Extraterrestrial Discussion Thread

[Green October Z]

So do you or do you not believe in extraterrestrials? Given the fact that there are around 100 billion planetary systems (solar systems) in the Milky Way galaxy alone and the fact that there are billions of galaxies in the universe, I think that it is practically guaranteed that there are other planets out there which have the necessary amount of water, carbon composition, and atmospheric conditions to support the development of life forms. Therefore, I believe that extraterrestrial life exists. But, that is not to say that I believe in UFO's and aliens visiting earth. I believe that the extraterrestrial life on other planets is mostly limited to single celled organisms and plant life on most inhabited planets. The few cases of life sustaining planets that have more complex life forms will also most likely be just limited to non-sentient primitive animals with a much smaller number perhaps hosting intelligent sentient life. However, even in the majority of these cases I imagine that said life would most likely have primitive technology in comparison to our own with only a few of such civilizations having technology comparable to or greater than our own.

So what are your thoughts on extraterrestrials?

[Kafair]

I personally think that there may be one or two races of "advanced" beings out there, sort of like humans, but not as advanced, maybe still tribal or slightly ahead of that. Of course they'd look different, but I think the idea of bipedal 4 limbs one head would still be present, if different in size and shape. But no, I dont think there is a massive space empire out there just waiting to pounce on us when we get off world.

[Green October Z]

I personally think that there may be one or two races of "advanced" beings out there, sort of like humans, but not as advanced, maybe still tribal or slightly ahead of that. Of course they'd look different, but I think the idea of bipedal 4 limbs one head would still be present, if different in size and shape. But no, I dont think there is a massive space empire out there just waiting to pounce on us when we get off world.

It would be interesting if there was a Galactic Empire

[Albrenia]

The existence of alien life is as close to certain as something can be without any solid proof. There's just so much room out there, so many ways it could come to be, and every chance that the universe could be teeming with life...

Unfortunately even just our galaxy is so huge that even if it has multiple intelligent species in it alone we may never come across them. Other galaxies are effectively outside of our ability to reach in any time frame which is not many hundreds of thousands of years away (probably).

I suspect microbial life will be extremely common, but more advanced life extremely rare by comparison. Intelligent civilisations are likely very rare indeed.

[Grimmsland]

I don't believe in them, I hope for them. But this according to my Pentecostal in-laws definition of their faith(*) means I actually do believe in them. I disagree.

(*)Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

edit: actually .. maybe I just don't understand this verse. Substance means? Evidence means?

[Region of Dwipantara]

The evolution from primates to human in Africa necessitates pretty specific ecological condition, namely, when the land start drying up into plains/savannahs and the tree-dwelling primates must start adapting to the new ecosystem. And before that, the meteorite must wipe the dinosaurs for good, and before that, multicellular life must evolve first, and before that, the chromosome and mitochondrial endosymbiosis must happen first, and before that, the ATP-producing bacterial mitochondrion (or substitute) must evolve first. We are lucky – after all, earth spends hundreds of millions of years without a species as advanced as us, and literal billions waiting for multicellular life to evolve.

Meanwhile, as we see in the Americas and Africa, we also need domesticable animals in order to progress into a civilization. Lacking that, and the species is doomed. The horse is one of the best example – originating in North America, it nearly didn't make it at migrating across the Bering strait. But they do, and humans are significantly enhaced.

All in all, I think the existence of intelligence life are very very slim, and likely won't exist even in our galaxy. Bacteria however evolves from extreme conditions and plenty still live on extreme conditions, so they might not be as hard to find.

[Region of Dwipantara]

The evolution from primates to human in Africa necessitates pretty specific ecological condition, namely, when the land start drying up into plains/savannahs and the tree-dwelling primates must start adapting to the new ecosystem. And before that, the meteorite must wipe the dinosaurs for good, and before that, multicellular life must evolve first, and before that, the chromosome and mitochondrial endosymbiosis must happen first, and before that, the ATP-producing bacterial mitochondrion (or substitute) must evolve first. We are lucky – after all, earth spends hundreds of millions of years without a species as advanced as us, and literal billions waiting for multicellular life to evolve.

Meanwhile, as we see in the Americas and Africa, we also need domesticable animals in order to progress into a civilization. Lacking that, and the species is doomed. The horse is one of the best example – originating in North America, it nearly didn't make it at migrating across the Bering strait. But they do, and humans are significantly enhaced.

All in all, I think the existence of intelligence life are very very slim, and likely won't exist even in our galaxy. Bacteria however evolves from extreme conditions and plenty still live on extreme conditions, so they might not be as hard to find.

Though, the case of Suminia – a synapsid who evolved opposable thumbs that exist before the dinosaur (and went extinct by the time of the Permian mass extinction) represents an intriguing case that our evolution might not be as unlikely as it is.

[Green October Z]

The evolution from primates to human in Africa necessitates pretty specific ecological condition, namely, when the land start drying up into plains/savannahs and the tree-dwelling primates must start adapting to the new ecosystem. And before that, the meteorite must wipe the dinosaurs for good, and before that, multicellular life must evolve first, and before that, the chromosome and mitochondrial endosymbiosis must happen first, and before that, the ATP-producing bacterial mitochondrion (or substitute) must evolve first. We are lucky – after all, earth spends hundreds of millions of years without a species as advanced as us, and literal billions waiting for multicellular life to evolve.

Meanwhile, as we see in the Americas and Africa, we also need domesticable animals in order to progress into a civilization. Lacking that, and the species is doomed. The horse is one of the best example – originating in North America, it nearly didn't make it at migrating across the Bering strait. But they do, and humans are significantly enhaced.

