2007-09-24 12:05:16 · 36 answers · asked by frogg135 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
on this question you are as smart as any scientist...
but my horse says that there is,,so I'll take his word on that..
2007-09-24 12:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure, somewhere out there... there has to be, if you think about it... our planet is just an average-sized one, living off of an average-sized star in an average galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies, some even way bigger than ours. Unfortunately, we have no way of reaching most of these other galaxies at the moment.
But, I believe, that if we ever found another planet with life we'd start shipping people over there and stuff, and within, like 10 years, the planet would be completely wiped out... especially if the people sent were Americans (okay, only some of them. I am American, I'm not dissing them all...)
But, yes, I definitely agree that life is out there somewhere.
Hope this helps!
2007-09-24 13:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Purplecat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you consider the vastness of the Universe and try to quantify the amount of stars there are (don't quote me but I'm sure there are more stars in the Universe than all the grains of sand on Earth!)
And you then narrow down the extreme set of circumstances that would have to come together (as on Earth) to create a life supporting planet. Personally I would have to say yes. However unless we can realise theories such as travelling through worm holes, the main stumbling block to discovery must be the huge distances involved.
2007-09-24 12:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by Blokheed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in our solar system.
In other galaxies there is strong suggestion of some kind of life.
From what they say here on the Internet, there are as many planets "out there" as there is sand on the beach.
If this is true, then everything we are doing now is being imitated somewhere light years away.
Now, if it were possible to travel faster than any technology we know of can produce, then we would be partnering with other worlds by now.
For the time being, we are slowly adapting to globalization.
That alone is a new fronteer.
2007-09-24 12:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
With so many stars and the high probability of billions of other planets out there in the universe, we'd be ignorant to think that Earth is the only one capable of sustaining life. X
2007-09-24 12:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure. There's pretty much proof that there was water on Mars (a precondition to life as we know it). I wouldn't be surprised if there's some form of life discovered on mars in the next trip. And that's just the planet nearest to us!
Now, does that mean intellgent life, that is capable of communicating, that we can hope to communicate with?
Hmm..
The Drake Equation says that that's likely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
But others hold a different view.
2007-09-24 12:18:17 · answer #6 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't believe there IS life on other planets but I do believe that there HAS been or WILL BE life on other planets. We are in a very small moment of time, and in a period of millions of years life can be existent on individual planets. I think that they will discover that there was life on Mars but not anymore.
2007-09-24 12:11:46 · answer #7 · answered by Tango 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes I do as water must be present on every star planet etc that we can see otherwise it would not hold together, where there is water im sure there must be some form of existance maybe, we need another omiter to notice a diferent type of life form, ET is alive somewhere im sure.
2007-09-24 12:15:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, without question (and if this big bang thing is correct there are a lot of planets with people just like you and me). Will we ever find them? No,I don't think so (at least not for centuries). Have ''they'' visited us? Absolutely not. Will we find primitive life or evidence thereof? Yes, and hopefully soon (I would like to see that).
2007-09-24 12:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There almost certainly is, but there are two problems:
1. Very few star systems ahve the right conditions to supoprt life, so the nearest one is probably a few hundred light years away, so we probably won't meet them for millenia.
2. Most life that evolves will probably be microbial. So nothing interesting.
But yes, there are other civilsations out there, almsot certianly. but we probably won't meet them.
2007-09-25 00:30:37 · answer #10 · answered by Bob B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the billions upon billions of stars in the Universe, many with surrounding planets, we would be very silly to think otherwise.
2007-09-24 12:10:13 · answer #11 · answered by Polo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