My Alien Life theory

kevmeister said:
i believe, that one day....Star Trek will happen - transporters, warp drive, alien cultures etc etc...

It will, just you wait and see ;)
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Yes and they will all be of humanoid shape just with extra pointy bits and speak English in pleasant North American accents.

Space, the final frontier. Turns out it's pretty ****in' dull.
 
My theory is that life is common. It occurs pretty much everywhere in the universe that it physically can occur.

So far there is 100% observational evidence for this theory, we haven't yet identified a place with physical conditions that could support life as we know it, that isn't teaming with life.
 
clv101 said:
So far there is 100% observational evidence for this theory, we haven't yet identified a place with physical conditions that could support life as we know it, that isn't teaming with life.
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What? You can't declare that there is 100% chance of life in the universe because of life on earth, it doesn't work that way.
 
Fenris said:
What? You can't declare that there is 100% chance of life in the universe because of life on earth, it doesn't work that way.
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Everywhere we've looked that can physically support life from Swindon, to sub-glacial lakes under km of ice in Antarctica, we've found life. We've never found a place physically able to support life that hasn't had life.

That is all. There is no evidence to suggest the same isn't true throughout the whole universe. The way science works is to assume uniformity unless there's a reason not to. This is a really critical aspect of science.
 
The way I see it, there must be life out there somewhere, it's impossible to say life will only grow on planets similar to ours, some lifeforms might need completely the opposite conditions to live, so in my mind, there's nearly a guarantee of life out there, intelligent or not
 
mac1st3 said:
it's impossible to say life will only grow on planets similar to ours, some lifeforms might need completely the opposite conditions to live, so in my mind, there's nearly a guarantee of life out there, intelligent or not
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Thats the thing, you can't guarentee anything, the universe doesn't have to conform to chance or make any sense at all.
 
clv101 said:
That is all. There is no evidence to suggest the same isn't true throughout the whole universe. The way science works is to assume uniformity unless there's a reason not to. This is a really critical aspect of science.
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Yes but that is not evidence, you can't use earth as an example for the entire universe, earth is 1 point on the graph, differant places on earth do not count.
 
Human race will never cease to exist, it will evolve but it will still be the human race.

Millions of years from now humans most likely will not look like how we look today.

It all depends on the planets that humans have colonised and are evolving on, different gravitational pulls, different environments will shape the "human" body in new ways.

This is how a docu a while back looked into it on Discovery and it seems a perfectly sound reason!
 
Fenris said:
Thats the thing, you can't guarentee anything, the universe doesn't have to conform to chance or make any sense at all.
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exactly, why would life have to conform to our needs? we have fish you breathe underwater, trees that breathe carbon dioxide in order to live, so what's to say there aren't lifeforms out there who live on planets with a sulphur based atmosphere?

in theory, there could be lifeforms in the middle of jupiter, bacterial or microscopic that live off the gasses etc

obviously me "guaranteeing" it was a bit naiive but in the infinite possiblities, over an infinite expanse of time, anything is possible
 
mac1st3 said:
exactly, why would life have to conform to our needs? we have fish you breathe underwater, trees that breathe carbon dioxide in order to live, so what's to say there aren't lifeforms out there who live on planets with a sulphur based atmosphere?

in theory, there could be lifeforms in the middle of jupiter, bacterial or microscopic that live off the gasses etc

obviously me "guaranteeing" it was a bit naiive but in the infinite possiblities, over an infinite expanse of time, anything is possible
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I mean the chance of inteligent life as a whole rather than humanoid life. I imagine that if we do find inteligent life or if it is out there it's more than likely it doesn't resemble us at all.
 
I would agree there is inteligent life elsewhere, even now considering there are 400 Quadrillion possible places for it to evolve..

however for the distances involved it was as well not exist as far as we are concerned..
 
If there is life out there that is on a higher level of intelligence than us and they were capable of visiting us do you really think they'd make themselves known given the state of our intelligence at the moment?

We can't even keep a country in check without some kind of kind of conflict breaking out.

They're probably rosfl (roll on spaceship floor laughing) at us.



STOP LAUGHING AT US :(
 
Fenris said:
I mean the chance of inteligent life as a whole rather than humanoid life. I imagine that if we do find inteligent life or if it is out there it's more than likely it doesn't resemble us at all.
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well that was my point, there is an incredibly high (almost guarantee:p) that there is some form of life, but the chances of it being anything like humanoid due to the infinite possibilities of form, as for intelligence, that's down to perception really
 
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