• Question: Hi do you guys think that humans came in contact with aliens? Hence why area 51 recently released the pentagon ufo thing on the website

    Asked by anon-260333 on 6 Oct 2020.
    • Photo: Richard Fielder

      Richard Fielder answered on 6 Oct 2020:

      No. It’s likely that aliens exist somewhere in the universe, since we can see the components need for life to exist are quite common. But the distances involved as so large and would require so much energy to travel, it’s incredibly unlikely we’ll ever actually meet any intelligent aliens. Most scientists hope that we might find some life like microbes one day, but few people believe we’ll see more than that.

      More importantly, there’s simply no evidence that aliens have ever been to Earth. Seeing an object you can’t identify doesn’t mean it was aliens, and most supposed sightings either have perfectly mundane explanations or simply don’t have enough information to figure out what they might have been. Area 51 was a US air force test base, so it gave rise to various conspiracies because the things being tested often didn’t look like regular aircraft (things like stealth and supersonic planes were tested there), and they were very secretive because they wanted to hide what they were doing from the USSR. The Pentagon recently released a bunch of files on their investigations of UFOs precisely because they didn’t think there was anything interesting there that they’d want to keep secret.

    • Photo: James Smallcombe

      James Smallcombe answered on 6 Oct 2020:

      As Richard say’s there is probably life somewhere in the universe at some point in time, it is very big and very old. But the chances of them being near us and at the same stage of evolution (or above) right now are quite small.
      The first radio transmissions humans ever made, which are travelling at the speed of light (which we think is the universal speed limit) are still less than 1% of the way across our own local galaxy.
      I looked up the videos the pentagon released, I cant say that I’m convinced, they look like optical illusions or camera glitches to me.

    • Photo: Stephen Clarke

      Stephen Clarke answered on 6 Oct 2020:

      There is a theory that any meeting with a lifeform from another planet could provide catastrophic due to the possibility of them passing on disease types that Earthlings have never encountered before, so maybe the dinosaurs met aliens?

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