Would you be disappointed if it were discovered that life on other planets did not exist?
471352
Did they brainwash you to ask this?
570420
Well, the bible doesn't say anything about life on other planets.  It doesn't say that there isn't life on other planets - it just doesn't give us any directive about what that life is like or what our relation to it would be.\n\nThe bible is silent on the topic.\n\nInterestingly, C.S. Lewis, a famous Christian author, once wrote a science fiction trilogy about life on other planets.  The books in the series are:  Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength\n\nC.S. Lewis is my favorite author and that was a great series as I am also a huge Sci-fi fan!
605896
"Are there any other life forms on other planets?"\nProbably, we just have to find them (or they have to find us).\n\n"Is it possible that when we expire we will be born on a other planet?"\nThat is a theology question, not a science one.
1014608
Probably,\n\nI don't know if they are walking talking aliens, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out there are other forms of life that didn't start in our solar system.\n\nAfter all, there are billions and billions of solar systems. Are we so self-absorbed /self-involved that we think this could only happen to us.
586467
No I believe there is other life out there somewhere. The universe is huge so how could we be the only planet to have life?
1049105
Proof, so far there is none, however if you take into account that there are trillions of galaxies each with trillions of stars all of which may potentially have planets, then you have to consider that there is a good chance that there is at least one other planet out there with the potential for life.
57971
There has been bacteria found on mars before.  I also think that it whould be silly to make one planet only contain life forms.  There is a huge univese and I'm pretty sure that there is.
912860
I highly doubt that there is intelligent life in our solar system there might be organisms on other planets like Mars. But there IS life some where out there. The Earth is infinately small compared to the the universe because the universe is forever expanding. There is no telling how many trillions and trillions of planets have intelligent life roaming around wondering if there is life on other planets just like we are.
43083
Yes, it is entirely possible that there could be planets in other galaxies with life on them. There is nothing preventing the same conditions on our world being found on another world. It doesn't matter what people think about "aliens visiting our planet" or whether we can know about life out there. It definitely is possible.\n\nAs for the comment from Iamtheweasel: The bible doesn't say that you exist, but there you are! I don't mean to be rude, but does the Bible really have to say everything explicitly for it to be true, or even probable? It absolutely does not contradict that there is life on other worlds. From a fellow Christian, please don't be so closed-minded, especially by using a "No true Scotsman" fallacy of definition to define a Christian as one who doesn't think it's probable that there is life on other worlds.
234059
Of course there is.  You would have to be crazy to think we're the only ones in the universe and the parallel universes, and so on.  They found rust on Mars, which means there was water - therefore leading to the conclusion of life on Mars.  If there was life on Mars, you better believe there's some kind of lifeform billions and trillions of light years away.  No life was discovered yet because we haven't built rockets that are capable of taking us to the destinations of where we haven't discovered yet.
611976
Definitely.  Even if its just some microbes out in space, just the sheer number of planets and stars etc I would think there would have to be other life out there!
602526
No body know for certain. However, the universe is so vast, with so many celestial bodies that it seems rather improbable if the only place in the whole mutiverse that harbors life is planet Earth.
922649
There is no evidence right now of life on other planets therefore the answer is no.
184609
I do think there is a very good chance, statistically, that life exists on other planets. As I stated in a question very similar to this one, comets contain organic-like compounds that could be the building blocks for life, and such comets travel among two or maybe even more stars in a galaxy (interstellar comets).\n\nAs for watching us from above; the only things watching us from above are birds, flying insects, stuff in trees if you happen to be under a tree, people in skyscrapers if you are below a skyscraper, people in aeroplanes, satellites with Earth-directed sensors, etc.\n\nDeities, aliens and Jesus (which all may be one and the same) are probably not watching us from above or at all because they probably don't exist and if they do they probably have not discovered us yet because most complex forms of life on Earth are young relative to cosmic distances (which are measured in time). But it's as false for me to say "I know for a fact that aliens aren't watching us" as it is for anyone else to say "I know for a fact that aliens are watching us".
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It's hardly surprising that we can see no sign of life out there.  Views of Earth taken from unmanned explorer craft like Voyager taken from within our own solar system show no signs of life either. If you can't see elephants, whales or even forests from only a few million miles away then looking at hazy dots that are planets thousands of light years away expecting to see obvious signs of life is a bit optimistic.\n\nIn addition, given the size of the Universe we can hardly claim to have looked everywhere whilst at the same time it seems inconceivable that some form of life has not evolved somewhere else.\n\nSpectroscopic analysis of stellar nebulae and other "gas clouds" in deep space has revealed the existence of basic organic compounds such as amino acids which are regarded as fundamental building blocks of all living things here on Earth. So if life itself hasn't been located elsewhere, some of the prerequisite precursors certainly have.\n\nThere are also several "fossils" found on meteorites believed to have come from Mars which may or may not prove to be the remains of living things which originated on Mars.
1068613
the magical composition for a planet to have life on has extraordinary complexity therefor life as we know it in the millions of planets we know so far about is almost impossible but not impossible . perhaps life does exist but not in the way we would expect or could possibly think of . lets not forget that even when we have been for so long in this planet it continues to amaze us , so translating that to the universe i think is just a matter of time before find what we less expected in the most unusual ways .
185479
It would be very arrogant to think that this would be the only planet in the whole universe where any sort of life has developed.  There are so many stars and planets in the universe that even if only a fraction of a percentage were capable of supporting life as we know it, and only a small number of them developed "intelligent" life forms, there would still be billions of alien species.