Just finished watching Hawking's documentary on aliens, made me want to talk about the possibility of alien life, specifically:

Do aliens exist?  Based on our understanding of biochemistry, life needs cheimicals for reactions, a solvent for chemical reactions to occur (liquid), and energy (sun, heat, perhaps even radiation).  It think this bodes well for life in the universe, and even in our own solar system.  Concerning a liquid solvent, Earth and Mars are capable of liquid water near their surface, and outer moons are capable of liquid water under their surface, as well as other liquid states such as methane and nitrogen.

How would aliens react with humans?  I'd imagine that advanced aliens would treat us much in the same way we treat inferior life forms.  Nobody cares when they step on an anthill or kill a few bacteria, so why would an intergalatic civilization care about whipping us out if they wanted Earth's resources?

You know how big the universe is?

Huge.

Absoulely, i mean you really think we are the only planet with living species? EN II will show itself eventually

Yes. It might just be bacteria, but I am sure life is out there.

I cannot wait to we find our first Alien species

There are over 170 billion galaxies in the OBSERVABLE universe. There is definitely intelligent life out there.

Hopefully the aliens are like the Chozo that lived on Tallon IV. =)

I don't know whether to think aliens exist or not, but I sort of doubt it.

Yeah they do exist, to bad we haven't discovered them, they probably discovered us.

Yes.

Given my interactions with them when I was ~11, I believe they are 100% real. I do, however, have a different set of beliefs as to why they exist, outside of the traditional scientific criteria for their existence.

Was any of that a joke?

If not, I really need to hear your point of view, and what happened when you were ~11.