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Are We Alone?

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drkohler said:
enditall727 said:

What do you think about this?

Wow. Lights in the sky. How.......very.......interesting.................not


I assume that you see these kind of lights in the sky everynight. Since you dont find them to be "interesting" 

 

Also, what do you think made those lights?



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A star can have any number of planets orbiting it, each with any number of moons orbiting those.
A galaxy can have billions and billions of stars.
The universe as currently observable by humans contains millions of billions of galaxies.

If you think that there can't even be a single celestial body in this entire universe that is exposed to just enough heat to maintain liquid water and thus life of some form, then I really don't know what's wrong with you.



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C64 said:
Considering the size of the universe it would be naive to think that we're alone. We'll probably never make contact though.


Indeed, we're a speck of dust really, there are likely multiple planets with some form of life on them. I very much how we depict it in the movies though, probably something we can't even fathom.



 

happydolphin said:
enditall727 said:

Why do you think that it would never be possible?

 

Also, why do you think there is no Sentient life outside of earth? If there is Sentient life here then why wouldn't it be outside?

 

What makes us so special?

I believe we were created, and I believe in the bible creation story. It makes more sense to me.

But outside of that, I love science fantasy. Currently in season 4 of ST:E. Loving every second of it.


Do you believe that we are the "only" creations? What if we were not the only forms of intelligence that were created?



the-pi-guy said:
enditall727 said:
the-pi-guy said:

Swamp gas.

 

If those alien abductions are real then it would be possible that either

A:  Aliens are closer than we thought.

B:    Aliens are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light.

C:  Aliens started traveling in the direction of Earth a long time ago and got here and was curious about the inhabitants of Earth and abducted some peoples, but that was not their original intention unless they also have a machine capable of telling the future.  

D: Aliens are capable of bending space/ using wormholes, that they could go below the speed of light and still travel greater distances in 3d space.  


So do you believe in any of these possibilities?

I believe that all of those are possibilities, except for B probably.  I believe they are possibilities, but I'm not so certain that they are realities.  The universe is huge, huge is an understandment even.  The size of Earth is frighteningly big, yet in comparision to the sun, the Earth is a tiny speck if that.  Yet this star that makes the Earth seem like the tiniest speck is a tiny speck in comparison to other stars, even the biggest of stars are the specks that make up most of a galaxy.  Those galaxies are specks that make up the Universe and then there's tons of space in between, so who knows what is out there?  I am not going to pretend I do, but at that point, I'm not going to be surprised of almost anything.  

I believe that somewhere out there is extraterrestial life.  I am not sure if I believe that there have been aliens that have seen us though. 

So you believe that there "could" be extraterrestrial life but you somewhat also believe that the Alien reports here could all be nothing more than Hoax's?



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happydolphin said:
enditall727 said:

Why do you think that it would never be possible?

 

Also, why do you think there is no Sentient life outside of earth? If there is Sentient life here then why wouldn't it be outside?

 

What makes us so special?

I believe we were created, and I believe in the bible creation story. It makes more sense to me.

But outside of that, I love science fantasy. Currently in season 4 of ST:E. Loving every second of it.

How does it make sense??



 

Given the size of the universe, the numbers of stars, and the requirements for life as we know it, it is all but statistically impossible that we are alone.



happydolphin said:

I believe we were created, and I believe in the bible creation story. It makes more sense to me.

But outside of that, I love science fantasy. Currently in season 4 of ST:E. Loving every second of it.

You know (and I'm not trying to be offensive, it is just a question), I always mention something to people who say something along the lines of this. If it doesn't make logical sense that humans just "came about" and had to be created by a higher being, how does it make any more sense that this higher being just "came about" and didn't also have to be created by somebody? Isn't that just completely contradicting the first statement by saying something (this higher being) can always have been in existence.

(The ironic thing is the general response I get from people after this is that: "You just have to believe". How that makes their point more valid (I'm not saying it is less valid, just the same), I have no clue.



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Considering the size of the universe alone, it should be a no brainer to believe some other kind or kinds of life do exist somewhere out there. Also, while I don't actually believe in aliens visiting Earth, the amount of evidence out there bothers me a little.



enditall727 said:
Conina said:
enditall727 said:

Since you believe that we are not alone, What makes you think that we will never make contact?

Distance. How would you signal someone 50,000 lightyears away?


What about the countless reports of alien abductions? 

If one believed that we were not alone, wouldn't the abduction reports confirm that Extraterrestrial/Aliens are pretty close by?

If they have the technology to build and maintain a ship capable of interstellar travel, you'd also think they'd also have the technology to hide themselves from a species that, comparatively, is likely not much more intelligent than a mouse nibbling on some cheese. The "reports" don't mean shit without hard evidence. We live on a planet of 7 billion people, you can find countless eye witness reports of almost anything. Heck, there are loads of eye witness reports for the loch ness monster :P

To answer your question though, no, i do not believe we are alone. I think it's highly unlikely we will ever directly meat another intelligent species, but i think it's plausible for us to one day find signs of them. The time scale of the universe compared to that of life is too large, and the space between stars is even greater, and still growing. The chances of two species ever being in the right place at the right time and at least 1 with the technology for to find and travel to the other is not particularly high :/

The universe is cruel D: