alien life

[walrus]

There has to be so much more to the bigger picture than us, mere specs. Its amazing when you think about how temporary we really are. I'm betting we'll see more substantive 'proof' once we start launching billionaires into space and opening Starbucks in someone's backyard. We never learn

If it is ever found we are the only life in the universe, it will be very sad to think how cheap a price we put on it

[Batman]

I'd have sex with a nice looking lady alien...god knows the human ones aint all that interested at the moment

[Spicoli]

There has to be so much more to the bigger picture than us, mere specs. Its amazing when you think about how temporary we really are. I'm betting we'll see more substantive 'proof' once we start launching billionaires into space and opening Starbucks in someone's backyard. We never learn

If it is ever found we are the only life in the universe, it will be very sad to think how cheap a price we put on it

I think that's where some of the fascination with aliens and space exploration stems from. Deep down we hate the thought that a bunch of hairless apes still shitting in their caves and working daily to have the most shiny rocks when we die is the peak of it all

[Master]

I think we have alien life on earth, they are called the Kardasians.

[SlimTrae]

Yes there is alien life.

Because the elements here on earth can be found in the cosmos, they probably have similarities with us. Consciousness (energy/spirit) however could exist outside of matter-any form of a (body).

Life force manifested through matter as flesh/body/vehicle-- probably differ from us- in that they don't know Budha, Krishna, Christ or Muhammad.

[palmerq]

Nasa are making a big announcement tomorrow about something found on mars, people speculate it is either the discovery of flowing water or some form of tiny lifeform or something :S Might be interesting

[Beanz]

Nasa are making a big announcement tomorrow about something found on mars, people speculate it is either the discovery of flowing water or some form of tiny lifeform or something :S Might be interesting

Wow. That passed me by. Interesting.

[IamInuit]

At least 100 billion planets alone in the Milky Way that could support life. That is just in our galaxy.

Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies.

The math seems overwhelming.

Its only our built in arrogance that suggests that since we have yet to find any, it does not exist. It took us until late last week to consider the possibility that running water exists on Mars. Still SETI has found nothing and the giant telescopes/cameras in deep space have seen nothing unless they have and have said nothing.

[Freedom]

I'm not sure, but I think simple life is abundant in our galaxy and the rest of the universe, and there may even be simple life on Ganymede, Europa and Mars.

The primitive forms of complex life are probably uncommon (one in every 100,000 planets), but because of the size of the universe, are on many planets in the universe.

More evolved forms of complex life are rare (on about one in every 1,000,000 planets), but still, because of the enormous size of the universe, evolved complex life exists on many planets.

Intelligent life is probably very rare in the universe, on about 1-5 planets per large galaxy (like the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies).

But what exactly is intelligent life? Are crows, dolphins, and orangutans intelligent? Are ants intelligent? Are incirrina, which have amazing eyesight and complex brains?


Humans are an extremely destructive species, so I imagine if there were advanced, truly intelligent beings who are aware of us, they'd wipe up out before we go out to any other inhabited worlds.

[Freedom]

SETI has spent many years searching for alien signals coming from the central area of our galaxy (in and near the constellation of Sagittarius) where there are more stars. However, complex life could not evolve in such places because of more frequent powerful gamma ray bursts of deadly radiation from the merging of black holes and neutron stars.

They have recently realized they should have been looking at the outer areas of the Milky Way, where stars are far apart and collisions between black holes and neutron stars are rare events. We at 27,000 light years from the center of our galaxy are much less likely hit by powerful gamma radiation, it usually becomes too weak to be damaging by the time it reaches us although we do detect it.

It is possible that "the great dying" (Permian-Triassic extinction event) 250,000,000 million years ago was caused by a powerful gamma ray burst.

Complex life may be possible in only 10% of all galaxies

[walrus]

Yes there is alien life.

Because the elements here on earth can be found in the cosmos, they probably have similarities with us. Consciousness (energy/spirit) however could exist outside of matter-any form of a (body).

Life force manifested through matter as flesh/body/vehicle-- probably differ from us- in that they don't know Budha, Krishna, Christ or Muhammad.

So what, no wars, no arguing, damn boring aliens.