Do you believe in extra-terrestrial life?

[DudeEMETIB]

I think not to believe in extra-terrestrial life is kinda ridiculous...but I haven't a clue what kind of life exists beyond our world...so I don't really think about it...but I hope we never encounter extra-terrestrial life...knowing human nature...I think we'd probably fuck something up.

[Jo_Culprit]

Don't be knockin my tinfoil hat son

we'll see whose brain gets melted when our space neighbors are on our doorstep

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by DudeEMETIB

knowing human nature...I think we'd probably fuck something up.

Probably? C'mon now. It's a certainty.

[FreydNot]

Originally Posted by EastTexas

As far as my poll options, which base didn't I hit? They were here once but not now, they still visit, they exist but have never been here, or you think we are alone?

I would have selected "statistically they must be out there, but we will never get anywhere near them". Since I don't care for the tinfoil hat crowd, I went with the last option.

[Junkenstein]

Considering that the universe is still unexplored there's probably life somewherer, but i doubt we'll ever meet it before we fasce extinction.

[DudeEMETIB]

Statistically, it might make sense for tons of aliens just as "smart" as us to exist....but if we encounter extra-terrestrial life, I think it'll be more like in some several hundred, or thousands years...we find like...a planet with some.."swampy" like shit...hard to explain, because who knows what sort of "ecosystems" and "life" another planet would have...but hopefully you catch my drift...I think we'll just find "animals" and "plants" ...not necessarily societies or "peoples."

[Cart Horse]

Yes. And nearly all of them vote Republican.

[Space Indaver]

We need to get the fuck off this rock before it's eaten by the sun, then we'll be the ET's.

It's annoying that we probably aren't the generation to take to the stars.

[John Galt]

Originally Posted by doctorsleep

Scientist believe that the universe is infinitely expanding, that it goes on forever. An endless number of stars with an endless number of planets means that their are an endless amount of possibilities for how planets could have developed.

By that logic there are an infinite number of planets similar to earth, at least as far as sharing the capability to support life.

To not believe that millions of light years away some giant bug is crawling around on a rock somewhere in Alpha Centuri would be even crazier then the belief of little green men hidden in area 51.

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I hope that space is more like star wars then star trek, even though the most accurate galactic civilization I have read about is probably Scott Siglers Rookie books.

... and infinite expansion makes it less likely that we find other life forms as time passes. However, it doesn't make it infinitely less likely since communication abilities don't accelerate at a constant rate.

Originally Posted by fluxquanta

The physicist inside me says the universe is too large for us to be the only life.

I agree with the physicist in you. Where did you meet him?

[standardman]

Was it Sagan who said "If humans were the only life in the universe it would be a terrible waste of space"? Either way, I agree.

Whether or not they'd be close or curious enough to visit us, I don't know. I suspect Earth would be viewed as a bad neighbourhood.