I'm wanting to test the waters on this, as this is a far cry from the usual sports, political, and financial ideas that populate this board.

I'm curious as to your thoughts on whether what the ancient egyptians and greeks revered as gods, were actually aliens. And more importantly, your thoughts on whether aliens have visited Earth in the past, and if they're still here undercover.

Personally, I don't think we're going to find any intelligent beings within my lifetime. So our only hope for the next 60 to 80 years is for us to uncover something on our own planet, or for them to find us.

I have a theory that the latter of those two options would not be very good for humanity. I think if any group of intelligent beings ever found us, we would be enslaved much like we have dominion over the lesser beings on our planet (animals) and much like the way we took over our own continent from its earlier inhabitants.

I can't figure out how to go back and add poll options, but another obvious option is that the ancient gods were neither gods nor aliens. I'm on the fence, as I believe they were either aliens, or neither.