Life within the universe(s)...

[DarknessUnicorn]

So this question came upon me today. Because the universe is so big (maybe even infinite), there could be intelligent life forms ALL over. Also, because the universe is so big and spread out, there could be so little intelligent life forms that we (humans) are actually pretty rare. So my question is, what do you guys think? Is there such little amount of intelligence and self-awareness in the universe (or maybe universes :o) that we are extremely rare, or are there so many intelligent and self-aware species in the universe that it's odd that we haven't found any or any haven't found us? Or maybe some have found us, and we don't know it. Or maybe, we have found others, but only some people in the world truly know about it and are involved... I'm making my brain hurt :c

[workingatperfect]

I do think there are other life forms. When you think about how big the universe is... There has to be. I mean, what are the chances that in our entire universe, there's only been ONE instance of a planet with conditions to support life. I doubt we'll ever make contact though, at least not in our life time. I just don't see how we could be the only planet to support life, seems improbable to me.

[xandyx]

Well...with 300 billion stars in just our galaxy....even if 1% of stars have planets, that's 30 million planets! Even if only 1% of those had life, it would still be 300,000 planets with life.

And this is just in our galaxy!

It would seem to be more improbable that there isn't life than there is.

[AlexOnToast]

If the universe is as big as evidence clearly shows, then the chance of their being no life on other planets is next to nil....

[Miserabilia]

The chances of there being other life then as are pretty high,
so I would count on it.
The chances of us actually meeting them are extremely low.
The chances of intelligent beings visiting us?
We can only guess

[The Trendy Wolf]

There is most certainly intelligent life somewhere, quite possibly more than one place, on another celestial body millions, billions, perhaps trillions of light-years away from our own galaxy. Light is still revealing more and more of the universe that we hadn't seen the day before, and we cannot be the only ones.

Consider the fact that we are surrounded by millions of different species of plants, animals, etc. that exist right here on planet Earth. Who's to say that they won't eventually become as intelligent as we are? Perhaps after humans are most likely killed from their own selfish tendencies, then maybe something will arise as the new dominant species on the planet. That species may discover what happened to humanity, and they will learn from us, and perhaps, in time, they shall pick up where we left off in the world. Maybe some day in the distant, distant future, some animal that we thought to have been just another species that was one of many will turn out to be greater beings than we were.

It's quite fun to picture things like this happening, but unfortunately I suspect that Earth will have burned up, frozen, or flooded before that all happens.

Then again, that is just the potential of one planet in a universe of many....:rolleyes:

[Human]

There is definitely life somewhere, whether it is as intelligent as us, more, or primitive. There is 99.999% life elsewhere.

[CosmicNoodle]

The universe is infinite, there are an infinite number of universes. It is a mathematical impossibility for there not to be life out there. In the theory of the universe I like to believe in there is an infinite number of universes, so infinite probability. That means there is an identical version of you, doing the same thing you are, but he/she may have blue hair, or no legs, or the change may be as small as one atom being in a different place. In my opinion there is life out there, it is asking the same questions you are, and it even has the same name. Look hard enough and you will find it.

[Canadian Dream]

There is probably life within our universe. The problem right now is that we don't have the technology to be looking that far. Plus, scientists recently found three planets in an other galaxy that have similar conditions to earth's.

[RavleIncarnate]

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You even made me think a bit. I will say that there is almost definitely other life in this vast and almost empty expanse. And anyway, with how amazingly large our universe is, using the mathmetical probability of chance, there is almost certainly other intelligent life somewhere in the sky I just pondered this question at, or at least there is life developing in at least the basic principles of sentience. Someday, there must be other intelligent life, and contact may just happen before our sun implodes on itself, turning itself into a red supergiant, literally swallowing Venus and Mercury, and putting Earth in its "atmosphere", incinerating all life not adapted to the extreme heat of receiving all the heat and light necessary to turn Earth into a barren wasteland of rock and heat. Hopefully I don't turn 10 000 000 000 in my life after turnong immortal for some absurd reason in the near future. Hopefully, Mankind would have figured out a way to survive on other planets, hopefully a few light years away from the mind-disruptively huge fireball our Sun is going to become. Or we will all be incinerated by another intelligent lifeform that has discovered how to sustain and use warp drives but haven't figured out elevators.

[Taryn98]

Scientists estimate that there are ~60-70 septilion stars in the universe. If 1 in a billion stars had life in it's solar system and 1 in a billion stars that had life had intelligent life, there would be between 60-70 million intelligent civilizations in the universe.
It seems very likely there are other intelligent beings out there, but also the universe is 13.7 billion years old, so communicating over great distances would be nearly impossible.

[the_dude69]

Well...with 300 billion stars in just our galaxy....even if 1% of stars have planets, that's 30 million planets! Even if only 1% of those had life, it would still be 300,000 planets with life.

And this is just in our galaxy!

It would seem to be more improbable that there isn't life than there is.

Please do research and not give someone false information.

Scientist believe that there are 2 billion planets in the milky way that contain water and are in the "goldy locks zone" The distance which is not to far or to close to their star. The closest planet to our knowledge that lies in the goldy lock zone is 12 light year's away.
hubble space telescope and scientist from NASA believe there may be as many as 500 billion galaxies! So 2 billion in our galaxy and we believe that there are 500 billion galaxies? I don't think that the mind can grasp the vastness of space. We are not alone they are more advanced than we can imagine. And I believe that we have gotten a good amount of our technology from them. The defense minister of Canada a couple of weeks ago went on the record stating that we are in contact with 80 different species.

[Miserabilia]

The universe is infinite, there are an infinite number of universes. It is a mathematical impossibility for there not to be life out there. In the theory of the universe I like to believe in there is an infinite number of universes, so infinite probability. That means there is an identical version of you, doing the same thing you are, but he/she may have blue hair, or no legs, or the change may be as small as one atom being in a different place. In my opinion there is life out there, it is asking the same questions you are, and it even has the same name. Look hard enough and you will find it.

The universe isn't exactly infinite, it's finite in total matter energy (total matter/energy being 0) but infinite in existence.
Still, it's so huge that the chances of there being other life are very high.

[DeadEyes]

Pretending to be alone in the universe is utterly pretentious.