If you think we are the only intelligent life in the Universe, you are in idiot.

  • Thread starter Event
  • 65 comments
  • 2,811 views
SS69
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html

Interesting theory.
Click to expand...
The theories are sound that we are too Earth-centric when looking for life, because we aren't giving room for adaptability. However, the idea that NASA killed Martian life is purely speculation based on the assumption that it was there and that it was exactly what they think it should be. The problem is that, based on the way they talk, they are looking for what they specifically expect to find and it could still be something different. This group of scientists appear to be just as narrow-minded, but headed in a different direction.

That's the problem with too many scientists. They assume they are correct before they even begin to test their hypothesis and, as they pointed out, begin looking for what they want to find, not what might actually be there.
 
I can't say I believe in Aliens, after all we've never seen one so how can we believe in something that we've never identified? (we being as humans).

Is it possible? Yes, definitely. We know so little about the universe and I can't see it changing much unless we start evolving in some extraordinary ways.

I do think that if we ever encounter Aliens though they'd probably look like something we can't possibly imagine, after all why would they resemble anything in any remote way on earth.
 
Sureshot
I do think that if we ever encounter Aliens though they'd probably look like something we can't possibly imagine, after all why would they resemble anything in any remote way on earth.
Click to expand...
I reckon that alien life would probably resemble life as we recognise it - also that is something of an oxymoron, since there are plenty of bizarre lifeforms right here on Earth that could easily be described as totally alien. But even though life on Earth is amazingly diverse, there is a commonality between all living things - every living thing on Earth is basically made from the same stuff, and there is no reason to believe that the same building blocks are not in use elsewhere in the universe, esp. given that we know for a certain fact that amino acids exist in the cosmos.

Although it's almost inconceivable that life (and even intelligent life) doesn't exist elsewhere in the universe, life is still a very rare form of matter - and regardless of which planet it is found on, it is a temporary state at that. Intelligent life would probably have to count as one of the rarest forms of matter known to us, but 'rare' in an universe as big as this could still mean billions of civilisations are out there, waiting to be discovered.
 

Latest Posts

Back