Do you think that searching for life on other planets is pointless?

Question

Do you think that searching for life on other planets is pointless?

Answer 1

Your question may be based on the viewpoint that more knowledge is inherently a bad thing - i.e. eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge was a sin. That is a viewpoint that I do not share. I suspect it originated when people began to ask difficult questions of their local dogma dealers and they had to start making stuff up that they didn't know about.

More knowledge is good, more dogma is not good (note I did not say religion, but dogma).

Answer 2

The point of searching for life on other planets is that is one of the things that defines us as humans.  The need to explore is an inherent part of human nature.  If we weren't curious monkeys there would still only be a few hundred thousand of us living on the plains in Africa hiding from the lions.

Answer 3

I think it's useful, for our planet. The more we know about life in general, the better we can understand *our* planet.

Further more: fundamental research, that is research of which no immediate benefits are expected, like space research and particle physics, is interesting not only because it satisfies our curiosity, but also because it always generates unexpected side benefits.

Answer 4

Of course! We need to know whether it's possible to live in planets so that we could learn how to move our fellow human beings and animals to another world so that we can stop overpopulation and at least save the living race from extinction(global warming)

Answer 5

Most definetly pointless. Everything we need for life and health is here on earth, not in Mars. LOL.

Answer 6

No, it is pretty useful. It is a test for how good we understand what life actually is. As well as a test for astronomy equipment, physics, engineering, spaceflight...

There are so many different fields of science joined together in the search for life on other planets, that even a unsuccessful search results in an advancement in science.

Answer 7

yes, we have enough here

do we really think we have had a big effect on our climate? one volcano in the 1800's caused it to snow in warm climates in summer and crop failure and 10's of thousands starved, and i thought they were concerned with an ice age now.  what people caused the extinction of 1000's of species?   maybe if we could learn to share we could deal with what we must.

Answer 8

Searching for the life on specifice planets will be fruitful.  Where is our world leaders searching for life?

Answer 9

It is not pointless but in our solar system it will bear no fruit.

  We can't really search elsewhere,we can only listen and hope we receive a signal that will prove the existence of extra terrestrial life.

Answer 10

no absolutely not...!!!...you must be crazy to think that we are the only living planet in the whole of this big universe....i think as a race we are so naive about this subject...if we survive on this planet why would we be the only one????...they have found planets relatively close by which have similar environments to earth...they may not be intelligent, but there is life in some form out there that's for sure!!!!

Answer 11

The only benefit I see is the fact that many other 'curiosity' searches have turned up unexpected (and unrelated) discoveries.

  

I see no point in trying to find life on other planets.