Are we alone in the galaxy? your opinoin is welcomed?

Question

where are you in this debate

and why do you choose that side?

i am a firm believer that we are NOT alone.

its very self centered to even think that way we are probably not as special as we think we are.

HOWEVER my views on has neighboring life ever visted earth i would say no.....

but im very happy to hear your opinoins

Answer 1

  We are not alone,aliens have never visited earth but we will always wonder about them as they wonder about us.

Answer 2

If your really interested in this look up SETI.

Most scientists or astronomers would say that we are not alone. There are billions of billions of stars in our galaxy alone. Then there are countless galaxies out there that make up "local groups" these may have anywere from thirty to a few hundred galaxies in them, and there are countless millions of these local groups.

A few semesters ago my astronomy teacher brought in a picture that was titled "100 million galaxies", the scope of the picture was that of a grain of sand held at arms length standing on earth at sea level.

I said all that to say that statistically speaking, yes there should be other life in the universe. But there is no such evidence, this is know as the Fermi paradox, the apparent high probability of extraterestrial life and the lack of any evidence. One of the best theories to explain this is that life is rare, and therefore not on every other star you happen across. If this is the case, then the distance between stars is to blame. The distances are so great that even if intelligent life were in a solar system halfway across our own galaxy (50 million light years) , wich is right next door in the big picture. It would take 50 million years for us to have any communication with them. Thats just speed of light communication such as radio waves. So if the aliens had fast as light spaceships it would still take a long, long time to get here. Chances are one species or the other is going to become extinct before contact is made

Answer 3

Our opinions are not really relevant, since we have no proof that we are alone in the galaxy, but we have no evidence that we are not alone.

The galaxy is huge. Larger than we can imagine.The Universe is even larger, for all intents and purposes infinite. Being so, it would make statistical sense that if one planet can create and sustain "life" as we know it, so can another, but we still have no proof it has been done, or where.

And it may be our definition of "life" is too narrow, so what life there may be we may not even recognize it as being "alive".

  

It would take several lifetimes to even travel to another galaxy,  Space  is so vast that only the last decade or so have we been able to see anything INSIDE even the closest galaxies, except the stars that comprise them.

The first planet outside our own solar system was only discovered a few years ago; the first planet we think is capable of sustaining life was discovered only a year or so ago. Even then, that is no guarantee there is any actual "life", as we know it, just the possibility of life.

We know our own Solar system is not inhabited except by "us" and all the creatures on Planet Earth, unless we eventually find some microbes or unicellular creatures on Mars.

  

So far, it is a question that cannot be answered.  The more we learn about the nature of the universe, and about life itself, the better our knowledge will be and the more accurate our guesses and theories. But until someone really finds "life" on other planets (And forget about UFO's -- that's not science, that's science-fiction) we won't ever know,

That is at best, probably centuries or more away. None of us will ever see it.

You are free to imagine and beleive, but don't mistake imagination or wishful thinking for fact.    

Answer 4

well personally i dont care. but my old biology teacher once told me that there is a theory that life on earth appeared too quickly, and that it may be possible that simple cellular organisms came to the planet from meteiors or something similar. science fiction aside that is a possible theory and therefore those organisms had a source. maybe the organims there evolved too.

Answer 5

of course! the universe is too big for just humans! even the galaxy is too big for just humans!

Answer 6

we are not alone in the galaxy because of aliens and other space creature...(oooh! scary)

Answer 7

Yes i Believe in Aliens.... Read why?

IF Human can exist on this planet-Earth, I think life will be there on other planet in any form either in Micro cells or like as our. I believe that Aliens does exists, in future definatlly we will find them or they will find us.

According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a "light" in or on a carter during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard.

According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

NASA: What's there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11...

Apollo: These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!

In 1979, Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. "The encounter was common knowledge in NASA," he revealed, "but nobody has talked about it until now."

Soviet scientists were allegedly the first to confirm the incident. "According to our information, the encounter was reported immediately after the landing of the module," said Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University. "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But his message was never heard by the public-because NASA censored it. "