Life on other planets?

[blackbull1970]

Theres other life out there.

 

[Wainkerr99]

Little boy: "I dunno."
Arroway: "Good answer."
('Contact').

 

[marquis2]

if we ever find a way to travel faster than light, then yes, we will find life on other planets...but if we travel faster than light, that means we travel through time and im guessing we use that technology for other things than space.

It may be theoretically possible to travel faster than light or use wormholes but the chances of a human being surviving such a transition are very low.

 

[Bone]

Ohhhhh. Huh. So it's kind of like a balloon......it's not really getting any bigger, just expanding outward, right?

So what is going to happen when it pops, or comes racing back in on itself?

since the universe is expanding in all directions, everything will move away from earth and after 1000000000000000000000 trillion years, everything would be too far away to see anything, besides our sun would have died, earth crumbled into single atoms and solar system falling into a black hole.

 

[calpoon]

I was thinking about this, and since the only data we have about life-forms comes from earth, we can assume that any species might progress at the same time-rate as on earth; give or take a few million years. The expansion of the universe is a constant, so it can be supposed that the same time-rate and the same conditions are necessary for the creation of galaxies, stars, solar systems, planets, etc. together with the specifics of our solar system as a life-generator, is the basis for that assumption.

In other words it can be reasonably speculated that any alien lifeforms would be close to the technological progression and limitations of earthlings. When it comes to the possibility of extra-solar communication that is a big limitation.

In our whole history up to this point humanity has never even traveled any further than the inside of earth's gravity field; that's pretty measly compared to planet's light-years away. We have sent out signals, but let me put it this way: the trajectory of sending a 1 meter probe from earth to mars is about the same relative precision as someone throwing a basketball in New York City and having it land through a hoop on the moon.

Sending a signal to another galaxy is like..well, it's like broadcasting a beam of light smaller than you can image through a space of quadrillions of miles of static, where it will be deflected by any particle that it encounters through the trip of millions of years and having it reach someone's radio so that they can listen to it. Not to mention that that person probably possesses a biology that is totally unlike humans, so it will probably not even be understood to have been a signal sent by someone from another galaxy and just be ignored along with all the other noise.

 

[Wainkerr99]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_sc/planet_hunter

In my lifetime?

 

[knobs]

No, the universe is too damn big, and Im too damn tiny!

 

[TunnelOfLove]

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they
come!"

:hatsoff:

 

[Eric Lindros]

There has to be life somewhere else.
We just haven't found it.

Thousands of beautiful women on this planet, they must be hiding somewhere else too.

 

[meesterperfect]

We are in 1 solar system within 1 galaxy.
This galaxy contains 200-400 billion stars.

In the universe there are at least 100 billion visable galaxies, some containg up to 10 trillion stars.

So you tell me.

 

[racerXf1]

Other forms of life in the universe are wondering the same thing.

 

[budbundy]

As stated before, logic would dictate that if it could happen it here, then in like conditions it could happen elsewhere.

Sometimes I listen to a national late night talk radio show called "Coast to Coast AM" They talk about aliens, the supernatural, conspiracies and even general news and politics. Most areas of the country have a station, usually an AM station that airs it over night,

Not to long ago, one of the host was interviewing and author who wrote a book that believes that God was an extraterrestrial.

One of the definition of god - any of various beings conceived of as supernatural, immortal, and having special powers over the lives and affairs of people and the course of nature; deity, esp. a male deity: typically considered objects of worship .

A being more advanced than us, who played a part in the development of the course of life and having powers supernatural to our own would meet the definition of a god.

Whether this god would want us to worship them and do things in their name.

When I heard this author, one thought I had was the character God from South Park who does not look human.

 

[Will E Worm]

Sometimes I listen to a national late night talk radio show called "Coast to Coast AM" They talk about aliens, the supernatural, conspiracies and even general news and politics. Most areas of the country have a station, usually an AM station that airs it over night

Art BS Bell :hatsoff:

 

[smoknn]

Nope. :hatsoff:

If there were aliens we would have seen them by now.

The government always arrives at the crash site first, no matter where it is.

Area 51

roswell airforce base

 

[Marlo Manson]

I guess it could be possible. I don't know if we'll ever find the answer in our lifetimes though? if you think of the universe and the neverending aspect of outer space, then hell, who knows what lurks out their? maybe aliens are fighting predators somewhere? :dunno:

 

[freeones_willem]

I'm pretty sure there is life on Mars.

Right after they found water on Mars,

they found life on Mars.
A mouse