February 28, 2006
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NASA Part 2
A top employee of NASA is leaving the organization to work for a company that explores the possibility of life on other planets. According to foxnews.com, G.Scott Hubbard will be leaving NASA to “accept a position with an organization that studies the possibility of life beyond Earth.”
This is my whole impression of NASA. It is my theory that most of the people who are at NASA ultimately are concerned with finding life on another planet. They grew up watching Star Trek and now they want to make the vision a reality. I don’t want to make all the Star Trek people mad at me today. But it is my opinion that we will never find life on another planet.
They make big announcements when they find some evidence that life could have possibly existed on Mars. I think everyone knows we will never live on Mars. But we go there looking for more evidence that somewhere out there is another group of people that are trying to find us. If there was intelligent life on another planet, why would they want to find us?
I am not saying it is impossible that there is life on another planet. I am simply saying it is highly unlikely. I just saw the movie War of Worlds not to long ago. I don’t think we want them to find us. I know you can’t base everything on Hollywood but from what I have seen on television, aliens appear to be unfriendly.
How likely do you think it is that there is life on other planets?
Comments (178)
very likely
not very….
Um…really really very very very very likely!!^^
Oh there is life on other planets.
Amanda
I think it’s likely…but nthingas advanced as a typical “alien”
kind of likely, i’m pretty confident there must be…
life as in a thinking being? not likely
life as in microscopic beings….it does exist.
so…….
since humans ummm as some say evolved from microorganisms…can there be life on another planet? to the folks that believe in evolution….the answer is a possible yes.
to those that do not believe in evolution, the answer is most likely no. 
i think we make them seem ugly and mean on tv because it’s really another aspect of ourselves. look at et. a child found et and therefor et was cute and adorable. but in war of the worlds adults found them and they were mean. i’m actually just tired and don’t really know anything about aliens. i bet there is somewhere that life is but in microbiological form. nothing big. i bet it’s close to us too.
I think there may be life on other planets but it wouldn’t be the bigheaded, slant eyed aliens that we portray in movies.
Aliens have already infiltrated our society. I used to work with one. His name was Bob. Bob the alien, worked in accounting. Great guy. ;-p
Zero per cent chance. Earth is the only planet situated exactly (in this Solar System) to sustain life.
In other systems of the universe – maybe a ten per cent chance.
Highly unlikely.
God bless!
Shohna
highly unlikely
guess its possible- i’ve never seen any tho – Happy Marti Gras and Fat Tues Dan!
They ponder the same question of us…
If in all the universe Earth is the only planet with life, it seems like an awful waste of space.
I got that from the movie Contact.
Very unlikely. It seems to me humans were the only beings God created, && he only created them on earth.
very likely, but honestly: who cares? Live and let live, ya know? Why do we need to find them?
God is large and in charge. He is certainly capable of allowing life on other planets or even galaxies, but I have no opinion or idea about whether life out there exists.
Hehe. I think you were leaving a comment at my place at the same time I was leaving a comment here!
RYC: What I have come to realize is that one MUST remember in order to fully forgive. Forgetting is not the same as forgiving. Thus, at my request, the Holy Spirit has been bringing things to my remembrance in order that I may fully forgive. This is also a miracle.
I agree with you on this …. God only put life on this Earth.
How likely are humans to be the only living beings in the universe?
I agree with powXxbangbang… God only intead to creat us… I dont think its likely at all that there are others out there in space…
The planets that we already know about? No way.
Some other planet that we haven’t discovered yet in a different solar system? 100%
Whatever planet it is that my dad lives on when my mom is nagging? barely
It’s not impossible, but I really don’t think it’s a great idea to make contact if there was.
where does it say that God only created us and only on earth? who knows what other things he’s done that he hasn’t mentioned because maybe, just maybe, it didn’t concern us? i think people are arrogant to think that we are the only living forms in this entire universe. do they realise how BIG the universe actually is? our galaxy is a mere speck in the big scheme of things. obviously there’s nothing like us within our solar system, but what about elsewhere? who knows? but at the same time… i’m not sure i really care =P
I think we’d be silly to think that the universe is as vast as it is and we are the only ones occupying it…
I’ve had someone argue with me that there isn’t life on other planets because God never mentioned it in the bible…but here’s the thing, God never mentioned dinosaurs either…but we have proof they existed…
I think there are some things we’re just not meant to know until we’re advanced enough to understand those things…this being one of them I suppose…
I personally think it’s an arrogant assumption that we are the only life that exists in the universe. I definitely think it’s possible. The funny thing is, most people who think there is life out there, assume that the beings are highly advanced in comparison to us. If that’s the case, they probably don’t want to influence us in any way and would rather we evolve on our own. However, I believe that if there is indeed another earth or form of life in the universe (not necessarily THIS universe), they may very well be at the same level that we are and have not yet developed the technology or means to make contact.
