Are We Alone?

[TheEaterofSouls]

I find it hilarious how some people like to believe we are alone in the universe. How is that possible? That we are a bunch of special snowflakes amongst trillions of stars and planets? I mean sure life might be spread very far, but to have every galaxy empty? Sounds impossible. We cant be the only intelegent life in the universe.

Do you believe we are alone or do you believe in life elsewhere?

[TheEaterofSouls]

The math says no. I hope it's right.

I guess if we were alone some religions might be right in assuming some god created us as special. :P

[Deleted]

I find it hilarious how some people like to believe we are alone in the universe.

I find it hilarious that people claim not agreeing wiht their faith is stupid.

[Independent voter]

It's starting to look that way. They recently did a scan of thousands of galaxies looking for signs of super advanced civilizations but nothing was found.

Why is sentience or intelligence so important? Wolves and dolphins seem to get along fine and they haven't invented anything to my knowledge.

I think there is plenty of life out there, just not much intelligent life.

[TheEaterofSouls]

In that case, I'd hold the opinion that it was just a series of very rare events that led to life happening for our planet. Not a god.

There are other galaxies. Maybe each one has like a single intellegant race? Maybe they all developed at the same time as us? like when the magarity of the universe was forming? I mean all this scanning, we can only see into the past. Light years exist for a reason

[Kryos]

No and Yes.

No in "yes, it is very unlikely that in trillions and trillions of planets only one was able to sustain life"

Yes in "the distances between the stars and galaxies are too big. The speed of light is the maximum speed and even with that it would take thousands or millions of years to reach another planet (the shortest distance to a planet that may or may not have life is just 13 light years, but that's still extremely far away), so we will never meet in person".

It's like Ice bears and penguins - both exist but they will never meet each other (without external help).

PS: We already tried to contact that 13 light year away planet. A Message From Earth (AMFE) is a high-powered digital radio signal that was sent on 9 October 2008 toward Gliese 581 c. The signal is a digital time capsule containing 501 messages that were selected through a competition on the social networking site Bebo. The message was sent using the RT-70 radar telescope of Ukraine's National Space Agency. The signal will reach Gliese 581 in early 2029.

[Sunnydee]

It's starting to look that way. They recently did a scan of thousands of galaxies looking for signs of super advanced civilizations but nothing was found.

Why is sentience or intelligence so important? Wolves and dolphins seem to get along fine and they haven't invented anything to my knowledge.

I think there is plenty of life out there, just not much intelligent life.

so far we have mapped out roughly 1.3million galaxies.
each galaxy has on average 1 billion stars. half of those has planets (a solar system).

And we yet to discover a fraction of whats out there.
And this is without the possibilty of multiverses.

Id say its a rather big chance there's more out there.

[Kuntantee]

We may not be alone but it's highly possible that interstellar travel is not easy.

[TheEaterofSouls]

It's starting to look that way. They recently did a scan of thousands of galaxies looking for signs of super advanced civilizations but nothing was found.

Why is sentience or intelligence so important? Wolves and dolphins seem to get along fine and they haven't invented anything to my knowledge.

I think there is plenty of life out there, just not much intelligent life.

We could have already looked at planets with life, its just that because of how far away they are, we're looking into the past. Before the life began.

[Acelius]

I'm under the belief that other beings have figured out how to travel to other galaxies. Maybe by bending time and space, idk. I honestly do believe other intelligent beings have and are visiting Earth already.

Why do you think that?

They recently did a scan of thousands of galaxies looking for signs of super advanced civilizations but nothing was found.

When there are billions of galaxies out there and super advanced civilizations are relatively rare, go figure. Most life is probably on microbe level.

[Deleted]

We don't know.

[TheEaterofSouls]

We may not be alone but it's highly possible that interstellar travel is not easy.

Hey who knows? Maybe alien bodies are held up in area 52.

[Acelius]

You know why.

There's nothing to indicate it, so no?

[scormac]

I dont think we are alone in the whole universe although i dont think we will ever meet any alien life

[Ornerybear]

of course not, this morning my cat caught a bug by climbing the upright piano. i thought it was pretty smart.






joking aside. I think the numbers are in favor of there being intelligent life out there. will we ever find it. who knows...

[Kalis]

The math says no. I hope it's right.

That isn't correct.

The maths says "We don't know, as we are missing essential data in order to calculate the probability".

[Deleted]

There are other galaxies. Maybe each one has like a single intellegant race? Maybe they all developed at the same time as us? like when the magarity of the universe was forming? I mean all this scanning, we can only see into the past. Light years exist for a reason

we may or may not be the only intelligent race in the milky way.

one hypothesis could be that we were actually the first planet to start evolving intelligent creatures, but there may already be other planets within our milky way with intelligent life, but we are just the first in the technological race. Which could explain why the universe is so quiet and we have not had contact.

Another hypothesis is that we as a type 0 civilization have not reached a certain standard yet to receive contact. A cosmic alliance?

Then there is also a theory that there are these great 'filters' in technological evolution where intelligent life actually accomplishes to overcome this roadblock and move on to the next filter or it perishes. (think nuclear war or climate change)

And then we've all heard about the simulation, wherein we might be programmed to be the only intelligent life within a vast universe to simulate our progression.

And my personal favourite, although it does not mention us being the only intelligent life.
In our 3D universe a black hole actually has a 2D event horizon. Some scientists believe that our universe might a 3D holographic event horizon of a 4D universe's black hole.

[Saphyron]

I voted yes cause i'm currently alone in my room.

[dixincide]

What if contrary to sci-fi we were the strongest beings in the universe and if we visited any other planet we had super powers. Like if we visited planet XYZ we all became the equal to superman

[Kuntantee]

That isn't correct.

The maths says "We don't know, as we are missing essential data in order to calculate the probability".

That's what physics says, not math. Math talks in terms of probability. The probability of seeing earth-like planets in a galaxy is high.