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options : 1.YES
2.NO
2007-02-16 00:37:16 · 8 answers · asked by shree k 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Sorry, but your yes/no options are insufficient for an intelligent answer. Nobody can honestly, and with certainty, give either reply.
There are many factors, but there is nothing impossible in the idea that some extra-terrestrials know we exist. But we just don't know.
Assuming *they* exist (and I strongly believe they do, given the incredible odds in favor of that), the overwhelming problem is the distances they (and we) are dealing with. Though it wouldn't be necessary for us to travel to each other, the *information* would have to. Even if that is in the form of light, or radio waves or some other form of electromagnetic transmission (traveling at roughly 186,000 miles per second) this could take decades, centuries, or hundreds of thousands of millenia!
It depends largely on where they are in relation to us and -- if they're traveling to us -- how old the civilization is (and therefore how long ago they may have set out on their journey), and whether they've figured out some way to shortcut these distances (e.g. via a wormhole or some other physics exotic to us). Of course it also requires that they either stumble on us (which is very unlikely) or know where to look (not much more likely).
Our own radio and television transmissions could alert them to our position, but they have been outward bound for less than a century. Only a tiny fraction of other worlds in the universe would have been close enough to be able to detect them yet (if they had the technology and motivation to look and listen).
It's kind of sad, to me, to think how much is going on out there that *we* will never be aware of.
2007-02-17 05:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by Question Mark 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine if there were!
What would it do to the God believers? The religious would have so much egg on their face they would try and suppress it.
It would be hailed as the coming of Satan.
The Americans who have had satelites up for years sending signals into space to find another life form would rally their military shoot to kill or invade them to give them democrasy.
The rest of Earth would feel inadequate as we don't have the technology to travel far, therfore these aliens would be seen as terrorists and our captors.
No I think any aliens that existed would have to be stupid or very powerful and confident to come here and expect to be welcomed
Besides it might take a whole year to get through US Customs
2007-02-16 15:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The nearest planet that we think that has a chance of being capable of sustaining life is 260 million light years away. Enough said.
2007-02-16 21:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If extra-terrestrials are aware of our presence wouldn't they be here by now? so i would say no.
2007-02-16 11:11:32 · answer #4 · answered by jlmccln87 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Having seen a ufo, I can say with greater certainty than most that yes they are aware and yes they are visiting. Why they haven't announced it to us formally, I couldn't say.
2007-02-16 12:09:12 · answer #5 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
impossible to say. however being that space is for all we know infinite than i would tend to believe that there are civilizations out there who are far moreadvanced then we on earth so I would tend to answer yes
2007-02-16 08:46:34 · answer #6 · answered by trybebill 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes and no we have no idea it depends on their technological advancement they could be less advanced than us they could be on par with us or they could be far ahead of us we dont know and we wont know for a while
2007-02-16 08:50:00 · answer #7 · answered by smalltd28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but they are alreay here
2007-02-20 06:57:38 · answer #8 · answered by Heather S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