OT: do you believe in aliens?

I don't believe in intelligent alien life, but it has been proven that alien germs exist.

I don't believe in extra-terrestrial beings, but the existence of alien bacteria is hardly a stretch of one's imagination.

What returnofmoviefreak said. There's no way there isn't life all over the universe. There's probably life on a number of planets and satellites in our solar system even. But aliens as they're portrayed in films, where humanoid creatures have visited the Earth, etc.? No.

So I didn't answer the poll.

^^^ basically this. The optimism of the Drake Equation (theory) has iMO been well hampered by the more recent Rare Earth theories. Primitive single cellular life is likely more common than evolved multicellular life, not to speak of evolved or even intelligent life/civilizations.

Still considering we have 200+ billion stars in the Milky Way alone, and that there are hundreds of billions of bigger and smaller galaxies in the visible (!) universe (only 12.7 billion years since the BB), chances are that there are billions of planets with life in all forms even though they are so far away that we will never reach them.   

Yes & anyone who doesn't should have themselves checked out.

Earth still remains historically a planet of giant f'n monster lizards called dinosaurs for billions of years.

Bump for aliens!👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽

It's bringing love. Don't let it get away. Break it's legs. 

Something's out there.