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As a Muslim I would have to say yes of course. There is a whole world of living things that we are unfamiliar with. The universe is simply too big and complex for us to understand. I wonder how far are the heavens from us. And where exactly is hell? And are there other planets where there are more humans ??? If so, how far are they ?
I think it’s a very interesting topic. I remember growing up, I used to think it’s silly to believe in “aliens”, but now I am certain that there is more life out there. There is no way we are alone in this gigantic universe!
Funnily enough, my dad and I just had a conversation about this the other day--though he was talking about people claiming to be abducted by aliens. He was asking me if I believed in aliens. My answer was, "Do I believe there are aliens out there? Absolutely. Do I believe they have the ability to reach Earth? Questionable." He laughed and conceded the point.
As a Muslim I would have to say yes of course. There is a whole world of living things that we are unfamiliar with. The universe is simply too big and complex for us to understand. I wonder how far are the heavens from us. And where exactly is hell? And are there other planets where there are more humans ??? If so, how far are they ?
Of course- the universe is vast.
Will we ever encounter them? Of course not. A brief review of the physics shows that due to the constraints of distance, time, and energy, we will never encounter "aliens".
Any organic being would be dead before reaching any distance due to age and lack of food. Even if they were able to advance light years in distance, upon return to their planet, their civilization would be long gone. Even with a "very fast" spacecraft, time on their home planet would pass millions of years, due to changes in time relative to speed and gravity.
The only way there will be any interaction would be through bots, and there would have to be MANY of them to statistically avoid the perils of space. Colonization? No way in hell. The only way that would happen is if bots manned a spacecraft (with water barrier for radiation) and were able to combine eggs and sperm in an artificial womb, raise the "children", then have them populate a planet.
I personally believe there are billions of human civilizations out there in the universe. We are all a result of the same Big Bang. It’s stupid to believe only this planet ended up with life.
The universe is simply too big and complex for us to understand.
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Of course- the universe is vast.
Why would the universe being big prove that there is alien life?
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I personally believe there are billions of human civilizations out there in the universe. We are all a result of the same Big Bang. It’s stupid to believe only this planet ended up with life.
I always laugh when the same atheists crying about people believing things without evidence, believe things without evidence and think people who don't are stupid.
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Drake's equation has looked at how we might go about answering the question of whether or not there are other intelligent civilizations currently able to communicate outside of their own planetary systems. Using the minimum, most pessimistic values for each variable there is still something like a 1 in 60 billion chance of there being other concurrent civilizations.
Since that work was done we have discovered thousands of planets outside of our own solar system. That wasn't even a given 30 years ago.
After reading Liu Cixin's "Three-body Problem" trilogy I have to wonder if there is a really good reason for other civilizations to not advertise their existence. The search for a new planet to inhabit becomes pretty simple if one receives powerful signals into the galaxy telling anyone who is listening that they are lonely and stupid.
Using the minimum, most pessimistic values for each variable there is still something like a 1 in 60 billion chance of there being other concurrent civilizations.
Wrong. The most pessimistic values give a value of zero. As in there shouldn't be any intelligent life anywhere in the universe.
Drake's equation cannot be solved because no one knows the values to calculate. They are just guesses. Thus Drake's equation could literally be anything from zero to infinite.
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