Do you believe life exists on other planets?

[dt3]

I want to believe

 

[OUZBnd]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

I think we would have to be pretty naive to think that we are the only lifeforms in the whole solar system.

its not naive, what if the odds of intelligent life really are a zillion to one (i know that sounds silly but you know what i mean). it wouldnt be crazy to think we just 'got lucky'.


and AB, if life was out there, but actually was a 'trillion' light years away, then unless we developed a way to go faster than light, it may as well not be there since wed never get therein the time of the human race (as we know it)'s existence. chances are our sun would explode and go nova first....

Thats my point, it would be naive to think there is no other life forms "out there" We may never know for certain it does exists, but we would be foolish to say it doesn't considering the vastness of the universe.

 

[dt3]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

I think we would have to be pretty naive to think that we are the only lifeforms in the whole solar system.

its not naive, what if the odds of intelligent life really are a zillion to one (i know that sounds silly but you know what i mean). it wouldnt be crazy to think we just 'got lucky'.


and AB, if life was out there, but actually was a 'trillion' light years away, then unless we developed a way to go faster than light, it may as well not be there since wed never get therein the time of the human race (as we know it)'s existence. chances are our sun would explode and go nova first....

Thats my point, it would be naive to think there is no other life forms "out there" We may never know for certain it does exists, but we would be foolish to say it doesn't considering the vastness of the universe.

The vastness of our universe is precisely the reason we will probably never know. We can only see so far. Also, you have to realize that when we look at the universe, we aren't seeing things the way they currently are. Because of the distance and the time it takes light to travel, we're looking at these other stars as they were MILLIONS of years ago. Even if we saw signs of life on another planet, the odds are it would have been extinct long ago, possibly before we existed. And we certainly wouldn't be able to communicate with them. They may be out there, but I don't think we will ever have the technology to find out.

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

i wouldnt put a timeline on the existence of a species of life though. who knows, we still have a long ass time to get our global act together, weed out the useless, violent, and vulnerable and move our asses across the galaxy somewhere. hell, if we act as a society of jumping frogs through space, further increasing technology with every generation, eventually, we could reach other life.

that idea is sort of farfetched, but not impossible theoretically. but alas, i do think life exists elsewhere in some form, but who knows when and if we would be able to know for sure

 

[dt3]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

i wouldnt put a timeline on the existence of a species of life though. who knows, we still have a long ass time to get our global act together, weed out the useless, violent, and vulnerable and move our asses across the galaxy somewhere. hell, if we act as a society of jumping frogs through space, further increasing technology with every generation, eventually, we could reach other life.

that idea is sort of farfetched, but not impossible theoretically. but alas, i do think life exists elsewhere in some form, but who knows when and if we would be able to know for sure

Ok, you may be right. But look at it this way. The closest major Galaxy to us (Andromeda) is 2.4 million light years away. If some being was there looking through a big ass telescope at Earth, he might be seeing cavemen right now. I don't know what was happening 2.4 million years ago here, but there definitely wouldn't be any signs of intelligent, advanced life. So, maybe 2.4 million years from now, they would be able to see us. But even that picture would be 2.4 million years old.

Yes, I think there may be other life. But I don't think we will ever know. The immensely low probability of it existing, combined with the difficulties of us seeing it and knowing, I just don't think it will ever happen.

 

[lemon]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

i wouldnt put a timeline on the existence of a species of life though. who knows, we still have a long ass time to get our global act together, weed out the useless, violent, and vulnerable and move our asses across the galaxy somewhere. hell, if we act as a society of jumping frogs through space, further increasing technology with every generation, eventually, we could reach other life.

that idea is sort of farfetched, but not impossible theoretically. but alas, i do think life exists elsewhere in some form, but who knows when and if we would be able to know for sure

Ok, you may be right. But look at it this way. The closest major Galaxy to us (Andromeda) is 2.4 million light years away. If some being was there looking through a big ass telescope at Earth, he might be seeing cavemen right now. I don't know what was happening 2.4 million years ago here, but there definitely wouldn't be any signs of intelligent, advanced life. So, maybe 2.4 million years from now, they would be able to see us. But even that picture would be 2.4 million years old.

