Does other life exist in this universe besides us?
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Most probably. Life is complex chemistry composed of surprisingly simple components. We can make them in labs and we have found them in meteorites, the tails of comets and in insterstellar molecular clouds. So because all the ingredients are common in space there should be atleast one other place were they can interact with each other for a very long period of time with time being the magic ingredient. It took about 800 million years for life to emerge on the primordial earth. Some stars don´t even live for 80 million years but most stars in the universe are small and stable. Kind of like the sun.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
205075
I doubt that there is life there or elsewhere in the universe. Yes there is ice in outer space and probably on portions of planets which means there probably was water out there at one time. However there are too many variables missing for there to be life as we know it. Believing that there are physical life forms other than as we have here on Earth is just speculation. The more space is explored, the more we know that Earth is uniquely made. If you get a chance see the dvd, "The Privileged Planet".
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Yes.\n\nThere is so much of this universe that we do not know.
596996
Out of 10,000 Billion Galaxies out there. No Doubt there is something out there.\n\nEarth will contact something...but not in our lifetimes.\nI even believe there is another planet like ours out there somewhere.\n\nWe would be very naive to think we are the only intelligent planet in the entire Universe.
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I'm not after the points as much as I'm want to give my views on the matter.\nAliens... I believe there must be life somewhere in the Universe other than Earth, given that it is so big. However I don't believe for a moment we are going to have visitors from other planets. The green men thing is all bullsh*t to me. If there is some other form of life somewhere in the Universe (very far, I expect), I expect it must be microbiotic or something of that sort. And I don't believe the "end of the world" will come from the space either, that's plain stupidity. \nThere you go.\n\nET phone home!
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The thing is ... a parrallel universe may exist. We cannot prove it one way or another ......YET! :) How do we know that another universe and our universe and many other universes .... do not exist in a metaverse? And if so .... maybe something like distance etc. exists in that metaverse ... which imparts some of it's qualities to our own universe and indeed to any other universe within that metaverse. Hence ..... we may not even have a void outside our universe at all.
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No one has yet shown that there is any life beyond that on Earth. \n\nAs far as life in general is concerned I am reasonably sure that there is life on other worlds and there are currently a couple of space missions in development that may find earth-like planets and even find signs of life on those planets in the next few decades.\n\nWhether there is intelligent life out there is more debatable.\n\nConsider that in 4.5 Billion years the Earth has only produced one technological intelligent species. This species has only really been able to consider possibly contacting or being contacted by intelligent beings from another world for the past 50 years. In that time we have just about managed to avoid nuclear annihilation, so far, and are currently well on the way to destroying the Earths eco-system.\n\nIf intelligent life is anything like Homo Sapiens then it will probably not last more than a few hundred years at a level where it is technically able to contact others.\n\nGiven that, it is extremely unlikely that two intelligent species will evolve close enough together to contact each other in the short time frame that they are able to do so.\n\nSo while there may be intelligent life elsewher in the universe I doubt we will ever find it.
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I believe there is life other than on Earth. Even if just mathematically!\nAn interesting point though, is that the authorities on this field have concluded that the nearest system that COULD support life is Sirius. That's interesting, because throughout history, the more believable tales of alien contact seem to all point to that star system. The Dogon tribe are a classic example of that. They apparently knew of Sirius A and its two companions(Sirius B and Sirius C) long before any 'civilised' society. Sirius C has yet to be discovered, but could well be there! I quote from Wikipedia: "Apparent orbital irregularities in Sirius B have been observed since 1894, suggesting a third very small companion star, but this has never been definitely confirmed." \n\nAs to us being Parasites on this Living Planet, I couldn't agree more.
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I agree with you. There has got to be other planets out there with life on them. And some with intelligent life. It is very self centered for humans to say Earth is the only planet in the whole universe to have life. And yes, for the religious people, God does not have to mention that there other planets with life for it to be true.
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ahhhh the holy grail of questions... do extra-terrestrials exist.  Well, I would have to say yes.\n\nKeep in mind Earth is like a grain of sand on the beach. It would be extremely hard to find anything.  Here is a cool link to check out...\n\nwww.seti.org\n\nthere is actually an equation to figure out if there is life elsewhere. click 'center for study of life in the universe' then scroll down to where it says 'drake equation.'\n\nFun stuff!
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There are too many other planets in the universe to say that ours is the only one with intelligent life on it! That's human arrogance to say this one planet is the only one with intelligent life. Since we haven't meet any,then their aren't any! Is what most people believe,but I think their is! Everyday we are finding new forms of life right here on our own earth that we didn't now was here,til we found it. Space is so vast, the universe is endless and other species from other worlds probably face the same challenges that we do in space exploration. They haven't discovered how to travel through space and such great distants just as we haven't. Or have they? Remember The Thing! Who knows what could be frozen under the Artic and how long it's been there! Also, I believe that their are species much stronger than us, with the power to inslave us or put us on the food chain. I know this is far out,but think about it...we as humans eat every other animal on the planet cause were the strongest! Now if a stronger species than man took over the earth,who knows man could be on the menu!!!
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lol yes...well something like it. I believe that God made other things than humans. Alright now think about it . This is just one planet, which is quite small. THere is a whole solar system out there. The only reason why we get a full population of life is because most thngs adapt and their living conditions are here. Tell me why not there wouldnt be other life other than on this earth. Alright not convincved? Well think about this. Why would there be so many other planets in this solar system that we can't live in...what will actually be a point. I think that this alien thing isnt as as exaggerated as humans have cracked it up to be but dont doubt that there isnt some creature not naturally adapted to earth. This is our planet, we can't live on any other one; hence the word OUR PLANET and WE CANT LIVE ON ANY OTHER lol. I havent seen one but i dont doubt theres life that isnt adapted to this earth.
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No way, there must be many, many planets throughout the universe that are similar to our own and support life. There are probably many others that support life that is much different than we are accustomed to also.
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Absolutely not and I think it would be incredibly arrogant of us to think we are the only life in the entire universe, considering how many billions of planets, if not galaxies, there are.  There are more that can sustain life.
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Alien? What's that?\n\nI think there is a huge statistical probability that LIFE exists somewhere else. And that may be as simple as uncicell forms of life. It may also be another form of life we've never seen on earth.\n\nBut "aliens" as we see in movies, sure not!!!
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The laws of probability makes it a yes to your question.  We are not alone.  In fact earth is just a speck in our own galaxy.  Our galaxy is just one of many galaxies.  Yes it would be amazing to find other beings....provided they were friendly...LOL