I embrace the possibility without fear. I don’t think that we’re going to be abuducted or destroyed or made into slaves by a higher intelligence. I simply wait and see if this may or may not happen in my lifetime. I think the idea is very exciting and fascinating.
Of course. But any intelligent life is too far away for us to ever see it.
Candy
I think that there is possibly life on other planets, but like you said, why would they want to find us?
*A*
Not very. At all. But I don’t believe everyone works at NASA for that one purpose. I would love to be involved with some of the programs there. Simply because I have a fascination with space. Always have. I think those exploring the unknowns simply have fascinations more often than outlandish theories. Archeology. Deep sea exploration. Space exploration. It fascinates us.
A more pressing question is, if life on other planets founds us and offered us their great wisdom, would we listen to it?
:p I don’t have to ask, I know.
How did you give me e-props?
Humans will never have the capability to find life on other planets even if it does exist. Earth is a tiny planet in a tiny galaxy. The skies are endless and the planets infinite. It’s always just about man’s stupid ego. Sure, we have done some great things, but seriously….. it’s like the ridiculous time machine idea. Just a fantasy; it aint gonna happen. just let it go.
Sounds like an easy job to me, sitting around reading research material about life on other planets and getting paid for it…I mean, how is he going to really find out? I don’t think it is likely, but if there is, I don’t want them to find us either, because they may have a taste for carbon units or something….or need a place to dump their pollution…I doubt if they would be friendly.
incredibly low, but not immpossible
there could but who cares? do we need to conquer another place? force our beliefs on another group of beings?
If I’m not mistaken the Bible says that we are the only human beings.
There is NO life on other planets.
based on religious beliefs, no. I think that if there was, there’s every possibility that we could never communicate on any meaningful level.
I can honestly say that I am completely agnostic on this topic.
God bless.
With an infinite universe, there are infinite possibilities. Therefore, it is almost impossible that there would NOT be life somewhere else out there. The chances of us finding it, though, wih this gigantic realm to explore, without knowing in which direction to aim– minimal. Maybe after several million years of concentrated effort, but even that’s stretching it. The galaxies we see are thousands and millions of light years away- so unless we find out how to “tesser” (see Madeline L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time series), we’re sunk- the time it takes to travel between them pretty much has us isolated.
-Steve
Each galaxy has thousands of stars and many of those stars most likely have planets. Even if we assume that only one planet per galaxy might be able to sustain life, that’s still a LOT of possibilities because there’s tons of galaxies. Now, will we ever get to them, or vice versa? Almost certainly not. But space exploration is about more than finding little green Martians.
we would be very arrogant to think we were the only life out there.
and the ones that say.. “God only created man on earth”
um.. how do you know this?
very likely. if the universe is expanding as quickly as it is, and is as large as we believe it to be, how can our one teeny-tiny little planet be the ONLY one with life?
the real problem will be finding the other life out there.
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I find it highly likely that there is life on other planets. Now not necessairly in our own solar system but in others also.
I think it’s extremely arrogant to assume that our planet is the only one with life, or something like it. Plus, didn’t they find microbes on Mars or something?
If there were intelligent life elsewhere, more advanced than we, they would most certainly be observing us, just as we do primitive societies. Do I believe that life exists elsewhere? I won’t rule out the possibility. Will I take a religious stance on it? Certainly not, I can’t even force myself to take stance on religion itself.
It seems likely that there would be, but also unlikely that we should be. Yet we are (or at least I know I am – cogito ergo sum).
I really like the concept of time travel – perhaps you could start a discussion on that next, or point ot one that you may have already had.
I’ll mind my own now.
Don’t have a clue! Don’t care!
Yes. Why would God create such a massive universe if humans on Earth were the only things living on it?
And as you were saying about Mars, scientists are trying to have a colony by 2050 on the Red Planet.
I think everyone knows we will never live on Mars.
I think your comment is very shortsighted. First of all, “never” is a very long time. 100 years ago, someone might easily have said, with equal aplomb, that humanity would “never” land anyone on the moon. Of course, from the day in 1903 when the Wright Borthers first flew at Kitty Hawk, it only took 66 years to put men on the moon. Now a flight into space is so routine, it barely merits a ten-second blurb on the evening news.
Second, I think both the Moon and Mars will likely become places where we are able to establish permanent colonies. In fact, I think it is inevitable — and even imperative — that we do so.
Third, I used to work at a NASA facility years ago, and I can assure you that, although there were some folks there who were sci-fi romantics, the vast majority of the work that goes on there is what most people would consider completely mundane. Keep in mind that NASA’s original mission (back when it was called something else) was the development of aeronautic technology for airplanes. The big breakthroughs were more along the line of achieving greater efficiencies through improved propeller design. Alot of that aeronautic stuff still goes on there, in addition to developing photovoltaic technology, magnetohydrodynamic technology, and a host of other things.
