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There is a precedent for an inhabitable planet, ours. Given the vast nuber of planets, and the precendent for a planet to be inhabitable, I find it highly probable that there are other inhabitable planets.
There is a precedent for life, us. Creation is still a highly debatable topic, so oppurtunity for life to exist elsewhere, based on how many chances it had, would be very hard to determine. If a question can not be answered in it's most specific form, often it helps to ask the question in it most general form. Given the high number of things and events that share some measure of commonality with other things and events, and the low number of things and events that are unique to the point of sharing no commonality with anything else, it seems highly probable their is life on other planets.
ragskuttleLondon, Greater London, England UK91 posts
There are as many planets in our galaxy as there are grains of sand on one beach. There are as many galaxies in the universe as there are every grain of sand on ALL the beaches on earth. It is not possible that life exists only on one single grain of sand. By the way go to You Tube and look up aliens in space and also aliens in old art. Quite amazing. Personally, I think they are very very sensible in keeping well away from us. We are horrid creatures.
keytone: No need to post if you are uncomfortable talking about this topic. ;-}
Of coarse there is, It would be a terrible waste of space and even space management otherwise. The question should be...Do they all look, walk on two legs, and are as mindles like Croatlus? Let us hope and pray not!
heres just a thaught on this subject......if this rock, we call earth, was any closer, or any farther from the sun...it would not sustain life itself.....so?
The universe must conform to our limited experience of what the definition of life actually is! We are human, and it couldn't be anything other than a reflection of humanity because that is as far as our imagination can stretch.
What if it were something totally and completely alien?
Like intelligent, um...i dunno, see? My imagination boggles. Wouldn't appear as if it were godlike? Something so far out of my definitions of reality? Would I even see it as it actually is? Or would my mind gloss it over as something I can accept?
Galactic_bodhi: The universe must conform to our limited experience of what the definition of life actually is! We are human, and it couldn't be anything other than a reflection of humanity because that is as far as our imagination can stretch.
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. This is the key point ... but just because it is human it could be repeated and taught to those that think in antropomorphic terms for thousands of times and they would never even listen.
Jose13: . This is the key point ... but just because it is human it could be repeated and taught to those that think in antropomorphic terms for thousands of times and they would never even listen.
I wanted to say "anthropocentrical" meaning humans as the centre of the universe
Oct 2, 2008 8:17 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
RAYSALAFCAZOULS LES BEZIERS, Occitanie France259 Posts
RAYSALAFCAZOULS LES BEZIERS, Occitanie France259 posts
I've landed again today just to realize my lifelong ambition of making a difference when I cast my vote (believers now 51%). It seems pretty obvious to me that with all the other bits of rock floating around the universe there must be one with some form of life on it, just going off the zillion to one against odds that we are not alone. That doesn't mean that I'm convinced the ET's have built a better Hubble and are asking themseves "Gee Marge, do you reckon there's any form of life on that planet Earth place", and doubt they could ever afford, or want to get here no matter how much they enjoy holidays abroad: That could be just as well because we may be seen as the best fast-food restaurant in the cosmos. It doesn't leave aside the fact that governments and people on our little piece of rock invest huge amounts of time, money and energy trying to prove whether or not "the truth is out there". For me that's fine because lots of people are interested in knowing, and it's just as valid a passion as art, football, archaeology or any other 'ology so long as it doesn't turn into another sort of religion. I hope that either I've had the last word, or nobody disagrees with my view, and votes against it. I simply wish to confirm the possibility of my vote finally making a difference to anything, and with my new-found confidence I could continue my quest to find intelligent life in my kitchen.
I find it difficult to consider that there may not be intelligent life out there somewhere - an infinite universe must furnish us with infinite possibilities.
If I was was part of an alien nation, I would caution against letting ourselves be known to a species such as humans who have as yet not found a way to be agreeable with each other in many areas of our being - unkindness, greed and one-upmanship run rampant on this planet and absolutely must be viewed with scepticism by any race of people with the intellegence to master inter-galactic travel....
I really can just imagine what somebody viewing the state of mankind would think of the disparities between the starving people of Somalia and the fat cats of the stock exchanges and multinationals......
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There is a precedent for an inhabitable planet, ours.
Given the vast nuber of planets, and the precendent for a planet to be inhabitable,
I find it highly probable that there are other inhabitable planets.
There is a precedent for life, us.
Creation is still a highly debatable topic, so oppurtunity for life to exist elsewhere, based on how many chances it had, would be very hard to determine.
If a question can not be answered in it's most specific form, often it helps to ask the question in it most general form.
Given the high number of things and events that share some measure of commonality with other things and events,
and the low number of things and events that are unique to the point of sharing no commonality with anything else,
it seems highly probable their is life on other planets.