To those of you who "Know We Are Not Alone" in the universe?

Question

how does one "know" we are not alone in the universe. UFOs? A UFO does not have to be extra terrestrial, they could be terrestial. I dont think I have heard anything about humans traveling to another planet and discovering life, much less humans traveling to another solar system light years away. I have not heard of anyone sending us encrypted messages with blueprints for a stargate yet. And of you knew the mathematical probability for life being on Earth alone, much lees what the probability for life being on another planet somewhere else, you would have to rethink your position? So if you know we are not alone, where, when and especially how, did you come to this conclusion?

Answer 1

what princess and jhet said!

Answer 2

think about it dude. why would there be a whole universe if we were the only things alive in it. really stupid to have this huge thing for one little planet to have life on it.

Answer 3

You state probability as part of your argument. Actually, it is extremely unlikely that we are alone in the universe. The evidence suggests that not only are we not alone, the universe is actually quite crowded with life in various forms.

The probability of life being on a planet is, as you say, miniscule. However the number of galaxies, and the stars and planets within them, means that however small the chance of life being on a planet, say 1:10^15, there are easily enough stars and planets in the universe to make it a mathmatical certainty that we are not alone.

Answer 4

huh ??

Answer 5

The evidence is there as another poster has regaled us.

We are just not in a position to coraborate it or completely understand it yet.

It would be the arrogance of man to propose that we are alone & no other forms of life exist but us in this known universe.

If there were no UFO's, no extraterrestrials, early man would not have had the beginning images to paint or the stories to tell.

It's hard to imagine that we humans could have come so far technologically in such a short time without some "outside influences".

Why didn't the last 150 or so years worth of advancements happen thousands of years ago. Why just now? The timeline seems to indicate a bit of "finessing" on someone's part.

Seems to me I've read that certain artifacts of thousands of years past did indicate an advancement in technology that seemed to have gotten lost in time.  Batteries were one of the artifacts discovered. What else was there that we are not able to uncover..or is being kept from us?

Answer 6

Well lets see. When I was 13 years old me and my mother and brother and sister and my grandmother saw a ufo hovering over my friends house. We watched for 15 minutes. It made no noise and was diamoned shaped. It rotated on it's side and then took off out of site. Two month later, me and my cusin were walking to the library. As we walked we notice 2 disks flying over the library. One was very large and the other was smaller and it flu behind the other. No noise came from them. We saw wierd looking writing on them and we got scared and hid from them. Now I do not know where they came from or who there were but I have never seen them sence or seen any thing like before. We seen these things during the day around 2:00pm.

So I most deffenitly believe that we are not alone.

Think about it, a man named Stichins wrote some books on some tablets that were supposed to be found in the city of sumer and he would illustrate pictures of the tabelets in his books. One that caught my attention was a picture of a planet with a large squarish mark on it. He said that this planet colided with the 12th planet in our solar system that is now our astroid feild that rotates around our sun. Now what gets me is that this man wrote these books some 10 years ago and NASA 3 years ago has photoed this planet. Go figure.

Answer 7

Well, I believe we have been visited in our distant past, and still are.

You have to start off geologically. - Research OOParts.

There is evidence of footprints of a rubber sole with lines of stitching in rock 28million years old - Bet they never told you that in history lessons. Also quite a lot of "forbidden archeology" - (look this up too) This often turns up in coal seams. Russia is digging up screws and nails in rock millions of yeas old.

Next comes the pictorial cave paintings  - some rather weird ones of those about - showing saucer shapes and helmets.

Next the artifacts of the Ica area in Peru, and Mayan people - oh, and a few revealing carvings in egyptian tombs. There are solid gold representations of aircraft, and even a couple of stone carvings of what can only be men in spacecraft.

Next up are the texts of the Babylonian and Old testament era. Research your Angels rather closely. "Flying on a black cloud during the day,-  illuminated at night" - No mention of guys with wings if you look. Also symbols of double helixes appear - along with "gods" wearing what look like wristwatches on babylonian carvings - seeming to have a lot to do with babies.

(note, this is around the time of the Chinese desert mummies - found to be 6ft6" tall with blond hair)



Leonardo davinci studied many ancient and religious works to understand Angels better so he could paint them - Have you seen his technology drawings?  - They centre on - Flight, Rapid firepower, landing gear, and parachutes! - He was trying to work out how the technology worked with materials of his day - canvas and rope!

- Also the artifacts of Japan regarding Dogu models - These are not your average fertility goddess - and are described in their history as "the helpers" - who came daily out of the sea.

- Strange how Japan has held belief in "flying dragons" to this day

Now to understand why spacecraft have always been so elusive?  -

The CERN collider is due to be switched on this year. They are studying gravity, - and it's partner - Time.

- Research "supergravity" - They have already discovered 11 dimensions - a forward and backward time - but it was unstable.

The consequences of future technology getting into the wrong hands would be catastrophic for the future generations - they may literally not exist. Therefore it is incredibly risky. However, certain things may be decided that it is worth doing - to save humanity, or put us on a better course.

One such course would be a set of instructions to make us good people. - Giving a known religious leader 2000 years ago the information to make a nation great would be seen as a good idea - but carry it's own risks - What would people think about seeing the craft flying about?  - maybe writing about it in a historic book?

Mankind  - 3 stories in 1

1st - Evolution.

2nd Outside genetic "help"  - Adams rib.... Taking a piece of one to make another, and appearance of Babylonian "gods"

3rd Future visits back into our past by our own kind.

Answer 8

the universe is just too huge to be empty (apart from us). somewhere out there, there must be life. Earth is not the only planet that is suitable for living, it cannot be the only one in the whole universe that has water & air & whatever other things an entity needs to survive on.

Answer 9

When I go back in my mind to what would have been the very beginning of the human race...and I think about all our "innerds" and the way they function together so magnificently...even though we don't take care of them as we should....there's no way I can  believe that we came from just one cell..or even from dirt. I believe there HAD to be a Creator.Just no way around it! The thing I have trouble imagining is that God had no beginning..He always was! So if He made us...I think He's perfectly capable of making other beings...human or not...on any planet He chooses.(even without the help of scientists) And this has nothing to do with religion.(The churches didn't create God.) I realize this isn't a scientific answer. (Sometimes I think scientists think God doesn't know anything about science...or at least not as much as scientists know)

Answer 10

There is something called the "Drake Equation", which caculates the possibility of life in the universe. It is:

(Rate of star formation averaged over the lifetime of the galaxy) X (average number of habitable planets within those planetary systems) X (fraction of those habitable planets on which life arises) X (fraction of those life-bearing planets on which intelligence evolves) X (fraction of those intelligent-life planets that develop technological society) X (average lifetime of a technologically competent civilization) = number of technologically intelligent civilizations now present in the galaxy

Answer 11

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A lot of things in our lives are based on faith and faith alone, and I don't think that our brains could possibly fathom the sheer size of the universe, and I don't hink that in our lifetime we eill know whether anythin else exists(at least not in a way that is supported by cold hard proof. ) I think it all boils down to having faith that something exists, and for your question there is no one correct answer, but it sure is fun to talk about!!

Answer 12

There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and we know from local observations that most of them have planets.  Many of them will have planets in similar locations as the Earth, and made out of similar things.  Even moons in our own solar system - Europa, for example - could harbor life (it has oceans of water underneath miles of ice).  

I'm guessing we're not alone because life on Earth took hold almost as soon as it could.  That doesn't mean there's intelligent life out there, and I certainly don't think it's visiting us, but I think the chances of life being out there somewhere are very good.