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Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist
An anonymous reader writes "Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'"
Dr. Mitchell has been saying this about aliens for many years now. He's always had a bit of a pseudo-scientific bent. During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
back to Earth aboard Apollo 14, Mitchell had an epiphany while looking down on the earth from space. "The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident based on random processes ... The knowledge came to me directly," here
Who would have thought that he'd go totally nuts one day.
> when I claim that Cthuluh is controlling the internet.
That was not supposed to be revealed. A nasty tentacle is on its way to claim your mortal husk.
We've found life in the freezing cold depths of the ocean where light doesn't penetrate. We've found life on the edges of volcanos.
And all of it is related, and all evolved from the same source. When life began there was no oxygen on the planet.
We've mixed together chemical soups and watched life erupt out of it.
If we have, this is the first I've heard of it. Have you any reputable links?
Obviously, life isn't a unique and special thing, but something that naturally erupts into existence all over the place.
Again, as far as we know it only started once on this planet, and although there may be or have been life on Mars or Europa we have never found proof of it. The only place we've ever found hints of life are right here.
Therefore, there must be life all over the universe, and not just here on Earth.
Your conclusion is based on a false premise, but despite that I think it highly unlikely that in the vast reaches of our galaxy, let alone the unimaginably huge number of planets in the universe, that we are alone. If life arose independantly here from non-life, it must have risen independantly elsewhere. But if it did, it is absurdly improbable that it would look anything like us.
The universe doesn't tend towards entropy. It tends towards life. We are walking, talking evidence of this fact.
Life is part of entropy.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest