Anyone watching Larry King discussing UFO's?

[Auntie Bush]

What ya think? Are you a believer? Take a look and don't forget to catch the repeat at 12:00.

[rwheeler31]

1. no

[Akoto]

2. I personally do believe, but ...

I recognize (and accept) that most people will not believe, short of the ships landing and the aliens coming out for a chat. :)

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. I think virtually everybody has, at some time or another...

...looked up in the sky and seen something moving through the air that they could not, and did not, readily identify -- that's a UFO, unless I misunderstand the term -- a far cry from claiming to have seen a craft from outer space.

What are you talking about when you say you believe?

[Akoto]

4. Well ...

In the context of this discussion, I think UFO refers to alien spacecraft. That's what's being discussed on Larry King, anyhow.

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

5. Are there not billions of galaxies besides our Milky Way?

Just from a probablity stand point, yes, there has to be more life out there.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

7. I agree with that -- and I missed LK. nt.

[Akoto]

8. In actuality ...

There may be more galaxies than we can even see. I was watching a cool show on the science channel a few weeks back. They showed a picture, within which there were a few things and mostly the blackness of space. They then displayed the same area with a far more advanced telescope, and it revealed countless galaxies. Every little pinprick was a different one. We can't begin to imagine how vast it is out there, which is why I agree that the odds are in favor of other life in the universe. Given the age of the universe, it's also feasible that somebody else out there has been around for much longer and is capable of interplanetary travel.

[IDemo]

12. There was at least one thread on that picture a while back

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=228&topic_id=36219&mesg_id=36219

video link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=13c_1172950608

[leeman67]

6. No, but I do believe there is life on other planets

and i also believe that there is likely intelligent life. Considering the literally billions of star systems it would seem almost impossible for there not to be.

[keep_it_real]

9. I believe because I saw in LI, NY

Working the 4 to 12 midnight shift i was getting in my car to go get lunch/dinner, putting the keys in my car door, looked up and a square object very high in the sky, black - which is why i noticed it because in the whole clear blue sky here was a black, square object the size of a box of cigarette's in the sky in terms of hight, very high; one second it was there when i saw it, next second it was gone, like it knew i saw it. I call it the one second siting.

[Auntie Bush]

10. An interesting point that Larry's guest pointed out why the government. wouldn't admit

that were aliens and the reason was due to religious beliefs. I wondered why the f*** was that. Answer...If we admit there is life on another planet then there goes the belief man was created by God and religion and all it's beliefs go down the tube. Pat Robertson proven wrong...again!

I wonder if a Dem president would open the classified files on UFOs?
That would be a good divisive campaign question.

[IDemo]

11. I am somewhat split on the issue

I feel there is almost no question that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. But I have to question the common conception of UFO's as vehicles that advanced civilizations would use to travel many light years to examine us. It's been many years since I read this, but Carl Sagan wrote of what he called "The Santa Claus Hypothesis"; comparing UFO's to the likelihood of a jolly outsized elf visiting every child on Earth in one night (using relativistic reindeer). Sagan was also a believer in extraterrestrial intelligence, but felt it much more likely we would detect "them" with radio telescopes than flying saucer encounters.

My own thoughts: If I were a sufficiently advanced civilization that wished to bless other intelligent species in the Universe with my presence, I would be more inclined to digitize my DNA and care and feeding requirements and then transmit the info outwards in the hope that a sufficiently capable civilization would be motivated to reconstruct me (us).

It's still hard to argue with at least some of the video evidence, though...

[shraby]

13. I saw one too.

[IndianaGreen]

14. UFOs are more credible than Jesus, and...

no one has been burned at the stake for not believing in UFOs.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. A space faring society with the advanced technology to reach Earth

would probably have a form of highly-evolved life that we may not even recognize as life. For one thing, over thousands of years of civilization and applied science they probably would have evolved into some type of AI machine life, with the ability to take on the form of anything. They may even have become one with their craft and their craft may be able to take on any shape or to divide itself into small pieces and then shape-shift, dispersing itself over a wide area or reintegrating itself at will. The ash tray in my room might be an alien for all I know.

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

16. Well if you believe Roswell and other similiar crashes....'they' do die.

I find USO's more interesting than UFO's. They might even be the same thing. Imagine if UFO's have nothing to do with space after all and our a Earth based issue. Atlantis? Maybe looking at the sky is the wrong approach, try looking at ocean depths. Two things we know not enough about are space and our oceans. Hmmm. Wouldn't it be something if they were under our noses the whole time. Or maybe UFO's and USO's are different, but the same. Sorta like Chevy and Ford. A interesting subject indeed.

[ruggerson]

17. Isn't that like the Pope discussing Germans?