Are we alone?

McIrish_ · 10-11-2013 12:21AM #1

Putting jokes aside,

Does anybody think that we are alone in this universe? I'm strongly under the impression that we are getting closer to finding other life forms somewhere particularly with the way that telescopes and technology are evolving

Wouldn't you think that someone would have come by now? Surely more intelligent life forms exist somewhere. Do you think that they know where we are?

I'd say traveling through space can be a difficult journey with all of the asteroids and radiation could destroy any human being.

I have never really put much thought into the subject but it's definitely and interesting one.......

The Backwards Man · 10-11-2013 12:23AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78

Rayne Wooney · 10-11-2013 12:24AM

Sure isn't god out there somewhere

PizzamanIRL · 10-11-2013 12:25AM

Probably not. If we are, we are. If we're not, we're not.

We'll more than likely never know.

10-11-2013 12:27AM

The universe is infinite, and while I'm no expert, it's my understanding that infinite means pretty damn big

. In this big space there are millions, nay billions, of planets.

It would be almost comically egotistical to imagine that in an infinite universe of billions of planets, that we are the only intelligent forms of life to have evolved, over the billions of years the universe has existed.

So no, I don't believe we're alone.

Mariasofia · 10-11-2013 12:27AM

McIrish_ wrote: »

Putting jokes aside,

Does anybody think that we are alone in this universe? I'm strongly under the impression that we are getting closer to finding other life forms somewhere particularly with the way that telescopes and technology are evolving

Wouldn't you think that someone would have come by now? Surely more intelligent life forms exist somewhere. Do you think that they know where we are?

I'd say traveling through space can be a difficult journey with all of the asteroids and radiation could destroy any human being.

I have never really put much thought into the subject but it's definitely and interesting one.......

McIrish phone home........youre drunk:-D

Rayne Wooney · 10-11-2013 12:28AM

Checking that moon, Europa(?) should be the first thing never mind sending men to Mars.

There's possibly liquid water deep down and anywhere with water on Earth there's usually life.

10-11-2013 12:28AM

Home alone!

Keep the change you filthy animal.

Frosty McSnowballs · 10-11-2013 12:28AM

I'm pretty sure Mac and me is out there...

Duvetdays · 10-11-2013 12:29AM

Did you just watch Gravity to make you think of this?
I just did and it's a pile of ****e.

No, I don't think we're alone and I think it's extremely ignorant to think we're alone in the universe.

Wacker The Attacker · 10-11-2013 12:29AM

Go on the aliens

we'llallhavetea · 10-11-2013 12:29AM

if you could sort me out with the makin's op I'd much appreciate it

Billy86 · 10-11-2013 12:29AM

So alone.

Think I'll go hang myself now, while having a ****.

Mariasofia · 10-11-2013 12:31AM

I think we're alone now .....doesnt seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now.....the beating of my heart is the only sound!

Wacker The Attacker · 10-11-2013 12:32AM

Billy86 wrote: »

So alone.

Think I'll go hang myself now, while having a ****.

The old hanging ****.

You cant beat it

Untouchable Peasant · 10-11-2013 12:32AM

No fucker knows.

wnolan1992 · 10-11-2013 12:33AM

"Putting jokes aside"?

Wrong forum dude...

Rayne Wooney · 10-11-2013 12:34AM

Candie wrote: »

The universe is infinite, and while I'm no expert, it's my understanding that infinite means pretty damn big . In this big space there are millions, nay billions, of planets.

It would be almost comically egotistical to imagine that in an infinite universe of billions of planets, that we are the only intelligent forms of life to have evolved, over the billions of years the universe has existed.

So no, I don't believe we're alone.

Most scientists agree that we don't know whether the universe is infinite or finite.

FunLover18 · 10-11-2013 12:34AM

Bill Bryson writes (in A Short History Of Nearly Everything) “Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good… Under Drake’s equation you divide the number of stars in a selected portion of the universe by the number of stars that are likely to have planetary systems; divide that by the number of planetary systems that could theoretically support life; divide that by the number on which life, having arisen, advances to a state of intelligence; and so on. At each such division, the number shrinks colossally—yet even with the most conservative inputs the number of advanced civilizations just in the Milky Way always works out to be somewhere in the millions”.

