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'Alien life form' can exist on other planets. At a very simplified take, oceans can have tiny things, just like water in our cup. Point is life outside earth can exist.

However I do not accept Aliens that have visited us or hiding. To keep something like this under wraps to this very day is extremely unlikely!

This is coming from someone who has seen a 'UFO' but it does not mean its Alien from another planet. The LIKELY example is advanced and/or hidden tech. I can only assume.

Aliens, as portrayed with big eyes in their hovercrafts, etc... go in the same category as loch ness monster, bigfoot, fairies, god, and the darn flying spaghetti monster!




A scary sci-fi thought I read some time ago, was that given the age of the earth it is not only possible but likely that if aliens did visit, they visited before Humans even existed.

The sci-fi element was that if they visited before even the dinosaurs, and mined some special material that, as an example, was some rare material that allowed for faster than light travel, we would never know. The other aliens that have the technology would never even bother to visit a planet incapable of interaction with the wider universe.


> The sci-fi element was that if they visited before even the dinosaurs, and mined some special material that, as an example, was some rare material that allowed for faster than light travel

Nice 'science fiction'

Personally this does not change my thought process. Hollywood might be interested in knowing more of this fiction. Who knows maybe, like many of their recent films, they will dump something out in 2026 with bad CGI.


Which sci-fi do you like that doesn't incorporate CGI or an element where the protagonist or antagonist doesn't have some ability to travel faster than the current known speed limits? Just The Martian maybe?

Both are kind of lazy conplainy takes about the entire genre.




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