Life on other planets

[oldmetlfan]

It's nowhere near confirmed, but this is sure looking to be promising...




'Super-Earth,' 1 of 50 Newfound Alien Planets, Could Potentially Support Life

http://www.space.com/12915-habitable-alien-planet-hd-85512b-super-earth.html

 

[unclear.six]

We haven't even explored our own galaxy. I would say there is a good chance there is something alive somewhere. Whether it's intelligent or not is a different question (then again look at the human race). The possibility for "intelligent" life could be quite high . Interesting article.

 

[cheddar_bob]

We haven't even explored our own galaxy. I would say there is a good chance there is something alive somewhere. Whether it's intelligent or not is a different question (then again look at the human race). The possibility for "intelligent" life could be quite high . Interesting article.

^^^^This. Those are my thoughts exactly.

 

[unclear.six]

^^^^This. Those are my thoughts exactly.

That never happens on here haha

 

[sovietak474u]

That's too cool. THere has to be other life out there. The whole galaxy is just way to big to be empty.

 

[DownSouthMach]

The intelligent life probly thinks we're amoebas

 

[cheddar_bob]

That never happens on here haha

LOL. You are right. You guys are stinkin' idiots. j/k

 

[glockink]

Its out there.

 

[Boxer101]

i explore this site every day for intelligent life

 

[dunkel]

That there is life is, I think, a statistical certainty. There is nothing particularly special about Earth that makes it especially conducive to life. The building blocks that make up life here are the most commonly found elements in the universe...carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. We have found life in some of the seemingly most inhospitable places, from crushing depths of freezing oceans to bacteria living off arsenic in boiling lakes. So there is almost certainly life out there. There is likely life here in our solar system, under the frozen oceans of Europa, for instance.

Intelligent life is another matter. We see how well life can adapt to just about any conditions...but so far as we know, there has only been a single successful intelligent species that has evolved here. And that's only by accident...the decidedly unintelligent dinosaurs might still ruling the planet if not or the meteor or whatever it was that took them out, giving lowly mammals their chance to rise to the top.

Still, given the cosmically tremendous number of planets and stars we have to work with, I still say intelligent life is very likely out there. But...even given that, it's still another matter altogether whether or not we will ever find it. The ray of hope here is this...we may not be able to comprehend the math and technology necessary, but neither can chimpanzees comprehend even basic human knowledge...and they really are not that far behind us genetically. Just that little 2-3% is enough to go from swinging in trees to putting a man on the moon. So an alien species 2-3% more advanced than us might likely be significantly more intelligent and such problems could be easily solvable.