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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:43 PM Jan 2020

'Aliens exist and could be here on Earth'

Aliens exist and it is possible they are among us on Earth, the first Briton to go into space has said. Dr Helen Sharman told the Observer Magazine that extra-terrestrial life is bound to be somewhere in the universe.

"Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it," she said, adding that "there must be all sorts of different forms of life" among the billions of stars.

Dr Sharman, 56, made history when she travelled to the Soviet space station Mir in May 1991.

The chemist, who now works at Imperial College, London, added that although aliens may not be made up of carbon and nitrogen like humans "it's possible they're here right now and we simply can't see them".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51003374

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'Aliens exist and could be here on Earth' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 OP

That might explain Trump. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #1

My first thought too. cwydro Jan 2020 #4

Could also add Boris Johnson to that. CatMor Jan 2020 #10

Except unfortunately we CAN see him. MoonRiver Jan 2020 #12

Clearly Dr. Sharman has been too busy to catch the documentary evidence of the aliens among us... Moostache Jan 2020 #2

The "there's no difference between the two parties" thing is right wing propaganda jberryhill Jan 2020 #8

I'm not saying she's wrong. I don't know. I'm saying mahina Jan 2020 #11

Love that movie packman Jan 2020 #13

Ive never been abducted, or seen a ufo, or had any kind of encounter.... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #3

I've got special glasses for that. Ilsa Jan 2020 #5

Hortas are real! blogslut Jan 2020 #6

As we start filling in more of the variables in the Drake equation lapfog_1 Jan 2020 #7

Only separated by safeinOhio Jan 2020 #9

And they are illusions, so... MoonRiver Jan 2020 #14

I am convinced today's rebukes are undercover aliens like in the movie, " They Live ". kimbutgar Jan 2020 #15

I think she means some non carbon microbe edhopper Jan 2020 #16

Space aliens are called "cats" DBoon Jan 2020 #17

You may be correct. I have two cats, or more properly, MineralMan Jan 2020 #18

Or they could be here, and don't want to be seen, like a birder blind Baclava Jan 2020 #19

They are probably in some form we humans can't comprehend yet. cbdo2007 Jan 2020 #20

Most of them are grad students studying beetles. hunter Jan 2020 #21

Men in Black is a documentary Renew Deal Jan 2020 #22

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)

1. That might explain Trump.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:45 PM

Jan 2020

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

4. My first thought too.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:49 PM

Jan 2020

But don’t we always refer to extraterrestrial life as other “intelligent” life forms?

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

10. Could also add Boris Johnson to that.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:07 PM

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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

12. Except unfortunately we CAN see him.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:17 PM

Jan 2020

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

2. Clearly Dr. Sharman has been too busy to catch the documentary evidence of the aliens among us...

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:47 PM

Jan 2020

"The Simpsons" broke this news to us more than 20 years ago!!!

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

8. The "there's no difference between the two parties" thing is right wing propaganda

Reply to Moostache (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:54 PM

Jan 2020

The purpose of "no difference between the two" is to demotivate.

It is very popular with extremist and fringe idealogues.

mahina

(17,669 posts)

11. I'm not saying she's wrong. I don't know. I'm saying

Reply to Moostache (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:09 PM

Jan 2020

Galaxy Quest was funny.

packman

(16,296 posts)

13. Love that movie

Reply to mahina (Reply #11)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:17 PM

Jan 2020

Not much of a Tim Allen fan, but I gave him a nod in this one. Alan Rickman was funny as hell and superb as was the rest of the cast.

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)

3. Ive never been abducted, or seen a ufo, or had any kind of encounter....

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:47 PM

Jan 2020

And its pissing me off. Listen up you alien idiots. I want to see you. Stop hiding, damnit!

Step forward and admit you are the ones religious zeolites believe are god.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

5. I've got special glasses for that.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:51 PM

Jan 2020

And none of the aliens I've seen are children locked up by ICE at the US/Mexico border. Trust me on this donald.

blogslut

(38,002 posts)

6. Hortas are real!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:52 PM

Jan 2020

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Horta

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

7. As we start filling in more of the variables in the Drake equation

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:53 PM

Jan 2020

It seems like a certainty that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That said, it would still be unlikely that such life forms have discovered earth, given that we have only been "active in radio spectrum" for the last 110 years or so... meaning that an alien speices would have to have a listening post within 110 light years of earth to even think that this rock would be worth visiting.

safeinOhio

(32,688 posts)

9. Only separated by

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:02 PM

Jan 2020

space and time.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

14. And they are illusions, so...

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #9)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:19 PM

Jan 2020

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)

15. I am convinced today's rebukes are undercover aliens like in the movie, " They Live ".

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:24 PM

Jan 2020

I understand they are cultish and brainwashed but it’s something deeper.

edhopper

(33,587 posts)

16. I think she means some non carbon microbe

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:34 PM

Jan 2020

that could be somewhere on earth. Not intelligent aliens living among us.

DBoon

(22,369 posts)

17. Space aliens are called "cats"

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:59 PM

Jan 2020

Any dog will confirm that they are not from this world.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

18. You may be correct. I have two cats, or more properly,

Reply to DBoon (Reply #17)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 03:12 PM

Jan 2020

there are two cats who abide in the same dwelling place where I live. They seem to have the power to transport themselves instantly from place to place. For example, if I go into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee, when I turn around there is one of the cats, looking up at me, expectantly. Unless I give the alien creature a piece of food, it stays there. Once i provide food, it disappears, as if by teleportation.

The other cat mysteriously appears on my bed within seconds of my lying down on it. It was nowhere to be seen when I went into the bedroom, but suddenly is beside me, demanding that I stroke it in a particular way for a few minutes. Then, it disappears once again.

Aliens? You decide.

Baclava

(12,047 posts)

19. Or they could be here, and don't want to be seen, like a birder blind

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 03:13 PM

Jan 2020

We could be an exotic pet nature preserve, with paying customers coming from far and wide to visit the hairless apes.

Or they created us and don't want to contaminate their little experiment by revealing their presence

I, for one, welcome our new overlords