Will we contact intelligent life in the Universe within this century?

Answer 1

We have.

Answer 2

There is without doubt intelligent life in the Universe. We can deduce this empirically, from the vastness and similarity of the billions of galaxies.

I would suggest that there are miliions and millions of other intelligent life forms in this vast universe. All living indepedent of knowledge of, or communication with, any other existence beyond their own. That is how vast this unicerse is. I would relate it to life on this planet a thousand years ago, when Europeans were totally unaware of the strange people living in North America at the same time. See the movie The New World for a wonderful treatment of this topic.

So many, many life forms are probably existing right now that we are totally unaware of. We are infants in the Universe.
Some may be more advanced than human life and some less and there may be many that are quite similar.

When we will be in contact is a good question. At this juncture in the evolution of Man, it is doubtful we'll be contacting anyone
soon, like in the next thousand years. The best case scenario is for a more advanced life form to contact us. Once again, Man is a baby on this planet and in the Universe. We have only been around in this Homo Sapien condition for one or two hundred thousand years at the most. A blink of time!

Remember the dinosaurs were a dominant life form on this planet for millions of years and they are gone. Bad news, it could happen to us. Especially if we continue on the destructive path we seem to have chosen.

Answer 3

We can not contact intelligent life in the Universe within this century because our present mode of communication is by radio frequency which is limited by 'The Special Theory of Relativity'.Moreover We are not yet sure whether such intelligent life forms exist in other parts of the Universe, or how they will communicate with us. Some break-throughs are required in our present science to contact aliens.

Answer 4

The probability of other life having evolved somewhere in the universe is pretty big, there are so many many many many stars, that probably, around some of them there are planets, if not most. So if life has evolved here, it probably has somewhere else. We will probably never get to know it though, because its probably way to far away, and also its probably not now. The universe has been around for almost 14 billion years, and life on our planet only 4 billion, but intelligent life only for about 200000, and spacegoing for only 40. And because our civilisation, like all others, probably wont be around untill the end of the earth, it is highly unlikely lifefroms from one planet will ever meet lifeforms from another. But because there a lot of probably's in this, we can't be sure. However, we can be pretty sure that if it happens, it wont in our lifetime. This theory was thought up by a man named Drake, he even made a formula for it. But that would reach beyond the scope of this website.

Answer 5

That's really hard to say, our (current) best telescopes can bearly see neptune and uranus clearly, let alone another planet propably 100 light years away.

But in the next 100 years (century), they might...just might. Nasa has already began searching, long time ago, and soon they will launch the 'terrestial planet finder. Which is basically a big machene the tries to detect rocky/terrestial planets orbeting in the 'habitable zone(the zone earth is in, in our solar system)' of distant stars.

But if this fails the 2 options remaining would be either finding a way to teleport to other planets, which in my opinion is near impossible, because from what I have read, time-travel is much more possible than teleportation. Or we could just wait for some spaceshit to crash on earth.

Answer 6

Since waves travel at the speed of light, that would mean that our intelligent life would need to be closer than 94 light years. (not including response time...) The good news is that there are several known planetary systems closer than that. (see source) - So it is possible... However, they'd need to happen to be listening for us with huge receivers (which they may not have since their funding was probably cut too.../cynic off). Worst of all, If they did hear us, they'd hear our broadcasts first - not the best of first impressions for sure... If we make actual contact in this century, it will most likely be because they contacted us not the reverse.

Answer 7

Well, considering that we can't even get out of the solar system or collect waves sent by sattelites sent out of the solar system...I don't think so. Unless the intelligent life comes to us or makes contact with us any way. But who knows a century is a long time, I'm not completly rulling out all possibility.

Answer 8

That is a very thought provoking question.

The presence of aliens became a big talk during the 50s to 70s.
In the mid 70s scientists from America sent the first radio signal to space. That's about half a century ago. A few years ago we received a radio signal which read 'wow'.

So I believe that they exist.

But even if they exist they are all several light years away. Therefore even if they exist it takes several several years even to send a single message.

Answer 9

This is an interesting question. I will answer simply by saying this...do you think "Intelligent Life Forms" would want to allow contact with such a fear-full destructive species such as the humans which inhabit this planet?

Answer 10

There's always a possibility that we might reach the capabilities to do that. The question but is rather if the 'other' intelligent life sees us worthy enough to get in contact with. Not only based on our technology advantages by then, but also on our ability to get along with each other on this planet. Who knows, maybe based on their ethnics and believes, we, the human race from earth, might be still bloody savages to them. Or...we might have something they need and see us to inferior to have it...many questions attached to that.

Answer 11

Being that it may take in excess of 10,000 years to reach the nearest star outside our own solar system, it would take contact by the Aliens own technology to reach us in the next century.