Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life? (60)

Sep 27, 2008 1:57 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Ocee35
Ocee35Ocee35Jackson, Michigan USA69 Threads 2 Polls 3,852 Posts
keytone: No need to post if you are uncomfortable talking about this topic.
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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.
Sep 27, 2008 2:57 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
nfowler
nfowlernfowlernowhere, Washington USA89 Threads 2,634 Posts
mumbling stupid humans
Sep 27, 2008 3:19 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
ragskuttle
ragskuttleragskuttleLondon, Greater London, England UK8 Threads 1 Polls 91 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.
Sep 27, 2008 4:56 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Kevint
KevintKevintWorcester, Home of the sauce, West Midlands, England UK6 Threads 433 Posts
ragskuttle:
Personally, I think they are very very sensible in keeping well away from us. We are horrid creatures.



rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing frustrated doh
Sep 27, 2008 4:58 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
howboutu
howboutuhowboutuDecatur, Alabama USA3 Threads 796 Posts
I'll vote yes for Gilly in case he is not over his cold and is unable to vote! rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 27, 2008 5:19 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Sommerauer71
Sommerauer71Sommerauer71Salzburg, Austria133 Threads 4 Polls 12,414 Posts
keytone: No need to post if you are uncomfortable talking about this topic.
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No, I do not believe there is.
Sep 27, 2008 5:24 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
wixomwizard
wixomwizardwixomwizardWixom, Michigan USA35 Threads 3,636 Posts
keytone: No need to post if you are uncomfortable talking about this topic.
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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!professor
Sep 28, 2008 6:16 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
combatcarebare
combatcarebarecombatcarebarepreston, Lancashire, England UK2 Threads 2 Polls 13 Posts
if there is its probaly itelligent enough to stay away from us
Sep 28, 2008 7:35 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
SirenLydia
SirenLydiaSirenLydiaBury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England UK45 Threads 2 Polls 4,138 Posts
combatcarebare: if there is its probaly itelligent enough to stay away from us


rolling on the floor laughing that would be the sensible thing to do........devil
Sep 28, 2008 7:39 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
kurzita
kurzitakurzitaXaghra, Gozo Malta9 Threads 1,019 Posts
Not necessarily in the same form, shape, and overall conditions that we know as 'us'......in other words may take on different version of 'life'

but yes......

the law of probability makes it so.....

cool
Sep 28, 2008 11:54 PM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
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Sep 28, 2008 11:58 PM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
jlw45
jlw45jlw45Moyers, Oklahoma USA66 Threads 1 Polls 15,566 Posts
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?professor dunno
Sep 29, 2008 12:31 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Galactic_bodhi
Galactic_bodhiGalactic_bodhiAkron, Ohio USA609 Threads 1 Polls 9,196 Posts
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?

Something to think about anyway...dunno
Sep 29, 2008 12:37 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Jose13
Jose13Jose13Azángaro, Puno Peru24 Threads 440 Posts
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.

...

.thumbs up
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.
Sep 29, 2008 12:39 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
Jose13
Jose13Jose13Azángaro, Puno Peru24 Threads 440 Posts
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
Sep 29, 2008 1:16 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
sxc666
sxc666sxc666unknown, Queensland Australia51 Threads 16,853 Posts
yes I do cool
Sep 29, 2008 1:17 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
sxc666: yes I do
heyyou!!how is that sweet lovely sweet love???
;-}hug kiss
Sep 29, 2008 1:19 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
sxc666
sxc666sxc666unknown, Queensland Australia51 Threads 16,853 Posts
keytone: heyyou!!how is that sweet lovely sweet love???
;-}
Hello gorgeous B teddybear bouquet lips
Sep 29, 2008 1:21 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
sxc666: Hello gorgeous B
you are surely not of this world Tina. You far to lovely to be Human!
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grin
Sep 29, 2008 1:43 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
sxc666
sxc666sxc666unknown, Queensland Australia51 Threads 16,853 Posts
keytone: you are surely not of this world Tina. You far to lovely to be Human!
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why you heart melter you. blushing hug
Sep 29, 2008 1:53 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
sxc666: why you heart melter you.
comfort hey what else could I do? Just comes naturally!
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Oct 1, 2008 9:19 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
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Oct 1, 2008 9:35 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
RAYSALAF
RAYSALAFRAYSALAFCAZOULS LES BEZIERS, Occitanie France259 Posts
It's an amazing place the universe.......I'm still trying to find intelligent life in my kitchendoh
Oct 1, 2008 9:45 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
HJFinAZ
HJFinAZHJFinAZSun CIty, Arizona USA870 Threads 1 Polls 17,068 Posts
RAYSALAF: It's an amazing place the universe.......I'm still trying to find intelligent life in my kitchen


There are times when I wonder if any intelligent life form is on this planet!confused


uh oh





hole
Oct 1, 2008 9:51 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
RAYSALAF
RAYSALAFRAYSALAFCAZOULS LES BEZIERS, Occitanie France259 Posts
HJFinAZ: There are times when I wonder if any intelligent life form is on this planet!
for the last time......will you stop looking at my profile?frustrated
Oct 2, 2008 5:14 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
keytone
keytonekeytonePortland, Oregon USA36 Threads 3 Polls 1,686 Posts
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Oct 2, 2008 8:17 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
RAYSALAF
RAYSALAFRAYSALAFCAZOULS 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. doh
Oct 2, 2008 10:01 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
I am going for possibility at this point.

Here is why. It leaves me open for the possibility while not admitting to something that is not proven.

We find some water on Mars and a moon that seems to be water based. So there seems to the necessarily elements for life elsewhere.

BUT

Till we have that alien microism in a test tube....or that alien 500 pound creature staring us in the face.....it is hypothetic arguement.

I will look for the microrganism.....and will let you find the 500 alien creature.
Oct 2, 2008 10:21 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
RAYSALAF
RAYSALAFRAYSALAFCAZOULS LES BEZIERS, Occitanie France259 Posts
I know something's going on out there. Now it's only 49% again/- do I get two votes?very mad
Oct 2, 2008 10:36 AM CST Do you think that there is Extraterrestrial life?
trish123
trish123trish123Macclesfield, Cheshire, England UK177 Threads 4 Polls 13,724 Posts
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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