I think it's hard to prove a negative, such as "there are no extraterrestrial intelligences out there." The universe is big, and time goes in all kinds of crazy directions, and we only have a very limited view of reality to work with.

But after several decades of interest in this subject, I absolutely have to agree that there has been nothing discovered so far that in any way proves or indicates the existence of any kind of life or intelligence not originating from Earth. Sure, weird things have happened, and continue to happen. But nothing specifically having anything to do with ET life or intelligence.

It's fun to imagine and read the stories, though.

I often think "Why would my govenment lie to me? What would it gain?" Then I look at history, which in itself is a lie. Yes, nations lie to their people. I don't think there is any evidence of aliens, but reserve the right to ignore what the government says.

You shouldnt jump to the assumption that there isnt life beyond the Planet because we havent found any hard Evidence for it. We havent even been to Mars yet. Science has only gone far. When we advance to the point of Interstellar Travel and actually Visit other planets for Life then we can make some conclusions.

I'm not even sure how to respond to a thread like this, to be honest.

So I will just make a few comments and try to not be offensive to anyone.

Other planets, in my perspective, is life itself. I don't need to see little grey men walking around on them to be amazed by their existence, and marvel at how they have evolved, or come to be as they are - much like our planet has over the course of it's history. One can just look at a map and see that our planet is in constant change and motion, constant evolution. Much like the life it harbors.

There was a time, OP, that humans thought our planet was flat. Hilarious to consider today, but it was once widely accepted. And then technology and science was able to prove otherwise. In time, we will continue to make discoveries that will blow our minds.

One of the most amazing things to me about the state or purpose of our being is that no one really knows. You don't, I don't, we don't have a clue as to what is really going on out there. We can speculate, we can imagine and search for answers but at the end of the day it's still all a big mystery. To some, this is terrifying to not know more - I find these types of people like to adhere to one set of answers/stories or another. Totally normal and 'spiritually' healthy to do so for them.

I am willing to bet however that the answers to the questions of our existence cannot be contained in a single book.

And that the existence of life on other planets cannot be disproven by a single YouTube video or White House response to a petition. Take care.

Originally posted by Zeer0
You shouldnt jump to the assumption that there isnt life beyond the Planet because we havent found any hard Evidence for it. We havent even been to Mars yet. Science has only gone far. When we advance to the point of Interstellar Travel and actually Visit other planets for Life then we can make some conclusions.

Hard evidence or evidence at all? You didn't watch the video did you?

"The Anthropic Principle" proves their is no life outside of earth.