Alien Life do you believe?
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Me.
Alien life? Yes.
Alien life in the form of humans with weird colouring and/or useless bumpy foreheads, that and speak American english and think in human terms? Nu-uh.
Alien life in the form of humans with weird colouring and/or useless bumpy foreheads, that and speak American english and think in human terms? Nu-uh.
I guess there is, but since it can't really be proven or disproven right now, I wouldn't get too wound up about it either way.
You can't calculate a probability. All you have is ONE single instance of life in the universe, and you don't even know the proper circumstances that are necessary for life to form. Nobody knows how probably that is. Maybe it takes an entire universe to make life on one single planet possible. Maybe there's a billion inhabited planets in this galaxy alone. Nobody knows.
A tentative "Yes" to life. "No" to interstellar civilisations in this galaxy. The dinosaurs existed for tens of millions of years and didn't build anything durable. In fact, of all the numerous species to exist on this planet, we're almost certainly the only ones to ever be capable of having a civilisation of any kind. Then there's the expected duration of a civilisation. Arguably ours only became feasible after the end of the last glacial period about 10,000 to 12,500 years ago and might become unsustainable when the next one starts, which could be in as little as 1,000 or so years. Basically, we're still nature's b!tch for now and our long-term future is by no means guaranteed.
You can't extrapolate when you've only got one occurrence. I imagine that examination of exoplanets will allow us to more accurately estimate the chances of conditions that might give rise to life, though.
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Poorly worded, how so? Seemed like a straight forward to me.
There are so many thousands of star systems, there is just no way we are the only one where life has formed. We are in a remote area of our galaxy though, not in or near any star clusters. If there life similar to us elsewhere, and who travel between the stars, it isn't likely they are aware of our existance.
Ice has been found on other bodies even in our solar system, such as Mars, possibly Saturn's moon Titan and the former planet Pluto, and comets and asteroids. Some have theorized that extremophile microbes may exist in such conditions. Not that this is intelligent life, but it does indicate the building blocks may be there.
Ice has been found on other bodies even in our solar system, such as Mars, possibly Saturn's moon Titan and the former planet Pluto, and comets and asteroids. Some have theorized that extremophile microbes may exist in such conditions. Not that this is intelligent life, but it does indicate the building blocks may be there.
Well taking the word 'believe' out gets rid of the pseudo-religious tone and taking 'alien' out gets rid of the tinfoil hat tone. "Do you think there might be other life in the universe?" would have returned 100% yes vote, but I'm not sure what anyone thinks that proves.
No, we're not. The human species is pretty sick in the head, all in all. Some people, by themselves, are okay. But if there's one thing that reading all those Stephen King books (and watching the news) has taught me, it's that, as a whole, our species is capable of all monstrosities imaginable. A few isolated individuals might always "do the right thing" (and in the end, they make all the difference, granted), but most of us would let our greedy, petty, brutal human nature get in the way of altruism, peace, love etc.
Stephen King books are fiction. You understand what fiction is? The news is a gathering of isolated incidents across the globe. Humans aren't monsters. Very few of them are even violent. The vast majority are incredibly sociable. Why d'you think there are so many huge cities?
1. I suppose we haven't interacted often enough for you to get my exaggeration of my love for Stephen King.
2. It's called making fun of oneself.
3. I also said that the few people who are truly altruistic make all the difference.
4. There's no need to be condescending. Implying that I don't get the difference between fiction and real life is being that and bitchy and you know it, so cut it out.
2. It's called making fun of oneself.
3. I also said that the few people who are truly altruistic make all the difference.
4. There's no need to be condescending. Implying that I don't get the difference between fiction and real life is being that and bitchy and you know it, so cut it out.
I believe it's basically a mathematical certainty that extraterrestrial life exists.
However, I am skeptical in the extreme of the idea that any of them are harnessing vast energies to cross unfathomable distances in order to enlighten / scare / teach / learn from / save / eat / mate with / butt-probe us.
However, I am skeptical in the extreme of the idea that any of them are harnessing vast energies to cross unfathomable distances in order to enlighten / scare / teach / learn from / save / eat / mate with / butt-probe us.
Come on, be fair. I didn't call you a bitch, never would. The attitude was not okay. Being condescending to someone on the internet sucks.
I didn't predict doom and gloom, but what are the chances of humanity behaving any better toward a culture they don't know than they already have?
Please read the post before responding. I didn't insult you, I don't do that. I'm nice.
I didn't predict doom and gloom, but what are the chances of humanity behaving any better toward a culture they don't know than they already have?
Please read the post before responding. I didn't insult you, I don't do that. I'm nice.
I think you'll find that it's the opposite. If you're looking at the probability of life in this galaxy alone, you can't use the Earth in your calculations. Someone like Robert Maxwell or the Iguana will tell you why. It's all numbery stuff that I don't understand.
I've been watching a documentary series called "The Universe", it's available on Netflix instant. Many scientists do take the idea very seriously that the building blocks for life do exist elsewhere besides earth, and are continuing to study this possibility. But so far, we haven't found incontrovertible proof.
And we may never will. If there is alien life out there, they may be so far away that it might as well be a moot point. Any possible signals could take either millennia or eons to reach us or could decay over long distances to the point of being indistinguishible from static...
You have that exactly reversed, the vast bulk of humanity are fantastic people, it's the fraction of one percent that are truly twisted
watching the news can give you a distorted view of the real world. as far as the news media is concerned, it is the squeky wheel that gets the grease, and if it bleeds it leads. it sells more soap and cars to show a screamin mob outside of a burning church in egypt, than to show hundreds of thousands of egyptians clamly tending their crops.
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