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Old 02-5-2011, 10:44 PM   #21
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Well honestly it depends on if your referring to human like beings, or animals...

Me personally, I believe that intelligent races live out there in another galaxy, or even in our own galaxy the Milky Way, billions and billions and even trillions of miles of space and even more galaxies than we can count--the odds are in favor of it.

I believe that Earth is for humans, and then on the other hand its also a world for animals.
Basically I don't see why there would not be other life forms: (yes)
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Chances are the "aliens" that may be discovered outside of Earth would be bacteria.
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Old 02-5-2011, 10:59 PM   #23
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To be honest, the main reason I believe in extra-terrestrial beings is the fact that the universe is too big to not have life somewhere else. A grain of sand compared to the Earth isn't even nearly a good enough example of the size difference.

*EDIT* Also, I don't believe in any of these UFO sightings to be extra-terrestrial. If there have been so many UFO sightings and they were all real, they will have tried to communicate directly with us by now, one of their ships would have malfunctioned and crashed, or something along those lines. If they are intelligent (more intelligent than us) enough to come to our planet, that means they're intelligent enough to have rogue (criminals if you will) amongst their race also. Unless they have a government that is visiting our planet without the rest of their planet knowing (hey, maybe we're doing the same, we just haven't been told), their technologies aren't kept secret to the general public (their general public that is). Therefore, a criminal, or evil one, would have visited our planet already to wreak havoc on us. Last time I checked, no aliens have tried to kill me, or my ancestors.

If there is extra-terrestrial life forms out there some where, they don't know of us, as we don't know of them.
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Old 02-6-2011, 11:15 PM   #24
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Ok, I'll keep it short: aliens...no...exist...and...I...hungry...for...burger.

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Old 02-6-2011, 11:29 PM   #25
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To be honest, the main reason I believe in extra-terrestrial beings is the fact that the universe is too big to not have life somewhere else. A grain of sand compared to the Earth isn't even nearly a good enough example of the size difference.

*EDIT* Also, I don't believe in any of these UFO sightings to be extra-terrestrial. If there have been so many UFO sightings and they were all real, they will have tried to communicate directly with us by now, one of their ships would have malfunctioned and crashed, or something along those lines. If they are intelligent (more intelligent than us) enough to come to our planet, that means they're intelligent enough to have rogue (criminals if you will) amongst their race also. Unless they have a government that is visiting our planet without the rest of their planet knowing (hey, maybe we're doing the same, we just haven't been told), their technologies aren't kept secret to the general public (their general public that is). Therefore, a criminal, or evil one, would have visited our planet already to wreak havoc on us. Last time I checked, no aliens have tried to kill me, or my ancestors.

If there is extra-terrestrial life forms out there some where, they don't know of us, as we don't know of them.
Imo thats assuming too much. I see what you're saying but thats how our human society works. If its so large why would they have similar intentions unless there is a universal way of thinking, which there isn't.
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Intelligent life on other planets is almost statistically certain -- our universe is so vast and overflowing with billions of galaxies (at least, the ones we can see in our humble cosmic horizon of 13.7 billion lightyears) which each contain billions (to trillions) of stars which contain multitudes of planets. Also consider the fact that we're made of the most common elements you'll find in the universe -- hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc.

It'd be unbelievable egocentric and statistically retarded to think that we're the only lifeforms out there.

Now, intelligent life is a lot more restrictive from an evolutionary standpoint. Life on Earth arose very fast after our planet was formed -- it just took a few billion years until intelligent life cropped up. Simple life is probably very common in our cosmos -- and intelligent life is likely quite a bit rarer.

But when we consider how many planets there are, "rare" might still imply a rather large number. The problem, though, is that we may simply be too far apart to ever meet. Despite the huge number of galaxies in our universe, the nearest one to us is Andromeda, which is 2 million lightyears away... so we're pretty much confined to our own galaxy. But even within our own galaxy, the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 lightyears away.

People who think they see aliens visiting Earth are retarded. I can't imagine how embarrassing it must be for aliens who somehow have the capability to traverse interstellar distances and yet be dumb enough to crash-land on a planet like Earth or only show themselves to complete nutjobs.

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Old 02-6-2011, 11:44 PM   #27
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I do believe for sure that life exists elsewhere in the universe, it is much to big for there not to.

However, you do have to realize that while the universe is almost infinitely large, it is, in fact, finite since there can't actually be an infinite number of things. As such it is possible (although a low probability) that we are in fact the most intelligent and advanced species in the entire universe. This is probably unlikely because our star didn't come into existence until multiple billion years after the start of the universe, but still a probability.

I am sure that intelligent aliens have not visited our planet in modern times though, if they had we would know about it as 100% fact, which is not the case.

HOWEVER, if aliens from another planet have visited the Earth, it most likely happened at a time when Humans didn't even exist. Even going back to primitive humans, if you look at the entire history of the Earth as a 24 hour day we only happen in the last seconds of the day. Meaning that if anything has visited the Earth, it is more than a 99% chance that Human's did not exist at the time.

I hope that these thoughts help in your idea of how things are!
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The bible says that angels used UFOs to traverse the heavens.
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Old 02-7-2011, 12:29 AM   #30
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I feel like that there are other forms of life outside of the earth. But them being "Intelligent" is debatable.
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I would certainly think that if advanced life forms came to Earth, enduring the tremendous feat of traveling hundreds of millions of light years to get here, they would end up revealing themselves to more than just conspiracy nut jobs and people completely incapable of taking good quality pictures or videos. Also, I would hope they would have some other purpose to their journey other than performing rather uninformative anal probes and harassing crazy people with their flashing lights.


Our observable universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars. That leaves us with an astronomically large potential for life elsewhere in the universe.