Yes, I think there may be other life. But I don't think we will ever know. The immensely low probability of it existing, combined with the difficulties of us seeing it and knowing, I just don't think it will ever happen.

there is something wrong with that - we dont really know how fast light goes. ( sure you can trust the scientists ) but have they travelled at that great of a speed ( as they define the speed to be ) to make sure it goes that fast? i doubt it. :dunno

 

[dt3]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

i wouldnt put a timeline on the existence of a species of life though. who knows, we still have a long ass time to get our global act together, weed out the useless, violent, and vulnerable and move our asses across the galaxy somewhere. hell, if we act as a society of jumping frogs through space, further increasing technology with every generation, eventually, we could reach other life.

that idea is sort of farfetched, but not impossible theoretically. but alas, i do think life exists elsewhere in some form, but who knows when and if we would be able to know for sure

Ok, you may be right. But look at it this way. The closest major Galaxy to us (Andromeda) is 2.4 million light years away. If some being was there looking through a big ass telescope at Earth, he might be seeing cavemen right now. I don't know what was happening 2.4 million years ago here, but there definitely wouldn't be any signs of intelligent, advanced life. So, maybe 2.4 million years from now, they would be able to see us. But even that picture would be 2.4 million years old.

Yes, I think there may be other life. But I don't think we will ever know. The immensely low probability of it existing, combined with the difficulties of us seeing it and knowing, I just don't think it will ever happen.

there is something wrong with that - we dont really know how fast light goes. ( sure you can trust the scientists ) but have they travelled at that great of a speed ( as they define the speed to be ) to make sure it goes that fast? i doubt it. :dunno

But there's so many ways to test the speed of light that I'll go with the scientists on this one

 

[lemon]

what if i told you their equations are messed up?

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

i trust the scientists on the speed of light. in our ap physics class, we did studies on how to calculate the speed of light and they are fairly accurate :tard

 

[lemon]

well, most say that the speed of light is constant, right? well, when you get to speed of light threshold, you would be measuring the speed of light at the speed of light, which is an over-recursive function. :dunno


i like talking bullshit

 

[artisan00]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

well, most say that the speed of light is constant, right? well, when you get to speed of light threshold, you would be measuring the speed of light at the speed of light, which is an over-recursive function. :dunno


i like talking bullshit

speed is relative. if you were going at the speed of light, (assuming im not missing any funky quantum effects here) youd theoretically see light moving at speed=0.

but then again thats all super craziness...

 

[rrj_in]

just a siple question If we evolved from apes than y r there still apes and how come only one from millions of speices evolved into such a n inteligent form while all other remaind dumb.????? conclusion we r not from here we were planted here by someone else .

 

[dt3]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

just a siple question If we evolved from apes than y r there still apes and how come only one from millions of speices evolved into such a n inteligent form while all other remaind dumb.????? conclusion we r not from here we were planted here by someone else .

That theory is called Panspermia, and there's actually a lot of people who believe it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

i dont believe we were transplanted here. that means every living organism was transplanted here because some (apes and crows) use tools which defines life as technologically advanced. i think crows fly around here, not get caged up and dropped off here :tard

 

[Gorn]

Just because we may have evolved from apes doesn't mean that each and every last ape evolved. Maybe a certain species gradually began to evolve into humans over many thousands of years while the other species were just content with the way they were.
However I do believe that other life exists in the universe considering the size of it, look up at the sky tonight and look at the stars. Each star is a sun capable of supporting a solar system just like ours with planets just like Earth in it.

 

[horseshoeing]

I been with some babes that made me feel like I was out of this world.

Ok, really, Yes I think there is others out there.

 

[keeno999]

yeh boi

 

[dt3]

Re: RE: Do you believe life exists on other planets?

yeh boi

Thanks for your brilliant contribution to a philosophical thread.

 

[fruitloop15]

i think aliens do exist. i dnt bleave in crop circles or shit like dat bt i do bleave der has 2 b life out der. :booty

 

[dt3]

I heard a comedian on the radio a while back, this is roughly what he said

"Aliens scare me. Mostly cuz if they can get to Earth, their technology is already infinitely better than ours. I mean, they could call us tomorrow and say "Hey, we're havin a party, come on up" and we wouldn't even know where to go. We'd say "Well, we can meet you at the moon. And even then we can only send 3 guys. And one of them has to wait in the car."

Anyway, like I said, I want to believe, but I doubt we'll ever know.