Do you believe in Extraterrestrial Life?

[CMRenji]

Scientists believe that average galaxy contains over 100 Billion Stars(conservative estimate). And there are estimated to be over 100 Billion galaxies in the observable universe(again, a conservative estimate).

That would mean that there are possibly 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(that's 22 zeroes) in the known universe. That's a conservative estimate and it's far greater than you could possibly imagine. I for one believe that extraterrestrial life is almost certain. With that many stars, I'm positive that some must have planets that have the right conditions for life.

So, do you believe that there is life beyond Earth, or that Earth is the only planet in the Universe with life? Also, if you believe in Extraterrestrial life, do you believe in intelligent life outside of Earth? I myself am a little iffy about that one.

[Tourmaline]

Absolutely. The research makes it practically certain.

[Makο]

I believe. Being a Christian, I think that God created the universe.


Why would he create an entire universe just to have one planet with intelligent life? It just doesn't make sense.

[WTFauKorean]

the universe theortically is ever expanding, now if our solar system was the center of the universe then it is most likly that we are the only intelligent species in the entire universe, because we are theoritally the oldest life forrms to have ever evolved to a setnteint species.

how ever that is unlikly, no one call which solar system is the oldest/center of the universe but its definatly not us, because its been scientifically proven that there are a s*** load of stars either older than ours or stars that already "died"

anso so we would have to look at life in a time frame between stars which have not yet died and stars which are about 1 billion years from dying (very rough estimate) search for a start to young, nothings evolved on that hunka rock. seach for to old and well that evolved species is a gonner anyways

yeah theres some intellegent species out there alright but they are probably at max only as intellegent as we are, assuming most stars have approx. similar life spans give or take about a few million years.

so that dosnt mean much if we find other intelligent lifes if there only as smart as us though, we're pretty dumb XD

[Saturn of Elemia]

Of course I do. I'm an alien!

But seriously, I believe in extraterrestrial life.

[CMRenji]

Yeah, intelligent life outside of Earth is an amazing thought. But, I don't think we'll be in contact with any intelligent beings to soon. The closest star to use besides the Sun is Alpha Centauri, at about 4 light years I think. That means it takes 4 years for the fastest thing in the universe to get there, so we probably won't be getting to even nearby stars for a long time.

If there is intelligent life out there, I'd say it's at least a few hundred light years away. And even if we reach them, we'd have to wait still longer for the radio signals telling us this information to get here. The distances between stars and planets is just too massive.

On another note, does anyone think that there is extraterrestrial life in the solar system? Like on Mars, Titan and my favorite, Europa. And I don't mean intelligent life, even just microbes.

[-Stoner-™]

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I believe. Being a Christian, I think that God created the universe.Why would he create an entire universe just to have one planet with intelligent life? It just doesn't make sense.
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[DARKPLANT RISING]

They exist.

[-Stoner-™]

[quote name='Lieutenant Renji' timestamp='1305006275' post='5200384']
Yeah, intelligent life outside of Earth is an amazing thought. But, I don't think we'll be in contact with any intelligent beings to soon. The closest star to use besides the Sun is Alpha Centauri, at about 4 light years I think. That means it takes 4 years for the fastest thing in the universe to get there, so we probably won't be getting to even nearby stars for a long time.If there is intelligent life out there, I'd say it's at least a few hundred light years away. And even if we reach them, we'd have to wait still longer for the radio signals telling us this information to get here. The distances between stars and planets is just too massive. On another note, does anyone think that there is extraterrestrial life in the solar system? Like on Mars, Titan and my favorite, Europa. And I don't mean intelligent life, even just microbes.
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[WTFauKorean]

[quote name='Lieutenant Renji' timestamp='1305006275' post='5200384']
Yeah, intelligent life outside of Earth is an amazing thought. But, I don't think we'll be in contact with any intelligent beings to soon. The closest star to use besides the Sun is Alpha Centauri, at about 4 light years I think. That means it takes 4 years for the fastest thing in the universe to get there, so we probably won't be getting to even nearby stars for a long time.

