Poll: Where is everyone?

[Sliver]

Yes I'm talking aliens.

A rocky planet has been discovered orbiting our closest neighbour.The alien world, Proxima Centauri b, is warmed by the light of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that sits just 4.24 light-years away. It's also orbiting in the Goldie Locks zone so may well have liquid water on it's surface. The next step is to search for oxygen in it's atmosphere which would almost certainly mean life is there.

Anyway, aside from this, maybe the mods can create a poll. A simple 'Do you think there is other life in the Universe: Yes - No.

I'd be interested in who thinks what and why.

 

[HecFam]

Obviously there is alien, how else does do crop circle get done?

 

[antijoke]

Paging Sean Murray.

 

[bushmins]

But how is babby formed?

 

[d_brennen]

There's nothing to say the universe isn't full of life. We are only here because conditions have only just got to the stage where complex, intelligent life can exist. Life in and of itself does not strive for brains, the most successful creatures here are often the most simple. Even if were were a few hundred million years behind planet X, Y or Z, the universe is so huge and expanding at an incredible rate...

Will you be able to see other players?

[not making eye contact, mumbles] Yes

e: even with the sample size so low (1), I'm going to go with yes. Life here must be a result of physics, everything else we observe is

 

[TheMightyTen]

There has to be Alien life, how else would you explain Farage and Trump.................................

 

[jsmoke]

Serioulsy no aliens out there, very much all alone.

What is amazing though is the belief movement created by a few movies/cartoon like characters and various sightings of supposed UFO's.

 

[robfosters]

There has to be Alien life, how else would you explain Farage and Trump.................................

Science experiment gone wrong?

 

[Freefaller]

I think with the universe being so infinitely massive, and hugely complex way beyond our capability of explaining, beyond our grasp of mathematics and physics - it would be myopic to suggest that there is some form of life elsewhere in the universe.

With our own relatively modest galaxy (Milky Way) being over 100,000 lightyears wide or 946,073,047,258,080,000km (so travelling at the speed of light it would take 100,000 years!!!), with over 100 billion stars, we're already insignificant in terms of pure numbers of magnitude in our "neighbourhood". We haven't even discovered the whole of our galaxy let alone knowledge of the billions of galaxies in the universe that we have discovered to date.

I think the likelyhood, even if slim to none, that other "intelligent" life exists is that it does exist. I also would rather believe it did as I find it quite comforting.

 

[Freakbro]

Yea, logically you have to assume life in simple forms will exist throughout the universe.

The probability of evolved complex and intelligent life is far far smaller....but we are dealing with a vast universe out there, so that's still possible.

The Drake Equation

 

[Zethor]

I think there is other life but we will never find it. Only 1 form of life after 4b years in perfect conditions here on Earth suggests life is an extremely rare occurance.

 

[peterwalkley]

There has to be Alien life, how else would you explain Farage and Trump.................................

There is a subtle irony here I only picked up on after the second coffee this morning. Blaming foreigners for everything

 

[sgavan]

I think the sheer number and size of the universe there just has to

 

[Captain]

It would be ignorant of us to believe we are the only self aware species living at the moment, just the size alone means the chances of any contact with another species is very unlikely.

Though a far more advanced civilisation could be out there somewhere with the capability of finding us..

 

[archerz]

 

[Muz333]

Do I believe that somewhere in this vast universe life exists outwith our own planet? Yes.

Do I believe we will ever meet intelligent life out there? No. The distances involved are too great and then there is no guarantee that we will even exit in the same time frame.

 

[Marky]

I think with the universe the size that it is - It would be insane to think there isn't any other life out there.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I hope so as interstellar war will be a right laugh.

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Anyone want one of theseeeeee?


of course there is life out there, probably a whole lot of it too. We are in my eyes a little to closed off in our opinions sometimes, how long did we say nothing could possibly live near the deepest point of the ocean because of the immense pressure and look at the variety of species we find now in the Mariana trench

Just because something is inhospitable to us does not make it inhospitable to others.

 

[ots3go]

I'll just leave this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Drake Equation already posted above.