Is there really such a thing as Extra terrestrials or Life beyond our solar system?

Answer 1

I have met other life forms such as shape shifters etc.There is one book called Sight Unseen by Bud Hopkins which describes some of them.You will find many various sites on these also. Where ever they come from they are here already.They used to give me things when I was younger. Some of them which I had lost they have returned most likely to make me remember my visits when I was younger. I didn't like having holes drilled in my head when I was five though.I wouldn't like them any other time either.Occasionally I would have an X-ray and the technician would freak out over it. They used to also bring me uncut diamonds but I didn't have a clue what they were.I asked for rock candy and they brought me what I thought was chunks of glass.The garbage man appreciated them especially the yellow ones.

Answer 2

Our data from beyond our solar system is almost nil, it is limited to the light we receive from distant stars and that's about it. All we can do is speculate and guess based on what we know about life here. IMHO, the odds are against there being any type of what we would call life anywhere other than Earth. The molecules of life, that is the proteins and enzymes that are present in all living things, are extremely large and complex in their structure. It is unlikely that such things will be able to form randomly somewhere else in the universe. They don't randomly form here either, we see no cases of living things springing from non-living things even here on Earth.

If there is no evidence for it and it is so unlikely from a scientific standpoint, then why do people even entertain the notion that there is intelligent life out there? I think it is more for historical reasons than logical ones. Our recent history was dominated by the exploration of this planet. When settlers from one continent would sail across the oceans to a new land, they found strange looking people who spoke funny and had odd customs. This legacy is part of our history and part of what we associate with exploration. I believe it was this type of thinking that was extrapolated to the exploration of space that led people to think about other planets being populated by human like creatures, such as Martians, Klingons and Vulcans.

Answer 3

Nobody knows for sure if there is any extra terrostrial lives anywhere in our galaxy . it is considered that there might be many systems of planets like out solar system and in such a case there might be some for of life in some othere planets among the millions of groups of stars that are located too far away from us .Even if ther are any lives in any distant galaxy , it will never be possible for the humans to reach them considering the life span of the humans and the limitation nature has set upon speed by increasing the mass with acceleration.If light is able to travelat the speed of 180000miles per second , it is because the phtons are the lightest of known sub-atomic particles .Anything to move faster should be lesser than the phtons in mass .Man can not be lesser than photon in mass by any means. Anything heavier than photon can only traela a sped lesser than light in proportion to its mass.So even if there any where in any glaxy it would neer e possible for them to reach us and itwould be equally impossible for us to reach them also even if qwe try till the end of the sun.The existence of lives in some planet in some part of our own galaxy or in some other galaxy is a possiblity if some planet happens to have conditions tsimilar to that our planet has .

Answer 4

Life almost certainly exists beyond our solar system as the galaxy, not to mention the universe, is too huge for it not to exist.

Liquid water, which is necessary for life as we understand it is thought to exist on planets or moons anywhere up to 25% of stars.

Intelligent life is another matter though.

Intelligent life, with the technological means to communicate and the interest to do so is likely to be very rare.

On Earth for example, only one species out of billions that have lived here for billions of years has developed to that point. And only for the last 100 years or so.

Assuming we survive for a million years, we may still never communicate with another civilization if they are too far away or if they lived and died out millions of years ago.

I suspect that they do exist, but are so very rare (maybe a dozen or so out there right now) and by pure chance they are too far away to detect with current technology.

If there were a dozen civilizations, or even 200 or a 1000 spread randomly/evenly around the galaxy, they would still average tens of thousands of light years apart.

But we still need to keep looking though. If we ever found them it would represent the next step forward for the human race, as important as the discovery of fire.

Answer 5

Given the sheer number of galaxies in the universe, and of stars in those galaxies, and of planets around those stars, it would be very reasonable to conclude that there is life elsewhere. Dr. Frank Drake devised an equation to determine the number of possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that there may be. A very good explanation of the Drake Equation (as it is called) can be found in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation.

Answer 6

“The Universe is a pretty big place; it’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us, SEEMS LIKE AN AWFUL WASTE OF SPACE, right?”
- Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) Contact (1997)

It's so selfish for us earthlings (humans), to say that we are the solitary beings on this huge piece of space called universe..
It is so evident that UFO's were spotted all over the globe, many books have been written and published, and Area 51 was so famed because of it..

Believe... or i'll think you're selfish enough to think you're alone... ^^.

Answer 7

Do you think an infinite universe with trillions of galaxies has been created only for us?
Do you know that in the dust collected from a comet tail (a recent NASA mission) they found complex carbon based chain molecules, basically the building blocks of life?

Answer 8

I would love to know as well! But IMO, I think that there are E.T. life beyond our Solar System. I wish there were proof! The Galaxy is too massive, too infinite to know....It takes more than a lifetime to know what's out there.

Answer 9

If there were any evidence of such a thing you wouldn't have to ask this question.
Do you think somebody in here knows something you don't, and keeping secret?

Answer 10

Of course there is such a thing. I'm sure someday pretty soon we will start seeing more and more of "them."

I think another good question would be if you are going to be afraid of them when they do show themselves or welcome their knowledge of the universe?