other than on earth and if you do or don't , why?
2007-04-03 12:09:42 · 13 answers · asked by wonderwoman 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Ah Wonderwoman...
My chance to speak to you directly at long last. i have dreamed of this moment for years and years. The thrill of it
almost makes me blush.
Life out there in the Universe? Sure I believe that it exists.
It is sort of like the Lotto in the USA. Odds are about 140,000,000 to 1 of winning, but you hear about winners every day. The same is true about a planet which is an equivalent to Earth being out there somewhere. There are 200 Billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Each of those stars might have from 0 to 10 (or more) planets (with their associated moons) circling about it. That is a huge pile of possibilities. We only need for one of them to be roughly equal to Earth in temperature and composition. Odds are pretty good that there is at least one.
But, hey, beyond the Milky Way Galaxy there are tens of thousands of other galaxies. Each one of those has more billions of stars in them with all their planets and moons going here, there, and yon...in round about circles... And, guess what? The odds are now real good that there is something like Earth out there.
Will we find it soon? I dunno.
What will be there that = life? I dunno.
No idea.
The distances involved are to huge for me to get my poor brain to deal with them. Science tells me that those planets could be from 4 to millions of Light Years away. Gee... That is forever and gone from here.
2007-04-03 12:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If the Universe was like Einstein thought, in that a planets Mass put's pressure on space.( General Relativity Physics )
Then maybe...Other life forms would be possible.* Imaginary Universe of pressure produces Funny looking life forms...Taking drugs produces funny looking life forms and U>F.O.
Hash pipes sold separate. What trip are you going on in life..
2007-04-03 13:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What we have here on Earth is a very unique and coincidental combination of all the things needed for life.
Considering that there are trillions upon trillions upon trillions of stars out there...there might be a few that were lucky enough to gather all the necessary components and be just the right distance from a star to be warm but not cooking.
Things like water (which Earth acquired from numerous hits from asteroids and comets) and oxygen (produced from early algae that formed in the large expanse of water). It was all a very unusually lucky situation that produced....us.
So I guess my answer would be probably, but definitely not that many.
2007-04-03 12:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by DebnFodz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, definitely; since the universe is infinite, then theory says that anything you can imagine must exist (because there is no way to disprove this). It may exist a billion lightyears away, but it exists.
As for intelligent life, has it been found on this planet yet?
2007-04-03 12:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by ottawa700 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would be ignorant to assume that in this vast universe,we are the only living beings. We can not even reach most of this universe.Yes,I do believe there is other life somewhere.But do I believe they have visited here? No, I think they would have the same problems reaching us as we would them.
2007-04-03 12:21:11 · answer #5 · answered by Dixie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course I do. There is absolutely no reason why we should be the only ones alive. The life may or may not be as evolved as humans, but either way, life is life.
If you mean intelligent life, meaning life forms evolved to as far as we are, if not further, then I still believe. Again because there is no reason why there shouldn't be.
2007-04-03 12:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by atmtarzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe there is because of all the signs of life on Mars, such as the polar ice caps, and the ditches that are twice as big as the Grand Canyon. If there was they probally lived on Mars.
2007-04-03 12:50:02 · answer #7 · answered by D Ray 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there is no life in the universe thou scientest have found a way were people can live in outerspace.
2007-04-03 14:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by krystalsweetie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sheer odds are overwhelmingly in favor of it. The real question becomes is there "intelligent life"... Sometimes I wonder if humans even qualify for that category. ;-)
2007-04-03 12:15:56 · answer #9 · answered by Hitchhiker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't bother to believe either way, because we have no evidence either way.
While it seems likely it would happen somewhere, it also seems likely we would have noticed it by now.
Faced with that dilemma, I'll chose to wait and see, rather than "believe" something either way.
2007-04-03 12:17:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