Is there other life in the universe?

[bedub1]

Do you believe there is other intelligent life in the universe? Are we alone? Do you believe in Aliens?

[john9blue]

And if so, who will be the first to have hot alien sex?

[Army of GOD]

My theory: the Universe is just a really big multiplayer type game, where each player (G_0_D, for example) is given a certain area of the Universe where he can build units/buildings/etc.

And if so, who will be the first to have hot alien sex?

That's just obvious. Jared, the Subway guy.

[AlgyTaylor]

I see it as irrelevant. There aren't any aliens in our solar system, any other solar system is too far away to really be concerned about as the chances of something managing to develop to a point where it can travel between 2 solar systems are pretty minimal

[jonesthecurl]

As Alexei Sayle said:

Is there life on Mars?
Is there life on Mars?
Is there life in Peckham?
Is there life in Peckham?

[Titanic]

Yes, I find it extremely naive to believe we are the only planet with intelligent lifeforms out of the billions of stars and tens of billions of planets. Almost certainly will not be any contact or discoveries within our lifetime, but I read somewhere that at the current rate of technological prgoress by the end of the century we will be able to easily explore our solar system, so hopefully travel to other solar systems will become a reality within this millennium.

[Balsiefen]

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
-Eric Idle

[Timminz]

Yes, I find it extremely naive to believe we are the only planet with intelligent lifeforms.

Agreed.

I look at it (the thought that we are the only intelligent life form in the universe) as similar to when people thought that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that everything revolved around it. Naive, and more than a little self-important, as a species.

[Juan_Bottom]

Yes, I find it extremely naive to believe we are the only planet with intelligent lifeforms out of the billions of stars and tens of billions of planets.

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/To ... ation.html

And if so, who will be the first to have hot alien sex?

Deja Vue....

Almost certainly will not be any contact or discoveries within our lifetime, but I read somewhere that at the current rate of technological prgoress by the end of the century we will be able to easily explore our solar system, so hopefully travel to other solar systems will become a reality within this millennium.

Paul Allen donated $12 million to SETI and now they are too advanced. We don't have the technology to read the data as fast as it's being collected. Donate all of your monies. We really don't need to travel to be able to discover intelligent life... we just need to be able to listen.

[PLAYER57832]

Do you believe there is other intelligent life in the universe? Are we alone? Do you believe in Aliens?

You ask about alien life in the poll, but intelligent life in the thread. The answers might not be the same.

I am certain there is life of some kind, somewhere out there. Intelligent life is probable, but not certain.

[Simon Viavant]

There was (nonintelligent) life on Mars at one point.

If the range for life to be possibly is large enough for two planets in one solar system, there is going to be life somewhere in one of the billions of planets out there.

[Balsiefen]

There was (nonintelligent) life on Mars at one point.

If the range for life to be possibly is large enough for two planets in one solar system, there is going to be life somewhere in one of the billions of planets out there.

The argument is still raging over that one...

If there was that would mean life has turned up at every available opportunity and the universe will likely be brimming with it. If not, life may be somewhat more rare.

[PLAYER57832]

There was (nonintelligent) life on Mars at one point.

If the range for life to be possibly is large enough for two planets in one solar system, there is going to be life somewhere in one of the billions of planets out there.

The argument is still raging over that one...

I was just going to say the same thing. In truth, it was preserved life-like proteins, building blocks for life. Whether there ever was anything living on Mars is debated.

If there was that would mean life has turned up at every available opportunity and the universe will likely be brimming with it. If not, life may be somewhat more rare.

This may or may not be true. That life is on Earth and Mars is not really much more an indication of anything that just having life on Earth. Among other reasons, Mars went through processes similar to Earth and is close enough that Earth could have "contaminated" Mars or vice-versa.

[jonesthecurl]

Yes, but if it's merely that life began in response to similar circumstances, it will likely do so wherever those circumstances are approximatly duplicated. It looks like that's a lot of places.

If it's spread from one planet to the other then it's likely life only started once locally, which could still mean it's unique.

[DirtyDishSoap]

Rubber Johhny
We have been visited.

[joecoolfrog]

We need to find inteligent life in Alabama first

[Juan_Bottom]

We need to find inteligent life in Alabama first

Someone from Alabama may find this ironic.

[Neoteny]

Rubber Johhny
We have been visited.

I haven't seen that in forever.

[john9blue]

We need to find inteligent life in Alabama first

That was actually a really funny post. We're laughing at you, not with you.

[Juan_Bottom]

Rubber Johhny
We have been visited.

I haven't seen that in forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBsVHrm3wc

[Mentos-]

speaking of intelligent life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNr6BI2zm8

[AAFitz]

Life... Thats simply obvious. Intelligent life? That is trickier. The percentage of time that this planet has had intelligent life at the helm is a tiny fraction of its existence, and even a tiny fraction of the existence of life itself. Further, there is no guarantee that our intelligent life will endure for one more week, let alone another 10000 years, or 100000 years.

It is easy to speculate, that we have the necessary intelligence at this point, to survive past a few events, but also enough to realize that we cant survive all of them such as a comet strike, or random gamma ray blast that incinerates the atmosphere.

So, its obvious, that the odds favor some kind of life, and its reasonable to assume that if intelligent life started here, it probably happened somewhere else, but since we know our intelligent life may be extinguished rather easily, that its probable that other intelligent life got extinguished too at some point in time, and theoretically possible that we meet the same fate tomorrow.

What will be a shame, is if it happens in a way that we could have actually prevented, or worse, directly caused.

I think this is the largest danger of religious study. Believing in a creator of all things, simply discounts the need to worry about life being ended here to some degree, because it is left in Gods hands....but if we did not believe in a God to protect us as a population, we would be far more likely to worry about our demise, and far more likely to act in a way to insure its survival.

[Neoteny]

Rubber Johhny
We have been visited.

I haven't seen that in forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBsVHrm3wc

I have seen that more recently, and I wish people would stop linking it.

[DirtyDishSoap]

Rubber Johhny
We have been visited.

I haven't seen that in forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBsVHrm3wc

I have seen that more recently, and I wish people would stop linking it.

That was pretty creepy...Not nightmarish creepy, but like "I touch little boys" creepy.