I've been abducted twice.

Biased poll is biased

Also the universe is expanding outwards increasing the distance between galaxies and everything else making it less likely that we will ever visit or be visited by extraterrestrial life.

I believe other life has existed in the universe, but because of the age; approx 13.8 billion years old. Any life (that can be seen as sentient or complex) would have either pre dated our existence and died out or is yet to come. The idea that humans (and we've only been around a few thousand years on the scale of things) that we are around the same time as other universal life on par with human intelligence is 99.99 percent impossible.

They're out there, but there's a 99.8582876499627947256399467487462628847636627487355627 percent chance that you didn't read that number.

The reapers are coming.

life in some form or another at some time or another is very likely. distance and especially time are factors in detecting them existing along side us. i think coming right out and asking if others are/have been [i]here[/i] is a much more interesting and entertaining question. while i don't have a problem with the extraterrestrial hypothesis, there is no obvious evidence for them coming from other stars. the ETH made the most sense decades* ago when we looked around and realised they weren't ours and our understanding of the "universe" then left us no other answer than another planet. it's my opinion after studying the subject that it's likely not so simple. i find it very unlikely that independent life that's close enough to make it here [i]while we're here[/i] would evolve into humanoids. however, too many police, military, pilots, radar operators and honest citizens have and continue to see very disturbing craft in the skies (and under water) to toss aside the subject. physicists say string theory can't be proven, but i think the ufos prove string theory is correct. i don't think people are describing interstellar space craft, they're saying overwhelmingly again and again that they are simply appearing and blinking out, like a light switch. i think that the ufos prove that Einstein Rosen bridges or wormholes are not only real but being used. if not able to be artificially created possibly they already exist and we've not found them (or more frightening, perhaps some of us have found them. some of our more perplexing missing persons/aircraft/ water craft mysteries might be solved this way, regardless of whether lost accidentally or taken intentionally its interesting to ponder. this possible phenomena also might explain some very interesting OOPArt [out of place artifacts] cases). the simplest interpretation of string theory implies that we have something like 11 dimensions, however, the many worlds interpretation says they could be infinite, all occupying the same space but vibrating at different notes like different strings on the same instrument. think about it like a complex hall of mirrors, but the farther away the more different/unpredictable the reality in the mirror. everything that ever happened, will happen or could happen is happening in separate "mirrors" at once. so traveling to 'branes that are very similar to ours but more or less advanced would give you an effect that would look and feel just like time travel and or alternate history [u]but[/u] where there would be no "grandfather paradox'' actions in one are independent of the others. but some "mirrors" would be very different places. if we could step into a 'brane/dimension/'verse nearly identical to ours but farther behind in development/"time" the first thing we'd do is build a "spy" program or vehicle or drone to explore as quietly as possible and record historic events. in such a scenario we and some of the "aliens" would pretty much be identical right down to a genetic level so the biological experimentation described by many alleged abductees should at least should be considered. our history is tainted by loss, bad memory and the word of the victorious. it'd be historically and scientifically priceless and commercially very entertaining to record and actually see how it really happened (or [i]could[/i] have happened) and there is some anecdotal evidence that ufos have been seen at some early historic & religious events. for example: *on 2 occasions alexander the great's army was said to have encountered gleaming shields in the sky. in the 1rst the "shields" met the army at a river crossing and sent the army scattering in a panic. the second event was at the battle of tyr where both alexander [i]and[/i] his opponents recorded that this/these sky shields destroyed the city wall assuring victory for alexander. * christopher columbus was supposedly followed by strange lights just before finding land. *ufos were commonly reported during ww2 (and other wars). american pilots called them "foo fighters" and their descriptions varied from ball of light to metallic craft, just like modern sightings. they were seen in all theaters and everyone thought they belonged to everyone else. in the vietnam war allegedly we called them "enemy helicopters" (neither the VC nor the NVA had helicopters). string theory [i]could[/i] explain