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Chaotic It is, of course, extremely likely that alien life exists somewhere else in the universe. However, this idea is a hell of a long way from the assertion that crop circles and UFO's are caused by little grey men in flying saucers, or little green men, or any intelligent...

I should explain about the "magic number" seven. It is an average. It was estimated by researchers working on historical conspiracies. It refers to the number of people in a conspiracy before the odds of betrayal reach 50%. Of course, this is wildly variable. You could get a conspiracy of 2...

Riff must think people are idiots. " No, it is not possible. Mere humans can't do it. They cannot do crop circles, because they are too complicated." Riff, you and I might not be able to do it, because we are too damn stupid. That does NOT mean no-one else can. Take Stonehenge. Lot's...

Wrong. You only have to look at the mafia families. They represent a conspiracy with a very, very powerful disincentive plan. "If you betray us, we kill you." In spite of that, over the past 50 years, the history of the mafia is the history of repeated betrayals, and mafia families broken up...

Riff You obvously have little knowledge of conspiracies. The cardinal rule of conspiracies is simple : too many members ensure betrayal. The "magic number" is 7. That is the number of members that researchers found, on average, make for a 50:50 chance of betrayal. Get a conspiracy...

Nah The reason this is done mainly in Fridays is that ET likes to go to the pub on Fridays. When he gets totally shickered he flies in geometric patterns.

I agree with junkmonkey. All the evidence I have seen for crop circles, and it is overwhelming evidence, is that for clever pranksers. Totally human. When I ask for other evidence from you "true believer" guys, I get silence. It is just like a religion. Take it on faith. Sorry guys...

Heat and Mutation? Beyond that which could be done by pranksters? Please forward evidence, because I do not believe it.

Riff The evidence is of the soundest as I told you before. They owned up and demonstrated how they did it, by doing it in front of cameras. Sheesh! How much evidence does it take, for Finagle's Sake! And they do not have to be spoiled rich kids. I well remember my own university days...

To Riff Life on Earth is ubiquitous, certainly. But life has had nearly 4 billion years to adapt to all the extreme conditions. That is quite different to saying that life can form elsewhere in extreme conditions. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe not. We will not know until we can sample other...

To RJM I totally agree with you in your speculations about the probability of life forming around other stars. I am especially skeptical considering there have now been over 200 extrasolar planets discovered, and not one solar system equivalent to our own. Our solar system is strange in...

RJM That is 'logic' from ignorance. No offense intended since I am just as ignorant as you on the business of the origin of life. However, we just do not know how the first DNA came into existence, and so any statement about probability on the basis of mixing chemicals in some kind of...

Personally, if I met a friendly alien, especially one that could speak English, I would be over the moon with delight. Sadly, I have not done so, or seen credible evidence that any such beast exists.

How about knocking on the door and saying : "Take me to your leader." Sorry, Starbeast, but that is a very naive interpretation. We are talking of potentially star travelling extraterrestrials with massively advanced civilisations, and all they can think of to communicate is a few mashed...

Or do I believe the dozens of people who claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, or the dozens who claim to have seen Bigfoot, or the hundreds who claim to have seen sea serpents, or the thousands who claim to be able to read minds. Short answer : I do not believe any of them. Claims are...

I remember a similar discussion, with the claim being made that aircraft pilots were especially astute and their UFO claims should be taken seriously. I was not winning the argument, but then a real pilot spoke up and told us all that pilots are just as liable to error as other ordinary humans...

On human error. There is a woman at Auckland University, who is a psychology professor. She works with teams of Ph. D. students doing research on human behaviour, and I have attended two of her lectures on the subject of the imperfection of human perception. I don't know how many of you...

Yep. Loads of hoaxers. Take George Adamski for example, who in the 1950's made a lot of money writing books about extraterrestrials visiting Earth. He put photos in his books of flying saucers. They were all replicated by one of his critics who threw things like hub caps into the air...

RJM No wanting to upset your belief system, but there are no canals on Mars. There are some features that look exactly like they were created by flowing water, and it seems clear from the minerals analysed by the Mars rovers that, at one time, there was indeed surface water on Mars. The...

Starbeast. When you look at something weird like UFO claims, you should start with the assumption that there are hordes of hoaxers out there. Recently I was in a forum discussion on Bigfoot. The pro-Bigfoot people put up evidence coming from indistinct video and photos of something...