Supernatural

[Nightcrawler]

So, do you believe in the Supernatural? Why or why not? Do you have any specific stories to share?

I'd love so much to believe in Ghosts, but I've never come across a shred of evidence that ghosts or any other supernatural forces exist. I've been in graveyards at midnight. I've walked on graves. I've been alone in the darkness. I've been to places that were supposedly haunted. Nothing. There's nothing for me to latch on to believe. It would be great if I could though. That would confirm there was something after death. It would also confirm there's more to this world than just what you see at face value. I've tried though and nothing. No ghosts, no demons, no witches, no vodoo, no magic, nothing.

On a related note, do you believe it's possible to be psychic?

In general, I'd say no. That's mostly based on never having a shred of evidence supporting the supernatural. However, in rare cases, I must say I'll either have a dream which seems to come eerily true, or I'll get a bad feeling about something for no good reason. You could call it coincidence, you could call it reading too much into things. However, it's something I wouldn't 100% rule out.
The very fact that we have dreams intrigues me. Being in between consciousness is an odd phenomena as well. Sometimes it seems as maybe our brain is doing more than just flashing a jumble of random subconscious thoughts together.

Although, I would probably say, I doubt any commercial like physics are real at all. I'd imagine if this power existed, you probably couldn't call it on demand and focus on people you don't even know. I think IF it was possible to be psychic, you'd probably have limited control

It's fun to speculate sometimes. I'd love to know there's more to the universe that meets the eye. I'm still looking, but I don't think I'm going to find anything.

[ultpaladin]

I cant say definitively but my tendency to the first question is no, theyve shown so many things to be fake and the unexplained stuff is no that convincing, the psychic stuff would seem to be much easier to prove and from what I've seen the remind me of that South Park episode where Kyle wants to talk to his grandmother.

I think aliens would be an interesting thing to add to this topic.  There is definitely more interesting evidence on that subject although the technology required for aliens to come over here would be incredible.

[Nightcrawler]

I didn't bring aliens into the discussion because aliens are really probability if you ask me. There's an UNCOUNTABLE number of stars in the sky. It's highly unprobable that we're the ONLY one in the entire universe with life. So, I think aliens fit in a class that's already closer to reality than the supernatural topics I brought up.

I'm hoping we find the microbial life we're looking for on Mars. That'll be proof enough. If we found other life already after only looking at a few stars close to home(even if on a primitive level), that pretty much guarantees there is other life in many places out there of varying stages of evolution and intelligence.

Have we been visited by aliens already? That's another question altogether. Maybe that can fit into the supernatural realm as there's no definitive proof. If there is, it's being kept secret from the public. What do I think? I don't know. We could have been. We may not have been. It wouldn't surprise me either way. One thing is for certain. If we HAVE been visited, the aliens who have visited have superior technology or intelligence to us because we are unable to go long distances in space yet.

I'd image though if we were visited, we'd probably all know about it though and it wouldn't be such a well kept secret. I'd also like to think aliens coming here would try to communicate rather than keep their visit such a secret. Who knows.

[ultpaladin]

There is a small moon going around Saturn that they are very interested in.  They think there is a good chance of life underneath all the ice and because there is geyser activity caused by the gravity of Saturn, creating friction and heat.

[Nightcrawler]

Titan is the most probably of the moons of Saturn I believe. Europa is also another moon they are interested in on Jupiter. Titan was very interesting because they expected to find oceans of methane. However, when the Cassini probe went there, it did not find any. Although that was a suicide mission and it only sent data for a small period of time. All we know for sure is the exact are it was sent to did not have the ocean expected.

Just the very fact that ice exists elsewhere in the solar system suggests water may also exist. Where there's water, we know there can be life. BUT.. One thing I always think about is, what if life can exist WITHOUT water? Life as we know it NOW cannot exist without water, but what do we know? We're pretty dumb when it comes to the mysteries of the universe. Wouldn't it be possible that other types of lifeforms unlike anything we've ever seen can thrive without water? I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility.

[ultpaladin]

The ice moon with geysers was called Enceladus, theyve taken some close looks at it and some scientists believe it may be providing some of the ice for Saturn's rings.  Titan was always intriguing for its atmosphere and the texture of its surface which must have been forged by methane liquid.

With the discovery of new planets outside of our solar system I wonder if the technology of telescopes could ever improve to the point where they actually could prove there are other earth like planets.