All of my thoughts on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

What constitutes contact with an extraterrestrial life form?

It may make sense that such a claim would have to have compelling scientific evidence, since science is the best method that humans have come up with so far for backing up claims in the real world.

But what is ENOUGH evidence?

We have astronauts saying there have been cover-ups.

We have skeptics saying UFOs are weather balloons, government testing, coincidence, insanity.

We have past civilizations shrouded in mystery – the Mayans, the Egyptians, et cetera – sometimes with what appears to be lost technologies compared to the level of human knowledge of today.

We have “Chariots of the Gods”.

We have the seemingly impossible (to us) logistics of long distance, high-speed space travel – see the work of Nichio Kaku and Albert Einstein, which suggests that space and time may be more of a fabric.

Laws of human science claim that nothing we know of can travel faster than the speed of light.

There are at least 1 billion stars in our galaxy. And there are at least 1 billion galaxies.

These numbers inform Drake’s Equation, which purports that the chances are simply too large for extraterrestrial life NOT to exist.

Furthermore, what is meant by the term “intelligent species”? Does that mean “sentient”? Does it mean “as intelligent or more intelligent than our own”?

And isn’t that arrogant on many levels?

Thinking that we are “the only ’sentient’ beings in the universe”?

And wanting to compare extraterrestrial intelligence to our own? Maybe that only because it’s the only measuring stick we know.

Also, we have been searching and broadcasting information into the sky using radio signals. But maybe their technology would be different than ours!
As in, not wave-based? Perhaps some kind of new particle-based communication system?

There is the issue of the concieved dangers of teleportation.

There is the theory that “abductees”, those who claim they were kidnapped by extraterrestrial species of some kind, have their memory clouded or erased.

Is God an extraterrestrial?

My questions are many.

Could “UFO experiences” be dreams? We all have so many at night – some of them incredibly REAL.

It’s difficult for me to place full validity on claims at night, during sleep, because of this.

I’ve had DREAMS of PARALYSIS. A lot of people have, right?

I’ve had vivid dreams. Dreams that seemed SO real that they mess up the rest of my “day” (this is assuming that I am NOT still sleeping! – Ha. Am I really writing this? To be or not to be?)

And I think a lot of people have shared many of these types of experiences while sleeping/dreaming.

That is why I think the absolute best evidence we have or could hope to attain are the big sightings during the day – the ones with many separate witnesses at once.

As with any other unexplained phenomena, any of these happenings could be (and often are) dismissed as publicity stunts or hoaxes.

Hell, if we’re going to go that far, all of our lives might just be dreams.

I think this is why we reach out so much to other human beings – others of our species. It’s comforting, even if this is difficult to do in a society of increasing distrust and unrest.

We CAN guess at what would be the impact of the discovery of extraterrestrial life, and the implications there are HUGE. What an earth-shaking day that would be.

The only thing we can do is keep our eyes and ears open, and keep watching the sky and the stars.

Those brightly burning suckers really burned out years ago and the light is only reaching us now.

Chew on that one.