Does extraterrestrial life exist, or are we just afraid that we are alone in the universe?

Question

To me, it appears that aliens COULD exist. I'm not discounting that.

But the universe seems to have been around for a long time, and it seems that for a planet to produce complex life it seems to have a specific sequence of events to occur.

Not only that, but it requires the specific set of sequences to occur parallel to our planet's life system. In other words, complex life may have existed elsewhere, but what if it were 20 million years ago on some distant planet when we weren't around to think about it.

I find it highly unlikely that complex life exists right NOW on some distant planet that we would get in contact with. It would applicable to two pianists that just happen to play the same note at the same exact time during a symphony.

What do you think?

Answer 1

You don't know the mathematical probability present in this particular equation/circumstance.

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Answer 2

they are out there somewhere,its not possible that we are alone,try putting money on it at the bookies,they dont take bets

think how advance we will be in a hundred years, now imagine life on another world that evolved 1000 years earlier than us (1000 years isn't along time if your speaking about the universe) ,their technology would be so advance that we couldn't  comprehend it .

The symphony is infinite,therefor it has to happen

Answer 3

maybe 20million years ago god made other people in other planets and now we are the only ones that are living maybe this is why we are "special"

Answer 4

The raw materials and the conditions to produce life are found throughout our infinite universe.

Mathematically, the odds are against it happening just here on Earth.   We find life here on Earth that defies the accepted "laws" of science.  There are microbes that grow in the cooling systems in nuclear reactors.  Before they were discovered, any scientist would tell you that the intense heat and intense radiation would make life impossible in such an environment. But there they are.

There is sea life that lives along the volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea. They survive and thrive in an environment of boiling heat and poison gas.

I believe that within our lifetime extraterrestrial life will be discovered in our own solar system.  I'm referring to bacterial, or microbial life or some plankton like animals.

All the really cool monster looking creatures with the star ships and the death rays are much further out in the Galaxy and will be discovered in about 3000 years.

Answer 5

i think this will probably change your perception. on the discovery they showed that life existed in the deepest parts of the ocean. scientists thought it was impossible to survive there as the pressure was very high , volcanic activities etc.. but there were crabs, bacteria and other creatures i haven't even seen. life can exist in hostile conditions. Intelligent beings and the development of the species is altogether a different aspect. what you mean by an exact sequence of events is that life having the same IQ as humans existing in some other part of the universe. Well that depends on how well the species have adapted and utilized their surroundings. Survival of the fittest is what you can say

Answer 6

Well scientists only look at our galaxy... there is tons of life outside our galaxy, because the universe is a huge place, and if we are all there is in the universe, that just doesn't seem logical... There probably was life in our galaxy or solar system, but that has died out... however i am certain that there is life on other planets!

Answer 7

If we are the only life in the universe, it would be a terrible waste of space.

Answer 8

It will exist, but too far beyond our reach

Answer 9

ofcourse it does.

just life is in a form with cannot comprehend as humans.

there is life everywhere.

Answer 10

The probability that the exact sequence occurred is quite small. However, because the Universe is so gigantically huge, even this small probability would mean a large number of habitable worlds where life did actually develop. Perhaps not as we know it, maybe even under conditions that our forms of physics or biology would not permit. But who is to say that our way is the only way?

I find it unthinkable that, in the thousands of galaxies we have observed, and in the probably millions we have never seen, no life has formed, but only on our tiny speck of Earth.