60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets

jangobongo writes "Does intelligent life exist anywhere besides Earth? Are regular churchgoers less likely to believe life has evolved on other planets? Do more Democrats or Republicans believe in extraterrestrials? And if alien life makes contact, what should we do? These questions were asked on a poll released last week that shows that two-thirds of Americans do believe that life exists on other planets, and of that group, 90% say if we receive a message from another planet we should reply. The poll was commissioned by the SETI Institute and the National Geographic Channel."

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In other galactic news..

[suso]

Meanwhile, only a resounding 5% of life on other planets believes that there is intelligent life on Earth.

Re:In other galactic news..

[ReverendRyan]

Meanwhile, only a resounding 5% of life on other planets believes that there is intelligent life on Earth.

And we'd like to remind the viewers that this poll has a 5% margin for error.

Re:More polls

[Walterk]

100% of the republicans polled believe that all the life on the other planets are christian.

Or at the very least that it should be, and will be as soon as they find oil there.

This will probably get modded down. Hint to mods: it's funny, laugh.

Re:Survey says,

[VoidWraith]

Q: Do you believe aliens exist? A: Yes, we get them from Mexico all the time.

Obligatory Bill Watterson Quote

[Rick Zeman]

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
--Calvin, to Hobbes

Re:Survey says,

[Golias]

That's because absolute belief in aliens is only slightly irrational. You gotta be plum fucking loco to be under thirty and think you will ever see a dime of Social Security.

Hope you're dumping lots of money into an IRA, kids. You'll thank yourselves later.