Ok so space is infinite,so chances of life are high but!?

Question

Two thirds of the earth is covered by water and then theres the largest continent with the smallest population...Antartica(not forgetting that they have discovered water under the ice in south pole+other requirements 2 support life aswell-lakes etc).So what are the chances of finding a different intelligence on this big watery planet!

Answer 1

Do we really know yet how intelligent dolphins and whales are? I think we have a very good chance of "discovering" other intelligence on this planet, if they don't split first, singing a chorus of "So long and thanks for all the fish."

Seriously; since intelligence does not necessarily correlate with technological development, and since oceanic mammals have fins instead of dexterous hands with opposible thumbs, how would you measure the intelligence of a dolphin?

Answer 2

All entities have survival intelligence or instincts.
Some way man developed speech which set him apart from other life on this planet.
Language endowed him with the ability to be objective.
No doubt other objective species exist in the universe but I do not think on earth.
I think societies with our abilities and intelligence are very short lived. Well under 500 years!
Space is a finite entity and will eventually cease to exist!

Answer 3

LONDON (Reuters) - A team of international researchers said on Tuesday they have found what could be the first proof of life beyond our planet -- clumps of extraterrestrial bacteria in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

Although the bugs from space are similar to bacteria on Earth, the scientists said the living cells found in samples of air from the edge of the planet's atmosphere are too far away to have come from Earth.

``There is now unambiguous evidence for the presence of clumps of living cells in air samples from as high 41 kilometers (25 miles), well above the local tropopause (16 kilometers up), above which no air from lower down would normally be transported,'' Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer at Cardiff University in Wales, said in a statement.

He presented the findings to a meeting of the International Society of Optical Engineering in San Diego, California.

``A prima facie case for a space incidence of bacteria on to the Earth may have been established,'' the statement said.

Wickramasinghe and scientists from India collected the space bugs from samples of stratospheric air using the Indian Space Research Organization's cryogenic sampler payload flown on balloons from a launch pad in Hyderabad, southern India.

Using a fluorescent dye the scientists detected living cells in the sample and estimated by the way their distribution varied with height that they are falling from space.

As much as a third of a ton of the biological material is raining down over the entire planet daily, by their estimation

Answer 4

I once attended a lecture given by a professor of Astrophysics, and he discussed this issue.

Apparantly, an equation has been plotted which takes into account the number of stars in the galaxy, the number of potential planetary bodies orbiting these stars, the number of planets capable of supporting life and the probability of life existing on these planets.

The answer was one.

But there are trillions of galaxies in the univese...

Answer 5

There is a lot of intelligent life on earth...

I think we're sometimes too arragant to assume we are the most intelligent... we perhaps flaunt it more than the other species, or the other species are smart enough to keep away from us.

Rough example - Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? remember the dolphins who were so smarter than humans that they knew they would have more fun just swimming and eating fish.

Answer 6

There are new discoveries in the oceans every year - many of them.

Your answer depends a little on how you want to define "different intelligence".

Certainly many creatures are perfectly capable of logical thought and action - which would count as intelligencein my book - but it's this word "different" I am unsure about.

Answer 7

hmm how do you define intelligence ?
if you mean how the chances are finding new species hidden under the ice, i would say not bad at all.
but intelligent ? i don't think so
if one would put my brother there the chances finding intelligent life become negligibel.

Answer 8

your question makes no sense there is all different kinds of life on earth with a range of intelligence: humans obviosly being the most intelligent

Answer 9

There's other kinds of intelligence here already, just look in the oceans, dolphins etc etc.

Answer 10

The chances of finding new species here on earth is very high ....