Extraterrestrial life: do you believe?

#21

well we’re still alone at the end of the day

i’m not saying we’re the only form of intelligent life (or any life for that matter) in the universe. i do think there are several other forms of life spread out there, but we’ll probably never come in contact with each other.

and i personally don’t see the difference between being alone or co-existing with some other form of life you’ll never encounter… so yeah, while i do believe extraterrestrial life exists, i consider any money spent in those attempts of “contacting them” useless and a major waste of financial resources.

#22

Man! It would suck if we are the first intelligent race. Whenever Humans are strong they start killing, slaving, stealing the weak one’s resources. Well it doesn’t matter anyway since we are not going to see any aliens in our lifetime.

#23

the universe is 13.7 billion years old, earth is 4 billion years old, humanity evolved 200,000 years ago. there is 0 chance of that being true.

are you serious? it doesn’t matter whether or not we can contact them or if they’re even intelligent. finding ANY life on other planets is a huge scientific discovery and every field from physics to biology will benefit from it. it can teach us what conditions life can live under, and based on what the star and planet are made of we could learn that life can form from vastly different things than what we’re made of. it’s not a waste, and it’s entirely retarded to say it is.

#24

I think intelligent life is pretty damn rare in the universe, bacteria and such are “more common”. But it may very well be possible.
That “they” frequently visit our planet however, sounds bogus to me. We like to think that they do because it sounds exciting and fascinating and we’ve all read about at least 10 whackjobs saying they were abducted and analprobe’d by grey aliens. There are a ton of movies and conspiracy theories about that stuff. Y’know, lizard people and shit. But I don’t think it’s real. There is no hard evidence at all, never was. Area 51 is a testing area for new military aircraft, of course it’s kept secret and unusually looking objects fly around there. That’s the damn point of it.
Anyway, because travelling faster than light is (as far as we know) not possible, it would have to be a big ship that can be maintained fairly easy and sustain supplies as food and spare parts for generations.

EDIT:
Forgot to elaborate on the self-proclaimed abductees/whackjobs. Attention whores, most of the people claiming to be abducted are one. Don’t believe it till it has really been proven. Though possible (alot of stuff is actually “possible” in some way or another), I believe it’s highly unlikely.

#25

There’s another problem, lets say aliens visited our planet roughly 150 million years ago. All they would find is dinosaurs, pterosaurs and a variety of sea creatures. The aliens would never be able to tell whether these creatures would eventually lead to an advanced civilization. Same way if aliens visited us a few billion years in the future, life would not be able to sustain itself on this planet due to the increase of temperature from the Sun. Earth would be just like Mars and not really of interest to any aliens.

Not only do you have to be lucky enough to actually find a planet with life, you need to visit the planet at the right moment in time.

#26

We could always shove a bunch of misc. biological crap, shove it all into a pod and launch it to Venus, wait and see if anything evolves.

#27

I don’t think Venus would be a very good idea, it’s impossible for any life to survive on that planet.

#28

venus is long past the point where any life can evolve. also we already sent out a satellite with all that stuff.

#29

i’m not against scientific studies. i never said i was against searching other planets or satellites for any sort of life form as i know how amazing of a discovery that could be. i actually think we should spend way more than we do currently on space research and development.

what i meant by “contacting them” is trying to contact some sort of intelligent life, like those people do building huge antennas to transmit radio signals and all that crap. relying on the ridiculously slim chance that any intelligent civilization is in such a short distance from us to make any sort of contact with them possible, and then spending millions on that, is just dumb and useless imo.

#30

it is not dumb and useless, at ALL. i don’t get how you’re not seeing that the chance that we can find someone, no matter how slim it is, is entirely worth the costs. plus, there’s more money being spent on worse things.

#31

Like pouring 434,000 dollars into anti-sex videogames. Because we know us gamers just have so much sex.

As has probably been said, life is probably out there, we probably won’t make contact with them in our lifetime, and they probably aren’t abducting us and anal probing us. Probably.

#32

the Soviets went ahead and landed on Venus… a couple times, actually.

Here are some pics from Venera-14:

I personally like Venus more than Mars for setting up extraterrestrial life. I figure too much atmosphere is preferable to too little.

I just got the image of Grand Theft Auto 3, except instead of gaining health from a hooker, she takes all your money and weapons.

#33

you can build up more atmosphere. when you’re stuck in a positive feedback loop like venus, you’re fucked.

#34

When the problem is a mere excess of energy… there are many opportunities. The surface of the reacting sun may not be livable, but if you throw some pebbles in orbit… you’ve got our whole history.

#35

We are not alone

There are countless mysteries in this universe, and we haven’t even figure out those mysteries on earth itself
So we haven’t know all about our planet, and seems very far away to know about the great big universe out there…
But i’m sure of one day, our dreams will be come true

#36

According to national geographic there are small bacteria in the atmostphere of Venus. But they are part of some gas or something that melts steel or something like that. Then again, it’s national geographic :retard:

Also, can someone answer this question to me: Is it possible to travel to other stars with about halve of the speed of light? And if so, why do people always act like it’s only speed of light, or no way to travel across the universe?
Oh, and if travelling across the universe isn’t possible, would travelling across the milkyway be possible? Because I think we should think more about travelling across in the Milkyway in search of extraterrestial life instead of the universe, because that’s just more plausible than travelling across the entire universe, which is what? A few hundred billion million miles or something along the lines of that.

#37

traveling to the nearest star outside the solar system at light speed is more than 100 times longer than your life time

#38

milky way is part of the universe

also the fastest moving spacecraft we have ever built were the helios probes which traveled at 70km/s

speed of light is 300.000km/s

so bscly the fastest any man-built vehicle has ever traveled was at 0.000234066667 of the speed of light

#39

Now you’re making us humans look pathetic. :frowning:

#40

that’s because we are

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