Life above the level of a microbe seems unlikely to me, but not impossible. God can make anything anywhere. It seems arrogance to suggest God can’t have made life elsewhere.
Because I am a teenager, and we know ALL.
(sarcasm, darling.)
Nope, no life on any other planet.
Definetly some microscopic life. Maybe even some animals… but I would be really suprised if we ever found something with any real intelligence
Ok. Let’s think about this.
Every star is a sun.
Look at the number of stars in the sky. For every star that we can see, there are probably a BILLION that we can’t see.
If only a tenth of those stars have planets, that’s still BILLIONS of potential planets. And of those planets, if only a tenth are capable of supporting life as we know it, that’s still BILLIONS of planets that could support life.
And if only a tenth of those planets capable of supporting life DO have life on them, that’s still BILLIONS of planets with life.
If only a tenth of THOSE planets have intelligent life–well, BILLIONS of planets with intelligent life exist.
Is your God REALLY so microscopic that you think he only made life on this one teeny tiny little booger in space? If he/she/it really IS an omnipotent God, would he/she/it REALLY limit his/her/its artistic creationism to this teeny tiny little booger?
I don’t think so.
I think there is infinite life in infinite variety spread throughout the universe. How could there NOT be?
And as for them visiting us–look at the shithole we’ve made of this planet. Look at how barbaric we are–looking for excuses to slaughter our fellow human beings. Why would they want to? It would be like you riding your bicycle at midnight through the most gang infested ghetto in the nastiest slum on the planet with hundred dollar bills pasted all over you.
Hi Dan, thats a question that if I thought about alot would drive me nuts. Then I would finally come to a point in questioning my own beliefs, which I choose not to do….lol However, if we took as much time trying yo fix the world we live in problems compared to trying to prove life on other planets then we might live in a better world. RYC: All I need is a yes I can or a no it wouldn’t do any good kind of answer….lol Thanks for getting back to me, I appreciate it.
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Donna
If I’m not mistaken the Bible says that we are the only human beings.
Posted 2/28/2006 at 11:52 AM by dropsofjupiterihh
Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
SURE it does. Show me the chapter and verse.
whose to say what God has done and what he hasnt? we are limited by time constraints, God made “time”, he isnt limited by it, this is kinda like asking “what did God do BEFORE he made us? if he is infinate, then he was infinately here before our time began, so in all that eternity, what did he do?”calls for wild speculation, one cannot give a definative answer, because of the absence of absolute negatives: we havent found sentient beings yet, but we havent been everywhere so we simply cant say they dont exist
its the same with someone saying God doesnt exist, you simply cannot say that because you havent been to every galaxy to search for him, so you cant disprove him. neeeewaayyy, i strayed way far on that, and my spelling bites, sorry
Time will tell.
I think there is “life” but in a totally different form that we are unable to comprehend…
in our Solar system absolutley no chance. Out side of our solar system Only God knows for sure
I’m sure it’s possible, but considering that the closest star is 4 light-years away (and the chances of *that* star having a planet with life orbiting it) it seems impossible that we will ever have the technology to travel the distances necessary to find extra-terrestrial life.
I do think scientific research into outer space is important. For one thing, it helps us more fully understand how things work on Earth.
There are. (It has been proven) But not the way many of us think. They are like microbes or something. Have a great Tuesday!
Microbes?? So what!! If they can find an alien (or just another human) on a different planet and have FULL proof of “life on Mars” and even bring it BACK to earth then I’ll believe it.
LIFE, yes. any kind of earth creature as we know them, no.
Sure, they are there and they warn their children about us…..”kids, you do not want to go there! It’s a vast wasteland full of very mean people. If they ever catch you, they’ll kidnap you, poke and prod, dissect you, chew you up and spit you out.”
I think there is, it would be very concieted of us to believe we are the only life bearing planet in the Universe!!! Surely the Lord made others as He/She made us! ’til the next
zippo!
when i was a kid, i used to wonder if jesus went to all the other planets and died for them there too.
sometimes i still wonder that
I think it’s extremely likely. How arrogant of us to assume that we are the ONLY living beings in all of the universe. The universe is a vast place. What a waste, if there isn’t.
One chance in billions and billions and billions…
I often wonder how much intelligent life there is on this planet.
In truth, I don’t really care. It might serve as an interesting diversion to indulge in the mental masturbation of conjuring up different scenarios wherein we have some kind of encounter with alien sentients, but God never hinted of their existence so I doubt that, whether they exist or not, we will ever meet them.
RYC:
“I am glad to hear the people were so open to you.”