All in all, I think the existence of intelligence life are very very slim, and likely won't exist even in our galaxy. Bacteria however evolves from extreme conditions and plenty still live on extreme conditions, so they might not be as hard to find.

Though, the case of Suminia – a synapsid who evolved opposable thumbs that exist before the dinosaur (and went extinct by the time of the Permian mass extinction) represents an intriguing case that our evolution might not be as unlikely as it is.

Interesting

[The Huskar Social Union]

Yeah i reckon aliens exist. I think its pretty much guaranteed given the size of our galaxy let alone the universe. No idea what they may look like or if we could interact with them at all should we ever meet them.

Who knows what Intellects, vast and unsympathetic, regard our world with envious eyes.

[Qabea]

Extraterrestrial Discussion Thread... When is someone going to post the pictures of Ayys that get 4chan threads shut down?

[Neanderthaland]

Probably exists somewhere.

Probably doesn't kidnap rednecks for weird sex.

[La Paz de Los Ricos]

Yeah i reckon aliens exist. I think its pretty much guaranteed given the size of our galaxy let alone the universe. No idea what they may look like or if we could interact with them at all should we ever meet them.

Who knows what Intellects, vast and unsympathetic, regard our world with envious eyes.

Not to worry, any alien invasion will be limited to America, so the vast majority of humanity will be safe.

I mean, that's what the movies say, so it's gotta be true!

[Rojava Free State]

I've heard some odd stories that make me wonder, but I am an agnostic on whether aliens have visited earth. Ufos are definitely real and some of them are not normal airplanes or birds, like one that chased me and a friend of mine two years ago.

[Kathol Rift]

Probably exists somewhere.

Probably doesn't kidnap rednecks for weird sex.

Well, if they were going to kidnap someone for that, a redneck is the best choice, because everybody would write it off as “just another crazy redneck,” and nobody would believe it. Just saying.

[Ifreann]

The size of the universe is such that I would expect every possible form of life to exist somewhere. It would be unlikely in the extreme, though not impossible, for this to be the only planet with civilisations.

[Alart]

The universe is a big place. We probably aren't the only planet with life.

[Diopolis]

If there is aliens, they're likely to be reflexively hostile and attempt to exterminate us before making contact.

[Merther]

So do you or do you not believe in extraterrestrials? Given the fact that there are around 100 billion planetary systems (solar systems) in the Milky Way galaxy alone and the fact that there are billions of galaxies in the universe, I think that it is practically guaranteed that there are other planets out there which have the necessary amount of water, carbon composition, and atmospheric conditions to support the development of life forms. Therefore, I believe that extraterrestrial life exists. But, that is not to say that I believe in UFO's and aliens visiting earth. I believe that the extraterrestrial life on other planets is mostly limited to single celled organisms and plant life on most inhabited planets. The few cases of life sustaining planets that have more complex life forms will also most likely be just limited to non-sentient primitive animals with a much smaller number perhaps hosting intelligent sentient life. However, even in the majority of these cases I imagine that said life would most likely have primitive technology in comparison to our own with only a few of such civilizations having technology comparable to or greater than our own.

So what are your thoughts on extraterrestrials?

There are definitely planets with life out there, and unicellular life is far more common than what we think so it doesn't really help us when we're looking for proper aliens, but I think that when people talk about "aliens" they forget the fact that it can also mean animals. Like dogs. Just dogs from another planet. Intelligent life like ours is far, far less unlikely to appear as we have incredibly perfect conditions for life on earth to be, however if there is alien intelligent life I doubt they would look really different than us. I also don't think they would be Hostile.

Also, our Universe is very young. Think of it as a foetus. Life, planets, solar systems, galaxies...They are abnormal. Normality in the Universe is the void. This is how things are, eventually objects with the biggest mass will inevitably consume everything, and our Universe will be filled with black holes. Even these, in a thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years will fade away as their photons decay. And then time and space will end. And the Universe will be an adult, so to speak.

We are most probably the only instance of intelligent life to have achieved this level of tecnology so far. I believe we are litteral pioneers.

[Ethel mermania]

Yeah i reckon aliens exist. I think its pretty much guaranteed given the size of our galaxy let alone the universe. No idea what they may look like or if we could interact with them at all should we ever meet them.

Who knows what Intellects, vast and unsympathetic, regard our world with envious eyes.

Hyperspace bypass.

[Green October Z]

Yeah i reckon aliens exist. I think its pretty much guaranteed given the size of our galaxy let alone the universe. No idea what they may look like or if we could interact with them at all should we ever meet them.

Who knows what Intellects, vast and unsympathetic, regard our world with envious eyes.

Hyperspace bypass.

I read the many scientists actually believe that faster-than-light travel is possible.

[Farnhamia]

Hyperspace bypass.

I read the many scientists actually believe that faster-than-light travel is possible.

Apparent faster-than-light travel ...

[Jedi Council]

Alien life is almost a mathematically certainty.

What kind of life is up for debate.

[Agarntrop]

Its very likely, but not certain.

We once proved extraterrestrial life on Mars in the 70s iirc but the test kits used were found to be innacurate

[Ethel mermania]

I read the many scientists actually believe that faster-than-light travel is possible.

Apparent faster-than-light travel ...

I would have gone with vogon poetry myownself.

[Island Zero]

I think aliens are real and I'm fearful of them. It could be possible that there are no other alien creatures that are as advanced as humans. It could be possible that they all died before humans rose. It's nothing we can be sure about. The concept of humans being alone is terrifying, but so is the concept of humans not being alone.