Do you people watch UFO and alien related TV shows?

[t.shonku]

Have you people watched tv shows like X Files,UFO Hunters, UFO files etc etc? What is your point of view on that ?

[Hebrew Hammer]

The truth is out there:

http://maxcdn.fooyoh.com/files/attach/images/1068/448/218/004/mulder.jpg

[hatzel]

I only watch TV shows about absolute certain facts. Therefore I watch UFO shows :rolleyes:

[GPDP]

I used to all the time. Then I learned to stop believing in pseudoscience.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I was into UFOs and the like as a child. Had big books on them and stuff, but I grew out of it when I was about 11.

[Hebrew Hammer]

Aliens are real.

[#FF0000]

Same story. Used to be big on ufos as a kid. Still kinda am cause I like "paranormal" stuff and sci fi and horror but they just don't have the same magic nowadays.

[Blake's Baby]

Two completely different things you're talking about I think.

X-Files is fiction (though I knew a bloke who swore it was based on the 'real' FBI paranormal files). It's a drama that uses sci-fi plot elements. It's precisely as relevant as Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Dracula. You can use the fictional elements in a way that combines story-telling with social critique or indeed re-inforcement of the dominant ideology (Independence Day, I'm looking at you), or you can just go 'funny aliens, blow shit up'. But it's not real. They are stories.

All those UFO Investigation things are also not real but crucially they pretend (or sometimes are made by people who believe) that they are real. They are at best the products of deluded people, and at worst they are lies. I don't believe that they have any reason to exist other than to entrap the gullible. Total shit, all of them.


That sums up my opinions on the two things you're talking about.


EDIT: Damn. I went at this through the the 'latest posts' list and didn't realise it was Chit-Chat, though it was in 'Cultural'. What I really mean is 'you're all barstards and not as clever as me yah boo'.

[bcbm]

ancient aliens is my favorite tv show

[xub3rn00dlex]

Blake's Baby, you mean to tell me I will never get to party with the wookies?! :crying:


ancient aliens is my favorite tv show

Yeah mine too, I like how that Greek dude lights up when he talks about the stuff, shows he really loves what he does.

[Q]

The X-Files were awesome.


The truth is out there:

http://maxcdn.fooyoh.com/files/attach/images/1068/448/218/004/mulder.jpg

Matt Groening foresaw Californication? What a true visionary!

[Os Cangaceiros]

I listen to Coast to Coast AM a lot. They talk about aliens a lot on that show.

[Johnny Kerosene]

Because of this thread I'm going to watch Ancient Aliens. I'll let you know what I think.

[Agent Ducky]

Yes. Invader Zim.
http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/invaderzim1.jpg
That is all.
:P

[Blackburn]

Have you people watched tv shows like X Files,UFO Hunters, UFO files etc etc? What is your point of view on that ?

Sure, I used to watch X-Files back in the day.

I think it's unintentional or intentional propaganda most of the time.

I just said the other day that I refuse to watch another Spielberg produced Sci Fi tv series, where they cast the US Military in the role of Saviours.

He gets all uppity about a Nazi Comment from Megan Fox, but Afghanistan/Iraq are just fine with him.

Spielberg loves the Alien/UFO theme.

It's not that 'Aliens' are possibly real, it's just that all those films paint the USA and the USA military as Humanities Saviour.

[t.shonku]

ancient aliens is my favorite tv show


I too like ancient astronaut theory but don't believe all of it,while Erich Von Dunican is convincing in some places like Latin America case, but in some places his theory attracts skepticism


Anyways I believe in aliens but I am neither a blind believer nor an arch skeptic, my favourite UFO show is "UFO Hunters" and my favourite guy is Pat Uskert


Watch this video from UFO Hunters contains interview of two physicists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZF3BfDNAvs

[t.shonku]

It's not that 'Aliens' are possibly real, it's just that all those films paint the USA and the USA military as Humanities Saviour.


Yah well said !

