For the sake of argument... what if there is humanoid life in space?

Question

What if this 'discovert' of a new planet has humanoid life, the planet can sustain us and so on. SO WHAT???
Things that can not affect us cannot be important to us. if they can be, please explain it to me.
How can something that cannot affect you, you will NEVER see, feel, hear, touch, or smell affect you.
give an exapmle of such effect (how your life or daily routine will change, etc)
This is NOT a religious question so please no smart *ss responses about believing in God, as If there is a God, he will, by definition, be able to interact with us if he so chooses.
I am talking about extraterrestrial life

Answer 1

Easy it promotes imagination... imagination leads to advancements and inventions.... those inventions leads perhaps space travel to this distance world where are predecessor are able to reap the rewards

Answer 2

If there is life there, the life could have been there much longer and be far more advanced. We could send messages, though it would take a very long time to get there and vice versa. Maybe we could learn something from them. If the life isn't intelligent, then we won't have anything to learn except how life evolved there or maybe we've found it right at the verge of humanoid evolution.

Still the idea of possibly being able to move to another planet is heartening. See, it may not affect me or my children, but someday down the line, humanity should have a way to travel that far. Our planet will eventually be uninhabitable, even without the greehouse effect. Our sun burns hotter and faster than the red dwarf stars like the one the new planet is circling. So, human life may have a chance at a longer lived planet.

You never know, maybe all the UFO reports are from the little green men living on this planet. ;-)

Answer 3

If intelligent life is there they already know we exist. Our radio waves have been traveling around for about 60 or so years. They would be watching TV shows in the late 60's and early 70's. (ah.. the Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, and All in the Family)

One thing is certain, in about a billion years Earth will be in the midst of a massive heat wave as the sun boils off the rest of the water and kills everything on the planet. So, finding new planets and solar systems that are close by makes the trip our ancestors will have to take a lot shorter.

Man has always wondered if he was the sole intelligent voice in the universe. I would like to know for sure what the truth really is......

Answer 4

If we did find other life, outside Earth, it would be a monumentous discovery. 120 trillion miles away, is a hop in galactic terms and with developing technology, we could perhaps send a ship their in the next 50 years. One thing to consider, is that the new planet(as far as we know), is not rotating. This means that their is no magnetic field shielding it. Even if the red dwarf star is weaker than our Sun, it still produces a dangerous solar wind especially for a planet so close to it. This would make life unlikely.

Answer 5

There prolly is humanoid life out there, it's prolly to far away in space, and or time that we will never hear from it.

You should check out the drake equation. And remember this is just for our own galaxy multiply whatever answer you come up with by a few billion to get how many civilization there might be in our universe.

N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

The equation can really be looked at as a number of questions:

N* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

Question: How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: Current estimates are 100 billion.

fp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them

Question: What percentage of stars have planetary systems?
Answer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.

ne is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life

Question: For each star that does have a planetary system, how many planets are capable of sustaining life?
Answer: Current estimates range from 1 to 5.

fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves

Question: On what percentage of the planets that are capable of sustaining life does life actually evolve?
Answer: Current estimates range from 100% (where life can evolve it will) down to close to 0%.

fi is the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves

Question: On the planets where life does evolve, what percentage evolves intelligent life?
Answer: Estimates range from 100% (intelligence is such a survival advantage that it will certainly evolve) down to near 0%.

fc is the fraction of fi that communicate

Question: What percentage of intelligent races have the means and the desire to communicate?
Answer: 10% to 20%

fL is fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live

Question: For each civilization that does communicate, for what fraction of the planet's life does the civilization survive?
Answer: This is the toughest of the questions. If we take Earth as an example, the expected lifetime of our Sun and the Earth is roughly 10 billion years. So far we've been communicating with radio waves for less than 100 years. How long will our civilization survive? Will we destroy ourselves in a few years like some predict or will we overcome our problems and survive for millennia? If we were destroyed tomorrow the answer to this question would be 1/100,000,000th. If we survive for 10,000 years the answer will be 1/1,000,000th.

When all of these variables are multiplied together when come up with:

N, the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy.

Answer 6

According to Sergeant Clifford Stone who recently testified before the press for the disclosure project there are 57 species of aliens we have discovered so far and that most of them look just like us.
Whether this is true or not it wouldn't make a difference because you have to travel at light speed to get there and travelling at light speed means time travel. It was already been shown in the 1950's by Otis T Carr that when you time travel your mind will not remember it. So if you go there and come back, your brain won't even remember leaving.

Answer 7

Earth will end. Period. We know this will happen. We however don't want to stop existing. So if we find a planet that could support our life, shouldn't we do everything in our power to attempt to spread to that planet? That way, when Earth dies, the Human won't.

Just image if we don't spread out to other planets. What would be the point of it all? All our advances in the sciences would be for nothing. We might as well be cavemen still. Humans need to colonize other planets to ensure survival, and this news gives us hope.

Answer 8

Do you care what happens to your grandkids after you die?
Or about whether species are going extinct, or if civilization will eventually keep advancing or fall apart, or what human destiny ultimately is? We all have a personal stake in such things, even if we're not conscious of the fact. If you do care, then you could care about this discovery, because it is a new world. A world! We could do so much with that - establish entire new cultures, discover and produce so much there and enrich all of humankind, and move beyond. If it were habitable.

Answer 9

It is proven that down to the microscopic level even our own thoughts affect the world... So how can another planet affect us... well if we can say that our own thoughts or ideas affect the world around us at a microscopic level then why should it not for the universe. In a sense just the thought of life being out there makes it exist. feel me?

Answer 10

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Answer 11

If there is intelligent life on a planet 20 light years away, we could definitely communicate with them by radio. If we wanted to. And if we did, than those aliens are at least as important to me as you are, because the only interaction I have with you is communication.