When UFOs Arrive

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | February 2004 | BY JIM WILSON

[Chris Talk]

If you saw all that you almost certainly were abducted and implanted. Call Budd Hopkins.

[mrsmith]

The bureaucrats will screw it up, but mankind's suave emissary to alien races will take matters in hand...

[realpatriot71]

But we ARE, thousands of times every day.

I'm not sure which of my statements your are referencing to

[Chris Talk]

Catholic bibles contain several more books between Malachi and Matthew. Check out the Book of Enoch [Khanokh.]

[Stone Mountain]

There is no intelligent life on other plantes.

How do you know this?

Because it's a religious topic.

How is it a religious topic and what specifically drew you to the conclusion that there is no intelligent life outside of Earth?

[CougarGA7]

LOL! I guess it will have to be ala Gort. The sad thing is that I just realized that I was thinking of the Twilight Zone episode "How to Serve Man" when I made my original post.

[Chris Talk]

Then who built the Face on Mars, and all those pyramids up there, or even all that trash and broken machinery parts that they just landed into in Gusev crater?

[Chris Talk]

The Fermi quote.

[Bikers4Bush]

LOL!!!!

[Calvin Locke]

I blame the Catholics.

I occasionally listen to a Rabbi on shortwave. He was "blaming" the Catholics for chapterizing and versing the Torah (OT) the other week.

[Consort]

[Chris Talk]

Come on now, be nice. Most Christians are Catholic or Orthodox, and there is very much of merit in these works and many others that the CATHOLICS, remember, failed to choose out for their "New Testament," 1100 years before the first Protestant ever lived.

[WhiteGuy]

When the aliens come they'll eat the fat one's first.

Damn it! you're right!

Where's that Adkins guy's book...................

[Chris Talk]

It is the Protestants who left them out, the Catholics and Orthodox include quite a number of them including the two books of Maccabees. I am not sure about Enoch, that is the best one. I know ben-Sirakh is in the Catholic bible.

[Chris Talk]

Wasn't that chapter-and-verse thing done by the 72 Jewish scholars who created the Septuagint bible in 271-269 BC?

[Calvin Locke]

I had the dream ...

FWIW, a researcher was on Art Bell a while back. He was studying the pineal gland, which is most active in the
early morning hours. It produces an LSD-like chemical during the same time period most people report abductions and visits.

Can't remember what sets it off, or what it might help generate dreams of.

[Dead Dog]

Poohbah beat you to it. However, I'm still going to blame the Catholics...for something at least. :)

[Calvin Locke]

RE: chapter-and-verse thing

I don't know. Maybe the Catholic Church "reformatted" afterward. Or the translator they used wasn't all that great.

[realpatriot71]

The Fermi quote.

(FYI - I don't know if what I said was a direct quote or not). You have to consider so many "ifs". If the universe is 12-15 Billion years old, and if life on earth is 3-4 Billion years old, this means that there has been enough time for at least 3 or 4 other intelligent societies to have evolved, not withstanding the consideration of parallel evolution as well. So if life is enevitable on an Earthlike planet in an Earthlike solar system with an Earthlike star, then considering the size of the universe there has to be at least a few more, perhaps 3 or 4, Earthlike planets, where life should be either evolved or evolving. (none of this considers any other sort of "life-esistance," except that of organic based life - so it's very narrow in focus).

Now since there should be other intelligent life, and probably, statistically speaking, any intelligent life could be a few billion years a head of us, with technology a billion yars ahead of us, these societies could have easily come to our solar system by now. Furthermore, consider that humans, as we exist now as an intelligent beings, have the technology to easily make it across our own galaxy in a mere Billion years. If all of this is true, there should have been REAL contact by now by an other intelligent society.

Since there has not been any contact this leads to the reasonable conclusion that we are (1) either alone or (2) ahead of the rest of the universe.