I have been retracting some of the things I've said recently, not because I seriously doubt them myself but to be honest and also because friends have recommended this to me. I still believe in the prospect of Alien life an I did on one occasion see a being which is described as very tall humanoid figure, with human-like skin, extremely thin with abnormally large eyes (like a grey but not black, looking human), very small nose and mouth. And I didn't see it by a chance from my perspective, I actually believed during and shortly after the experience that I was "mentally directed" to travel to the location to see it although just for a brief moment (I believed I had been in some kind of sympathy with the mind of the being). More time after the experience and after speaking to few people about it I was not sure what exactly to believe and it's something that I've kind of kept to me, not something I like to talk much about but still something I'll always wonder about.

It's possible this was an illusion but in that case it's obvious that there are things we still don't understand about the human unconsciousness. What I personally believe myself is that we live in a world which is either multidimensional or that our visible world is only a limited and filtered frequency. I.e. I don't necessarily believe in faster-than-light travel, rather in some hidden feature of our Universe and in some kind of connection between seemingly distant parts of the Universe which we seemingly have yet to discover.

Anyway I want to suggest few videos to watch just to open the people to at least the possibility (the very strong possibility as I've discovered through my research of scientific literature, although I started out pessimistic as is the nature of my usual persona).

We Are the Aliens (BBC Documentary)

The Insignificance of our System

The Hubble Deep Field

is their life out there in the universe: yes
intelligent life : yes
have they been here: probably
is faster then light travel possible: yes, just because we cannot conceive of it, does not make it impossible.

a civilization that is a few million years old (or even a thousand years ahead of us) will appear to be magical to us, because we wont understand how they achieved the feats they do.

in computer terms, obscurity does not mean security. that principle should apply to this planet as well. IE: just because this planet orbits a average star in a average galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster, does not mean we have not been found.


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Hey Minifang,

Something, found me in my back yard. It is fascinating, scary, and humbling. I'm pretty sure we are not meant to lose our minds over their existance........... and discovering 'we are not alone'.
I realize just how it is. Even if those eyes are a little hard to get used to.

Instead of 'we have been discovered' more like, 'we have discovered our own reality'..... I'm sure they were here long before we were.

It's vanishing in front of me, did seem magical....... but I knew it to be 'other worldly'.


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http://www.space.com/searchforlife/aliens_all_001027-1.html

I am also of the theory that life could easily have come to earth in an asteroids..

Genetic material from outer space found in a meteorite in Australia
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/58.page

Scientists have now found that meteors and asteroids that fall to earth do not necessarily have hot centers ... the life could exist.. survive in asteroids...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

Why there are even plans to mine asteroids.. moons.... and actually utilize lava tubes..or extend caves.. hollows for safe underground habitation...

One could also extend that and create a Noah's Ark scenario... where a civilization.. plants.. animals.. can survive underground ..exist subterraneanly within the asteroids.. moons... that perhaps we can survive ... in various orbits... Venus has oxygen 60 miles out... and scientist are thinking of creating orbiting cities... utilizing moons... asteroids... for space exploration.. habitation.. research... mining.....
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-might-asteroids-be-colonized.htm
Who knows there could be ancient civilizations in some of those huge orbiting asteroids.. that have been long spoken of in legend...

http://www.tdf.it/IC2/TDF_IC2_Abstracts.htm