So far we've seen no verifiable evidence of other sentient species. That said, I believe with some certainty that somewhere in our galaxy at some past, present, or future time, a sentient species did/does/will exist.
Why haven't we heard from them?
Perhaps they are not technologically advanced enough to be heard. They may be mastering stone knives right now, or experiencing their own Rennaisance.
Perhaps they are here right now. Any species sufficiently advanced to travel interstellar distances would be able to hide or masquerade with ease. That Boeing 737 that just flew by may be a surveillance craft.
Perhaps they are so far away they will never notice us and vice versa.
Perhaps they existed a million years ago and died out.
Perhaps they will exist a million years from now.
It is really impossible to know for sure.
The Drake Equation suggests that there is sentient life out there. The Fermi Paradox casts doubt. Play around with the calculation form at the second link and see what you think.
2006-11-04 22:34:52
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answer #1
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answered by Otis F 7
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I do believe somewhere there is life, living somewhat like us.
When you think about it, do you really think were alone in this large universe which we can't even fully explore?
Maybe right now at this moment, other people, on another planet are wondering the same, and wondering if life other then their planet exists. one day we'll know..
maybe some people do know the answer to that but are hiding it, maybe there is aliens that go to area 51, we'll eventually know one day ;]
2006-11-04 20:24:16
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answer #2
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answered by alyssa! 3
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The universe is way too large to rule out life on other planets. It is very likely that there are. Our galaxy isn't the oldest galaxy and there could be other galaxies that have lifeforms on there that are billions of years ahead of our time.
2006-11-04 20:22:11
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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Though like you, me too believe in life in another planet but as both us know no such solid evidence has came out till now which makes others to believe it. From the centuries the debate is same; a large percentage of the humankind believes it and the rest does not. But i don,t think any debate or any discussion in this yahoo answer will help to find the fact. Because fact is fact it can not be changed by your or my belief. It is just like beliving or not to god. At least i believe in both of these things
2006-11-04 20:37:48
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answer #4
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answered by yogen p 2
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All multicellular existence on the planet relies upon the comparable DNA molecule and extremely comparable cellular shape. the different opportunities that developed early interior the earth's environment the two grew to grow to be extinct, or retreated to incredibly limited niches that don't enable for extra progression. So comparable is the chemistry underlying the genetics in touch that there are basically small share variations interior the genes that define a human and people who define bugs. All this illustrates that as quickly as nature unearths a layout that works, nature basically retains reusing that common layout back and back, and evolution has no choose of something significantly distinctive. Morphology interior this kind of head shape, place of eyes, physique shape and so forth are a reaction of the biology of the organism to it relatively is exterior environment. The exterior environment could favour a particular quantity or association of eyes case in point, yet finally the relatively association would be a tradeoff between environmental needs and organic and organic threat. case in point our environment might tend to reason the organism to have 2 eyes, however the underlying biology could make this the two impractical or prohibitively costly. because of the fact all progressed organisms in the worldwide have the comparable common biology we would anticipate them to all respond morphologically to our environment in very comparable techniques. regardless of if, a planet with organisms based upon a completely distinctive cellular biology could be expected to respond quite otherwise to their environment regardless of if that environment replaced into resembling that in the time of the worldwide. for this reason creatures on a worldwide the place the genetics replaced into based upon a biochemistry this is thoroughly distinctive to earthly biochemistry must be expected to look significantly distinctive to earthly creatures. regrettably, at this point we've not have been given any thought regardless of if existence can flourish with the different form of biochemistry than what's got here upon in the worldwide, quite different than for the certainty that at cutting-edge there's no longer even any info of existence having arisen in any respect everywhere different than in the worldwide. Cheers!
2016-10-15 09:45:54
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answer #5
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answered by hadad 4
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I believe life does exist on other planets, But I would hope that it is nothing like ours !
2006-11-04 20:21:02
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answered by g_man 5
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If we could journey to another planet and remotely view them and see them destroying themselves would you live like them, I very much doubt extraterrestrial life would want to live like us, we don't set a very good example do we now.
Many things are wondered about other life, but it is ourselves we should be more concerned about
2006-11-04 20:31:21
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answer #7
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answered by WW 5
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I think That life exists but maybe parallels our rate of technology. If not they me so advanced that the reason we don't know for sure would be that living with us would be equal to us wanting to live with chimps.
2006-11-04 20:32:50
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answer #8
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answered by visyboy 3
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must be possible. there must be some similarities between ours life and others. because all elements found on earth is same for hole universe so life developed from this elements must have some but not all similarities. even on the earth bacteria have a no eyes,ears,nose which we have.
2006-11-04 20:29:39
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answered by vijay4118 2
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There is no life on other planets.
2006-11-04 20:25:54
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answer #10
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answered by FL Girl 6
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