Are we really alone?

[Wedge]

Popular Science (or Mechanics, not sure which also done by the same people though) had an article on the Texas "shape/color changing" UFOs sighted last January, it discusses the possibilities of what those objects were and gives a wide range of evidence to support findings.

Was drug use listed?

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[Ronin]

Well, one of them was a cop who was sober. The rest seemed normal.

[Illidan]

I don't know if this was said already, but:

I believe we're not alone because other organisms out there possibly don't need water or oxygen as we do.

They may not even be large organisms like us, but just small bits of bacteria.

[Inv3rted]

No, other life forms have been made it can be proven by the small cluster of space we have here and an equation. The fact that there is so much space in space that it takes billions of years for LIGHT to travel here. They have not contacted us and we can not do so to them unless we take our entire civilization and planet hop until we run into a new form of life. Now if we can only make a living space ship.

Drake's equation.


    N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible;
    R* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy
    fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets
    ne is the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
    fℓ is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
    fi is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
    fc is the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
    L is the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

10,000 planets containing intelligent life in the known universe.
Average of 5 exist at any given time.

Saw this on an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

It was rather interesting. It is like that old thing where you give a million monkeys a million years and they'll eventually write Shakespeare. Even if the chances of life evolving and then reaching intelligent life are very slim, it is still very likely based on the sheer scale of the Universe.

[Hazard]

Popular Science (or Mechanics, not sure which also done by the same people though) had an article on the Texas "shape/color changing" UFOs sighted last January, it discusses the possibilities of what those objects were and gives a wide range of evidence to support findings.

Yeah but on the show there were lots of stories about pilots that were looking directly at some of these things for 10-30 minutes. There was even a pilot that said he was followed by one huge flying saucer about 6x his own plane 2 smaller ones. He had a plain view of them for 61 minutes exactly. That's just hard to deny.

[Zenthos]

Humans are going way to far with science.

Do we want to discover another intelligent life-form?

Do we want to split atoms and make massive explosions? (Oh wait... too late.)

Do we want to collide nuetrons or protons or w/e and do something that we aren't 100% sure of?

[Ronin]

Do we want to collide nuetrons or protons or w/e and do something that we aren't 100% sure of?

More like you aren't even sure of what they want to do.

[FlyGuy45]

Humans are going way to far with science.

Do we want to discover another intelligent life-form?

Do we want to split atoms and make massive explosions? (Oh wait... too late.)

Do we want to collide nuetrons or protons or w/e and do something that we aren't 100% sure of?

Yes, we are not in the Middle Ages.

[Inv3rted]

Humans are going way to far with science.

Do we want to discover another intelligent life-form?

Do we want to split atoms and make massive explosions? (Oh wait... too late.)

Do we want to collide nuetrons or protons or w/e and do something that we aren't 100% sure of?

Don't be stupid. The Large Hadron Collider was totally planned out. The miniature black holes created posed no threat to anything, and they would only last nanoseconds.

[orange wolf]

Don't they have some sort of atom collider project somewhere in Europe?

[Jaymz]

OH! Like in star trek, first rule was don't meddle with lower species or what ever, then when humans got warp drive those other dudes were like "Yo broslice, we been here for a while."

[Azerath]

It's been on my mind a lot lately but are we really alone in the universe?  Are we a freak of nature that just some how we were set a perfect distance away from the sun where it's not to hot or cold?  Or we one of the many other intelligent races out there that could be out there?

EDIT:  One more thing i forgot to add was if there really is other intelligent life out there do we really want to communicate with it? 

Probably not, due to the never ending expansion. Even if so, making up stories about it is fun.

We would want to communicate with it to create alliances, share technology, things like that.
We wouldn't because of possible warfare, hazards, and other possible bio hazardous possibilities. Such as a toxic be

[FadingxMemories]

I didn't really read the other posts, to be honest.

I just wanted to state:
I definatly think there is a higher intelligence then us.
However I think it comes in conciousness, if that makes any sense.
There is a higher conciousness, and I don't mean just God.
But when it comes to "aliens", in my opinion... if there are ANY aliens, I highly doubt they are even close to the sort we have always pictured.
Perhaps bacteria, or microscopic beings.
I'm willing to believe that.
But higher?
No.

[Zenthos]

More like you aren't even sure of what they want to do.

I'm not, but think about it.

[Digmaster]

I, for one, hope we are not alone, but that the closest race is very far away. THat way we wil probably run into them, other then the other way around.