Way OT: Do you believe there is intelligent life outside Earth?

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

There has to be. 

I mean man has not yet stepped foot on Mars (planned for 2030) and has only been to the Moon.

Plus.......when you think about life beyond our galaxy......there HAS to be something out there.

Intergalactic travel has not been made possible yet with a person going outside the galaxy to the nearest major galaxy in the Andromeda and coming back to Earth. They wouldn't even live to reach the Andromeda, it would be such a long distance.

There could be a planet like ours in the Andromeda or the Pinwheel with life on it. 

Andromeda-

 

 

 

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JBE

June 22nd, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^

It's very probable. In an ever expanding space, there is even a very good chance that a planet exists with the same, or a very very similar arrangement of matter to our planet, meaning another you could exist somewhere else out there, with minimal to no variation, expect in spacetime, so you could be unborn or long dead on this other planet.

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Oregon Wolverine

June 23rd, 2016 at 12:35 AM ^

A better question is whether or not there's intelligent life in America where our presidential election choices are between Trump and Hillary. Seriously??? This is the best we can do?!?

We are letting the robber barons run away with our country as we now have the worst income inequality in our country's history. Come November we choose between a pathological liar robber baron and a so-called liberal, who is a hawk that panders to Wall Street and the military industrial complex.

Planet's heating up and there are flat earthers who deny its happening.

Another mass shooting weekly.

What's going on here?



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ppToilet

June 23rd, 2016 at 7:59 AM ^

In the vastness of the Universe, and over its billions of years of existence, it would seem to be nearly statistically impossible that Earth is the only place where intelligent life ever developed.

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Alton

June 22nd, 2016 at 11:19 PM ^

I was just about to post that myself.  Wait But Why is uneven--some of his posts are just mildly interesting musings, some of his stuff is brilliant.  This is one of the really good things that he has done.

I have always leaned toward the theory that there was a Great Filter that life on our planet has passed.  I think his speculation about the development of eukaryotic cells is the most likely answer.  Even though there might be billions or trillions of worlds with very simple life forms, there might be only a handful with the sort of specialized life made possible by complex cells.

 

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DrMantisToboggan

June 23rd, 2016 at 7:03 AM ^

Sorry, no obviously it proves nothing. Just the idea that universe is so vast and so much older than earth that the fact that we have had no contact makes me believe there is nothing else. I know all the explanations for the paradox that have been offered. Obviously I could be wrong, just what I believe.



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ppToilet

June 23rd, 2016 at 8:08 AM ^

in some remote place of the earth, with no technology, you could easily come to the conclusion that no one else lived on earth. The Earth isn't even a speck of dust relative to the size of the Universe; it doesn't surprise me at all that we haven't found other "intelligent" life yet. I'm fairly convinced that eventually we'll find that some forms of rudimentary life existed on Mars at a point in its existence.

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DrMantisToboggan

June 23rd, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^

True, but your analogy doesn't account for that person existing on a desert island without evidence of other life for thousands and thousands of years. Which is at the crux of the paradox, that we are so small/relatively young and alien life so likely, that if alien life existed we would have evidence by now.

Again, obviously no one knows. Just what I believe at this point in my life.

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Gentleman Squirrels

June 22nd, 2016 at 10:38 PM ^

Yes. With the number of planets in the number of solar system in the number of galaxies, in the number of universes, there has to be intelligent life. Very likely different than us and have evolved to survive in different habitats, but they are bound to exist.



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June 23rd, 2016 at 1:26 AM ^

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boers21

June 22nd, 2016 at 10:43 PM ^

No way in hell there is no intelligent life out there somewhere. "Out there" covers an infinite landscape. To think or assume we are the only ones is foolish, I believe.  

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