I don’t know if it was just the fact that they were being visited at their homes by Americanos (they really don’t call us Gringos anywhere but the border towns) or whether they were genuinely that polite (my guess). I do know that as poor as they were, they were always willing to share what they had with us. I commented to my interpreter that we in the US didn’t have a lock on doing things the right way and we could learn a lot from our neighbors down south.
Good to see you again.
L,r
I would believe so. Job 1 and 2 seem to indicate that there might be life elsewhere who gather together with God on occasion. Perhaps the leaders of each planet. I can’t believe that we are the only world He created.
I don’t think so!
> Star Trek is what it is…..! But the universe is a big place, ‘n I think we are a little too tiny to be the only ones hereabouts. At least I can hope there is more to life than just our high falutin’ ideas of it or its limits…….
Peace
Not very
I think it’s likely…sometimes it feels like we’re more likely to find intelligent life on another planet rather than on our own.
I do not think we need to be selfish and say we are the only creatures that have evolved on our worlds. With as much space as there is, it is highly unlikely we are the only living organisms.
No, I don’t believe that there are really Vulcan’s or anything of the sort, but there is a possibility that cannot be ignored that organisms, viruses, and otherwise exist outside of our own planet and solar system. You cannot be judgemental or selfish.
Very likely….but I don’t think it’s to the extent that other’s may believe it to be.
I think it’s extremely likely. Look at the size of our own galaxy, let alone our universe. Not to mention, remember a few years ago when they found fossilized bacteria on Mars? It would be ignorant of us to believe we’re the only planet that sustains life.
Very likely; the odds that we actually find it, however, are much, MUCH smaller. Microscopic, in fact.
It’s not hard for me to believe that there could be life on other planets, but I don’t think it is intelligent life… There could be some sort of bacteria growing somewhere out there.
Have any of you ever read C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy? (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength). What a creative and powerful look at the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe!
Not likely. I’m a huge Sci-Fi fan (Stargate, Farscape, Firefly), but I think it’s just that…..fiction.
ok well this is one theory that I learned in science class this year.
At least one time all the planets had human life on them…not at the same time…but it was something like the planets explode or something and human life is destroyed and another planet is created….I probably explained this wrong but it’s close to what I learned so if this theory is true nobody will ever find that there was human life on another planet..because the evidence is destroyed…w/e.lol.
ok well this is one theory that I learned in science class this year.
At least one time all the planets had human life on them…not at the same time…but it was something like the planets explode or something and human life is destroyed and another planet is created….I probably explained this wrong but it’s close to what I learned so if this theory is true nobody will ever find that there was human life on another planet..because the evidence is destroyed…w/e.lol.
my bad sent that twice…lol.
Do people actually believe that we are the only living beings in the entire universe?! If scientists have discovered another “planet” about 28,000 light years away with almost the same consistency of Earth—what makes them think that Earth is the only place where life exists?
Not likely, so why don’t we spend that money elsewhere.
I don’t think NASA is a waste of money, though they could possibly be more efficent. Many technologies developed by NASA have improved life on earth. I am positive that you have used technology originally developed by NASA.
Here’s a link to just some of the technologies.
http://ksc.nasatechnology.com/resources/spinoffs/spinoffs.asp
Enjoy.
Extremely likely. If it’ll be similar enough for us to recognize.. no idea. In this solar system? Doubt it. But somewhere.
Have we found intelligent life on earth?
Zero % likely.
John 10…”I have other sheep.” Definitely possible.
I really don’t think there is any such thing as aliens, or life on other planets. From what we can tell from these other planets, there is always at least one thing that makes them inhabitable. Not to sound superior…That’s not my intent.
Also, didn’t that quit NASA to pursue his dreams of life on other planets? If NASA wanted to pursue that, and explore that, why would he have quit?
Not very likely, but I won’t completely say it’s impossible. There’s a lot out there we don’t know about.
-Jared
Thanks, Dan. It wasn’t me that came up with Steak and a Blow Job Day, but I think it’s a good idea… Maybe you should mention it in one of your questions…
I believe so, and I believe the bible supports it. Jesus said he was going to tend other flocks. I don’t know for sure if there is, but I think the possibility is definitely great. Why would God have created this vast universe otherwise?? We can’t be so arrogant that we think it’s just for us.
i go back and forth on this. I think its quite possible that there is life on another planet. I mean, is it selfish to believe we are the only creation of God? I think that perhaps curiosity kills the cat….and sometimes we should just leave things alone. Hollywood does present other lifeforms in a pretty scary, negative way….but maybe they wouldn’t be scary. We’d probably be just as scary to them as they are to us, right?