If aliens ever invade earth the American military will pe*e in their pant because the aliens will be far far ahead than any one can dream. The movie independence day was such a joke , Willi Smith actually flew a saucer that was way way ahead than ours ! cmon give me a break ! and that nerdy guy planted virus in alien computer ! this is so stupid ! alien computers would be so advanced that they are can't be hacked by any earthling nerd !

[The Man]

There is a whole channel dedicated to it.. It's called the History Channel. All they talk about is aliens and UFOs.

[t.shonku]

There is a whole channel dedicated to it.. It's called the History Channel. All they talk about is aliens and UFOs.


Yah ! History Channel is cool when it comes to aliens !

The place where, I live I have seen Philosophers,Physicist,Engineers believe in aliens. Surprisingly people in medical profession are so skeptical when it comes to aliens.I think the docs think that people who believe in aliens are crackpots.

Numbers of ufo believers are increasing this days !

[A Revolutionary Tool]

On a related note why are there so many UFO type shows on the History channel. Like wtf, I used to like some of that stuff but half the time now all that is on there is UFO shit, End of the World shit, and reality show type shit(Like pawn stars).

[Sentinel]

X-Files? It was pretty good when it came.

[Pioneers_Violin]

Not really, no.

But the old "War of the Worlds" TV series was pretty cool.

The movie "Paul" is a riot.

Btw, real UFOs look fake. Just like the fake ones on the cover of The National Enquirer.
I don't "believe" in UFOs but have seen a couple. Odd.

[scarletghoul]

I love the X Files so much, used to stay up and watch it all the time when I was little. Keep meaning to watch all the episodes again lol. so awesome...

Aside from that not really seen any other alien things. apart from dr who, oh and 'my parents are aliens' on citv

[GPDP]

Sure, I used to watch X-Files back in the day.

I think it's unintentional or intentional propaganda most of the time.

I just said the other day that I refuse to watch another Spielberg produced Sci Fi tv series, where they cast the US Military in the role of Saviours.

He gets all uppity about a Nazi Comment from Megan Fox, but Afghanistan/Iraq are just fine with him.

Spielberg loves the Alien/UFO theme.

It's not that 'Aliens' are possibly real, it's just that all those films paint the USA and the USA military as Humanities Saviour.

Surprisingly, Super 8 (produced by Spielberg, but directed by J. J. Abrams) actually portrays the US Military rather negatively. Very negatively, in fact. Although the police is treated much better instead, so...

[thefinalmarch]

Yes. Invader Zim.
http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/invaderzim1.jpg
That is all.
:P
Invader Zim is overrated and generally shitty.

[Q]

I just watched Paul the other day. Major fun.

[Aurorus Ruber]

I sometimes watch those shows, if only because they've become so prevalent on many channels. It seems like the History Channel has become nothing but this at times. I find them rather annoying, though, since they always act like they've stumbled onto some new earth-shattering evidence but end so indecisively. And you always see those fringe radio hosts drawing strange and sweeping conclusions about the pyramids. I wonder if one day (perhaps just before the last week of December 2012) they'll just drop the other shoe and say Nostradamus was actually an alien predicting an alien invasion by the resurrected Hitler taking place on December 21, 2012.

[Comrade J]

The nearest star to us other than our own is 4.2 light years away, which is about 25 trillion miles away. Also, it's a red dwarf star so could probably not even sustain life in its habitable zone. So if there is intelligent alien life - and the probability is overwhelmingly in favour of this being the case - it must live even further away than that, so the probability that it has ever reached Earth is pretty much zero, or so close to zero that it's negligible.

I have no doubt that some people really do see weird unexplained shit flying about, but whatever it is, it isn't aliens.

[Q]

The nearest star to us other than our own is 4.2 light years away, which is about 25 trillion miles away. Also, it's a red dwarf star so could probably not even sustain life in its habitable zone. So if there is intelligent alien life - and the probability is overwhelmingly in favour of this being the case - it must live even further away than that, so the probability that it has ever reached Earth is pretty much zero, or so close to zero that it's negligible.

I have no doubt that some people really do see weird unexplained shit flying about, but whatever it is, it isn't aliens.

Your explanation is based on a limited understanding of physics. You could also bend space-time itself to get anywhere, you know. General relativity offers this possibility.