How do you think the first contact with intelligent aliens will happen?
920829
I think likely it will be a physical encounter ;\nThe reason is if you consider how far we have come in the last 50 years think of how far a species could have advanced in a million years after acquiring space travel capabilities.\nThere aree several reason another space faring species likely ar either aware of us or close to being so.\nIt stands to reason there would be billions of species which would not have had the turmoil our ancestors had on earth, thus enabling them to advance further.\nThere would have to be millions of species which never adapted the religious fevers our ancestors did and thus they did not have their entire civilizations in bondage to myths.\nThere has to be millions of species on millions of planets who would not think like humans but act instead more like insects (ants, bees, ect)  in which the entire species would act in sequences together and not splintered as earthlins are.  This would increase their chances of space travel even lignt speed and beyond by 1,000,000 %.\nIn planetary societies where the entire species worked together to futher space travel and colonlization we  would be very inferor were they to meet us.\nThe universe is so large in itself that the time when will humans meeting another species is going to happen because there has to be already so many space faring species out there..  It's not if.  It's when. And they may very well be watching us now for possibilities.  \nA species bent only on survival in mind and colonization would hardly consider us worth negotating wiith for peace.  The may well not under stand anything byut their own survival and expansion.
482291
Nah, probably not like this. Very probable that there's a planet with intelligent life though.
319872
A lot of people will lose their faith for sure, as majority of religious people do not believe in aliens. But there will be a lot of religious people who will make up stuff like God -created- alien- too -it- is- just- not- mentioned in- Bible kinda stuff.
1158056
As to finding aliens,  it's anyone's guess.\nAs to that kind of travel, the next generation may see it.  Boeing, UK, and Russia are presently researching "Anti-Gravity".  It is reported that Boeing has a center, not broadly publicised.\nUse your imagination on the ability to attract or repel an object, in space, by repelling the gravity of earth and attracting the gravity of another planet.\nThis has been "demonstrated" in Sci Fi, but so was our present communication devices.....in Dick Tracy comics...from the '30s on.\nRussia claims to have progressed further than others but will not offer proof.  UK has accomplished a minute amount of progress.
863274
The problem with your theory is that the aliens, by all reports, are fairly confused about our sexual organs. \n\nIf they have managed to create a human simalcrum based on their knowledge of the anus, you're right, that would be scary indeed.
328025
Absolutely! The odds that they exist are overwhelming when you think of how GALAXIES are scattered like specks of dust!\nNow... even though aliens exist, what are the odds that they are on another planet in our galaxy right NOW? Think about it... It took 50 million years for humans to appear on Earth. How long will we be here?... only 50 to 100 thousand years (hopefully)? How many other planets will bring forth intelligent life - not a whole heck of a lot. And of them, when will that life be around? Just a tiny amount of relative time.\n...What I am saying is that EVEN IF other civilizations were, are, or will be... the timeline of the universe is too insanely long for any of us to be co-existing. The reality may very well be that we are currently very alone here in our time and place. I hope this gives you a new, more realistic way of seeing things. Sorry it's such a downer, though!
19797
Rofl! That was going to be my answer.\n\nI think more than anything else, this is more a question of personal belief. It's like one of those "Is there a God" type questions, since even if somebody does know they answer they are not going to divulge it.\n\nTaking my own advice about the whole "personal belief" thing, I can honestly say that I think the government is more corupt than we could ever fathom, and they have gone from a government of the people to a government out to get people.\n\nI do also believe that sinister extra-terrestrials may play a large role in the corruption of our government... but that's me. The aliens are very much real, you know. And they are already here, and in about four or five years we will be hearing all about them.\n\nIlluminati? For all anybody knows they are real and they do have an influence among government officials.
1037252
If you are referring to other planets that are habitable, I believe that mathematically there has to be intelligent life in other parts of the universe. Here is why.\n\n1. The Hubble Telescope estimates that there are 125 billion galaxies.\n2. Each galaxy has roughly 100 billon stars.\n3. If even 1% of those have planets and only 1% of those are habitable and only 1% of those have life, the odds are high.\n\nThe odds are extremely favorable for there to be extraterrestrial life. \n\nOne can use Drake's equation to calculate the chance of life in our galaxy. Multiply that result times the number of galaxies. See the second link below.\n\nA totally different question would be whether or not we would actually interact with extraterrestrials...\n\nI will leave that one to another Y! Answers Question
599329
A resounding YES! The reason we haven't met them is quite obvious, really. The incidents of life as we know it are so far apart that it would take more time for them to reach us or for us to reach them than any given life form in the universe has. In other words, we will all die and all trace of our existance will be long gone by the time any other beings got here. Take it from an alien!