I guess so many weird things have happened over the course of history that i do believe that other life exists….but i dont think that we should spend billions of dollars on pursuing other life forms when our own people are impoverished.
extreemly likely. if you think about how big the universe is….wow…there could be tons of other beings/life forms out there…maybe even other human-type people
Of course there is. It may not be as “advanced” as we are…perhaps it’s just microorganisms, but that counts as life. Like Jodie Foster’s character said in Contact, it’d be quite arrogant of us to think we’re the only life in the universe. Ha! And this isn’t even the only universe. Yes, there’s life on other planets, it’s just a matter of time before we find it.
I once heard a great theory about life on other planets. There are billions upon billion of stars in the universe. Millions of those have planets surrounding them. Statistically, there have got to be hundreds of planets similar to earth (with water, oxygen etc). It would be foolish to assume that life couldn’t develop on one of those planets as well, if it developed here. Sure, they might just be trees or something, but it’s still life. But because of the distances between stars, and einsteins theory of relativity (you can’t go faster than the speed of light) I doubt anyone is looking for us.
Unl;ikely in our Solar System, but there might be outside of our Galaxy.
If there was life on other planets, wouldn’t we know it by now?
Hey Dan!
Yea, I’m weak…I missed everyone on here so much…
Shell
It’s amazing that you can get hundreds of comments on something like this and when I asked the same question with an interesting article attached to it, I merely received a handful.
I know you leave a lot of comments on other sites (though only once on mine), but still…
the universe is toooooo big for there not to be life out there….earth cannot be the only planet/star/asteroid/whatever else is out there that supports a lifeform….if its intelligent or not is a different question. i am a huge calvin and hobbes fan and one of the strips ive read has calvin saying “i think the surest sign of intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us yet”…
so i think it is very likely that there is some form of life out there
I personally don’t think there’s life on other planets. I feel life is too precious and perfect to happen in too many other places. But only God knows this and I’m sure he can sort all of that out.
Pesky
I think it’s unlikely. God didn’t mention it to us in the handbook so either there isn’t any, or we don’t need to bother wasting our time looking for it. Either way NASA is a farce
So Star Trek is a load of crap, but War of the Worlds is a GREAT predictor of extraterrestrial life.
I think that there is no other life on the other planets, God made our planet unique with abundant life. He made the other planets for more exploration, to marvel at his creativity, if life was found on another planet wouldn’t Darwinists just scream YES, because of Natural seclection once again! But life is so complicated, as is our earth.
I think that there is no other life on the other planets, God made our planet unique with abundant life. He made the other planets for more exploration, to marvel at his creativity, if life was found on another planet wouldn’t Darwinists just scream YES, because of Natural seclection once again! But life is so complicated, as is our earth.
evidence points to not likely
I think the universe is mighty big to only have one planet of life, but I don’t think they are the body-zapping superintelligent people we see in the cinema. They might be blundering idiots with no legs for all we know. =)
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The sheer magnitude of the entire universe means that there has to be life out there somewhere. It may not be what we imagine it to be, it oculd be more intelligent, less, as advanced as humans, more, less, who knows? But I definitely believe that there is life out there. Besides, would you really want to know that in the entire cosmos, we’re all alone? I’d feel so lonely.
The surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us…I think that was by Bill Watterson lol…It would be selfish to think we were the only ones around, wouldn’t it?
Eh, no need to worry about this. We won’t find them, it is they who will find us.
Oh, its likely but probably not in our solar system, from what we know about the materials on these planets.
Well, we’d welcome friendly aliens, wouldn’t we? Maybe there are others out there with that state of mind.
I think the odds are super high that there is life on other planets.
I think it’s more unlikely that there isn’t life on other planets than it is that there would be life. As large as the universe is, there is an infinitesimally minute chance that we are alone.
However, I don’t feel that the life existing in the massive cluster of stars we see — and don’t see — in our sky is as we portray it in our films, and books. We see everything in human terms; the laws of nature, and the nature of law; ourselves; our planet; our Gods and Goddesses; the animals, air, water, etc. all around us; everything, including what’s “out there.” Everything that we think, and even that which we know, we put a human spin onto. In this I feel it’s highly unlikely that there is any sort of ultimate truth, and that perception of an object, which it does not change the object, does change between species on this earth, and beyond.
I’ve never understood the Bible to say that God had only made life on this earth. In fact, while attending the Methodist church that I did when I was much younger, before I “resigned from religion,” so to speak, I spoke with a member of the church, who was in charge of sunday, and vacation bible school, as well as involved with church services, who said that the Bible was probably only applicable to our world. “In the beginning,” she told me, “probably means ‘in the beginning of this world, and this time.’.” I have no doubt that if there is a God, and it is responsible for the creation of this universe, there would exist more life outside of our world. As the call of evil said earlier:
“Why would God create such a massive universe if humans on Earth were the only things living in it?”
