Out there in space, shall we find friends?

Question

Is there a place where the universe ends?

Answer 1

The Universe is Boundless. Without Boundary, so without an end... That's not to say it doesn't loop back on itself eventually...


Find Friends?.. No. I don't believe we will find friends. At least not without our own species evolving a great deal between now and then...

When an individual is confronted by another individual, there's a certain measuring up that occurs... Those two people have the ability to become friends if they share a common goal / interest / History that gives them a mutual understanding...

I doubt we would come across any extra-terrestial life that we will be able to become friends with.

For all our Science Fiction with lofty ethics, humanity is in fact a very selfish, brutal and dominating species.
We destroy what we can not control, and exploit those things that we can control.

Any species we come in contact with will end with us:
1. leaving and not maintaining contact. Thus not a Friend...
2. suppressing to make way for our own expansion. Thus not a friend...
3. enslaving (domesticating) then for our own uses. Thus not a friend...
4. destroying them for our own safety. Thus not a friend...
5. having any of the previous four done to us... Thus not a friend.

The best we can hope for is that those we opt to leave with minimal contact are more interested in trading with us than with persuing any of the other options on the list... Perhaps after a very long time this could develop into a trading friendship - But we'd have to be sharing a system with completely different home planets and different enviromental needs... Or eventually we would get in each other's way...

No... As a species, we're not very good at making friends...

Answer 2

Your planet will not reach out to space, you are quickly reaching the critical point where you will no longer be able to make the commitment necessary to establish viable breeding populations off planet that would insure your survival in the face of a disaster. Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species. Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.

Answer 3

I don't think so I think it goes on for eternity. I like to think of the universe as a ball there is no beginning or an ending just the universe. I hope one day in the future we will find friends and not hostile enemies.

Answer 4

We will find the friends we bring with us.

I doubt we will find Intelligent technological aliens anytime soon, but the human race will rejoice when it happens. We will have to settle for the artificial intelligences we create based on uplifted organisms and sophisticated computers programs until then.

But we will be ready when it happens.

And the universe ends with our individual deaths.

That is why we have to make the most of the time we have and teach the next generation to do the same.

Answer 5

Out there in space. The world outside my mind and above the heavens Are there any friends? this I ponder with this space ship of mind. To travel the galaxies . Friend found in the destination only it is said to be outside of me. The universe does end when I have met my friend.

Answer 6

i would like to find a universe friend. the universe never ends.

Answer 7

i think well find friends and enemies but more enemies, I think the same rule applies to the universe as it does on earth natural selection, those most advanced will be predators, just like humans on earth and will probably think their own kind are more important than others just like us, look how we treat the rest of life on earth!!

I dont think there is an end to the universe, there fore we are at the center of the universe, just like every other planet is.

Answer 8

Only if George Bush makes friends with Syria, Iran, Palestine and North Korea. Otherwise no-one out there will want to know us.

Answer 9

if we do find another race what is the worst that could happen?

They could be friends or foes!!

But at the end of the day if they do want to kill us all it might stop us fighting with each other and make us stronger as a united planet trying to kill them.

Answer 10

who knows, maybe the universe is a big loop and there is no end, maybe we will find friends who will have enemies who become our enemies!