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I do, there must be. The universe is just too vast.
Although having been a Trek fan for so long, I think when we do finally meet aliens as a society, the entire notion of the Star Trek universe will be over and such a downer
I mean we all love the idea of Vulcans and Cardassians, etc and look forward to Federation like tech and ships one day. But it probably won't turn out that way. I know its fiction but it would still be sad to verify there's no Vulcans out there, No Spocks. lol
Glad I'll be gone when that happens.
I do not rule out the possibility. I am a Catholic, and no where does it teach us that we can be the only life out there in the Bible.
The universe is so large and expansive that the odds theoretically support the idea that some form of life could exist elsewhere. It is fun to think about.
There is no life on other planets. There's no aliens, there's no green creatures flying around in UFO's in the sky, there's no "intelligent" beingscoming to earth abducting humans, there's no little bugs living life on another planet just hanging around - there's nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I haven't seen them. We haven't seen them. That is enough proof as is. To believe in life on other planets is to believe in the flying spaghetti monster. For example, if you consider life on other planets, why wouldn't you consider...oh, lets say, God? You can't see life on other planets, yet you consider the possibility. We have no proof of life on other planets, yet you are open to the possibility. You can't see God, but you are damn sure God isn't real.
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Have you seen the hubble ultra deep field? If not take a look at it. In a patch of sky about as big as a dime at arms length we captured a photo FULL of galaxies. And each galaxy has BILLIONS of stars. In essence we're talking about so many stars that we can't even write a number down for it.
Out of a few closer stars I believe there are more than 50 of which that have planets orbiting them. Given the innumerable amount of stars out there, I think there are plenty chances for a planet with some life on it. there may not be any life out there also, but to me the chances of life out there is as innumerable as those stars.
We already know of over 300 stars which have planets orbiting them! And more are discovered almost daily.
Great link, cleatis.
Wow! 300?!?! I have been out of the astronomy loop for a couple years now, last I heard there were around 60. This really is amazing that they were able to find so many so fast. Thanks for getting me up to speed.
Yeah, they discovered one recently that was only 1.9 Earth masses. As you probably know, most of the extrasolar planets are much larger gas giants, like Jupiter and up. They have more gravity, so they are easier to detect.
oh Dusty, that sounds most interesting. could you provide a link - the humdrum i heard about did not sound so optimistic..
Dang, sorry Effie, I found a link for the site, went to it, but did not earmark it, and can't remember how I found it the first time, and, yes, the site said that the radio waves found were not indicative of normal subspace background noise. Dang!!!!! (a bit of an understatement there) if I find it again, I'll bookmark and post.
Maybe this is where our spirits go when we die, to another galaxy, the ultimate in space travel...
I think that's what the Mayan's believed - that the afterlife was [in] the Orion nebula. Which is interesting that they picked a star in the process of being formed to be their afterlife.
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Do you beleive in Life on other Planets?
