Starise
If you search sun and ufo or sun and ship and then sort through the riff raff, you will find that NASA has been observing odd happenings around the sun. This sounds totally crazy...I mean...the temperatures would do anything close by in you would think, but there seem to be pictures of structures that  seem to be using the sun......I'm not making this up.... or it could be a few kids who are good with photoshop...but NASA? Has me wondering a bit.

Been there, seen that.  Pretty debunked stuff.

 
 
Really, you believe this stuff?? Then again, I do have their comic.. this one:
 
 

 
I guess this is proof enough..
 
J

I knew aliens existed the 1st time I heard Jimi Hendrix

 
News reaches me that me old mate Pistolpete once enjoyed a cracking good wank over that blue alien wench in the film Avatar...
 
Needless to say, the rest of the folk in the cinema weren't too happy about it.
 
 

craigb
"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"
 

(side point) The good ol' cap'n never actually said "Beam me up Scotty". Tho it was the title of James Doohan's autobiography.

tomixornot
I wonder if the aliens play music.. and how many tones in an octave they would use..

There's a guestimated infinite level of tones as well as tones above and below the narrow spectrum discernible by the human ear (even dogs have a higher listening range). So the possibilities are as endless as space/time/continuum itself (itselves? themselves?)

 
Coincidentally...
 
Just the other night, I was out in the back garden doing a bit of stargazing when, to my utter amazement, I saw a flying saucer land in the field on the other side of my fence.
 
After a few moments, a door opened in the side of the UFO and an alien emerged from within. He caught sight of me and made his way over to where I was stood.
 
I extended a hand in a gesture of greeting and said, "Hello, and welcome to planet Earth."
 
He looked me in the eye, and in perfect English he replied, "Feck arse sh1t feck why the feck don't you fecking well feck off and arse stop fecking bothering me knob sh1t with such fecking stupid fecking nonsense arse you dozy fecking twat!"
 
'How rude' I thought...
 
 
 
... I guess he must have been an extratourettestrial being.
 
 

You know, even as a small boy, it seemed silly and somewhat arrogant to suppose that we were the only planet to have life, let alone intelligent life. There are thousands of galaxies like our own Milky Way.
We've been to the Moon. Voyager has only recently left our own solar system.
In the big picture, we have explored the dust on a gnats butt.
We're not entirely certain others haven't been here, but we for damn sure haven't been there.

There's an interesting view of aliens' interest in Earth in the late great Iain Banks' novel 'Transition':
 
The significance of a perfect solar eclipse is the unusual coincidence of the moon being the right size and distance from the earth to almost exactly block the sun, producing the amazing visual displays we see.
 
It has been postulated that this may be rare in the universe and would potentially attract alien tourists.  Hence why eclipses may be the best places to see aliens.
 
 
The lunatic is on the grass...
 
F.

Karyn

backwoods100 million possible planets and somehow no one is advanced enough to be visiting us. What are the odds. Any scientists in here?

Odds don't come into it.  we've only been creating radio signals for just over 100 years, so anyone further away than 100 light years, even if they have the technology to hear us AND they're actively looking for aliens, wouldn't even know we're here.

In their legends very, very many cultures have something  that could be understood as alien influence. And those are thousands of years old at best.
For example the american hopi-natives have a legend of kachina-people (not sure about the spelling), who flew around on shield-like vessels. Such heritage can be found all over the world.
In the stellar scale one might think the question is not whether there is intelligent life, but whether it exists at same tenth of a second (=10 million years) as we.