First, let me say that the chances of there NOT being other forms of life out in the universe are pretty absurd. Do you have any idea how big the universe is? With all it's planets and stars, there has to be other forms of life. There are just too many scenarios where life could develop. People who categorize aliens with ghosts and the boogy man are just stupid. As for that life, I'd like to clarify what I think would best describe them. I've organized this into 3 different thoughts, 2 different possibilities for the species, based on what they would be if they were to be in contact with our planet.

First of all, let's look at the the old "Mars attacks, war of the worlds" scenario. I find it very unlikely that, if an alien species were to have the technology to travel such far distances to our planet, that we would stance a chance of fighting. Think about it, if a species was advanced enough to be able to travel across galaxies like that? They'd have to be way advanced, too advanced to have to lay more than a finger on us. It'd be like Comparing the US Military now to, maybe native americans centuries ago. Imagine the US military with its tanks and jets and armored cars, fighting with bows and spears. That's what it would be like, saying that we'd have a chance against aliens.

Now, with that said, if aliens were to have contact us, they'd look at us in one of two ways.

The first would be equivalent to how we act with monkeys or zoo animals. They might study us, watch us, entertain themselves with us. We'd be a lower life form. They might treat us like a nature biologist might treat a group of gorillas in some forest, studying from afar, watching from some distance, being detectable but not coming close enough to interfere. It would explain abductions, wouldn't it? People being taken and studied?

The second scenario might be more likely, yet less comfortable. If a species were so advanced, they might not look at us as we look at gorillas, but more like the way we look at ants. If we were that inferior to an alien species, they might wipe us out without a thought, or even awareness of us. How often do you think about the ground as you walk upon it? How often do stop walking, crouch down, and look at all the little insects on the ground? Exactly. We'd be bugs to them. The idea to make contact or even regard us wouldn't even come into their minds.


Just something to both clarify things and make you think.