News flash: There are no aliens.

As for aliens, I think they're out there. The Milky Way contains 100 billion stars, and is only one of the estimated 125 billion (from Nasa.com) out there in the universe. Add in the fact that X-ray telescopes have recently graphed hundreds of water signatures in distant solar systems, indicating a much stronger possibility of life than most scientists were expecting, and I'm onboard the alien train. The odds just have it, though I'm skeptical of whether our government actually does.

It'll be interesting to see where this leads.

And before we are inundated with tin-foil hatters bound for Mars it might be appropriate to point out that 12 men walked on the moon.

The current National Institute for Mental Health statists point to 1 in 4 having some mental health problems.

Besides even if he's completely rational it certainly doesn't rule out fabrication.

I'd prefer evidence over any one persons account before I tear up every History book and Science textbook we currently live by, thanks all the same.

No matter what the occupation or how outwardly plausable the individual is.

And I'm way too fucking lazy for that shit!

I envisioned it way differently, but it could be cool...

If you want to see an absolutely amazing interview with an alien contactee check out the clip. http://youtube.com/watch?v=VDX WboW8bVI The interview was done in 1994!

Why did Ozymandias want to do the whole invasion thing by the way?, haven't read Watchmen, on wikipedia it says to create a 'common enemy'...but why?

Does he seem sane to you ? Really ? I mean REALLY ?

Or does his every strange enunciation, verbal, facial and gestural tick speak of a man who isn't close to the edge but leaped off it quite some time ago ?

It all sounds suspiciously close to the usual David Icke style babbling lunacy TBH and I can think of a dozen better science fiction plots offhand myself.

The interviewer new age hippy is very amusing though. He sounds totally wasted.

The Bible doesn't rule out aliens, but it makes it unlikely. So it wouldn't neccesarily destroy religion, but it would raise many questions. Particularly regarding sin and redemption.

To say that saying we're alone in the universe is the same as saying the earth is flat is a serious logical fallacy. Setting up straw men to try to make the opposing argument look foolish.

IF evolution is responsible for everything (which I've made my points about in the past), that still doesn't guarantee that there is any other life out there. The process neccesary for life to have evolved from nothing is so mathematically improbably that no matter how many planets they find, the chances of life being on any of them is astronomically slim. Plus, we have yet to find evidence of a planet that could support life as we know it. All are either too close or to far from their star, or are probably gas giants.

Speaking as a Christian, it seems a little strange to me, though the amount of cults that have arisen based on UFO beliefs does seem to lend a certain amount of plausibility to the idea...

You really need to to get the sense of the guy. Yes, he does seem totally sane. He's well spoken, a successfully businessman who has this burden of being 'contacted'. The level of detail he goes into is amazing.

And I do consider the ones behind this to be truly 'Genius', not the 'U.S Government', but the ones at the top of that triangle.

I'd love to see an 300 million dollar budget X Files film about an Alien invasion, and a cool turning point would be where Mulder realizes that it is in fact staged. And fuck off Scully, she should either die within the first ten minutes, or help Mulder shoot down a swarm of Greys.

Besides, I remember reading somewhere that they found bacteria fossils in the rocks from Mars. Those count as aliens too. But anyway, intelligent lifeforms do exist somewhere, but don't look for them on this planet.

gotta respect the japanese.

once, the concept of a tree being living or a virus was silly, if we can say that hydrogen is a form of elemental organic substance, then you will have to concede life is everywhere.

True, these people who say these things could just be crazy or something, but if in fact aliens are showing up and the first thing they do is start saying the Bible is a lie, it does seem a little stange.

Once again, I did not say I agree with the theory.

As per the topic... aliens on Earth. If we don't think we've been visited, are we conceited and ignorant?

As per the Bible, it is full of inaccuracies and errors. So, literalists have a hard time in my book (those who say the universe was definitely created in 6 days and humans were instantly formed because the Bible says so), simply because even the infallible gospels disagree on the exact date of the crucifixion. One of them has to be wrong. So it is either fallible and completely wrong, or its human writers made mistakes about details here and there.

The other argument is that God didn't tell us about aliens b/c he didn't feel like we needed to know.

As to whether visiting critters would be more advanced than us, they'd have to be to get here. The closest star is 4+ light years away, a distance it would take 25,000 years or so to travel in any mode known to us.

Incidently Xiphos there's no need for that language. Surely Ignorant ,Batshit insane, Cunts was what you were looking for ?

I didn't say everyone that says they see aliens say this, and I also said these people could just be crazy.

I've no doubt we will get one or two more reviews on this site but they probably won't be the positive glowing ones you are looking for.

Good to see you have an excuse ready in case it gets panned "AICN isn't what it used to be.. blah blah blah." (Has the fact that the two films might be completely different quality not occured to you ?)

XF2 has also been reviewed by many, many people already. For example on Rotten Tomatoes and it's currently at 32%! so I can completely forgive other reviewers on this site not being in any rush to see it.

I'd wait before jumping on as many threads in AICN as you can demanding more reviews of XF2 because, as they say, be careful what you wish for.

And you don't think perhaps good as early X-Files was saying things like it "helped to make geek internet sites like this what they are today." is verging on the hysterical ?

Whatever, you keep right on believing and trashing a site you say isn't Geek enough to review XF2 (though it has you just didn't like the review) while whining about comicon coverage.

How dare those Mamma Mia loving Entertainment Weekly types cover Comicon!

Oh mighty Aztecs ! You're calendars strange numerical system & limited timespan has prophesised our doom !!

Sadly, you're own bloody fate doesn't exactly score you many points on the Nostradamometer.

There are powerful people & organisations with interests that sometimes co-incide and sometimes conflict.

Some of those are elected some are not. Some work to an agenda or doctrine some do not. Some just see power as the end in itself while some even try to improve the lot of the common man and the planet.

All are subject to the whims of fate and chance and can all be brought low by accident as well as unforseen & unforseeable consequences and circumstance.

The World isn't a Hollywood Movie. it's a crap shoot.

There is no one convenient shadowy cabal or NWO to blame for all the World's problems and there is no underground group of "freedom fighters" or even Superheroes struggling against them. There are however an awful lot of deluded people in the world.

The deluded mighty get taken down again and again by hubris, chance and time while on the other side of the coin we have "truthers" of 1000 varieties who cower from the silent black helicopters and labyrinthine plotters under their tin-foil hats.

What we have is a hideously complex set of interlocking systems that serves no one man or one group and never can.

The manichean myth of "goodies and baddies" is fine for fairytales but not the real world.

Though I have to say Laserpants some things CAN be kept secret if they are a high enough priority. The Manhattan Project, The Enigma Code, advanced Nuclear fission/weaponisation, and Aurora to give some examples.

But they are the exception and only the very desperate would claim that because some things can be kept secret for a while and to a greater or less degree then any crackpot theory that gets ridiculed must also be secret too.

There are some fine choices to make in either direction with rewarding hours and bonus packages built in.

Sadly omnipotence is but a pipe dream even for Villains and Super-Scientists but you'll still have fun discovering those limits of science and man that were not meant to be broken !