Considering the huge size of the universe, and it's age, it seems quite likely to me that the chemical coincidences that eventually gave rise to life on this earth would have given rise to life elsewhere.
However, the "star-trek" notion that alien life, if it existed, would be humanoid is ridiculous. Evolution as as a phenomenon (which would apply as much to alien life as to earth) leads to selection of the best adapted...
The idea that the best adapted on a planet so different from earth could ever end up humanoid is so unlikely as to be not being worth considering. The slightest differences in gravitational field or climate on the planet would have massive evolutionary effects on any species that evolve in that environment... And obviously if the species are very different in the case of the evolution of intelligence their civilisations are also likely to be so different as to be highly bizarre to us (the probabilty of the evolution of intelligence is much, much lower than that of the evolution of life in any case).
So yes, we might have life (though we have no evidence for it - it's merely a possibility) but the idea of civilisations like ours - highly unlikely.
2006-07-12 06:18:27
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answered by the last ninja 6
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there must be, i mean why would this planet be so amazingly diffrent, if there are billions and billions of stars and most of those stars have planets, i mean, there must be life out there. I like to think of them being more primitive than us, still using handmade tools to whittle houses out of birchbarka nd stuff, but really there is no way of kknowing. We could be primitive compared to them. Mind Boggling no?
2006-07-12 13:08:47
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answered by NY Lady 5
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