Do you believe in life outside our planet?

[Yuki Sohma]

Yes, I beleive there are intelligent beings within our Universe and on other spheres beside Earth .

I still have to decide if I beleive that there are there "intelligent life forms within another dimension here on Earth?"

Anyone else gven tis much thought or have at least wondered?

 

[FirePhoenix]

I think there is intelligent life on other planets, maybe smarter or more stupid than us

(if not that alien with the probe lied to me)

 

[RenaissanceMan]

No, I don't buy it. Too many theories and scientific facts to prove life is not sustainable outside the planet Earth.

Ironically, the scientific theories, facts and discoveries are what suggest the possibility of (intelligent) life beyond our planet...

What our discoveries DO suggest is that there is no intelligent life within the 9 planets of our solar system...but science tells us that our solar system is a speck in a huge universe....and probability tells us something else as well.

 

[Paul_UK]

Since there is no intelligent life on this planet, one can only hope it exists somewhere in the universe.

Reminds me of the Galaxy Song by Monty Python. The final lines are

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

(Full lyrics and recordings here http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/Galaxy_Song.html)

 

[doctorsun]

I agree, it's not only arrogant, it's ignorant to think that we're the only planet with life on it. There are trillions of stars in the universe and trillions more planets circling them. The odds against Earth being the only one with conditions that support life are, quite literally, astronomical.

 

[luminum]

Why not? Statistically there has to be at least one, right? As to what it would be or what it would look like if we could even see it is too much for my mind to comprehend. You have to imagine something you've never seen before, which is basically impossible.

 

[trawler69]

If the universe was infinite then it would be mathematicaly inevitable that there are identical Earths with identical you's on it. But assuming it is just very very big then it is almost inevitable that there is a vast range of intelligent life out there. Of course you have to redefine the term intelligent away from our very narrow one which at the moment only covers homosapiens. Intelligent life would not continuously try to destroy itself and its only home. It would work together for the future of its home and deploy its resources to be able to explore further afield for when the physics of the universe make its home uninhabitable. We however are going to have destroyed our own home before we can venture outside it. By destroy I mean make uninhabitable by us, the Earth will survive and so will life, it will regenerate over thousands of years and new potentially inteligent life will develop. The problem is we have a poorly developed survival instinct that goes no further than our own individual selves and can, with political coertion, go as far as protecting our communities and country when we can be convinced that not to do so would infringe our individual well being.

Sorry this was so long but it is what I believe and the reasons and observations behind it.

 

[dw8038r2]

Sure. God. Angels. My brother who died...

 

[Yuki Sohma]

I believe in intelligent life outside our planet.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

given the length of time the universe has been out there and the ...hugeness...of it and the number of stars, etc etc i see no reasonable explanation that would conclude there isn't life out there. we may never meet them...but i'm sure without a doubt that life is out there. it's just statistically improbable that there isnt'.

 

[mega]

I would be surprized if there weren't intelligent life forms somewhere out there.

 

[Kurn]

It may be that the question will never be answered one way or the other inasmuch as the distances are so vast.
But if we have better telescopy in outer space we might be able to detect earth-like planets. That's Step One. Don't stay up tonight waiting for that.

Of course they could be among us already.
Pod people????

 

[ComNavFdgPk]

No, I don't buy it. Too many theories and scientific facts to prove life is not sustainable outside the planet Earth.

Riiiiiiiiiiight...this tortured little orb in a relative small galaxy in the wonderous limitless space is the only single dot in all of creation with intelligent life.

What nonsense. If you take the life on Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy and extrapolate that same ratio across the cosmos, you discover the probability of thousands of other planets in the rest of the Universe harboring life. How utterly obscene and egomaniacal to think that we are the only ones!

 

[Snickers52]

I can't say that I absolutely believe it simply because it has not been proven yet. For me to "believe" something, it must be proven to me. I will say that I highly suspect there is intelligent life elsewhere. Why would we be the only people in this vast universe? That would make no sense whatsoever.