[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Maru

I read an article not too long ago that said something about there being a possibility we are the only life...? (that life was much rare than thought)... but yeah, I still think there's a possibility

That can't be true where did they get that source from OK it's saying "possibility" ?!! , but this huge universe and we're the only ones ? I find that very unlikely .

[Glenn.]

I’ve just watched a video on how large the universe is on YouTube actually. I’d say it was impossible that we were the only life in the universe. The thing is, we will never know because of the vast space between galaxies.

Youtube video

Edit. That’s what I watched.

[RileyH]

Yes duh

[reece(:]

I'm an alien

[arista]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I'm an alien

Spunky

[Strictly Jake]

Wow that was a really interesting and goosebumpy read kirk!

[Strictly Jake]

Being religious I suppose yes I do believe in Aliens but not the whole martian driving a ufo etc that movies lead us on with

Basically like a game of chinese whispers stories change the more people tell them things get exaggerated or told wrong

If i was reading a book where some lady was visited in her home by an alien who told her its master was to impregnate her womb where its offspring would go she would have to bring this offspring up until it knew who it actually was and it would spread a message across the world of how to be saved if they got to know its master and it would have to be killed in order to save them that would creep me out

If we change that to the book being the bible, the lady to mary; the alien to the angel gabriel, the offspring to Jesus and its master to God then that is something I would be able tp get my head around

Which to think of is quite strange, most of us if religious can get around some of the strange things that occured in the bible and things like angels

But cant get our heads around aliens

But to be honest I reckon they could maybe be the same

I believe angels did visit people especially in bible times and obviously for most people that would have been hard to understand so as the story went on like a chinese whisper this subject turned to aliens, if you think about it the words alien and angel arent too different if it were a game of chinese whispers and we know what power angels had so maybe thats why people feared aliens

As for the universe, the bible mentions numerous times how God can name every single star he very much cares for the universe, when we think of heaven where do we picture it? There are myriads of angels too so where would these reside thinking how powerful they are, im starting to think thats what the rest of the universe is for

If you take the religious aspect out of it there has to be other intelligent lifeforms, our technology alone has seemed to come from nowhere its crazy the level of technology we have now compared to say 15/20 years ago. We carry robots around in our hands every day your probably holding one now reading off it. Who would have thought say 30/40 years ago we would be at that stage, if we saw back then what technology we had today we probably would even call ourselves alien

So it isnt really that hard to get your head around that other intelligent lifeforms exist

I mean i hope so, millions of us spend hours talking about a bunch of people we have never met on holiday together wondering whether they are each others types on paper meanwhile turning a blind eye to war, refugees, starvation, poverty and homelessness as its simply not that important to us...so yeah i hope there is other life out there as im losing hope with the human race

[Niamh.]

That was a really good read Kirk, really interesting theory and some food for thought for the morning

[Withano]

Oh I also enjoyed that Kirk. I was gonna make a lengthy response back, but its great the way that it is. I don’t think you need to add anything.

I was personally sort of under the illusion that no civilisation can possibly stabilise when theres a fight for power. Like, if there was an advanced civilisation, I believe they would have done the alien-equivalent to nuking each other, possibly even before we existed.

I don’t think we’ll ever become the ‘overwatching-eye’ of any intelligent civilisation other than our own for the same reason. I doubt humans will last another 200 years, and we’re gonna need a few millennia to sort out space travel, find a planet, and spy on them.

But I really enjoyed an opposing theory, especially one that well-thought-out.

[Niamh.]

Same Withano, not unless we evolve into something else, something better

[James]

I'm 50-50 on whether aliens exist somewhere in the universe.

I'll quote two posts from when this topic has come up before (here - http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru....php?p=9071915).

Originally Posted by James

Fermi paradox questions why we have no evidence of alien intelligence given the universe is billions of years old, and it would only take a fraction of that time for a sufficiently advanced civilisation to traverse, say, the Milky Way galaxy. Maybe we are the only instance in the universe of life or intelligence starting? We can't rule that out.....

Originally Posted by James

One of the reasons I have some doubts (now) about intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe is that on Earth simple single-cell life started quite quickly, after conditions became right, but it took about 2 billion years for eukaryotic cells to come about which led to complex living organisms, and scientists think that this only happened because of a single chance encounter.

There's this Brian Cox video where he explains it - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029n23h

The video is from 26m 30s here

Youtube video

[user104658]

Originally Posted by James

I'm 50-50 on whether aliens exist somewhere in the universe.

I'll quote two posts from when this topic has come up before (here - http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru....php?p=9071915).





The video is from 26m 30s here

Youtube video

Again though talking about the galaxy totally underestimates the vastness of the universe. Even if we were the only intelligent life in the galaxy, and even if life came to be on earth by infanitesimally small chance, that still underestimates the scope of existence. Our galaxy is a speck of dust on an unimaginably massive canvas, and even the tiniest freak circumstance stretched out to a scale of (potentially) near-infinity becomes commonplace.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Again though talking about the galaxy totally underestimates the vastness of the universe. Even if we were the only intelligent life in the galaxy, and even if life came to be on earth by infanitesimally small chance, that still underestimates the scope of existence. Our galaxy is a speck of dust on an unimaginably massive canvas, and even the tiniest freak circumstance stretched out to a scale of (potentially) near-infinity becomes commonplace.

I agree with both your posts T.S. - especially that man's brain is not capable of REALLY comprehending the sheer vastness of even the KNOWN universe.

I read that there are more 'galaxies' than there are grains of sand on EVERY beach and in EVERY quarry in the world.

Similarly, our brains are incapable at this present time of fully grasping the concept of Faster Than Light space travel, but SOME alien species have had interstellar flight for thousand of our years because they have left their 'footprints' all over our world throughout thousands of years.

[arista]

Yes Cox proving there is NO God

[Beso]

Yes, we are the aliens.

[Withano]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Yes, we are the aliens.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Withano

explain?

[Nicky91]

i believe in other life forms for sure, why not, like if we can exist, other life forms on other planets can also exist i think, with their own habitats and ecosystems

[user104658]

People hugely underestimate the vastness of the universe... And there's also a very real possibility that the universe is yet another speck in an infinite expanse of universes. Its on a scale that the human mind just isn't cut out to really comprehend.

Basically; not only is it likely that there is other life, but the sheer vastness makes it highly UNlikely that there aren't aliens somewhere out there that are approximately the same as humans. Possibly not in this galaxy, but there are unimaginable numbers of galaxies.

That said; faster than light travel may well be physically impossible, and if that's the case, then travelling between galaxies would be basically impossible also, no matter how advanced any alien race becomes.

So the universe might be absolutely full of life... With most of it never actually making contact with another intelligent species.

Of course, again, the vastness means that it's statistically likely that somewhere out there, there's a solar system with two or more planets hosting intelligent life. Some species get all the fun

[Amy Jade]

I hope if there are aliens they are more like the Xenomorphs from the Alien films rather than super intelligent beings