You're talking about the Thermians, aren't you?
Alien Life do you believe?
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You're talking about the Thermians, aren't you?
Maybe flying saucers will be retrofitted as knockoffs of Federation starships and shuttlecraft.
Hopefully not Birds-of-Prey, Warbirds, and cubes. 
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Of course there must be life out there. As to what form, is a whole other matter. And whether any alien life has visited Earth, another still. Some believe WE are the aliens... evolved from some frozen soup of organic compounds tucked inside a comet that struck the Earth, leading to the enrichment of lifeless goo... eventually resulting in all forms of life we've come to know here.
But that would violate the Prime Directive!
Maybe they don't have interstellar travel either, and maybe they aren't morally superior to us. How do we know meeting them would be "helpful"? Maybe these aliens are also waiting around on their planet for someone to come and rescue them from their problems.
Non-intelligent alien life seems quite likely - there is speculation that there may be living things under the ice of Europa and a very slight hint there could be living things on Titan (some unexplained methane production IIRC).
Whether there are alien intelligences elsewhere is harder to answer as we have no evidence.
However, if there wasn't any intelligent life to observe the universe, would the universe exist?
Whether there are alien intelligences elsewhere is harder to answer as we have no evidence.
However, if there wasn't any intelligent life to observe the universe, would the universe exist?
Maybe the majority of habitable planets have indigenous lifeforms and no indigenous sentient species but hordes of tourists and/or colonists. What does that do for the Drake equation?
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How is it promising? We know nothing about it except its size and distance from its sun. It takes a lot more than that.
It is a little confusing. Where OP says "life," I'm not sure whether he means "life" or "intelligent life."
On to my thoughts on the question.
We are rapidly approaching the posthuman era. When we develop the technology to enhance our own cognitive abilities, it will create a positive feedback cycle and our intelligence and technology will develop at an incredible pace.
Right now we are in a phase in which we can send radio signals into space, but are still trapped in the limited biological brains nature created. This is a phase that, IMO, will last less than 200 years, which is practically an instant on cosmic timescales. If there is another radio-capable civilization out there, it has less in common with us than we would have with a shipful of white mice. I see no reason they would have any interest in us or our planet.
Speaking of life... What is the purpose of life? If you look at everything in the universe, they all follow certain laws of physics...and one thing lead to next. You can break it down and see what each matter and why do the stars and planets and energy behave this way...for what reasons. They all have purpose in the universe. So I ask what is the purpose of life? If there is an intelligent life on this planet, it is possible their might be some in other solar systems and other parts of galaxy.
Do they really? They could be just there... for no reason.
That doesn't need any purpose.
Hmmm... Let's see! Without the sun all living thing on earth would die. The plants need the sunlight to make food, the herbivores eat the plants, and carnivores eat the herbivores. The plankton in the oceans need sunlight which are food for the fish and whales. Because we came from the star, we still need the star to survive.
Without the universe the star couldn't have existed. The universe was created first so what matters that was left after the big bang could behave certain way according to the law of physics in this universe.
I don't know how to explain to you fully, but everything is interconnected, even the life on this earth. they all depends on each other for survival. The atoms is made of electrons, protons and neutrons...without them you wouldn't have atoms.
Without the universe the star couldn't have existed. The universe was created first so what matters that was left after the big bang could behave certain way according to the law of physics in this universe.
I don't know how to explain to you fully, but everything is interconnected, even the life on this earth. they all depends on each other for survival. The atoms is made of electrons, protons and neutrons...without them you wouldn't have atoms.
If you look at the universe on the grandest of scales, where the universe becomes one homogeneous featureless blob, The End of Greatness as its known, it becomes unavoidably apparent that there cannot possibly be anything remotely special about our infinitesimal small and inconsequentially tiny speck. Life is a feature of the Universe, and its a very big universe, so big infact that we'll likely never know whats out there, but equally big enough that if we rule out the physically impossible, whatever remains will, by the laws of probability, exist somewhere.
We've gone beyond the Drake equation, it's coming to life...We are at 552 extra solar planets confirmed and counting. At least 2-3 of these may harbor a planet in the "Goldilocks" zone. 10% around stars like our own. Kepler may have discovered 1200 more already. 54 in the habitable zone. There are 100 to 400 BILLION stars in the galaxy alone...up to possibly 50 billion planets! We have evidence of ONE life bearing planet so far. The odds would seem to be against there not being any other life in the universe.
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Well, of course, it's all connected.... nothing in the universe happens ex nihlo... the problem with questions that start like that is that you're asking the wrong question. What it sounds like you're getting at is whether the universe is self-contained, or if there was something else, the philisophical Prime Mover or Divine Watchmaker, that started/maintains the machine, so to speak, which would be the source of any 'meaning' you wish to ascribe to the universe, or if the whole process was entirely self-contained, self-creating, and thus, has no greater meaning, just a marvelous, beautiful coincidence that we're fortunate enough to exist within...
Personally, I prefer the latter, as it allows us to create our own meaning as far as what the universe means for us, which, to me, makes it much more valuable and precious than feeling like a pawn or drone in some ineffable creator's plan...
There is likely only one real purpose in life...survival. If you speculate far enough even beyond the first stirring of technological singularity (if it indeed will happen) you might say even the most advanced form of Earthly life exists to transcend the end of the universe and inevitable death.
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