I fully believe that there is life beyond our own, which probably has a story of creation similar to our own. Are they right? Are we right? I would easily say “yes,” in both situations; our tomes are about the creation of ourselves. They are monuments to the spectacle that is mankind, and to the wonder of the species, and of existance itself. Why then can another species, on another planet, in another galaxy, or universe not have a “text” of their own? I think that this type of denial is itself blasphemy, and not the other way around. I look forward to, perhaps, meeting some distant being and learning of it’s thoughts on the origins of itself, and possibly all things as well.
So, my vote/answer is: extremely likely. More so than not.
Stephen
Oh, and just something else: maybe the things we need for life (H2O, oxygen) wouldn’t be needed for aliens. Maybe they require different things to live. So they could thrive somewhere where we’d normally die. Who knows?
quite likely, but not intelligent life. Perhaps insects.
yup, I read deception point.
If the universe is infinite, then even if there was a .0000000000000000000001% chance (or less) of there ever being another planet capable of sustaining life, laws in statistics say that in a set of infinite trials eventually there will be a success (in this case, a planet with other life forms).
However, since I don’t know whether or not the universe is infinite, and I don’t know that there isn’t absolutely no chance of there being other life forms, I will conclude with I don’t know.
i think its extremly likely. god didnt make all of this just for us/
I think it is highly unlikely that there is NOT life on other planets.
Think about it… we are one teeny, tiny solar system, an infinitesminally small part of a galaxy and univerese much larger than any of us can imagine. That universe is full of billions upon billions of other solar systems, each with their own kinds of sun and planets. Even if we limit our idea of “life” to what we know (which may be quite limited, honestly), I find it hard to believe that among billions and billions of possibilities there isn’t at least one other planet that got it right.
Now, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that we’ll ever come accross them. The space between solar systems is mind bogglingly large and unless we start doing science-fiction worthy space travel we’ll never be able to cross those distances. But I think it’s pretty arrogant to really believe that we, puny little Earth, is the only planet that managed to get some form of life on it.
I think that the chances of alien life existing are huge.
If you do some research, you’ll find information as to why i think what i think. You cannot base your opinions on movies and the news.
If aliens do exist and they are able to track us, they will probably find out what scum humans are and wouldnt dare come in contact with us..besides..what advantage is there for them to communicate with a species below in intelligence then them? What can they learn from us? How to destroy their own planet the way we’re destroying earth? Any smart alien would know that Humanity would eventually try to take over their planet IF POSSIBLE..we cant even live in peace with OUR OWN KIND..let alone some other kind.
if we go with the assumption that God created the universe…or even that he didn’t, wouldn’t you say it would be an awful waste of space if there wasn’t life on other planets?? i say yes, it’s likely.
i do not believe there is. possibly life such as bacteria or something, but nothing beyond that.
The universe is so huge, infinite- how can there not be another planet out there with life on it, even if it’s all the way at the other end of existence? It kind of irks me that people can be that closedminded, to think that there isn’t alien life anywhere. It is very, very likely that SOMEWHERE in the universe there is other life. I’m skeptical of abduction stories and the like, but the idea that there can’t even be bacteria on some planet way over on the other side of the galaxy is pretty, well- uninformed.
And Hollywood doesn’t know anything about life on other planets. The people dedicating their lives to the search for non-Terrestrial life barely know anything about it. So basing your idea of what advanced alien life might do if they ever met Earth off of Hollywood isn’t going to get you anywhere.
And from what I understand, a lot of the people who work at NASA don’t really like Star Trek… they think it’s kinda stupid. Maybe more like a LOT stupid.
And I don’t think NASA’s only mission is to find life somewhere other than Earth… they’re modern-day explorers. They’re trying to find what’s out there. Speculation is that somewhere there is life, but that’s not all they’re interested in.
Life…very likely. Intellegent life: extremely unlikely.
What the hell? I think most NASA geeks and other scientists are just geeks not alien geeks. I think you are dead wrong.
But there are probably a good amount of them out there that think there is probably other life out there somewhere in our vastly enormous universe. But most of them I’m sure believe there is a greater probablility of God walking down the street in his “full glory” than making contact with other life. Unfortunately, I think they make it seem like everybody at NASA is into finding life out there somewhere because that possibility keeps open the interest of the masses, whereas the idea of just studying a bunch of space rocks and atoms and waves alienates your average joe.
First of all, NASA is looking for life on other planets because they don’t have anything better to do…NASA currently has grounded all manned spaceflight because of the problems the shuttle endured during their last flight…Second, the Moonbase and Mars Colonization projects are not scheduled to be completed for another 100 years because the vehicle that is required to carry all of the parts to their respective places is not ready to be unveiled yet and the technology is more advanced than currently available…Finally, you have to realize that NASA thinks progressively…They must accomplish goal one before they can accomplish goal two…And refering to your question about life on other planets, there is an outside chance that there is life on another planet, but we just have to find it!
