- do you believe in aliens? I believe the probability of alien life is very high.
- if you are atheist do you believe in aliens? Yes, I see the question of a deity as a separate issue. The subjects obviously can intersect, but I don't think one is pertinent to the others existence.
- do you think aliens are a bunch of punks for not showing up already? I think the reason is most likely due to the distance between points of interest. Aliens life is bound by the same universal laws as we are. That is not to say faster-then-light travel is impossible, just that it is the first thing I would blame for the absence of alien contact. Still, we have objects that travel through space, not at the speed of light, but for incredible amounts of time, and evidence of alien life has not been brought to us by those means either. The contrast between the high probability of alien life and the complete lack of evidence or communication is known as the Fermi paradox. Some popular speculation on this subject includes the
Zoo hypotheses and The
Great Filter.
- or do you think it's the government man? There are many logical reason why I don't believe in govt coverup of aliens, in addition to just believing out govt is too incompetent to pull it off. (They couldn't cover up Clinton's blowjob) I do however believe that bodies within the govt do not mind it when sightings of secret military craft are mistaken for UFO's, and see it as better than revealing secrets.
Well if you don't know then I guess they have done their job.
Conspiracy theory 101: any evidence against the theory can be made into evidence for the theory, via the conspiracy. But seriously, I think he meant there are times when it's beneficial to have your people believe in aliens rather than them digging into classified technology.