198931
Like they said in the movie Contact, I don't know, but if not that's an awful waste of space.\n\nYes, I believe that life exists in some form out there. I'm not sure if I believe they are "among us" but I do believe we have a lot of unanswered questions regarding UFOs. \n\nThe government hiding things from us? Awwww. You don't think they would really do that, do you? You'd be amazed at how much our government keeps from us. I worked in military intelligence at one time. There is something called "a need to know." And who do you think decides who needs to know?
829665
The one video shows what looks like something much larger than insects.Until people have had some sort of contact or psychic impression such as Remote Viewing it's too soon to tell.Maybe they are as one person said some type of probe. It could be possible for other civilizations to create organic devices or to mimic them. These might also be some sign of a return of a certain species or about some climactic event that's about to happen here.Yea I think I'll go with probes. Maybe nano probes?
1037468
i would freak the hell out. but, thats just me.. i don't know what the world would do.. probably try to contact the aliens.
1096625
Your theory on aliens being earthlings from the future is absolutely plausible. I am not by any means convinced of aliens visiting us but I have followed area 51 since I was 15 years old which was a long time ago. The original stories and my technical knowledge of the time told me that it was a hoax but thought the years with the "Right to know" act being passed, government documents have been released through the years that have proved the government wasnt telling the total truth. For instance, a young physicist named Bob Lazar told the public that he was hired by the government to reverse engineer something that was at area 51. The government denied that he ever worked there. Years later it was found that this fellow actually worked there. I didnt let it sway me too much but recently a retired General who originally had the job of reverse engineering early Russian planes wrote a book about it. He claims that he was moved to area 51 to start the reverse engineering of this so called space craft. He states that many of the things we use today are a direct byproduct of his teams findings such as desktop pcs.... lasers that can burn through 1 inch steel, passive night vision and so on. The most interesting thing he said though was the fact that they found these aliens weren't aliens at all but from our future! He said that they navigated time by simply exiting the space time continuum and reentering it elsewhere in time. The thing that baffles me is in the past 20 years our technology has exploded. I also wonder why all of our air weapons have been released and sold to other countries such as the stealth bomber and fighter planes. We must be sitting on something big!
980812
The Universe is Boundless.  Without Boundary, so without an end...  That's not to say it doesn't loop back on itself eventually...\n\n\nFind Friends?..  No.  I don't believe we will find friends.  At least not without our own species evolving a great deal between now and then...\n\nWhen an individual is confronted by another individual, there's a certain measuring up that occurs...  Those two people have the ability to become friends if they share a common goal / interest / History that gives them a mutual understanding...\n\nI doubt we would come across any extra-terrestial life that we will be able to become friends with.\n\nFor all our Science Fiction with lofty ethics, humanity is in fact a very selfish, brutal and dominating species.  \nWe destroy what we can not control, and exploit those things that we can control.\n\nAny species we come in contact with will end with us:\n1. leaving and not maintaining contact.  Thus not a Friend...\n2. suppressing to make way for our own expansion.  Thus not a friend...\n3. enslaving (domesticating) then for our own uses.  Thus not a friend...\n4. destroying them for our own safety.  Thus not a friend...\n5. having any of the previous four done to us...  Thus not a friend.\n\nThe best we can hope for is that those we opt to leave with minimal contact are more interested in trading with us than with persuing any of the other options on the list...  Perhaps after a very long time this could develop into a trading friendship - But we'd have to be sharing a system with completely different home planets and different enviromental needs...  Or eventually we would get in each other's way...\n\nNo...  As a species, we're not very good at making friends...
758341
That we will never Know. We can only make our judgements on tht topic in relation to our. civilization and how we relate to the enviroment(that includes different cultures creatures etc). but due to the possibility of alien inteligence out there their culture and way of thinking may be well beyond different than ours. that to state weather they will be agressive or peacefull is a question to be answered when we come to encounter the other civilization face to face.
1087382
May be we humans are the aliens??!!! Ever thought about that!
281369
I also think that it would be very small-minded to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the vast expanses of outer space, moreover, i think that its not a matter of IF we meet being from somewhere else, but WHEN we meet them, sooner or later were gonna cross paths.