 2023 #103
lol. I would not have asked how you know this, but now I have to ecstatic Jul 2023 #112
Dayum, I thought they were coming to save the world from right-wing dipshits. raccoon Jul 2023 #116
I think they are here to teach us how to think in quantum physics terms as a population. librechik Jul 2023 #119
I had so much fun reading in this OP! AKwannabe Aug 2023 #124
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