Little Red Wagon Repairman
Girls Can't Wrestle
I think there is a good possibility. The Universe is without end and I don't feel that unique as an Earthling that I am the only life in the Universe.
Do You Believe In Extraterrestrial Life Somewhere Else In The Universe?
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Mr. Daystar
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Of course. The universe is infinite, and constantly expanding. You would have to be awfully arrogant, and closed minded to not think somewhere out there, are other planets similar to Earth. They may not be in the Milky Way galaxy, but there are BILLIONS of stars out there, and each one could have its own system of planets. In fact I sort of have this fucked up theory that we never find the remains of Bigfoot, because he's from another planet, and his home planet sends a ship to pick up remains to keep Earthlings from finding any proof.
Theopolis Q. Hossenffer
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Yes
Supafly
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I think - considering how huuuuuge the space out there with all of those planets etc. - things are like in Star Trek, just not as connected.
And I don't believe the human race will take part in the intergalactic union, anyway, looking at how things develop atm.
And I don't believe the human race will take part in the intergalactic union, anyway, looking at how things develop atm.
We just don't know the actual statistical probability of all the factors that are needed to achieve intelligent life. As far as what we do know life requires a tremendous amount of things needed to go very right to set the conditions for it last, and even that doesn't take into account the probability of lifeforms forming spontaneously out of floating chemicals in the universe in the first place. Some of the veriables might very well be so low as to be downright infinitesimally small, and there is a multitude of them. Of the people that study the subject some of what they go by are just pretty lose estimations, and remember we only know of one place in the universe with life on it. A sample size of one isn't a very good thing to go on so there is a very wide range of error in any estimation we have. There could be anything from a virtual *** of life in our galaxy alone to us being one of the few or maybe the only intelligent life in the visible universe.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Personally, I think we're an experiment. To those that don't believe in evolution, I say, perhaps it was set in motion by a higher power. I also think, we're not the only experiments in progress. Which to me, is where the other life forms come into play. For all we know there's a planet out there that started with humans, and will devolve into dinosaurs. I also tend to lean towards the belief of multiple universes that are the same. Like right now a version of me is alive millions of light years away, except he's a little younger, or maybe has all his hair. Who knows.
Little Red Wagon Repairman
Girls Can't Wrestle
Maybe extraterrestrials are different enough from us that they don't even have solid form. They've been here the whole time. One could be standing behind you or sitting beside you as you read this.
DrakeM
Consequences schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
Life is probably fairly common out there but it is probably bacteria-type stuff. To get complex life you need a lot of things to go right as D-rock said. Example - in all the billions of years life has been on this planet once and only once did cellular mitochondria evolve and all complex life is derived from that one event (google mitochondria evolution theory). If that didn't happen, earth is just a planet full of bacteria. Photosynthesis is another example. If certain cells hadn't figured out photosynthesis then our entire food chain doesn't happen.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
True, but what if that happened on a planet in a different galaxy a billion years ago, and they've evolved past us, because their evolutionary process started before ours.
Absolutely.
The universe is so vast it would be unimaginable not ot find life anywhere else than on Earth
Actually we my discovers life forms in our own Solar System : In the ocean under the iced-suface of Europa (a moon of Jupiter) or Enceladus (a moon on Saturn).
But when I say life, don't think Wookies, Vulcans don't think picture intelligent life, don't even picture ******* or plants. Think microbs, or very simple multicellular life forms at best. The kind of life forms you'd find in the abyss of Eath's deepest oceanic trenches, the kind of life-forms that started life on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago...
That may not be very exciting or very spectacular but still, that's life, right on our doorstep
The universe is so vast it would be unimaginable not ot find life anywhere else than on Earth
Actually we my discovers life forms in our own Solar System : In the ocean under the iced-suface of Europa (a moon of Jupiter) or Enceladus (a moon on Saturn).
But when I say life, don't think Wookies, Vulcans don't think picture intelligent life, don't even picture ******* or plants. Think microbs, or very simple multicellular life forms at best. The kind of life forms you'd find in the abyss of Eath's deepest oceanic trenches, the kind of life-forms that started life on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago...
That may not be very exciting or very spectacular but still, that's life, right on our doorstep
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