Extra-terrestrials (Aliens) - A Poll

[Astro78]

Would love to know your thoughts on this (intelligent life btw):

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

I believe that other intelligent life is almost certainly existant.

Dave

[Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav)]

How do you know that I am not an alien

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

Originally Posted by dpastern

I believe that other intelligent life is almost certainly existant.

Dave

They are just too intelligent to come here

Adrian

[leon]

No mate, not a chance, we are alone in this vast wilderness.

Leon

[MrB (Simon)]

Is there other life out there somewhere? I believe so.
Has an extraterrestrial being ever visited this planet? No, not even close, and probably never will.

[Neil]

G,day on checking the poll results I,ve found I,m amongst the majority, this seems to indicate why we,re all members of this ilke,searching for an answer for that question? or are we just deemed to be not ready yet, i,m sure we,re not. But we should keep on looking, seeking the answer,i,m mean isn,t that why we,re here?

[Jen]

Well ive meet some people in my lifetime that i think they are from another world

[Neil]

so they,re not from swan hill?

[renormalised (Carl)]

Has an extraterrestrial being ever visited this planet? No, not even close, and probably never will.

That can't be proven, and, the first time someone born on Mars or anywhere else in the solar system comes to Earth for a holiday and/or business, an extraterrestrial will have set foot on our planet...technically.

[Ian Robinson]

Yep they are out there , that's a dead cert.

I do not think they are visiting us or have been to our planet anytime in the recent pas or are observing us now.

They may have been to our planet a few times in the geologic past.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Neil

so they,re not from swan hill?

yeah thats right There not from Jens world anyway

[AlexN]

I'd say it would be fairly small minded of us to think that in the entire universe, we are on the only planet with sentient life forms...

We know of 300+ planets outside of our own solar system, orbiting other stars within this galaxy... There is likely to be many many more than what we've found, remember, we can't see what is on the opposite side of our galaxy due to the galactic core being as dense as it is.. There may well be other sentient life within our own galaxy.. and the likely chance is that we (in our lifetimes) will never know one way or the other.. Now zoom out a ways, and look at the bigger picture.. There is 300+ planets we know of in this single galaxy... There are hundreds of millions of galaxies out there, if you were to assume similar distribution of planets in every galaxy, then the number of planets out there would be astronomical. Now, clearly, the percentage of these that would be suitable for us to live on (Carbon based life) may be low... However whats to say an extraterrestrial is carbon based? There is nothing to rule out life that breathes sulfur instead of oxygen, or life that does not require water..

Chances are better for there being other life in the universe than not...

If there isn't.. If we're it, isn't it a hell of a waste of space? Like building an entire city as a house for 2 people...

[Neil]

Great ,well they must be aliens, ! Just kidding ,glad you,re looking too.How do you do that purple thing?

[Kal (Andrew)]

It would be a pretty sad scenario if among the trillions of stars (perhaps septillions of stars) contained in the billions of galaxies the only intelligent life was on a small rock called earth circling the sun.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Neil

Great ,well they must be aliens, ! Just kidding ,glad you,re looking too.How do you do that purple thing?

Click on the drop down arrow next to the A above you have lots of colors to choose from

[Neil]

There,s a very interesting read in the current issue of Sky & Telescope on this senario of weather we are alone,p36,it opens up all sorts of possibilities, at least in my mind. Have a read.

[Neil]

Found IT

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Neil

Found IT

Well Done

[Astro78]

I personally love the fact that little over 10 years ago we weren't sure if other planets existed outside our solar system. Now it is commonly accepted that around 1/3 to 1/2 of all stars do indeed have planets. -> surely wont be long until we scientifically believe all stars do?

Still amazes me of the huge temperature range out there - and the TINY little range we can thrive in.

Originally Posted by Neil

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