Aliens

BidillyBo

Could someone who doesn't believe in aliens have a look at this and tell me how they don't think there could be any other life as or more intelligent than us out there. Universe pretty dam big. http://api.ning.com/files/U**Gm5XEdF7NTYFEzKAeUNUbomfR2l-sSY0YiSDsMRlxXexviDSmMNwc5yr4b0ZPcl7B1H6C0U5OGRqqDS6q8*Yj9NIjN7rZ/StarSizeChart.jpg

Mint Sauce

Has to be some better intelligence out there. Look at some of the fcuk ups we have made.

donvito99

[History channel guy] Aliens [/history channel guy]

Strawberry Fields

BidillyBo wrote: »

Could someone who doesn't believe in aliens have a look at this and tell me how they don't think there could be any other life as or more intelligent than us out there. Universe pretty dam big. http://api.ning.com/files/U**Gm5XEdF7NTYFEzKAeUNUbomfR2l-sSY0YiSDsMRlxXexviDSmMNwc5yr4b0ZPcl7B1H6C0U5OGRqqDS6q8*Yj9NIjN7rZ/StarSizeChart.jpg

Well you certainly won't find it on AH.

Goodshape

Belief is an overused word.

joydivision

Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.

Defiler Of The Coffin

Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us

Frank Black

The universe may be very big, but the chances of intelligent life evolving is very small.

LostCorkGuy

Of course there is but they are too far away to ever make contact


Also if we ever make contact there will be an Almighty war a few years after first contact , 2 species who are used to being the dominant species coming together , of course there will be a struggle , and if they are the ones to find us , well then that means we'll prob lose

Mocha Joe

Jaysus look at that. I'm giving up diet and exercise and going for 10 pints and a kebab.

NIMAN

We are but a dot.

BidillyBo

joydivision wrote: »

Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.

could be a lot smarter then us considering there's another thread about one of the most powerful countries on earth who had a pan to bomb the moon to show off to the Russians just kind of sums up how stupid and backwards we are

El Guapo!

The fact that humans are even here is a total mind-fúck. We're the result of a chain of events that, statistically, is next to impossible. Just us being here is a miracle in itself, let alone the fact that we're intelligent life.
The odds of that happening again are seriously slim. But the fact that universe is so incredibly large makes me believe that there is life out there somewhere. Whether it's intelligent life is a different story altogether. It may just be bacteria or something, but I'd like to believe there is some sort of life out there.

Orim

Thread title disappoints.

Game over man, game over.

--Kaiser--

Intelligent life could be a complete accident. Look at us, in our Goldilocks planet. Just the right distance from the Sun to have liquid water, a moon to buffer us from impacts from asteroids, a spinning molten core which creates a magnetic field to protect us from solar radiation. Who knows if it will happen again? Then again that's not to say life can't exist in other conditions.

The other thing is, the distances between solar systems is so massive that if there is intelligent life out there, we may never, ever meet. A sobering thought

OurLadyofKnock

Let's hope they do not know we are here. They will come and treat us the same way the colonials treated native people's on this planet.

Shane-KornSpace

joydivision wrote: »

Might be but I reckon if the big bang happened like they say it did . We are just as evolved as them . So we wont meet them in our lifetime.

Not true.
The big bang happened over 10billion years before our planet even formed.

Theres galaxies out there that are much older than ours.

El Guapo!

Really interesting thought here on alien life by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I'd love to go for a few drinks with this guy! I'd never stop asking him questions!

Duckworth_Luas

Nuke them I say. Every single planet out there, just to be sure.

Except the Moon though, that's just stupid!

Doom

irish-stew wrote: »

Has to be some better intelligence out there. Look at some of the fcuk ups we have made.

Maybe we are the first intelligent beings...... but not exactly intelligent in a perfect way.
Imagine what we would be like if we had the ability to travel amongst the stars.....a destructive dominating race no doubt.

tayto lover

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us

Nah. I believe they just drop all their duds down here.

Doom

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Nuke them I say. Every single planet out there, just to be sure.

Except the Moon though, that's just stupid!

Stupid you say....mmmmmm!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/29/america_plannned_to_nuke_the_moon/

franktheplank

I want to share this with you guys. I'm not of this world.

PM me for anal probe.

cartell_best

This wee planet of ours is nothing but a grain of sand, on the grand scale of things. In our own belief, we are significant, but on the infinite, broader reality of things, we are nothing more than a mere and miniscule existence, in comparison to what the entire universe comprises of. It would be extremely naïve of us to say "we are the only intelligent life forms" to grace existence in this vast Universe, that we only understand from our own locality. We haven't even begun to understand that locality, that being our own solar system fully, yet?!?!

