Is there life in outerspace?

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: slayer202
hmm got me thinking of a interesting situation. lets say the government somehow sent some kind of rocket or whatever to places we have never been to, extremely far away and we found a planet comparable to ours, with life on it, and humans in very early stages, like cavemen.

the govt. would obviously want to colonize the place or atleast make it possible for some of us to live there. do you think they would share the news with the world and try to send people over there to live among the cavemen and help speed up the evolution process, or do you think it would be possible that they would decide to clear the planet of all the cavemen and never release that they were ever there, just that they found a planet with life on it(plants, animals etc)?

I believe (although could be wrong) that the American government has a policy that if extraterrestrial life is ever disovered then they must be left to their own devices - we are not allowed to interfere with them at all. I'm not actually sure where I read this so it could be bollocks.

 

[arcenite]

I vote yes based on simple probability

 

[Baked]

If we ponder this question, don't you think other civilizations out there are doing the same?

 

[everman]

What I find interesting is that everyone seems to think there must be something more intelligent than us out there. Suppose this was a common idea for all species at our level of intelligence and above, one of those species thinking this is bound to be wrong. Why do people feel the need to find something more intelligent than themselves?

Ok yes statistically we would probably not be the smartest, but one of the civilizations out there would be.

 

[TheChort]

i was expecting much more 'maybe' and a lot less 'yes'

 

[zoiks]

I'm sure ATOT would know.

 

[Chiropteran]

I hope so.

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Due to the fact that there are billions upon billions upon billions of stars and if it came down to about 1 out of every 10 stars had at least one planet, one of those planets is bound to have life just based on probabilities.

..I don't know. But look at the night sky with night vision binoc's. If you've never done this.. your in for a shock.

I've been meaning to get a telescope for sometime now.

Even at that note, just go out into the countryside (some place far from the city lights) and just look up and you'll see so much with just the naked eye.

I :heart: star gazing.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
But, my answer is definitely yes, and I believe they may be more developed, and some less developed, but the problem is, on another planet far off from here, maybe in another universe (If you believe in the tunnel theory) what defines life?

Interesting. I think the definition of life remains the same, i.e. a living thing that can function independently. Add intelligence to it and you have an intelligent life form as opposed to flora, coral reefs etc.

True but when we consider that they may not be carbon based (hell they might not even have the same atoms let alone electrons, this stuff is so hard to predict because anything we predict will be like what we know) what type of intelligence could they be capable of? Would intelligence exist, would they need to think?

 

[Jeff7]

Look at the moon. Now envision 1/10th of that width. That's how big an area that Hubble looked at when it took its Ultra Deep Field image. That image contains over 10,000 galaxies, each with billions of stars. Now extrapolate that around the entire sky. It's an utterly ridiculous number of galaxies, each with a ridiculous number of stars. I think it's very unlikely that the rest of the Universe is dead.

 

[zoiks]

Xenu brought billions of people to Earth 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs.

 

[zanieladie]

Nope. No other life out there.

 

[imported_goku]

In the whole universe? Absolutely, the universe is larger than most people can comprehend, but to say it's in our solar system, very very very very unlikely. Now if there was life at one point in our solarsystem (not just on earth), that is a possibility.

 

[narutofan36]

the glaxy is endless. im sure we are not the only ones...it is stuipid if you think we are the only ones here

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Falcon39

Originally posted by: slayer202
hmm got me thinking of a interesting situation. lets say the government somehow sent some kind of rocket or whatever to places we have never been to, extremely far away and we found a planet comparable to ours, with life on it, and humans in very early stages, like cavemen.

the govt. would obviously want to colonize the place or atleast make it possible for some of us to live there. do you think they would share the news with the world and try to send people over there to live among the cavemen and help speed up the evolution process, or do you think it would be possible that they would decide to clear the planet of all the cavemen and never release that they were ever there, just that they found a planet with life on it(plants, animals etc)?

I believe (although could be wrong) that the American government has a policy that if extraterrestrial life is ever disovered then they must be left to their own devices - we are not allowed to interfere with them at all. I'm not actually sure where I read this so it could be bollocks.

You can rest assured that The Guv'mint will
A. Try to sell them something,
B. Try to find something to exploit for either commercial or military purposes.
C. Initiate a regime change if they don't want to buy anything.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Falcon39
I believe (although could be wrong) that the American government has a policy that if extraterrestrial life is ever disovered then they must be left to their own devices - we are not allowed to interfere with them at all. I'm not actually sure where I read this so it could be bollocks.

I think you are getting star trek confused with real life.

 

[Azndude2190]

Maybe at the cellular bacteria level...but not like Aliens prancing around.

 

[Xonoahbin]

Originally posted by: wetcat007

Originally posted by: everman
Don't you watch Stargate?

Yeah I can't find a way to get a tour of cheyenne mountain military complex.. that'd be awesome however.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil">https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil</a>

Defending North America.... hmm from the Gould? lol

I live five miles away from NORAD. Lol.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Look at the moon. Now envision 1/10th of that width. That's how big an area that Hubble looked at when it took its Ultra Deep Field image. That image contains over 10,000 galaxies, each with billions of stars. Now extrapolate that around the entire sky. It's an utterly ridiculous number of galaxies, each with a ridiculous number of stars. I think it's very unlikely that the rest of the Universe is dead.

Scale has nothing to do with probability.

 

[dmw16]

Originally posted by: Canun
Intelligent life similar to humans and on the same tech or higher? Unlikely. Any life at all such as microbes, small insects? Yes

Why is it unlikely. Believe it or not we aren't very advanced. If you were to look at the way scientist define civilization we are still on the bottom rung. The odds are in the favor of there being millions of planets w/ life. WHy would we be the only ones that are "intellegent"?

 

[TBone48]

Originally posted by: Canun
Intelligent life similar to humans and on the same tech or higher? Unlikely. Any life at all such as microbes, small insects? Yes

I happen to agree.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I don't think so because if there were, we'd know by now especially after all of these space travels and star landings. I'd say No.

 

[dmw16]

We havent explored much of the galaxy. How would we have found them already? We havent even documents all of the species that live on this planet yet.

 

[Cooler]

I for one look forward to our new alien overlords .

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon

Originally posted by: scottish144
10$ says the first 20 posts contain at least one bible thumper!

Is the bible in contradiction with the concept of extraterrestrial life?

yes because it says the univ. is x years old when science says its x + 10billion.