by Tim Thumb

Created on: July 24, 2008   Last Updated: October 29, 2010

Extraterrestrials

I must say that what I write may not be directly linked to my own beliefs. This will be a stroll around a fascinating subject, so if it clashes with your own perception that is fine. Just remember that this is a stroll and not a preaching of a belief system.

I suppose a stereotypical view of ET's is the thought of little green men flying around. But this is not thought I agree with. I mean this is not to say there is not such a species, but first we must think of the vastness of space and then all the planets within and realise that the structure of other beings would definitely vary. And of course maybe some do not even have physical bodies yes I realise that sounds a little strange but this is not out of the realm of possibility. Our universe is of course all energy at an atomic level and smaller. So who's to say that all aliens vibrant at the same density as we do. I mean our eyes as wonderful as they are only capture a minute fraction of what is going on around us. But then this is not to say they do not perceive themselves as physical beings as their eyes maybe more highly evolved. First thing though I shall share this thought.

Dr Harrison H. Brown (California Institute of Technology) Estimates that virtually every star in our galaxy has a planetary system, in each of which, two or four planets might have an Earth-like environment and chemistry that encourages our kind of life to exist. He gives the enormous figure of 100 billion stars with planets in the Milky Way alone. (There are 450 billion galaxies)

They are some seriously big numbers. But are they correct? I do not know, but to be honest we all know without being astronomers that universe is ridiculously big. In my head when some one says there is no such thing as aliens, this is nothing but an illogical statement. There is no question in my head that beings exist outside of our planet. I would also put forward that there have been races else where in the universe that have long been and gone. Humans seem to perceive ourselves as highly evolved beings but although we are not doing bad, I would suspect there are far greater evolved species than humans. In terms of an evolutionary scale we are actually not that old and as for the characteristics of the human mind well I would say that is still rather primitive in it's ways. I mean think of what we are doing to our planet and all the species that live upon it. But mostly think of the way we treat each other, with our messed up separatist

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