If there is intelligent life out there, I'd say it's at least a few hundred light years away. And even if we reach them, we'd have to wait still longer for the radio signals telling us this information to get here. The distances between stars and planets is just too massive.

On another note, does anyone think that there is extraterrestrial life in the solar system? Like on Mars, Titan and my favorite, Europa. And I don't mean intelligent life, even just microbes.
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heres the thing, even if there were microscopic organisms with in our solar system the information would have no use to us unless these organisms sustained themselves in ways other than how we believe all organismsm must sustain themselves.

any microscopic organism sustainable with normal earth elements out there, just arent that important because nothing we do can speed up or repair cellular evolution that drastically nor will it be anything new we can discover from it. If you wanted to see some real life growth on another planet besides earth then the best chance you got is a moss feeds heavily on gas and dosnt need much sunlight. But hell finding something that could evolve that fast in the next 100 years is like finding waldo in a harry potter book.

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[color="#FF0000"][size="2"][center][b]Just because we cant go to them, doesn't mean they cant come to us.[/b][/center][/size][/color]
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your forgeting that their intellegence is only at level with, 1 mil years dumber or a 1 mil years smarter
even with a 1 mil years smarter it wont make much of an evolutionary difference assuming that seintant aliens like us are self destructive.

it would seem realistic, that all seintant life forms have civil war amoungts themselves that includes aliens that are 1 million years ahead of us

[-Stoner-™]

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heres the thing, even if there were microscopic organisms with in our solar system the information would have no use to us unless these organisms sustained themselves in ways other than how we believe all organismsm must sustain themselves.any microscopic organism sustainable with normal earth elements out there, just arent that important because nothing we do can speed up or repair cellular evolution that drastically nor will it be anything new we can discover from it. If you wanted to see some real life growth on another planet besides earth then the best chance you got is a moss feeds heavily on gas and dosnt need much sunlight. But hell finding something that could evolve that fast in the next 100 years is like finding waldo in a harry potter book.your forgeting that their intellegence is only at level with, 1 mil years dumber or a 1 mil years smartereven with a 1 mil years smarter it wont make much of an evolutionary difference assuming that seintant aliens like us are self destructive.it would seem realistic, that all seintant life forms have civil war amoungts themselves that includes aliens that are 1 million years ahead of us
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You can't really say it would be "realistic" if they had civil war, seeing as anything is possible, you would have to wait and see if they behave like us. Not to mention, I don't believe in that Evolution bullshit.

[Darth Revan of the Sith]

I believe in Ancient Astronaut Theorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronaut_theories

[AsianGuy1137]

Of course I do, where do you think all the platypus came from? No matter what anyone says, no animal with the body of a beaver and the bill of a duck is natural...

As the informative posters above have already stated, there are several good arguments for why there could be extraterrestrial life. In religion, angels exist as seemingly transcendental beings that live in a higher plane of existence separate from our own. In mathematics, the statistical odds are overwhelmingly supportive. In science, well things are still at the 'hypothetical stage' with no conclusive theories because of lack of evidence and a relatively limited ability to detect any signs, but I'm sure we'll get there someday. Also, the Ancient Astronauts Theory is pretty crazy, but it really makes you wonder.

Here's an even crazier question to ask... Do you think we're the only universe out there or is there an entire system of multiverses?

[Quiksilver]

Yes. I'd have to quote Calvin and Hobbes for my reasoning; "Sometimes I think the surest signs of extraterrestrial life is that they never tried to contact us".

Yes, I'm very cynical. But well-meaning, in my own bittersweet way.

[Brushfire]

The universe is so [b]massive[/b] that the likelyhood of there not being another life form out there somewhere is distinctly unlikely.

[CinnamonStar]

Some sort of extraterrestrial life, but probably not in the form of most aliens depicted in science fiction stories.

