Author Topic: Aliens or life outside of our atmosphere (Read 3762 times)

mamacags · « **on:** August 01, 2014, 06:39:40 PM »

I was thinking about something the other night when I couldn't sleep. I just wondered how people think about this issue. I am not talking about humans, or ET even. Any kind of life including bacteria type things or things we could never even understand. Thanks

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2014, 11:19:56 PM »

Hey Mama! Long time no see. Hi5 just because I missed ya.

I do not believe Earth has been visited by intelligent aliens. But I'm open other life. Most likely we will encounter microbial life.

DefiantSix · « **Reply #2 on:** August 02, 2014, 12:31:15 AM »

Care to guess how I might have answered?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo[/youtube]

Thor · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2014, 07:17:10 PM »

I think that it's pretty arrogant for us to think that we are the only intelligent life forms in the galaxy. Furthermore, why are there depictions of "aliens" throughout time immemorial?

hillneck · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2014, 09:08:29 PM »

Given the immense size of the universe, odds there is some sort of life there. To what extent or type, I'm not to sure about that.

thundley4 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2014, 09:42:50 PM »

There almost has to be some form of life elsewhere in the galaxy or universe. However, I do not think any extraterrestrial life forms have visited Earth, unless you count bacteria or viruses.

DumbAss Tanker · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2014, 08:11:35 AM »

I think so, but the more we learn about other solar systems, the more unusual ours looks by comparison. Earth has the right gravity, the right tectonic activity level, is in the 'Liquid water zone' distance from its star (Which is also the right size and radiance), the right chemical composition, and it's tidelocked to a single disproportionately-large satellite uniquely among the planets in this system.

I think that combination of life-favoring conditions is going to prove to be monumentally rare, notwithstanding all the Carl Sagan 'Billions and billions' kind of thinking.

FlaGator · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2014, 08:48:29 AM »

Strictly based on the probability the there almost has to be life else where. Setting probability aside and looking at the evidence then the answer is no. There is no empirical evidence right now that supports the existence of live, much less intelligent life.

JohnnyReb · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2014, 09:25:58 AM »

Strangely enough, 50 years ago, I had a conservative physics professor that made a good jab at explaining this very question to the affirmative. At that time they estimated that there were roughly 23 trillion stars in the universe....a lot more now. But anyway, it went something like this....

If there are 23 trillion stars in the universe and if only 1% of them can have planets then there are 230 billion stars with planets. If only 1% of those that do have planets can have life on them then there are 2.3 billion stars with planets that have life on them. If only 1% of those that do......and so on and so at a 1% rate until you get down to, "There are 2,300 planets out there with life even more intelligent than the planet earth".

It's an almost mathematical fact that there is life out there. And if you believe in a God that created the universe and think that he can only handle one screwed up planet in it, then he ain't as great a God as we give him credit for being. I think we have brothers and sisters out there somewhere and the great distances and difficulties of meeting them between us and them is by design. By the time we evolve to the point we can meet them, we will have evolved to the state of mind and behaviors that God has intended for us.

....and that just about maxes out my moonbat quota for this week.

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #9 on:** August 04, 2014, 10:09:35 AM »

Quote from: DefiantSix on August 02, 2014, 12:31:15 AM

Care to guess how I might have answered?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo[/youtube]

I answered the same thing. H5 to be given--one already was given to moma for including 'Teh JOOOOOOOOOOOS!' option twice.

FlaGator · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2014, 11:11:12 AM »

Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 04, 2014, 09:25:58 AM

Strangely enough, 50 years ago, I had a conservative physics professor that made a good jab at explaining this very question to the affirmative. At that time they estimated that there were roughly 23 trillion stars in the universe....a lot more now. But anyway, it went something like this....

If there are 23 trillion stars in the universe and if only 1% of them can have planets then there are 230 billion stars with planets. If only 1% of those that do have planets can have life on them then there are 2.3 billion stars with planets that have life on them. If only 1% of those that do......and so on and so at a 1% rate until you get down to, "There are 2,300 planets out there with life even more intelligent than the planet earth".

It's an almost mathematical fact that there is life out there. And if you believe in a God that created the universe and think that he can only handle one screwed up planet in it, then he ain't as great a God as we give him credit for being. I think we have brothers and sisters out there somewhere and the great distances and difficulties of meeting them between us and them is by design. By the time we evolve to the point we can meet them, we will have evolved to the state of mind and behaviors that God has intended for us.

....and that just about maxes out my moonbat quota for this week.

Mathematical probability doesn't equal certainty. As my atheist friends like to point out to me that even though the mathematical probability of the existence of an intelligent designer is almost certain it doesn't constitute certainty that the Designer's is real.

I'm not saying that there is no extraterrestrial life, I'm just stating that there is no concrete proof of it. My mind is open to the possibility of life existing out there.