After watching the Hit Movie" The Incredibles", I couldn't help but marvel at how well each character was drawn. I was also looking at some photos of extrateresterials (if that was spelled right) and couldn't help but wonder "If there are beings living on worlds beyond our solar system, would they look anything like this":

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=pg&id=1808405432&photoid=549127&intl=us

This is the Character "Mirage" from the movie The Incredibles. I wonder if there are any true life aliens outside our solar system there that may look like this for real!

Do you think so?

The probability of life on other planets is very high. I have little doubt that extraterrestrials (this is the correct spelling, btw, Dunkirk :)) exist.

I think it is extreamly self important to think that we are the only other intelligent beings out here. Look at the universe... OMG there are so many solar systems, countless uncharted planets... To think that we are the only populated world with intelligent life is pretty self inflated.

I want to believe that there is other life out there. So far no proof of course. Logic would say yes.

no... there is proof... I mean we have recieved communications from outer space that we cannot identify.

An alien can look like many many things. Perhaps as unlike a human as you can imagine. But perhaps exactly like this character Mirage. However, our current biological knowledge does put limits on the outward apperance of "intelligent beings." I can't give you all the details now but it should be widely availble online.

I personally think the probability of intelligent life is high. There are lots of places, and some of them probably have intelligent life. What the form of that life is, is hard to say. We just don't know enough. Another question to contemplate is whether extraterrestrial life needs to be carbon based. Is silicon based life possible, for instance. How would one recognize intelligent life, if it didn't build things. Would a colony of silicon based life forms that debate philosophy appear intelligent to us?
A second question is whether there are intelligent life forms on this planet? Whales and Dolphins spring to mind. How does one measure a nonhuman intelligence? Conventional I.Q. tests require some degree of cultural competence.

There is also the possibility that other forms of "life" exist outside our range of sight and hearing. We would not know the wind exists if not for the motion effect. Sounds are produced beyond our range of hearing so maybe there is more to our environment than we can comprehend.

There is one thing that I am very sure of.. If there is life out there on worlds beyond our solar system, that resembles anything near the photo of Mirage, I'd be willing to bet almost anything that they know far more about us than we'll ever know about them :(

There is surely life on other planets.

They can't get here, it's too far.

I dunno, many people have claimed to have had close encounters with what was believed to be aliens from other worlds. I for one cannot say if these stories were either true of false, but perhaps there is a way to travel through space that we as earthlings have not discovered. People once believed that man would NEVER walk on the moon because to get there would be impossible. ( it was too far). Not only have we found a way to get there several times, but we have also managed to send robotic probes to almost every planet in our solar system... I am very sure that there is some means of space travel that will allow us to travel many times farther than modern technology will allow us to at present, we just haven't figured it out yet :(

Perhaps whatever lives "out there" simply isn't interested in the Earth yet - humanity is still akin to kids on a playground that don't function well in groups.

Its funny how this same question is answered differently today as compared to yesteryear. Of course then we can go even further back in time, and they believed in other worlds, life forms, etc..... Maybe we allready had all the answers and because of folks ego's they were destroyed???????

Life on other worlds?

Definately! It would be arrogant to think otherwise.

We are discovering planets orbiting other stars. Now that scientists know what to look, more and more are being found. Sooner or later, if the scientific community keeps the funding used for such research, we'll learn how to find and view Earthlike planets where life can exist. It's possible that it's only a question of time.

Dunkirk is right. Things we take for granted today, would've been deemed impossible 100, or even 50 years from now. The power of our computers nowadays, the internet, flight faster than the speed of sound (flight at all for that matter), sending men to the moon, electric lights, cell phones. The point is that in all of human history, this technical revolution started only 150 years ago (the roots, the THINKING that went into our marvels goes back to the Renaisance, the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution). Imagine what life will be like in another 50, l00 or 200 years. Imagine a race of Aliens that have made the discoveries we have made a thousand or even a million years ago. What would they capable of accomplishing now? What will WE be capable of in a thousand years?

Ed Blank said that other solar systems are "too far" to get to. With today's technology, yes. But we don't know everything, and I have no doubts that other civilizations have figured out how to travel quickly across interstellar space.

The question I have is this. What happened at Rosswell? Don't even think of telling me it was a weather balloon!

Originally posted by Darth Be'lal
[The question I have is this. What happened at Rosswell? Don't even think of telling me it was a weather balloon!

A few years back they came out and said it was test dumbies, they were trying out some sort of parachute and using test dumbies.

I don't know if they'll ever tell us the real truth behind what happens there :@@:

I reckon the idea is to keep us all focused on Roswell and not on some other thing that's far worse. Like the new McDonalds emblem.

Yes mad dog,

There was two projects one was project Man High and there was the military project you referred to that used test dummies. The problem with those explanation is that they happened several YEARS after the original Roswell incident.

Let me give you the explanation that the military would have you believe. It was a common weather balloon, a TOP SECRET weather balloon, a balloon the Japanese used to bomb the West Coast during the Second World War, the Air Force was testing parachutes using dummies and a live person. All of which wound up bombarding Mac Brazell's ranch (in spite of the fact that these projects took place in different years)on the same date at the same time. Mac Brazell panics, Jesse Marcell, the Air Force intelligence officer at Roswell couldn't tell his hat from his ass on that day and called it an alien invasion. The local mortician (forgot his name) talked to an imaginary nursewho was saying a dead alien was being autopsied at the base (the mortician was on base that day and was threatened by MPs).

Do they really expect me to believe that?