Could there be other forms of life besides us?surely there might be intelligent life or something?

Question

Could there be other forms of life besides us?surely there might be intelligent life or something?

Answer 1

Could there be?  yes.

Is there?  we don't know.

Answer 2

the odds are pretty high on this question. yes.

Answer 3

I love answering this question no matter how many times it comes up...lol.  

There very well could be other life forms out there like us.  I think it would be absurd to believe there isn't.  If there are about 300 kazillion galaxies with trillions and trillions of stars in each one with the possibility of planets orbiting around each one, there has to be some form of intelligent life.  

Put it this way.  Any other solar system that has planets orbiting around them including ours usually has the rocky planets closest to the sun, while gas giants are usually the outer planets that orbit the sun.  Say if there are 300 trillion stars in one galaxy, then about every 3rd or 4th planet from each star could harbor life like ours because it's not too close or too far away from that star.  We can't be the only ones with the amount of oxygen and water we have.  

I'm gonna bet that somebody out there on a distant galaxy many light years away is also trying to reach out and find a civilization like ours.  It would be breath-taking if it ever happened.  

- Stallion

Answer 4

Intelligence? That is a strange word and is debatable. Take a step outside yourself and look at your USA community. ....It dose not look to intelligent does it. If our leader is any reflection upon the masses then I my guess is that we4 have yet to find intelligent life here on earth. Especially the USA.

Answer 5

The answer is yes, check out this site to learn about the Drake Equation:

http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/c...

and go here to plug in your own numbers for the variables and it will calculate how many potential intelligent life forms are out there:

http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publ...

Answer 6

Since space is so huge, the possibility of even finding any other intelligent life is small.  The SETI program scans for radio signals from other stars, but I've heard that in order to find one, it must be aimed directly at earth in an obvious attempt to communicate with us.  That assumes they know we're here, and transmit it constantly, since SETI can only focus on a few stars at a time in the entire sky.  It also assumes the aliens will use radio frequencies that we're expecting to find.  After hearing that, I began to wonder why we would even fund such a program, since the chances are so low that it will find anything.

And don't call me Shriley.

Answer 7

We appear to be developing intelligent life that differs from us right now, right here on Earth.  Instead of trillions of tiny cells, we're using computer chips, motors and stuff.  It's very primitive, but we've been working on it for less than 50 years, and life has been evolving for billions of years.  Progress has been rapid.  These life forms are already helping us build cars.  It won't be long before they can build copies of themselves.

Could life evolve on planets around other stars?  Seems likely.  Some 20% to 60% of stars appear to have rocky planets like ours.  Water, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen - the stuff we're made of - are very common.  Life formed quickly on Earth, it seems to have appeared almost as soon as conditions let it.  Once life got started, mutations and natural selection seems to lead to sophisticated solutions to survival problems.  One of the recurring solutions is being smarter.  If there's enough time, intelligence seems almost inevitable.

Answer 8

I definetly think they are, but the chances of us seeing eachother seems slim.

they would have to come from another galaxy it seems, so either

A. they can tget here because it's too cold to travel from galaxy, to galaxy.

B. they cant get here because they are used to cold and it's be too hot here.

C. they have been watching us for awhile, and are just trying to find a way to get here, like building spaceships that stay warm, cold, ect.

but also, life on other planets could just be animals as well, that we would have to go discover, and who knows if human life will even be here on earth by the time we would have the tecnology to get out of the galaxy and into another.

Answer 9

i hope there is!!

Answer 10

Since there are countless stars in existence, it is very probable that somewhere in space there would be a planet that's similar to ours in terms of climate and atmosphere.

However, that does not neccesarily mean that there would be life on it. If there's life on it, it doesn't also mean they're inteligent, too. In other words: there's no chance that a duplicate Earth exists, but there is a probable chance that a similar planet is out there.

Answer 11

I believe that is live in other parts of the galaxy, I belong to a astronomy club and I talk with a PHD in astro physic and he was told me that there is as many planets in the universe as grans of sand from all the beaches around this planet combine. I ask him how he can prove this an he tall me about a equation that is call the Drake equation

here is a web side where you can read about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equat...