Is he related to L. Ron Hubbard?
“If there was intelligent life on another planet, why would they want to find us?”
Same reason why we’re trying to find them…
Oh, those NASA people aren’t silly enough attempt the Star Trek dream.
That would require us to go through a Third World War, and Zefram Cochran to build the first warp drive and establish First Contact by 2063, and for humanity to give up a monetary system and become united in bettering ourselves and elminate poverty and war by the 22nd century. /geek.
I’m the pessimist who believes that humanity will kill itself before ever having gotten near the speed of light, which is nearly what is required to travel outside this solar system in any reasonable amount of time.
If some superior force/being created life elsewhere, I don’t believe they intended us to find it.
But who knows? There’s always Roswell… *insert conspiracy music*
i think it is incredibly selfish of us to think that in this vast universe… we are the only ones that could possibly exist… and most of the time I agree with the things you say, but I’m afraid your knowledge of NASA is a little lacking… maybe you should do some research
although.. I don’t believe there is another planet that human can live, but people likes to make their dreams come true.. because we all had been announced that Earth will eventually destroy by ourselve someday.. just a matter of time
scientist’s job is to discover something that we all will be suprise and proud to know.. well.. we never know what’s next if nobody is willing to find it out!
Very. There are so many planets out there that we know of, and so many more that we don’t even know exist. At least one has to have life on it. Remember, that something as insignificant as bacteria counts as life…
I think there is life as microorganisms on other planets in our solar system but there are definitely thinking being somewhere else in this universe…they are probably more evolved than us but we will never find them because we don’t have anything that goes fast enough in order for us to get there in a lifetime….
my idea is to get a few couples and make them have kids and teach them to run the ship and keep doing that in a continuous process until we reach another solar system and find this evolved beings…yeup….
the end
Very true. Good point you have. But really what do you think are the chances of life on another planet??
very likely.
Likely. What are the chances we are the ONLY planet with life in the universe? Are we that arrogant?
very likely considering when you think about it in the grand scheme of things it sounds stupid to say that outt’ve all the plantes in out solar system and in all of space that there is no other life
It’s as likely as not. Why are you so certain there isn’t?
considering the possibility of earth’s existance is a billionth to the seventh power, chances of finding life on another planet is highly unlikely
There once was life on other planets….they have evidence….but I doubt life as we humans live.
I’m struck by how many people still think the earth is the center of the universe. If humans are the only intellegent life in the universe then God isn’t being very creative. I think there’s a 99.999% chance of there being life on other planets.
It is very likely that there is life elsewhere. The universe is too big for any other conclusion to be possible.
I think it is quite likely considering that space never ends. and if it is infinitly large there are that many more possibilities.
It’s likely that there is life in other parts of the universe. Not in our Solar System but in parts of the universe we have not been to yet. In reference to all the “God created us here” comments, what evidence is there to suggest that is true or not true?
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sometimes i wonder if there’s life on this planet, or at least any intelligent life.
Not to sound like a smartass, who cares??! We have our world in a big mess, and have a lot of fixing to do!
i don’t think i want them to find us either. i have to admit, to think we’re the only living things in this entire universe is kinda shallow and small minded, but on the other hand i don’t think humans could actually wrap their minds around the idea of life forms existing.
there are a lot of other planets that we dont even know about.
I sincerely hope that we do find _irrefutable_ evidence of past life on something in our solar system, planet, moon, asteroid, something. Once that’s found it would be impossible for there not to be life on other planets given probabilities.
I can’t really bite the whole creationist view on this topic, though. No life on other planets seems to play along with the world being flat while the heavenly bodies move around it at the center of the universe…heh heh. So I honestly think there is life on other planets.
The whole we’d never find them if there were any arguement is silly to me. If the human race doesn’t kill itself off first we’re bound to continue on with space exploration. The time problem would be solved with cryogenics/suspended animation type stuffage a la Aliens or Dune. Who’s to say we can’t really go faster than the speed of light, either…Einstein’s is only one theory explaining a part of the picture. People that say NASA is a farce or it should be gotten rid of…well, every nation that’s able has a space program, some with the zeal the U.S. had back in the 70′s. o.0 Aliens aside, earth is a precious _non_ renewable resource. Humanity will eventually need the essentials we’re burning through here on earth. Only place to get more resources are off this planet. 0.o
Aliens though, yeah…”Beam me up T’Pol.”.
Its very saddening if you have faith, but the truth is most likely there is not life on another planet. Not yet anyway.
Because the truth is life on this planet was a cosmic dice roll. The human race was another cosmic dice roll. We are alone out here, for now, and no higher power, no creator had any conscious role in our existence. Those that have faith, think about this…
Isnt it an insult to paste human attributes onto a power beyond your comprehension? Dont we all know that god is unknowable? “I AM”? Well, yes, after all, god said it, it has to be true.
