Because to me it's compleatly illogical and arrogent to say otherwise.
Why you may ask? Because, there are MANY stars in the galexcy ALONE like our sun, and many stars have planets.
2007-06-17 09:58:26 · 7 answers · asked by Crazygirl ♥ aka GT 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
To answer #4: I see why you think this is a mathamatical question, there IS a formula to get an aproxamate number of seient life, but the variables are too great to be solveable.
Anothet thing, IF someone/thing cam to orbit earth and went un-dected by the ISS(un likely), would they dub earth too "primitive" to make a first contact ofitialy(abductions don't count)?
2007-06-17 10:33:45 · update #1
I do!
(not to mention hundreds of billions of other galaxies!)
If it happened here it can happen elsewhere, right?
Some are probably just bacteria, some may be animals, and some may be intelligent beings developed anywhere from the stone age to levels beyond our understanding! How many of them are capable of crossing the intersteller expanses or or the infinately larger intergalactic voids? I'd say very few (mabye 0.00001% or less) compared to the number of inhabited worlds, but that'd still leave trillions of civilizations capable of doing so! (That's assuming each galaxy only has a handful of spacefaring races, which is grossly underestamitve!)
2007-06-17 16:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you watch the NASA ufo videos on youtube, and all the interviews with generals, senators, doctors, harvard professors, etc, then you'll see that they all corroborate that aliens are visiting our planet. So many astronauts have seen strange ufos, and nasa had to stop broadcasting because of this.. Look at Edgar Mitchell, 4th or 6th man to land on the moon.. He completely states that aliens have been here for a long time.
Personally, I don't care for most of the UFO videos that you can watch, but there are some that are completely convincing. Look at the Mexico sightings that happen all the time, and the Belgium triangle mass sighting. There's so much evidence, its hard to think that every single photo and video is a hoax or mistake.
2007-06-17 20:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by Tom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do I believe there is other life beside ours in the universe, yes. Do I believe that they have visited earth, no. Why would they come here? Just to discover us? I don't think so, they know we are here and don't have to come and see. Just as we knew about atoms long before we could actually see them. One of the dumbest things about UFO's is that they have lights. Why? Why would they need lights, so we can see them? If they have solved all the problems of space and time traveling then they would not need lights.
How many stars have planets? Well, as we are discovering, many. There are probably more planets in the universe than stars and as Carl Sagan put it, "there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the world."
2007-06-17 18:51:02 · answer #3 · answered by DaveSFV 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 things that are quite different:
1- alien life existing outside of our solar system
2- alien life actually coming here on earth for whatever reason
#1 will not have any debate as far as I am concerned. Your position regarding the size of the galaxy and the number of galaxies in the universe is sound and reasonable.
However, just because the galaxy is huge, the distance vast, and the speed achievable with space transportation devices exceedingly slow for such long travel (as far as we know, no one as yet showed that anyone can travel faster than light) implies that those believing #2 are usually delusional at best (at worst, they are claiming to be contactees and then are fraudsters).
Believing in alien life is one thing. Believing in alien life having contacted us is another one, and in my opinion, is baloney.
2007-06-17 17:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this an Airhead question, or what?
Of course, the probabilities are there. They are so obvious. I only hope the aliens aren't so technologically advanced over us that when they come here to visit, we aren't looked upon as edible or in need of extermination.
Why, I ask, should you pose this mathematical probabilities question here?
2007-06-17 17:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe in them
i figured it all up for another question and figured that if there were just 1% (which may be high) of stars with planets in the galaxy had life there would be somewhere around a billion planets with life
2007-06-17 17:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an alien and when I get enough points on yahoo answers I can go back to my home on the planet mars.
2007-06-17 17:13:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