Anyone else interested in life on other worlds?

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Yes, and I have since I was a little kid. I liked that at the same time other scientists were dismissing UFO sightings, Carl Sagan used to lecture on the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere. It's not as if he agreed that every UFO sighting might be a ship bringing them here, but he satisfied something I think a lot of people are curious about. He provided a serious look by a serious scientist at the question: Who else might be out there?

Maybe we'll never see them, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Surely it's too big a universe for just us rather inept and clueless humans to be the only ones. And if we are the first intelligent life in this big space, then maybe we need to take a hard look at the example we might be setting. Now that's a scary thought.

Carbon (and perhaps silicon, though it's much less versatile and less abundant) is probably the most essential thing, because it can bond with many other things in many different ways. The important elements of our own biochemistry are commonplace, which is encouraging.

I have thought about it.
I think there is life on other worlds.
I don't think they will bother coming all the way here.

But I'd bother going all the way there! Come on, don't you think they'd probably have some curiosity? Maybe some of them would be boring like you, but I'm sure some of them would be curious. :B

My thoughts exactly.There's also the possibility that other lifeforms are already on
Earth but we are unable to detect them... yet. We weren't always able to detect things like
electromagnetic fields but it didn't mean they weren't there.

A form of life we identify as such, close enough to us to detect, with less intelligence than us; we would have noticed by now. One more intelligent would hide itself, or prevent us from observing it, given it hasn't already made itself known.

I completely agree. Or if they did bother to come all the way here, they wouldn't even get off their spacecraft! They would take one look at our stagnant, poisoned, dysfunctional society that we have managed to create and think 'sod that! If they are half as poisonous on the inside as they are on the outside, we aren't eating them!! !'

I have wondered though whether or not they are in bacteria form or multi-cellular organisms, whehter or not they are made up of the same basic components that we are made from, do they breathe oxygen, sulphur or something that doesn't even occur on Earth? What is their equivalent of a banana or an orange? Or do they not require fruit at all? Do they eat each other after copulation? I could go on and on....

I wonder this always, and hope that someday I'll be given an opportunity to leave this planet so that I can meet all the other intelligent life out there. I refuse to believe we're the only ones. Until then, I'll continue to watch my sci-fi. I'm in the middle of season 3 of Farscape right now.

[quoBesides, if there is intelligent life on other planets, it wouldn't be too hard for them to finish us up. I mean, we're always fighting amongst ourselves, that this group is better than that group, for the dumbest reasons. It wouldn't be hard to turn any one group against the others. They already are.[/quote]

Have often thought about that.
IF the alien were visiting us and decided to turn hostile they would let us do the work of exterminating ourselves before they took over the terran realestate. Just nudge human groups against each other a little bit and sit back and watch the humans nuke each other!

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"We could be in the middle of an intergalactic conversation and we wouldn't even know"

I have been fascinated with the ideas of aliens for nearly all my life...
it's impossible for there not to be something out there!

I have absolutely no doubt that there is life on other planets.

I also have absolutely no doubt that a species advanced enough to be able to travel vast distances in order to explore the universe wouldn't even bother trying to make first contact with this planet until the human race grows up a bit...