Do you think there is other life in our universe?

Answer 1

could be.

Answer 2

I do. However, given the incomprehensible distances involved and the unimaginable size of our known universe, contact may never be made - and certainly not with today's technology.
Imagine, we have been sending out electromagnetic waves for over a hundred years - at the speed of light, that's a hundred light years out, and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface.
The best analogy I have ever come across concerning the distances involved is this:
If the earth's sun were scaled down to the size of a type written period - our closest star would be 8 miles away - and that's ONLY 4.2 light years!
Unless we come up with some ways to travel these distances within a practical time frame - we will remain the lone occupants, at least as far as we really know.

Answer 3

Of course! i think it would be foolish to not believe in other life...even other intelligent life...I mean think about it
the universe is so gigantic that there is no telling what kind of crazy stuff is out there. Things that our human brains couldn't even comprehend. To think were the only intelligent creatures in the whole vastness of space is crazy.
And also (if you can comprehend this)..we are one of the billions of solar systems in the milky way galaxy...and the milky way galaxy is one of the 10's of billions and billions of Galaxy's out there in the universe..so to think we are the only life in the universe is crazy...and stuck up. of course there is intelligent life and just bacterial life.

Answer 4

The question is not, "Is there other life in the universe?"
The question is whether or not I think there might be.

Let's define our terms.
If you are referring to ANY kind of life other than human. To me there's no doubt it exists. You don't even have to leave the planet. Science uncovers a "new form of life" every once in a while here on Earth.

If you mean any EXTRATERRESTRIAL of ANY kind, then I'm going to have to hypothesize just like everybody else. Personally I think it's a mathematical improbability that some form doesn't exist somewhere in the universe.

But, if you add other criteria such as humanoid, I think it requires dome thought. The human has some pretty useful adaptations. Binocular vision is great for judging distance in two-space, but three might be more helpful if one needed to navigate in three-space. Our bipedal method of motivation is pretty useful, but It might not be as useful in a heavy-gravity environment. The redundant organs are also a pretty good idea. We're used to two arms, but I have no idea if three might be getting into each others ways. I think there are way too many variables. Not sure about humanoid life if you mean looks like an Earthling. Possibly, if you mean having human characteristics.

If you remove the humanoid and replace it with intelligent, I'm back to almost positive. You have to admit, it wouldn't take much to be more intelligent than some humans. Humans have to keep redefining the term "intelligence" to keep themselves on top of the brain pool. First, I think it was that man was the only smart one because he made tools. Then somebody observed an ape stripping the leaves from a branch and using it as a fishing pole to capture termites in a termite mound. So we said that man was smart because he had a language. Then he found other animals had languages, and even taught some of them to communicate in English. Hmmm... they can learn to communicate so we can understand them, but we can't learn their language... who's intelligent. Then man said he was intelligent because he was "self aware." Psychobabble... we're getting desperate. But we found that other animals had likes and dislikes, preferences that defied any training or our logic. Kind of nice when you set the criteria by which your intelligence is to be measured.

The problem is that, because we’re not all that swift ourselves, we might not recognize their intelligence. Beings who communicated telepathically might be considered stupid because they never said anything. Beings who undoubtedly possessed the ability to devise weapons to protect themselves, but who had developed above any need for such junk, will probably be killed because they’re too dumb to defend themselves—too dumb to defend themselves but so technologically advanced that we killed them for their equipment—which we probably can’t figure out how to operate anyway.

Life? Almost certain. What it looks like? Pure conjecture—best guess… not like us. Will it be more intelligent than humans? I think dolphins are more intelligent in some ways than humans, so, again, almost certain. Will it pose a threat? I don’t think so, unless we try to harm it, then I don’t know.

I hope we don’t find it at this stage of our development. We’re too dangerous… even to ourselves. It's not really OUR universe.

Answer 5

Almost certainly. Even the most conservative statistical estimates put the minimum number of intelligent civilizations on the order of 10,000. It is starting to look very likely we will discover evidence that there was life on Mars in the past.

Answer 6

absolutely positively yes there is life in our universe, most likey in our own galaxy. but lets just say for example that we are the only planet with life in our galaxy, that is at least one per galaxy. there are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe, so that is at very very least 100 billion planets with life on them, the numbers are way too high to ignore, you cant see an atom but you know it is there, you cant see these other planets but you have to know they are there, the sheer numbers force it upon us, there is life out there, period.

Answer 7

Considering the size and scope of the current universe
and the commonness (according to spectralogical research)
of the basic chemicals of life ... Yes, it is very likely.

Indeed, I think it is very UNLIKELY that there isn't life
elsewhere.

Whether it is "intelligent" by our standards .... hard to know.

Intelligence is nowhere near the evolutionary advantage that,
say, massive reproduction is (see Cockroaches and Ants for
proof).

Answer 8

absolutely. considering how many stars our own galaxy has, let alone the whole universe, the sun can't be the only star with planets that have life.

Answer 9

I have a folder full of NASA jpgs of lakes and pine forests, temple and dome complexes on mars

there are NASA photos from cassini probe showing extremely big artificial objects amongst the rings of saturn

and I've got NASA photos taken by apollo astronauts of ET spacecraft [from apollo 14 and by neil armstrong]... so for me the answer is yes

Answer 10

If there can be one...(us) then there can be 2 or 3.....

We are the proof.