why there are so many variations [i]and[/i] consistencies in craft/critter descriptions. [i]and[/i] if all these multiverses,dimensions,membranes are common to each other it stands to reason that on a similar but unique parallel evolutionary path on a earth all their own with the same ingredients (earth and her elements) could explain why the better descriptions of the others are some what varied but mostly humanoid in description instead of something very different like some kind of intelligent goo or plasma (a thought. could "ghosts" fit in this category? something we cant yet understand or explain interacting with our reality in some way but that some otherwise honest people under some unknown conditions perhaps do kind of perceive? and so people automatically interpret them as "dead spirits" out of honest ignorance or just choose to ignore reports completely and dismiss alleged witnesses as nutjobs.) i recommend anything by dr j allen hynek, dr jaques vallee, dr John e mack and ted Phillips collection of physical trace cases. for a few better cases to start out with i suggest googling : * japan airlines radar (military radar)/visual case over alaska. its a very well documented top tier radar/visual case. the [i]enormous[/i] object was described by the very experienced pilot, cpt. kenju terauchi, as being shaped like a shelled walnut and the size of 2 aircraft carriers and when and where the pilot said it moved visually it also moved on radar. the division chief of the Accidents and Investigation branch of the FAA, john callihan, kept a stack of data which includes a video of the radar scope with the recorded radio communication between the tower and the jet, it exists. that event lasted around a half an hour. soon after, a large air force jet may have witnessed thing too, that radio call was recorded as well. the pilot asks about it and the controller says its very rare to see the lights up there. * there's another good radar case from 1953 during the cold war when a ufo was spotted on radar above lake Superior. they scrambled a 2 man fighter piloted by felix moncla to intercept the target. in the tower the operators watched as the two blips merged on the scope then just faded out. the fighter and crew are still missing. they have a monument dedicated to the the incident that mentions the ufo. officially the u.s. air force decided the fighter must have hit a Canadian plane, the Canadians say that's preposterous. * in australia a fred valentich and his airplane disapeared after a very disturbing radio conversation with air traffic controllers in which he describes a metallic thing with green light "playing games" with him before suddenly announcing that it was hovering right over him, and that he was having engine & electrical trouble (electronics failure is reported often) the last thing he said was "it's not an aircraft!" before the recording ended in a few seconds of unidentified metallic squealing/grinding noise. neither he nor is plane were ever found. * or officer val Johnson who lost consciousness when is patrol car was hit by a basketball sized ball of light. both the clock in the car and is wrist watch were something like 14 or 17 minutes slow after the incident. his car suffered some interesting damage and resides in their local museum. there are many, many other good cases worthy of consideration, even just for the mystery like the: *Mary Celeste, found adrift with everything topside and below decks [u]completely intact[/u] including cargo with no crew aboard like they all went for a swim at the same time. if it were a rogue wave that cleared the deck stuff would've been messed up everywhere and it was a big enough ship that there still would be guys below decks who weren't swept away. also, on youtube there is a very interesting/ easy to understand 7 minute video of the great dr carl sagan describing how an encounter with extradimensional beings might play out using the famous 2 dimensional "flat land". dr sagan did not believe in space aliens visiting earth, but his scenario perfectly, even disturbingly mirrors the situation many alleged abductees report. to find it search youtube for: [u]Carl Sagan's Cosmos ~ Understanding Dimensions[/u]. its worth a few minutes. free videos on youtube with dr michio kaku are a very good place to start looking at string theory for beginners. *its the opinion of some that before we could conceive of space flight that they were called leprechauns, fairies, angels, demons or even gods. there are many historical works of art including cave paintings and famous religious pieces with what look suspiciously like what we'd call ufos today. maybe religion started because some of the "watchers" had a sense of humor or simply weren't sneaky enough.

You know what's funny? Someone out there is probably wondering the same thing.

Analytical data (I.E. the Drake equation) would say yes, while empirical data would say no, hence the Fermi Paradox exists. You're creating a false dichotomy of two irrational answers.

The universe is so big. We've obaerlu planned to send people to mars Imagine 10 times past that(even though Mars is like a crap A few light years away)