What is out there ?
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It would be ridiculous to suggest there isn't life out there.
There's billions of habitable worlds out there. There's probably billions of habitable worlds in our galaxy alone.
The question of intelligent life is more pertinent, I'd say that's still a near certainty but must, you would assume, be significantly rarer.
There's billions of habitable worlds out there. There's probably billions of habitable worlds in our galaxy alone.
The question of intelligent life is more pertinent, I'd say that's still a near certainty but must, you would assume, be significantly rarer.
The Spruce Goose said:
alorotom said:
If space is indeed infinite then I’d like to believe there are other life forms out there ... what they are though is anybodies guess!
if space is infinite then there are infinite earths etc.Humans with our monkeys brains just cannot fathom how infinite works.
Saying that i think we will never find any other lifeform due to the distances required and most like die out before we ever really make any progress, due yo monkey brains.
I'd love to know what's under the ice on Europa and there's a possibility I'll find out before I die. Bearing in mind we know there's a vast liquid water ocean and volcanic activity under the ice I think it's more likely than not there's atleast microbial life there.
ChocolateFrog said:
I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that.
I'd love to know what's under the ice on Europa and there's a possibility I'll find out before I die. Bearing in mind we know there's a vast liquid water ocean and volcanic activity under the ice I think it's more likely than not there's atleast microbial life there.
life as in intelligent stuff, yes there are most likely life forms in the solar system and beyond. I'd love to know what's under the ice on Europa and there's a possibility I'll find out before I die. Bearing in mind we know there's a vast liquid water ocean and volcanic activity under the ice I think it's more likely than not there's atleast microbial life there.
Given the age of the universe and the likelihood of there being intelligent life. The chances of us being the most intelligent/advanced are slim given the timescales involved. So the fact that we haven't seen or heard anything from aliens leads me to think that long distance space travel just won't be possible, ever.
GroundEffect said:
ks drawn by a 13 year old. Is someone trying to say the growth between the creation of Google and the Ipad equates to the technology jump between harnessing the power of animals and the creation of the heat engine, when the population and technology really did start to spike? FFS.This is the best image so far IMHO, really makes you think and also admire the people who made the leap;
bonerp said:
Every planet could fit in the gap.
I think one real issue in finding alive intelligent life is time. Not only does intelligent life need to evolve close enough to be detectable, it also needs to have evolved or survived to cross our own time line.
It seems to me that life elsewhere in the universe is pretty much certain, and given the vastness of space the I likewise feel other intelligent life is also inevitable. But the chances of us finding something on broadly the same evolutionary timeline feels much more unlikely.
More likely that we encounter evidence of an extinct civilisation or something microbial that could evolve in time.
It seems to me that life elsewhere in the universe is pretty much certain, and given the vastness of space the I likewise feel other intelligent life is also inevitable. But the chances of us finding something on broadly the same evolutionary timeline feels much more unlikely.
More likely that we encounter evidence of an extinct civilisation or something microbial that could evolve in time.
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