is it possible that we are the only living beings in this universe...?

Question

i dont think we are the only living beings in this huge universe do u.

Answer 1

It would naive, selfish and idiotic to think that the Earth is the only inhabited planet in the Universe.

Answer 2

Yes there is life out there, and it is close by.

Where will we find "life as we know it?"

Europa (a large moon of Jupiter) ties with Mars; liquid water, organics and an energy source (geothermal). We should be looking a lot closer at Europa... but Mars is much easier to get to, we need nuclear propulsion. Next I would say Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn, which also has the 3 requirements... probably. Ganymede and Callisto have oceans 100 miles under the ice crust surface... but what energy sources?

A long shot would be Titan although its pretty cold there; it would have to be "life as we don't know it" and use something else besides water as a liquid solvent. The dark horses would be Venus (in the clouds 50 miles up) and Io which has a lot of energy sources; again life as we don't know it. And there is always the Jovian planets which have huge atmospheres with clouds that have Earth-like conditions of temperature and pressure.. but can life form in a gas or does it need a liquid (ocean)?

I suspect life is pretty much everywhere there is (1) liquid water (2) organic carbon-based chemistry happening (food) and (3) an energy source life can utilize for metabolism.

Answer 3

Well this is a topic that's been up for discussion since before the space program was actually taken into consideration. I, personally, believe in a "Battlestar Galactica"-type theory that the inhabitants of earth were part of a larger civilization and then were lost, or cut off. But that's just my personal opinion about how we got here. I do, however, believe we've already recieved contact with alien species and such. Unfortunatly, after the "experiment" of War of Worlds incident on the radio, which resulted in mass panic and suicide, I think that the government has opted it best to keep quiet.

Answer 4

Read "The Intelligent Universe" by Prof Fred Hoyle. He explains that the chances of random creation of the DNA molecule, the basis of all life, is so infitessimally small that even though there may be 20 quintillion stars in the universe, you can almost discount completely the chances of it happening twice in the limited time of 15 billion years since the big bang.

That is, unless there is a creator who knows how to assemble DNA.

So, either we are absolutely alone, or there is a God.

Answer 5

Possible, but not probable....living things could be tiny organisms or huge beasts. Like you said, the universe is an infinitely huge place.

Answer 6

my opion is that the universe is full of life some of it would be algae and some of it would be far more advanced than humans.but the size of the universe is so great that it will be thousands if not millions of years before it can be proved.that's if humans don't destroy the planet and each other beforehand

Answer 7

Absolutely! New solar systems are constantly being born out there in infinite space. There may be life forms that exist on other planets that need exact, proper amounts of sunlight, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc. such as we need and are similar to our life form or maybe there are forms of life that exist on other elements.

Answer 8

Possible, but not probable. Since water had been found in our explorations, which are in there infancy. Water and synergistic implications is the one of the most important harbingers of life on our planet.

Answer 9

Yes it's possible. So far science has confirmed life on exactly one planet, Earth, and there is zero evidence of life anywhere else. That in itself doesn't prove there is no life elsewhere, but believing that there *must* be life elsewhere is mere speculation and blind faith.

Answer 10

We're the only ones we know of so far. Communicating over stellar and galactic distances just doesn't happen via thye mail. We may never know for sure.