Augmerson · 10-11-2013 12:34AM

Most likely not, but we probably won't like what we find, or what finds us. I think Hawking said something along the lines of, looking at our own history, when a more technologically advanced civilization encountered a less technologically advanced (like Europeans with the Americas and Africa) the results were usually not good for the less advanced party.

I'd imagine that something or somebody knows we are here. We are constantly sending out these electronic transmissions since 40s and 50s with television alone into space. We had so many sightings of flying saucers in the 40s after WWII and into the 50s, right about the time humans perfected nuclear weapons I might add.

Maybe they just don't consider us all that intelligent or worthwhile. Maybe we aren't as smart as we think, and we can't even comprehend how they are, like seeing in 2D all your life and then seeing in 3D suddenly *goes for more tea*

HansHolzel · 10-11-2013 12:36AM

from Repo Man (1984)

Otto and Miller are in a vacant lot under a bridge. Otto holds up a book he's about to throw in a burning garbage can. Book says Dioretix: The Science of Matter over Mind. By A. Rum Bi.... This is an allusion to Dianetics by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Miller:
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give you an example, show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like plate or shrimp or plate of shrimp out of the blue no explanation. No point in looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

Otto:
You do a lot of acid Miller, back in the hippie days?

Miller:
I'll give you another instance. You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now. Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda triangles, UFO's, how the Mayans invented television. That kind of thing.

Otto:
I don't read them books.

Miller:
Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics. They miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people. Right?

Otto:
Yeah. I guess.

Miller:
Well where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where. The future. Where did all these people disappear to? Hmm?

Otto:
The past?

Miller:
That's right and how did they get there?

Otto:
How the fück do I know?

Miller:
Flying saucers. Which are really? Yeah you got it. Time machines. I think a lot about this kind of stuff. I do my best thinking on the bus. That how come I don't drive, see?

Otto:
You don't even know how to drive.

Miller:
I don't want to know how. I don't want to learn. See? The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

Pushtrak · 10-11-2013 12:37AM

There probably is some intelligent life elsewhere in the universe... The universe is a pretty damn big place, though. Encountering them isn't something one should expect in their life time. This applies to us and future generations. At some point, it may happen, but it isn't like "Sure that'll happen in a couple of years" and be even remotely accurate except by accident.

F1ngers · 10-11-2013 12:38AM

I think, in the 6,000 years that the universe has been around, it would be very naive of us to believe that we are alone.

humbert · 10-11-2013 12:39AM

A more salient question might be, is it possible to contact anyone far away? If information cannot travel faster than light we might as well be alone.

My money is on advanced civilisations losing interest in reproducing long before they are advanced enough to be immortal.

jimmytwotimes 2013 · 10-11-2013 12:39AM

Doubt we will see it in our life time, or over the next century or two. We can just about identify a planet with requirements for life, distance from sun, mass etc but we cud only guess if there was life there or not, or water or atmosphere. And as it takes a few decades to get a probe out of our solar system, let alone communicate with one beyond that, I wouldn't spend too much time thinking on it.

Shur we don't even have the technology to get to Mars and back.

There probably is, but we most likely will never know.

Pushtrak · 10-11-2013 12:39AM

F1ngers wrote: »

I think, in the 6,000 years that the universe has been around, it would be very naive of us to believe that we are alone.

:pac:

humbert · 10-11-2013 12:39AM

F1ngers wrote: »

I think, in the 6,000 years that the universe has been around, it would be very naive of us to believe that we are alone.

Very good.

Starscream25 · 10-11-2013 12:42AM

It's statistically likely that we are not alone, you'd want to be pretty narrow minded to think otherwise.
Whether or not we've been visited already is another question.

Hello_MrFox · 10-11-2013 12:42AM

We will keep on evolving adn developing new technologies, there is no limit to anything. In a few million years in humans still exist we will be able to do what ever we want. We will be able to create new universes at the click of our fingers and travel to Heaven and Hell (if they exist) for a day trip when ever we want. We will also be gods and control the universe. I think on a long enough time line everything is possible.

EuropeanSon · 10-11-2013 12:58AM

We're not alone, and we won't find anything for thousands of years, at a minimum. The distances involved are simply too great.

jobeenfitz · 10-11-2013 01:05AM

I think some of yis are right and some of yis are wrong, maybe.

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