Fwiw... -- astrohokie 06/17/2020 3:38PM
Read these two books: Rare Earth & Privileged Planet. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 12:24PM
Thing is this line of thinking re: life chemistry is they start with -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 3:46PM
But it takes more than chemistry to kickstart life. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 4:12PM
Yes, I know. Again, who says it must require oxygen? -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 5:10PM
Good point. Maybe it doesn't but elements react the same -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 5:51PM
Just curious...are you a lawyer? ** -- vthokieq 06/17/2020 4:43PM
Noooo! I just really dig this stuff. Read a lot of books on it and watched -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 5:07PM
Ok...you're just kind of arguing like one. ;-) -- vthokieq 06/17/2020 5:11PM
But we're understanding much more about the universe. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 6:10PM
I have doubts the government would actually tell the population due -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 2:01PM
It's a tremendous leap from microbial life to complex (animal) life. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 2:16PM
Here's the thing though...based on your post... -- vthokieq 06/17/2020 12:42PM
Yes ** -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 3:47PM
The elements required for life is the same throughout the universe. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 1:14PM
Ok...so your concept is that humans know everything there is to know? -- vthokieq 06/17/2020 1:16PM
Of course we don't but don't underestimate how much we DO know. -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 1:26PM
Everything you say (and read) could be correct, but odds would still say -- Late 80s Hokie 06/17/2020 4:15PM
But we don't know what the odds are to evolve life. It may be greater than -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 4:31PM
I certainly admit that you COULD be correct, but if there was any way to -- Late 80s Hokie 06/17/2020 4:32PM
Did you read A. Jacobsen's Area 51 book? She claims it was a Soviet psy-op -- VTDante 06/17/2020 12:12PM
The Bob Lazar story is intriguing. -- bluehokie 06/17/2020 12:01PM
Wow, somehow I was unfamiliar with his story. That is fascinating stuff. ** -- MP4VT2004 06/17/2020 12:28PM
Until I personally see something unexplainable and concrete, I think most -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 10:09AM
About the weirdest thing I ever saw was one morning at dawn. -- jdkhokie 06/17/2020 10:25AM
Exactly. Or, the "time-wake" of a interstellar time-traveler visiting -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 10:30AM
Me too, ColoVT82. Are you familiar with the Rendlesham Forest incident? -- MP4VT2004 06/17/2020 09:47AM
Yes. And yes, I've considered they might be from closer to home. -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 11:12AM
Cool. now I want to read about that. ** -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 09:52AM
Not ET since they are from the underwater city of Atlantis...I kid. -- Kudelski 06/17/2020 09:34AM
I saw one as a tweener, no cool abduction story though -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 09:32AM
Wow. ** -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 11:23AM
Huey? ** -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 09:47AM
What I saw was definately circular and had lights -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 09:50AM
I respect that you are approaching it with skepticism, rather than -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 09:54AM
Airwolf? ** -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 09:52AM
Can your friends all recount the same experience? ** -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 09:37AM
Yep, we all told our parents at the time they blew it off as a helicopter -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 09:43AM
Certainly interesting. being close to a military base doesn't help the -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 09:49AM
I look at it based on what we know here on Earth -- HokieAl 06/17/2020 09:29AM
The Navy basically told us and backed it up with video -- No Clue 06/17/2020 09:21AM
We still don't know if... -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 09:32AM
Space -- LaneRat 06/17/2020 09:19AM
Space isnt infinite if the universe is closed... -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 11:17AM
I think the profusion of galaxies makes alien life a certainty -- typed by ben 06/17/2020 08:32AM
Agree. Would be a terrible waste of space otherwise... -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 08:47AM
Yup -- Tafkam Hokie 06/17/2020 09:15AM
But my goodness, if we ARE alone, what's the point of all that extra space? -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 09:41AM
Ever watch the movie Contact? ** -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 11:14AM
Yup. Favorite movie ever. ** -- HokieSignGuy 06/17/2020 11:54AM
COVID + UFOs = plot for world domination ** -- FfxStationHokie 06/17/2020 08:26AM
Naw. If they can get here, they need no xtra help ** -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 08:55AM
Experimental Nazi aircraft from secret Antarctica base. ** -- mancunian 06/17/2020 08:24AM
Yep. And the base is guarding the ice wall surrounding our flat Earth. ** -- HokieNoVA 06/17/2020 08:56AM
Still can't figure why aliens who could travel would come here. Unless -- PhotoHokieNC 06/17/2020 08:18AM
We are a food bank, set up long ago, for a stopover to somewhere else. ** -- Coach McGuirk 06/17/2020 08:22AM
How to serve humans. DOO-doo-DOO-doo ** -- YBYSAIAHokie 06/17/2020 1:53PM
Like a Waffle House ** -- Stork 06/17/2020 08:35AM
The military hasn't seen diddly. Everyone knows UFOS -- Coach McGuirk 06/17/2020 08:15AM
Originally only the Romulans had that technology -- bluehokie 06/17/2020 12:07PM
Well, I guess the common view is... -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 08:13AM
Yeah. Yet I get stuck when i consider interstellar travel. ** -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 08:16AM
1903 Wright Brothers flight, 1969 Moon landing- huge leaps to current -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 09:39AM
Well, ok. First, we need to figure out if light speed is truly the limit -- ColoVT82 06/17/2020 11:22AM
That's because we reverse engineered stuff found in the Roswell UFO. -- MP4VT2004 06/17/2020 09:49AM
Just look at the advance in computers since the 69 Moon landing -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 09:43AM
I read by the advent of OBD-1 cars had more computing power than the LM -- typed by ben 06/17/2020 10:11AM
...and at the same time tell them that despite that, they'd be... -- MP4VT2004 06/17/2020 5:54PM
Yep, I'm a Genetic engineer and Molecular Biology has had huge jumps -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 09:45AM
Amazing advances in that field! -- EDGEMAN 06/17/2020 09:48AM
We cut funding, would have had one already ** -- HortHokie 06/17/2020 10:07AM