Capt'n Midnight

Fermi Paradox.

If there is Alien life then by now it should have expanded all over the universe and they should be visible.

"Where are they ?"

Shryke

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Intelligent life could be a complete accident. Look at us, in our Goldilocks planet. Just the right distance from the Sun to have liquid water, a moon to buffer us from impacts from asteroids, a spinning molten core which creates a magnetic field to protect us from solar radiation. Who knows if it will happen again? Then again that's not to say life can't exist in other conditions.

The other thing is, the distances between solar systems is so massive that if there is intelligent life out there, we may never, ever meet. A sobering thought

Um. A sobering thought if you initially believed you would be meeting intelligent extra-terrestrial life, otherwise a fairly grounded and logical thought.

There's no reason to think that earth is a once off. If the conditions are in place we have no evidence to suggest carbon based life wouldn't ignite elsewhere. And the universe is staggering.
There's no doubt there are other earth like planets in existence but certain universal laws and a propensity for cataclysm would see many worlds face an up hill struggle, and even then there would be no safe bet in them traveling between stars or the like. That's all a bit farcical, up until it isn't, which is an awful long shot in the dark.

tayto lover

There is no Alien life out there. If there was then they are much more intelligent than us and are avoiding us like the plague.



If they landed here sure Fianna Fail would have fleeced them.

Shane-KornSpace

tayto lover wrote: »

There is no Alien life out there. If there was then they are much more intelligent than us and are avoiding us like the plague.



If they landed here sure Fianna Fail would have fleeced them.

Earth Visitor TAX :pac:

Fiery mutant

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Fermi Paradox.

If there is Alien life then by now it should have expanded all over the universe and they should be visible.

"Where are they ?"

So what about us? Can we not apply the same process to ourselves, and say we should have expanded all over the universe by now?

Fr_Dougal

Dean09 wrote: »

Really interesting thought here on alien life by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I'd love to go for a few drinks with this guy! I'd never stop asking him questions!

Watch out, we've got a badass here!

Still a poor mans Carl Sagan.

im invisible

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Hawking reckons we shouldn't make contact with them lest they try to enslave us

I for one welcome our new alien overlords

Pherekydes

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Fermi Paradox.

If there is Alien life then by now it should have expanded all over the universe and they should be visible.

"Where are they ?"

Have we expanded all over the universe? In universal terms, we've barely opened the front door and stepped outside.

Senna

Does anyone really think that we are so unique and that there isn't other life in this vast universe?

Something along the lines of "if only one in a million stars have a planet in the goldilocks zone, and if only one in a million of those have all the right conditions, that would mean there are millions of planets capable of sustaining life".

Pottler

The Universe? I've a feeling there might be more intelligent life in Belgium, never mind the universe. If you live in Offaly, there's more intelligent life across the Boyne bridge ffs. Let's not go too far now.

Shane-KornSpace

Pottler wrote: »

If you live in Offaly, there's more intelligent life across the Boyne bridge ffs.

The cheek! :eek:

NIMAN

Watched that solar system show with Brian Cox one night on the Beeb.

There was a bit when he took a photo of the night sky and of a distant star. This was on a standard camera we all own.

He said the light from it that we are seeing right now, left the star when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, despite travelling at that speed!

Now that makes you feel small. Real small.

Capt'n Midnight

Fiery mutant wrote: »

So what about us? Can we not apply the same process to ourselves, and say we should have expanded all over the universe by now?

With our present technology it would take thousands of years to get to the nearest star.

So in a few million years time we could populate our galaxy.

ET could easily have a few billion years head start on us, since their solar system could have evolved from the remnants of the first supernova ~12.1 billion years ago.

If they took less than 4.54 billion years to get from planet forming to our level they could easily have had the guts of ten billion years to spread out, and spread out in a smaller universe that hadn't expanded to it's current size.

Pottler

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

The cheek! :eek:

Sorry.:D hah. Offaly dweller.

DazMarz

Fox Mulder: But somewhere out there, something is watching us. There are alien forces acting in ways we can't perceive. Are we alone in the Universe? Impossible. When you consider the wonders that exist all around us; Voodoo Priests of Haiti, the Tibetan Numerologists of Appilacia... the unsolved mysteries of... Unsolved mysteries! The Truth... Is Out There!!!