Our time here is limited, and the saddest joke of all is that it really has no meaning…
Other than the meaning you give it in your one shot, your limited time, alive on earth. The answers are not on another planet, they are not in a book, they dont come from a burning bush.
The answer is within us all. We are all the same.
How many facts do you have that life cannot exist beyond Earth? About the same number of facts as there are for the opposition. Nonetheless…as someone who both watches Star Trek and hopes to be a part of NASA in the future…humans simply aim to grow greater than what they already are. We explore what is unknown because it is unknown and because our exploratory curiosity defines humanity.
We don’t look for others. I think we grow to better ourselves, and maybe make our own existence more visible to anyone else who could be looking.
With God, anything is possible. I think your boy C.S. Lewis had an interesting theory in his fictional sci-fi trilogy.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s life on earth.
Considering the vastness of space, I think it would be an incredible waste if we were it.
The odds, as computed by nearly every
statistician with legitimate credentials
state, of life NOT existing somewhere
else in the Universe is much more unlikely
(nearly impossible) than there being life.
For some reason, mankind has this tendency
to view itself as special…well, folks,
we’ve no good reason to do so, and…
we’re not special.
I think there is a possibility of life on other planets, but how evolved, and what it has evolved into may not be meaningful or recognizable to us. Maybe in some other solar system, on a planet with similar conditions, we could find beings similar to us.
i am SO going to live on mars. ( not really)
here’s my take on life on other planets.. i really hope there isn’t any, because when i was a kid the only things that scared me was aliens.. like the grey ones with the big eyes. i used to think they were coming to get me.. so i really hope and pray to God that they aren’t.
not just likely, there definietly is life on other planets. there are billions of stars out there, each with their own set of planets. now, what are the chances that earth is the only planet that fosters life? we are not super special. however, i think that life most likely exists in a very different form on other planets and may not even be carbon-based. it may not even require water.
Very because there are many planets we have not yet explored therefore our chances of finding life on another planet is high.
Well,
I want there to be life on other planets, it is sort of boring on Planet earth. I do think that is unlikely, however. What are the chances of there being life on other planets without God telling us about it?
Humans senses are extreamly limited, seeing, feeling, hearing only a fraction of our own world. Perhaps life on other planets exists just beyond our limits. Perhaps it is different from what we would ever expect in physical matter. I’d suggest reading Madelin L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time or C.S. Lewis’s space trillogy.
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After reading your blog, now I think humans are just bored so they’re trying to keep things interesting by thinking up new things about the universe.
What’s next? Dinosaurs on Venus? O_o
the degree to which life is possible on the planet is balanced infinitely, its a number followed by at least 26 zeros, a number so perfectly fine tuned that no human could ever comprehend it. We were put in an optimum condition for life to be supported, one degree further from the sun and we would freeze, one degree closer and we would burn. Plus mars does not have the perfectly balanced atmosphere to achieve any forms of life, even the simplest. Check it out in the book “the case for a creator” by lee strobel. it definately leaves no doubts that we are quite a unique and priveledged planet.
the degree to which life is possible on the planet is balanced infinitely, its a number followed by at least 26 zeros, a number so perfectly fine tuned that no human could ever comprehend it. We were put in an optimum condition for life to be supported, one degree further from the sun and we would freeze, one degree closer and we would burn. Plus mars does not have the perfectly balanced atmosphere to achieve any forms of life, even the simplest. Check it out in the book “the case for a creator” by lee strobel. it definately leaves no doubts that we are quite a unique and priveleged planet.
i know for a fact that there is life on other planets.
the whole search for extraterrestrial life is part of human curiosity, the machine that has been driving human progress for the last 40,000 generations. Whether or not there is life on other planets, we will always search for life beyond our planet.
99%
Extremely likely. There are billions upon billions upon billions of stars, and billions of those stars have planets, and no doubt some of those planets will have the capability to support life. Now, whether or not we will ever contact life from other planets, I don’t know.
Peace,
Ben
It is very likely that there are other life forms in the universe, advanced or not.
I want to believe that we are not alone in this vast and empty space.
Without getting into the whole creationist issue my opinion is that there must be life on other planets. The universe is infinite, isn’t it, so then there must be infinite chances for life to evolve elsewhere. And why would it need an Earth-type planet to do so?
Film and television aliens are made fierce so that the film of programme is exciting. It would be a bit dull if the aliens arrived in force, stopped for a quick cuppa and then left again leaving behind a recipe for Alien Cake and some interesting knitting patterns. Also quite alot of science fiction involves humans arriving somewhere, stomping around the place and thereby severely pissing the local indigenous population (and we’re the aliens in this case, remember) off. So we get what we deserve.