Do you think it's plausible to say that there could be lifeforms in the cosmos that are millions of years old?

Question

In all the supposedly hundreds of millions, if not billions of potentially life supporting planets out there, do you think there could be some with beings or civilizations that have been around for millions of years?

Imagine what 10 million years of scientific progress could yield.

Imagine the knowledge and the wisdom that could be gained.

Answer 1

why not?

Answer 2

There are life forms on this planet Earth that are hundreds of millions of years old. We call them bacteria and they are just about everywhere. If it were not for bacteria we would not exist. They have not yet, however, as far as we know, reached any level of intelligence that we would recognise.

If life can exist on one planet like ours, then with thousands of billions of planets in the Universe, the chances are pretty high that life can also exist somewhere else. Whether or not that life could have reached a level of intelligence that we could possibly recognise is a different, and difficult, question to answer.

It may be that there are intelligent beings in the Universe, that think no more of us than we think of bacteria.

Answer 3

of course its possible, life on earth is 4 billion years old

Answer 4

It's always possible...Just think of our own history...Imagine adding a few thousand years or so; what technologies we may have. That's just a wink in the history of the earth. Just think, what if humans came to being rather than the dinosaurs...That's at least 65 million years!

Answer 5

we have no proof of that but there could be civilization that have been around longer the the earth it self

Answer 6

yes it is possible.

if they are intelligent, then they should have the brains to stay away from us.

Answer 7

Yes, I believe there could be civilizations that are millions of years old.  That is why I get so frustrated with people who think that just because we don't have the technology to get there, that means they don't have the technology to get here.

  If you consider that most people were still using kerosene lamps and the horse and buggy just 100 years ago, it lends a different perspective to that attitude.  Just look at how our technology has advanced in 100 years.  Now, consider what we might accomplish in another 100 years, one thousand years, or one million years.