Ok so I kinda feel like a freak for asking this..but I think It's kind of a cool topic to talk about...I've always wondered if there was other galaxy's out there with life on them...Like what if there is another world out there just like earth? Or a totally different one with wierd aliens on it. I personally feel like there is more out in the universe than just our life..i mean ITS HUGE. they're are soo many galaxy's. Ok so i know this is not really a question..but i just want to see what other people have to say about it.
But wouldn't it be cool if there was and one day we could just hop on a rocket ship and go see it?
2007-06-02 11:43:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Tony BinEye lol im only 14. but i am about to be 15...do you really think so? Is that possible?
2007-06-02 12:22:56 · update #1
Considering that until recently (after the civil war) we didn't even understand the role bacteria played in disease and that 90% of the matter in the universe is "Dark Matter" that we know nothing about your question is not weird. Many scientists are looking for life beyond earth - including NASA. Would it be cool to go to another planet and see other life - You bet! That's why entertainment like Star Trek, Star Wars and the rest are so popular - we all would like to check it out!
2007-06-02 11:55:17 · answer #1 · answered by Mac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Paris:
The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 200 Billion Stars.
Each one of those stars may have from 0 to 10 (or more) planets with their associated moons circling around it (as in other solar systems).
Beyond our Milky Way Galaxy there are more than 100,000 other galaxies, each one of which has billions of stars within it. And, each one of those stars could have from 0 to 10 (or more) planets with their associated moons circling around it (even more solar systems).
So, there is every possibility that there is life out there somewhere. The thing is, it is a real stretch of the immagination to presume that life developed there on that faraway place "in lock-step", timewise, with life here on Earth, and that the same influences on the development of life forms exist on those Earth Equivalent planets we are just beginning to discover now. Timewise, for example, when we do discover life on another planet, life may just be in the bacteria stage, in the fish stage, bird stage, dinosaur stage, or life there may even be extinct due to some massive catastrophe that occured years and years ago.
Travel to that distant place is pretty much out of the question. The most recent discovery of an Earth equivalent was a planet which orbits a star 20 Light Years from us. Our fastest rocket ship travels at around 25 - 30,000 Miles Per Hour. Do the math and you will see that a flight there would take thousands of years and a store of consumeables which is totally impossible to carry on such an extended flight in space. What about coming back? No fuel, or supplies to do that with. Don't look for this to happen any time soon.
Oh, were there to be intelligent life on that planet, an EMail message from us to them would take 20 years on TRANSMIT, and another 20 years to RECEIVE a reply. So the chances of having any real neat conversations with them is rather limited. This presumes that they have Windows XP, an Internet, and radios just like ours to send and receive with. More than likely, when our EMail messages arrive there they won't be heard by the inhabitants of this new Earthlike Planet, because they are to busy fishing, or fighting wars amongst themselves for survival.
2007-06-02 14:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i believe that there is an abundance of life in our own galaxy (other than on Earth), let alone the entire Universe. If there is life in our own Solar System, then you will probably live to see it be discovered. However, it will be a very long time before we can send a mission to a planet that revolves around another star. Such planets are so so so far away.
2007-06-02 12:40:31 · answer #3 · answered by Spilamilah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could put this to math think of it this way our Galaxy has a billion * billion solar systems in it. And there are roughly about a 100 billion galaxies. If you multiplied that figure times 1/10 of 1 percent. That might be the rough balance of solar systems out there that can support life.
2007-06-02 12:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is most certainly other life out there somewhere. The funny thing is that the laws of physics and travel at or near the speed of light may ultimately prevent us from every coming face to face with other life - we may some day pick up or even exchange messages (that would take many years between transmissions), but travel would seem to be the biggest barrier. Sci-fi asside.
2007-06-02 13:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by quint 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-03 11:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you or I won't be around, but hopping on a rocket to go visit another planet WILL happen! I don't know how old you are, but if you are a teenager or anything younger than 30, YOU will almost certainly be around when planets in our solar system, other than the moon, are visited by humans. Wish I could hang around to see it!
2007-06-02 12:14:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chances of life forms are huge.
We, 'earthlings' are one of nine planets revolving around our sun. Our sun is one of around 10 billion stars in our galaxy, the milky way. Our galaxy is one of billions of other galaxies.
Do you still think there is no life? So far Scientists have discoverd 236 new planets out of our solarsystem.
Like Carl Sagan used to say: "There are billions and billions of stars in the universe, each one having the possibility of orbiting planets like Earth able to support life."
This article will helpyou
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070529/sc_space/28newexoplanetsdiscovered;_ylt=AkU9P8Pq9ulAfMKXA4a2H1KHgsgF
Hope this helped!!!
2007-06-02 11:50:00 · answer #8 · answered by martinpaul2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This isn't a weird question at all. It's one of the fundamental questions of humanity: Are We Alone? There are many scientists who spend their entire careers working on getting the answers to one or more of the many aspects of the answer to that question. One of the most famous is Frank Drake, who tried to calculate how many other civilizations there are likely to be Out There: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation. Many others are searching the skies for evidence of other civilizations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI. You can even help in the search!: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.
2007-06-02 16:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by Dan H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not weird at all. But it might only be bacteria, trees or something about as smart as a dog.
It would have to be a lot faster rocket than any we have now if we wanted to get there in less than several thousand years though.
2007-06-02 13:53:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