is there any life in Space? be clear!!!?

Question

I just want your opinion!!! What do you think?
Because I think that our planet system is so small among the other systems or galaxy, what ever? I mean Our solar system is just a tiny part of the space, so what do you guys think about the life? j

Answer 1

YES, I firmly believe that there's other life out there. They may not be in our solar system, but they're certainly out there somewhere.

How can we possibly be the ONLY civilization in space?? It just doesn't seem possible.

Hopefully they're all doing far better jobs maintaining their planets, unlike Earth.

Answer 2

I think there has to be life on other planets, simply because there is life on Earth and we don't even know how many planets there are in the Universe; it's just logical that other planets must have life as well. We went to Mars and some people say there was vague evidence that there may have been life at one time, but nothing definite. There are so many billions and billions of planets that we will probably never see; it's total arrogance to believe we have the only planet with life when we have only seen a very small part of our own universe.

Answer 3

I believe that this is not yet known. However, over the last 10-20 years there seems to have been a shift in serious opinioon, as reported on TV, leading newspapers and science magazines, and the like, reflecting more study amd pbservation. At one time, life in space seemed definitely ruled out; now, there is williingness to seriouslly consider the possibility and to look for indicators that it either existed in the past (e.g., interpretations of what may be frozen ice or geological remnants of surfaces that could indicate earlier ice or liquids. So I think many of us are willing to consider this an open question and institutions are willing to support research and space exploration geared to placing this quesiton on a better scientific basis. Precisely because there is such a large part of space that is beyond our solar system, and we realized more than in hte past that it is larger than what we have known, we are not so definite about the impossibility of life in space, but we can't yet rule it in. This is the way science is, it's an endless exploration. So far, the jury is still out.

Answer 4

That's a great question. Basically the answer to whether there is life in the universe is always a good one.

To answer your question, It's VERY likely that there other civilizations in this galaxy. The reasons is simple but you have to put up with some math and some history.

Back in the 60's some scientists asked the very same question, and came out with a basic formula that figures that out.

The main idea was fleshed out by a scientist named Frank Drake, he basically put some of the parts of the question together differently and assigned a likelyhood/probability to each.

Drake asked the question this way, what was the likelyhood of us communicating with another technically advanced civilization. Since that question breaks down, into parts that we can discover by looking around the universe, over time , we will be able to make a very good guestimate of how many civilizations are out there.

For instance one "factor" in his equasion was "the likelyhood of a sunlike star"

Another "factor" was "The likelyhood of a sunlike star with planets like Earth" - this gives you the basic idea.

The link here, takes you to a PBS special from some time ago which allows you to plug different numbers in and guess how many other civilizations there might be!

But this is where you can keep an eye on the headlines,

The French have recently launched a space-telescope which should be able to find "Earthlike" planets.

Corot Launched : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6203161.stm,
when "Corot" finds some planets, we can then do math to figure out how common they are ,and basically "know" one of the numbers Drake only could guess at in the 1960's.

In a few years the US/NASA will - funding allowed - be able to launch an satelite in 2008 called "Kepler" which will search for "Earthlike" finding space-telescope of our own.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tpf_techwed_040526.html

Drake Equation : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/drake.html

Another question similar to yours is whether we will contact or ever be contacted by an alien civilization.

The SETI program in the 1990's and presently is designed to discovery signals from alien civilizations, and it is regularly if not constantly listening towards the stars for the faintest of signals.

But this question actually has a suprising answer, the answer may ALREADY be yes. The transmission is called the "Wow" signal and was detected on August 15,1977.

IF we asume the "Wow signal" is genuine, we would have been able to detect an alien civilization's message without it being specifically "for" us, which is a rare find, but after only 80 or 90 years could potentially mean the universe is crawling with life!

However, because it's just a fluke since we have not since found another "Wow" type signal,we shouldn't get too excited.

In the movie Contact (based on the Carl Sagan novel), the first 1/2 of the movie shows what a "first contact" situation might actually be like. It's unlikely that the signal would be able to be interpreted in the first couple of years or maybe even decades.

An open and interesting socioloigcal question is what would the immediate aftermath (on Earth) be of a first contact situation, the movie points out some of the "popular" disruptions to society.

Corot : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6203161.stm
Kepler and Corot : http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tpf_techwed_040526.html
Drake Equation : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/drake.html
The WOW signal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal
Contact : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/

Answer 5

Scientist believe that there are many univers connected with black holes (its the final product when a star dies i mean when a star run out of hot gasses that were burning, its life ends and it becomes a tiny mass of immense attractive power like that of a very very very strong magnets). All these universes contains so many stars. so many stars can have so many planets of its own and to think that life exists only on earth would reflect your how arrogant you are. I strongly feel there are other forms of life in this space but what lacks is a communication between them. this, I guess, is mainly because these stars are very very far apart from each other. and its very difficult to cover those distances.

Answer 6

Going by the size of universe number of galaxies super clusters number of stars in galaxy & planet & their setalites on could easily speculate the possiblities of life in other planet
1Now wether these life forms are intealigent like us or more then us again one has to think,
2 how many these palnat have microscpic life forms & macrospocic forms
3 weather life foms are carban based or silcon or germanium based or very different all together
4 Now our part of universe is space 3 dimensinal time one dimesianal there are atleast methmeticaly calculated 10 dimesionans (String theory)so life form in in parts of universe very there rest dimesions are less cureved we may expect totaly diffeterent forms life (very wild imagination)

Answer 7

We have found no evidence for extraterrestrial life. My personal feeling is that there has to be something out there. Even if the odd of there being an earthlike planet orbiting a sun are 1 billion to 1, and the odds of that planet having life are 1 billion to 1, and the odds of that planet having intelligent life are 1 billion to 1, that still leaves billions of planets out there that could support intelligent life.

Answer 8

Infinity calls for infinite deviation. Somewhere out there it is 100% possible there is an exact duplicate of you wondering the same question. Also, technically, we're life in space. I'd be hard pressed to find life not in space.

Answer 9

wow that long asnwer is a good one, but to keep it simple...factor in the number of Universes, galaxies and planets and your left with the obvious conclusion that it is impossible that we are the only life forms out there.

To think otherwise would be very arogent or republican :)

Answer 10

yes there is life in on other planets/space. In fact, many years ago scientist found alien mircoorganism on mars. but after it's publication, no other follow-up articles on it. guess it got suppressed to avoid mass-public hysteria.