Beyond the Big Bang Follow Up?

Question

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I see a lot of people stated that there doesn't need to be a why. I guess I'd disagree with that.

If life exists on other planets in other solar systems, why hasn't our planet been hit with satellites or rovers from other civilizations trying to do the same thing we're doing, explore and learn?

Pardon the pun, but Lord knows we've sent enough scientific equipment into space that you would think someone on "the other side" would be able to pick up on it. Why haven't we?

Something seems very unique about our Earth specifically, and mankind even moreso. I can't understand why that doesn't beg the question of why?

Answer 1

The eath is VERY unique....because God created it for MAN.

"I am fascinated by some strange developments going on in astronomy....The astronomical evidence leads to a Biblical view of the origin of the world". -- Robert Jastrow (Astomomer) and former Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Answer 2

The reason we have not been explored by aliens on the other side is that all of our probes so far have only explored our solar system. At the fastest speed our space probes can attain it would take thousands of years for the simplest of probes to reach the nearest star only 4.5 light years away. If a civilization that is advanced enough to detect our feeble radio signals was only 150 light years away from us, our radio signals have yet to reach them. Then it would take another 150 years for us to get the answer. More likely, the possibility exists that other, more advanced civilizations have come into being, and fallen becoming extinct before their radio signals ever get here. Imagine a civilization 10,000 light years away. Their signal left their planet when we were just coming out of the last ice age, we hear it tomorrow, but the problem is 5000 years ago they destroyed themselves in an atomic war. We won't know that for another 5000 years. Space is very, very big. Much bigger than most people can comprehend. The Earth is just a little speck of dust orbiting a minor G5 yellow dwarf star in a backward arm of a very uninteresting spiral galaxy lost among a trillion other galaxies. Just because the Earth is infected with the natural process of carbon based organic chemistry we call life, doesn't make us special at all.

Answer 3

Your obvious scientific illiteracy has left you with no concept of space and time. Currently, the maximum speed interstellar probes can travel is 40,000 mph, which would mean a 17,000 year trip to the nearest star..

Considering the technology available to even send radio waves into space is only about 80 yrs old, a civilisation 200 yrs behind ours wouldn't even pick up the transmissions, despite being an intelligent civilisation, as we were 200 years ago..

Higher life forms have been on Earth for about 250 million years, but life had been around more than 3 billion yrs before that, so the odds of extra terrestrial life are more likely for little green slime than little green men, however, the sheer number of potential life sustaining planets can still mean the universe is teeming with life, even intelligent life..

There are between 100 and 400 billion stars within most galaxies, and at least 100 billion galaxies so far. It seems about half the stars in our galaxy harbour planets, so the odds for extra terrestrial life are still looking good aren't they..?

Answer 4

Considering the size of the universe, it's no surprise that we've never been "contacted" by life from another planet. It's unlikely that we ever will.
It's like a flea on your dog making contact with a flea on a dog two states away... highly unlikely.

Going back to your original question... I don't believe there is a "why"... there just is. There is good, there is bad,... and most of that is just how you look at it.

Scientist in the past predicted what scientists in the future should find, and for the most part, they have been right. Some theories hold more water than others, but the search continues.

Answer 5

We've sent a rover to one other planet. One. And scientists still aren't sure if life has existed there. Do you have any idea how many planets there are? Most of them are thousands and thousands of light years away, it would be extremely unlikely for them to have had any contact with us. Even if our space junk were travelling at the speed of light, it would be very odd if one of the few pieces of equipment out there had come in contact with intelligent life.
And even if a piece of equipment landed, undamaged on a planet supporting life, what are the chances that life is going to be able to work out what it is or where it came from? We probably couldn't, and we're the most intelligent beings that have lived on this planet in more than four and a half billion years.

Answer 6

"If life exists on other planets in other solar systems, why hasn't our planet been hit with satellites or rovers from other civilizations trying to do the same thing we're doing, explore and learn?"

Dude, you obviously have a very poor grasp of the sheer size of the universe. Additionally, I do think life in other places exist, either now or in the past or in the future, but the distances are mind-boggling.

Answer 7

It's a big universe man. And these spacecraft are so terribly slow. Why, I shouldn't be surprised if it took hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years before they even made it to any other star systems.

Also, since the way life developed here on Earth is so specific to the conditions prevailing here on the planet, I shouldn't find it odd to discover that life from other planets was nothing at all like our own. We shouldn't expect them to have technology advanced enough to collect space probes with (yes Virginia, you =can= end a sentence with a preposition).

Think about this for a moment. There are literally billions (maybe trillions) of galaxies in the universe. Each one containing billions and trillions of stars. Each star with the capacity to have little motes of space dust (planets) whizzing around it. And for all we know, each of these planets has the chance to sustain life. I tell you, I'd be completely shocked to discover that we were alone in the universe. The very idea seems like the height of arrogance to me.

Answer 8

Beyond the boundaries of the Big Bang, it also beyond the boundaries of time. This is more of a philosophical question than scientific, because what exist exist even if we don't believe in it. We will never have any metaphors for what is outside of our Universe or time for that matter. This knowledge perpetuates humility, and humility is not an emotion most like to share. So instead of hearing a "well I just don't know" you will here "it's nonsense and does not exist." Proof is not something that is constant, but varies with circumstances, and even people. It is obvious that a Unlimited Power created everything, but after that the inquiry stops. There is an example that is similar, but we deal with it differently because who says it. In mathematics the imaginary number 'i'. We have no idea what it is, but we use it, and is solves mathematical problems that would be unsolvable. Need is the mother of invention, and I think when everyone will need a better explanation of how we got here, then we will need to swallow our pride and accept the obvious. What even fools have known.

The concept of travel in the universe is only subject to the speed. Our current understanding, is that you can't accelerate to the speed of light because of infinite increase of mass in the posses, and time stops to matter. But that does not mean it is impossible. Short cuts lest say may allow you to do it. But even if you go to the optimal speed, you will always be in the confines of the universe, and never be able to escape, do to the fact that you would also be escaping time.
So what ever exist out of our realm (Space-Time fabric), is unmeasurable to us. The only thing we can do is mind experiment to maybe glimpse what would only be a shadow of what could be out there. This is why prof of God (in our standard way of science) is impossible, because who can measure God (how can you measure infinity). But that don't mean that something came from nothing. As long as evolutionist keep pushing, they will come to an impasse of their measurement and experimentation. At one point they will have to concede that something does not come from nothing. This in even in the law of Thermo Dynamics!

Answer 9

We have so far found over 100,000 other galaxies besides our own yet we have yet to make it out of our solar system let alone our own galaxy. I think you are seriously underestimating the vastness of space. Also, in all that vastness how many intelligent, technological civilizations there may be is unknowable. There could be none. Or there could be some mind numbingly distant. Or they could be at or lower than our technological level.

Answer 10

I have great respect for scientists, and what they have actually found, studied and observed. If they would stick to that and stay out of the faith zone that would be nice.

When they take a skull and try to tell us it's a "missing link" and it's all about faith and philosophy mixed with their facts it's then I get skeptical. I think science should stay science and philosophy and history about where we came from or originated from is an entirely different subject altogether.
And you are right there is something very unique about Earth.

Answer 11

We will hit the nearest star in about 80,000 years.It is doubtful that star HAS a solar system.We haven't gone "to the other side"we haven't even left the neighborhood yet.How could you watch the show and get the idea that we "have sent so much"ANYWHERE????Did you understand the SCALE of the universe?It doesn't sound like you quite "got it"