But I don't think we'll ever meet (and quite frankly, I hope we don't). Because I don't trust our species with that and if the extreterrestrial species we're supposed to meet is similar to us...then I hope we'll never meet.

[Cin]

I'm undecided. Especially with the 'new' theory that life on Earth started from space.

[Super Half Vamp Riku]

Yes, I believe that it is very much possible.

[Chaos Dralcax]

Absolutely.

[Ranmer Aralin]

I believe in extraterrestrials and stuff like that but for all we know things like Ben 10 and Dragonball z maybe what aliens are also we have to think about what our government is up to and the Whole Men in Black thing or should i say "Plummers" are hiding aliens among us and we don't even know because if an alien says they are such people just don' t believe it and well other factors are involved too like I could be friends with a Saiyan named Goku and people will see it as fiction so that he blends in with the rest of the world and can live here without controversy because that is what we do make controversy over things we do not truly understand.

[WTFauKorean]

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I believe in extraterrestrials and stuff like that but for all we know things like Ben 10 and Dragonball z maybe what aliens are also we have to think about what our government is up to and the Whole Men in Black thing or should i say "Plummers" are hiding aliens among us and we don't even know because if an alien says they are such people just don' t believe it and well other factors are involved too like I could be friends with a Saiyan named Goku and people will see it as fiction so that he blends in with the rest of the world and can live here without controversy because that is what we do make controversy over things we do not truly understand.
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=D i love media

[Dark]

[quote name='Sabotage' timestamp='1305002674' post='5200330']
I believe. Being a Christian, I think that God created the universe.


Why would he create an entire universe just to have one planet with intelligent life? It just doesn't make sense.
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...I don't know how to respond to this post, both emotionally and in words.

At first I made a "<___<" face, but towards the end I made a "o_O" face. I don't know whether I should be disturbed, happy, or irate.

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The universe is so [b]massive[/b] that the likelyhood of there not being another life form out there somewhere is distinctly unlikely.
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This is the best possible answer to the question. For all practical means, we can safely say that other intelligent life forms do exist, yet none of them have ever came to Earth.

If you wish to believe other life forms don't exist, I commend you on being part of the many who think this ever-expanding universe only has a single planet (which is 0.00000000...1% of the volume of the entire universe) with life forms. You truly have amazing ideas.

If you wish to believe that "aliens" have came to Earth before, I would love to see the proof. UFOs are just series of hoaxes created to gain media attention, supposedly "crashed spaceships" haven't been found to result in anything out of the ordinary, and anyone who says that ancient civilizations must have had help from aliens cannot support their claim with any evidence other than the fact that it was [i]seemingly[/i] impossible for ancient civilizations to achieve such great feats.

[Sorrow.]

Well it's ignorant just thinking that you are the only life form existing in a large Universe...

[Dark]

Yes, but sadly some religions have indoctrinated their followers to believe that a supreme being created humans as the only life forms because we're apparently special and also because the Sun revolves around the Earth and also because Jesus died for our sins.

And unfortunately it's not only many Christian people, but the other monotheistic religions as well. And some polytheistic ones, I don't really know much about their stance on that. It's quite sad because none of them ever question why their god made such a big universe in the first place. <___<

[CinnamonStar]

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Yes, but sadly some religions have indoctrinated their followers to believe that a supreme being created humans as the only life forms because we're apparently special and also because the Sun revolves around the Earth and also because Jesus died for our sins.

And unfortunately it's not only many Christian people, but the other monotheistic religions as well. And some polytheistic ones, I don't really know much about their stance on that. It's quite sad because none of them ever question why their god made such a big universe in the first place. <___<
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They care about that stuff?
I can't remember a single religion that forbids its followers to believe into extraterrestrial life.

If certain people decide to interpret a story about the creation of [u]Earth[/u] as the only creation in the universe or persecute people who know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, it's another thing.

But many religious traditions/scriptures/stories tend to be centered on local places on this planet, like Taoist mountains in China, and mostly on Earth, but I hardly know any of them that care about other planets at all, or about what people believe there might be on them.