Other life in the universe?

Question

Considering the vast distances that exist beween the stars, galaxies etc., and the general acceptance that we cannot be the only life form to have evolved in the universe...then isn't the question we sould be asking....'WHEN did other intelligent life exist', not IF it exists.....surely in a thousand years time it is more likely that we will have found countless extinct civilisations throughout the universe and none who are able to interact with us....and wouldn't this make us feel more lonely than ever?

Answer 1

I'm sure they are out there, but the way we are going i don't think we will be about long enough to find any.
Wouldn't it be a shame if they turned up here 10 minutes after some nutter had pushed the button and we had all gone?

Answer 2

I'm a freshman in high school and we had to write a paper about if we agreed or disagreed with the possibility of life on another planet. I found out that in our own galaxy, which is just one of very many, there were around 8,000 other places where life could exist, and that is just a hypothesis! Also the Hubble Telescope recorded around 3,000 other galaxies in the universe. Hypothetically if there are 8,000 possibilities of life in each of those galaxies that means that there are around 24 billion other areas for life to possibly exist! With that high a number it is very daft to think that Earth is the only one planet to form life out of the vast 24 billion other possible places! Hope this helps!
Also, have you ever met someone who denied your existence? Since the government and others deny life out in space maybe that life doesn't want to have anything to do with such selfish beings like ourselves.
Another thing is that we have no definite proof that they do exist, but we don't have any solid proof that they do not exist.

Answer 3

I like the second half of your question/assumption!

"surely in a thousand years time it is more likely that we will have found countless extinct civilizations throughout the universe and none who are able to interact with us....and wouldn't this make us feel more lonely than ever?"

And my Socratean answer (in the form of a question) to you is: How can you preclude that "we" are not going to be one of the countless extinct civilization?

Answer 4

Well I think that it is all a possibility. I doubt that we would be the only ones left, that we are the most intelligent, the oldest surviving, or the least intelligent. I don't see any reason to feel lonely. I am convinced that there is something else out there somewhere.

Answer 5

More like 3000 years before we get a ship big enough to go to the stars.Unless the yanks have a ship from Roswell and are flying it at night in area 51.
The only way is to look for worm holes and get a ship to withstand the pressure inside the hole.
There must be life out there somewhere thinking( ARE WE ALONE???????????) we must get our home in order before thinking of going to other worlds.

Answer 6

No really !, because im sure for the countless extinct civilisations we will find, i think there will be even more that we will find that are containing life !!.

Answer 7

Sure, that's possible, just like everything else.

"The Universe is so huge.. bigger than we can ever imagine. If we are the only ones in it, seems like an awful waste of space." - Carl Sagan's novel Contact

Answer 8

Somewhere out in that universe, your doppelganger is asking the same question on Yahoo Answers

Answer 9

you have to remember that there are supposidly an infinite amount of universes meaning that there is another human race that built the exact same cities by the exact same people and in another they built the exact same city and with the same people but not the EXACT same people. just think about it for awhile.

Answer 10

yea it would considering how big space is...like ther is trillions of stars and other planets and earth is the only one with life. that sounds stupid but scientist dont even know if it is true or not