So yeah, I believe other intelligent lifeforms exist somewhere in the universe. It would be absurd if there were not. However, it's unlikely they would be able to find us even if they do exist, and even more unlikely they would be able to travel the distance to get here.


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What really bakes my noodle is the thought of intelligent civilizations forming billions of years before us.
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What really bakes my noodle is the thought of intelligent civilizations forming billions of years before us.
I agree pretty much verbatim with what you posted before, and this.

It's an interesting point. The universe is 13.7 billion years old. Given what we know about the evolution of the universe, there are serious constraints on how old a civilization could be, but they could certainly have arose a few billion years before we did.

This brings up a key point I think.

We haven't been a technological society for very long at all (Just over 100 years), and we already recognize our very finite resources. We can't maintain this type of pace forever without expanding out into space. We probably have no more than 1000 years without making serious adjustments in resource use and management. Thus, much of our future existence is contingent on several physical properties of the universe (e.g. Is warp speed possible? If not, we are doomed to collapse as our society is unsustainable here and on any near systems).

This means one of two things; 1. There have probably been millions of civilizations in this universe that came before us, and they've almost all fallen and completely collapsed before it was even possible to make contact with them in our tiny tiny window of opportunity,

or two 2. There are many other, some very ancient, advanced societies that still exist today that have expanded over vast distances across space, occupying large portions of galaxies.


If the former is true, we will most definitely never make contact. If the latter is true, contact is probably inevitable.
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This is why I feel very lucky to be alive today. 13.7 billion years is a hell of a time for my atoms to wait around before eventually coming together to produce my conscious brain. And yet, I am alive during a time when life is intelligent, technology is advancing ever-so-quickly, discoveries/understandings of our universe are being made, and life is (relatively) stable to the point where I can live it well. I don't even want to think about what kind of challenges await our grandchildren as we continue to increase in numbers and drag our Earth through untold amounts of planetary stress.

Our civilization, even at this point, is not even a Type I Civilization yet (we're still a 0) and we're already in danger. Even if we're talking about opening up wormholes, you'd need about a Jupiter's worth of negative mass as energy in order to open up a 1-meter wormhole (which is already assuming a lot). That's obviously a feat we're nowhere close to being able to handle. It feels as if the technologies required to keep an intelligent civilization going are too difficult (if not impossible) to achieve -- intelligent civilizations either destroy themselves early or get mauled by extinction events (we've already been hit with a decent number of them so far).

Needless to say, I think we're pretty ****ed, and I think most civilizations that have formed or ever will form are also ****ed. Then again, all you need is one civilization to make it. Out of all the permutations, surely there would be at least one that has REALLY favorable conditions by chance alone.

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Old 02-7-2011, 02:13 AM   #35
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To assess the probability of there being life somewhere, you have to take into account not just the number of star systems out there, but also the limiting factor, the chances of life forming in the first place. We don't have a good enough understanding of the process of life forming from non-life to assess those probabilities. So it looks like there is probably life elsewhere, but to say it is "statistically retarded" to say there might not be doesn't seem to be the case. It just seems like guesswork still to say that there are other civilizations.

You also have to take into account the lifetime of the civilization. Our civilization is only a few thousand years old, and we might end up killing ourselves in the next thousand years, anyway...so it's also quite possible that our galaxy has had many civilizations before yet houses no other ones than our own right now. Having said that, I have no idea what is the case, and neither does anyone else. The Drake Equation has far too large a margin of error right now.

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Old 02-7-2011, 02:23 AM   #36
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There isn't any intelligent life on this planet why would I expect to find it any where else??
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I think it would be mathematically retarded to say life doesn't exist out in the deep freeze. Billions upon billions of galaxies are out there, and billions of stars live in there.
There has to be a planet out there which has suitable living conditions for primitive life. Heck, maybe some civilisation has been established- a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Most of the satellites chucked into space face the earth, so we can talk to our mates in Thailand, and so the FBI can spy on us. A small group of those are pointed to the stars- and I think there should be more doing that. Maybe those extraterrestrials know we're here, and are sending a message, but our tech is just simply too crap to pick it up. And well, if they're hostile, we're pretty screwed. We don't even have sonic screwdrivers yet.

I think if they do decide to visit earth for some cucumber sandwiches, it will be more of a 'Hernan Cortez visits South America' predicament. They'll arrive, say hello, take some precious resources- with compliments of the Homo-Sapiens, criticize our way of life, we get offended, then we get sick of them, and then respond in violence. We'll get wiped out in a matter of milliseconds, and 'hey ho', the aliens suddenly have the cucumber sandwiches all to themselves.
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To assess the probability of there being life somewhere, you have to take into account not just the number of star systems out there, but also the limiting factor, the chances of life forming in the first place. We don't have a good enough understanding of the process of life forming from non-life to assess those probabilities. So it looks like there is probably life elsewhere, but to say it is "statistically retarded" to say there might not be doesn't seem to be the case. It just seems like guesswork still to say that there are other civilizations.

You also have to take into account the lifetime of the civilization. Our civilization is only a few thousand years old, and we might end up killing ourselves in the next thousand years, anyway...so it's also quite possible that our galaxy has had many civilizations before yet houses no other ones than our own right now. Having said that, I have no idea what is the case, and neither does anyone else. The Drake Equation has far too large a margin of error right now.
We actually have a very good understanding of the kinds of events that would have had to occur to lead from inorganic to organic life (abiogenesis). When conditions are right (such as the chemically-favorable conditions of early Earth), it's piss-easy to generate (in the words of Carl Sagan) "great gobs of this stuff" in a short time. Again, the question is really how many planets out there have suitable conditions.
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judging from page 1 there are no intelligent life forms on this forum
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Wow. Every single time someone says that there is no such thing as intelligent life it just gets funnier and funnier.
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