(01-09-2018, 08:18 AM)Jags Wrote: Looking at ‘other life’ purely scientifically, sure, the odds are in favor of there being other life.   But considering the vastness of space, the odds that make it probable is also the same reason it makes it improbable of that said life finding us even if looking for it.  Would be like finding another needle or two in the biggest haystack ever created.  Not to mention our own history.   We can’t even find new land on earth with out fighting over it.  So if we were found, I doubt it would end well for us.  We’re looking at trying to colonize Mars because maybe in a thousand or million years or whatever Earth may be uninhabitable.   You’re not going to traverse across the universe to say hi!  Earlier I referenced the haystack being created.   Which brings up another topic.  I won’t go into religion due to CoC but I feel there is lots that can be discussed with it.  I feel that science can go hand in hand with it if you just change a few small details.  Heck, I’ll give you the BIG Bang and still explain why it can coincide with religion.  I understand a lot of people especially scientists don’t believe in it.  So that convo could potentially go no where anyways.  ( I hope no rules were broken)

That being said,  I’m with Caldrac on the military aspect.  I feel all the funny little lights and shapes people see are military and some just phenomena which have yet been explained or discovered.