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Do you believe in intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe?

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Do you believe in intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

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Thump said:
If there is intellgent life out there, I wonder how advanced or archaic their technology would be?

People assume that they would be far advanced but who says they wouldn't be behind us in technological aspects.
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Maybe it's the Trekie in me, but I would assume that there is a mix of both. I'm sure some other planets developed and died out long before Earth was even a planet. Hell the only way that we have atoms other than Hydrogen and Helium is because super massive stars burned out and went supernova long ago. There are probably some planets out there that are very similar to Earth, and others that are very different.

The only way to ever find out one way or the other would be to develop a technology that would allow for travel faster than the speed of light. If there are no ways around the laws of physics humans will likely never meet up with any other intelligent life and it's doubtful than any species ever would unless there was somehow 2 planets in 1 solar system that developed intelligent life, but I would guess that's highly unlikely.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Mili, earlier in the thread I said I suspect if life did not exist on Mars before, it does now (for the reasons you mentioned) What do you think?
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I would say that you can't pick out an isolated lifeless planet to debunk the possibility of having other planets in the other billion-billion solar systems having life. That would be like saying humans don't exist on Earth because there is none on some uninhabited island.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
That right there tells me that without a doubt life exists somewhere else.
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I happen to be in the same boat as you but don't think you can say that "without a doubt" there is life elsewhere.

Just because you plop down the materials needed to make a clay pot in front of me doesn't necessarily mean I can do it. I mean the materials for the pot are there but the processes needed to get to end product have to happen perfectly.

There has to be a lot of luck involved for life to form or else we'd see it everywhere.
 
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There is definantly intelligent life in the universe other than us.

People dont really understand how big the universe is, and its also expanding as we speak.

It would be foolish to think that out of billions of other planets out there, that we are the only one that has intelligent life.
 
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Thump said:
I happen to be in the same boat as you but don't think you can say that "without a doubt" there is life elsewhere.

Just because you plop down the materials needed to make a clay pot in front of me doesn't necessarily mean I can do it. I mean the materials for the pot are there but the processes needed to get to end product have to happen perfectly.

There has to be a lot of luck involved for life to form or else we'd see it everywhere.
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Unbelieveable! That has to be the most philosophical comment I have ever heard from you......are you drunk?
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
I would say that you can't pick out an isolated lifeless planet to debunk the possibility of having other planets in the other billion-billion solar systems having life. That would be like saying humans don't exist on Earth because there is none on some uninhabited island.
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I agree, I think you misunderstood what I was asking. I was wondering if - because we have in fact landed craft on Mars - is it, in your mind, likely that life exists there now (if it didn't before) because the craft we sent we likely contaminated with earthbound microbes - some of which may have been able to endure the ride there and live in harsh environments (at least environs we'd consider harsh)
 
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If you guys get the chance, read some of Stephen Baxter's novels. He has one called Vacuum Diagrams which is a collection of sci-fi short stories where he depicts in great detail advanced forms of life living and evolving in every imaginable corner of the galaxy; life that existed during the very earliest moments of the universe, life that lives in the vacuum of space, to life that lives in the coldest regions of our solar system (and everything in between). It's an eye opening read.

One thing that I find interesting is followers of western religions tend to be the ones with qualms regarding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Eastern religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism have a very broad (not necessarily vague) concept of creation - such that intelligent life elsewhere would really has no conflict with their beliefs.

My personal belief is that if we discovered intelligent life elsewhere, it would just further prove to me how amazing and vast God's creation really is.
 
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scarletngrey77 said:
There is definantly intelligent life in the universe other than us.

People dont really understand how big the universe is, and its also expanding as we speak.

It would be foolish to think that out of billions of other planets out there, that we are the only one that has intelligent life.
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It's foolish to say there's "definitely" life out there, when there's no such proof; I may not believe in aliens, but I would never say they're "definitely" not out there.
 
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Not sure it's "luck" so much as there has to be the right parameters... which could be by chance or intelligent.

Given the huge amount of possible places for life to be in the universe, I'm saying there is more than one "perfect" place for it. And, I'm not convinced that this place is a "perfect" place either. Perfect for us, sure. Not so perfect for Neandrathals.

....but we can say that Neandrathals are a possible life form... given the right conditions, perhaps they'd be the dominant sentient creatures on this planet.

Supposing there is another star out in the universe which is like our sun in terms of size and age, etc.. and suppose also there is a rock floating around it within the same area as earth does our sun, I suspect life would be likely there just as here. (Assuming, again, some degree of consistency across the universe in terms of star formation)
 
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