 Re: UFO\'s
There is a class at the University of Colorado called "the search for extra terrestrial life" I took it as it filled a requirement for upper division science and i just thought it would be freakin cool and possibly an easy A. Well, it wasn't an easy A, it was a hard B+.
Anyway, it was very interesting and most of the study surrounded the geology of other planets in our system. Believe it or not, NASA scientists (the prof was one) came up with an equation on the chances of ET life being out there. It was really amazing stuff and since taking this class I totally think there is something out there for sure! There are thousands of planets out there that are in the habitable zone (distance from sun where temps are right for liquid water to be present) regarding their respected sun (star). If you get a planet in the habitable zone the chances are good that water is also there. Well in our system 100% of the planets in the habitable zone have life on them. If you really look up into the sky with a telescope and look at what is out there you would have to be pretty arrogant to say that we are the only life in the universe.
Now do i think complex creatures are visiting us from light years away via anti gravity space ships? I kinda doubt that... Then again we did make a ton of technological progress over the past 100 years, so who is to say a civilization like ours that is a million years ahead of us hasn't figured out inter-universe travel?
To me, this is one of the biggest questions humans face... Fun to think about too...
Tim
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