(From The Springfield Files)

Rhys Essien

'Whether we are alone in the Universe or we are not,either thought is frightening' - Arthur C Clarke.

parc

is there anyone who actually thinks "no, there's definitely no other life out there"

i don't think i've ever heard of someone saying that. fair enough not believing in flying saucers. i don't myself, but there's got to be life out there someplace

Shane-KornSpace

parc wrote: »

is there anyone who actually thinks "no, there's definitely no other life out there"

i don't think i've ever heard of someone saying that. fair enough not believing in flying saucers. i don't myself, but there's got to be life out there someplace

Just ask any religious nut :pac:

IvySlayer

Dean09 wrote: »

The fact that humans are even here is a total mind-fúck. We're the result of a chain of events that, statistically, is next to impossible. Just us being here is a miracle in itself, let alone the fact that we're intelligent life.
The odds of that happening again are seriously slim. But the fact that universe is so incredibly large makes me believe that there is life out there somewhere. Whether it's intelligent life is a different story altogether. It may just be bacteria or something, but I'd like to believe there is some sort of life out there.

Yes, humans

There's the possibility of amino acids forming in Titans atmosphere. There's water on Mars, a huge ball of ice with oceans under them in our solar system too.

There's many Earthlike planets out there. There simply has to be life out there.

aidan24326

Kaiser wrote:

The other thing is, the distances between solar systems is so massive that if there is intelligent life out there, we may never, ever meet. A sobering thought

A lifeform with the technology to reach us would have to be so very far ahead of us in their technological advancement that we'd probably be of little interest to them anyway. And realistically we won't be flying around in the Starship Enterprise anytime soon, if ever.

ScumLord

BidillyBo wrote: »

Could someone who doesn't believe in aliens have a look at this and tell me how they don't think there could be any other life as or more intelligent than us out there

I had a look at your picture but couldn't find any evidence to support extraterrestrial life. Sorry.

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

Not true.
The big bang happened over 10billion years before our planet even formed.

Theres galaxies out there that are much older than ours.

It takes a few cycles for a solar system to have the necessary elements though. Things like gold are only created when a star dies so that would lead me to believe that life wouldn't have been possible during the early universe. A few stars had to go through their lives, explode, and reform a few times for the necessary elements to be present through out the solar system.

I think our solar system is in it's third cycle.

NIMAN

Rhys Essien wrote: »

'Whether we are alone in the Universe or we are not,either thought is frightening' - Arthur C Clarke.

Thats a great quote.

Still a hateful paedo though.

aidan24326

ScumLord wrote: »

I had a look at your picture but couldn't find any evidence to support extraterrestrial life. Sorry.

In fairness he only meant that the sheer enormity of the universe means there's a lot of chances for life to happen, however unlikely it may be on any one single planet. And life (at least by the earth definition of it) seems to be pretty resilient once it gets going, seen as it survived all manner of catastrophes here on earth.

Maximus Alexander

In the absence of evidence, believing that alien life forms exist is tantamount to a religion.

It's possible, but right now we can't say one way or another.

"I see a teapot. The universe is so large that, out there somewhere, there must be another teapot!"

Andrewf20

Those hubble ultra deep field photos for me are the most incredible, eye watering photos ever taken.

I remember hearing a quote that said if you travelled at the speed of light (roughly 300,000km per second) for your entire life (80 years say), those galaxies wouldnt look any closer, i.e. the difference would be too subtle.

BidillyBo

ScumLord wrote: »

I had a look at your picture but couldn't find any evidence to support extraterrestrial life. Sorry.

I just meant that whatever odds people put on there being another planet like earth out there that the universe is so uncomprehendingly big that there is properly many

readyletsgo

Pherekydes wrote: »

Have we expanded all over the universe? In universal terms, we've barely opened the front door and stepped outside.

Dude, we are still in the sitting room/kitchen/toilet/bedroom/our mothers womb in universal terms. We have an extremly long way to go before we even get a wo/man on mars.

Of course other life forms are out there, they may be smarter than us or just a puddle of muck, no one knows, but some form is out there and they have no interest in us at all, right now anyway.

Sure I would imagine at lot of other life forms on other worlds would be thinking the same thing or just have no idea we are here since our planet is so small in insignificant.

I remember reading this site on the future of humanity, if, we keep going on the path we are on http://www.futuretimeline.net/ (obviously read this site with a grain of salt, its just idea's)

We have a LONG way to go before we leave our solar system, but we'll have cool tech in the mean time :pac: