Alien Life

evader · #1 August 12th, 2002, 01:26 AM

Even in our own solor system planets posses similar quialty to earth. Mars was once belived to have supported life. Saturn has oxegen in its air, and a mineral soil. Scientist beilve that the only thing keeping it from supporting life is that is is too cold.

As far as there being intellegent life out, there probly is. Two problems exist one is find them or them finding us(mentioned before). The other is languge. We'd have to be able to undertand any transmission they send. And I don't think I have to tell you what problems occur in learning a new languge with no refrence point.

Raging Deadstar · #2 August 12th, 2002, 01:33 AM

Heh yeah, but you never know, they might respond to a good ol' cup of tea and a UN Meeting

I don't like thinking this deep, its too complicated for my puny brain to cope with without caffeine

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Raging Deadstar · #3 August 12th, 2002, 01:50 AM

Hmmmmm after posting i thought a little deeper into this whole alien life thing (yep all my own!) and i kinda thought about the language barrier. Think about it, we have already met aliens and already managed to make contact with no reference point

Women can be soo hard to understand sometimes!

CNCRaymond · #4 August 12th, 2002, 01:58 AM

Haven't we had this converstation before?

I would have asked if you believe in life else where rather than if it was hostile or friendly.

I think it would be hostile. If Earth is as rare as you describe, then our world would be priceless. So if Aliens do come calling, I for one would feel that they are here for their own best interests, and our interests would mean nothing to them.

disabled · #5 August 11th, 2002, 04:04 PM

Life across the universe, I think there is life across this universe and I like to enjoy thinking that life is much more exotic and aline than anything our minds can imagine. I also believe that there is life across many different dimensions and realities (but I do not believe every dimension is a slightly different Version of our own).

I doubt life hasn't formed elsewhere. I suspect the universe is teeming with life.

Also, in a first contact situation, I think humanity would start any war simply from our B-Movie panic attacks at the thought of alien contact.

Besides, here's some food for thought...
Someday, in the future, we'll go out into space and setup colonies. After a few hundred or even thousand years, we'll find those humans aren't really related to us because evolution changed them.

Raging Deadstar · #6 August 11th, 2002, 04:43 PM

Very scary thought now. We eventually make it out to colonizing planets. Imagine how much weaponary,science etc will have advanced? If humans on other colonised planets become more advanced through evoloution, or we become more advanced imagine the ammount of terrorism acts caused by these small enw colonies that will eventually want to break away. Instead of Countries we'd have planets, and thinking about how much technologically superior weapons would be that far down the line i'd probably say we wouldn't Last 10 years in space! like in MIB "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals!" I don't think that Human life will exist by the time "First Contact" is ever achieved. We'll have blown each other up, and if aliens found artifects of our existance imagine what they'd think of us, they'd probably blow us up just to be safe! Just a few ideas...

oleg · #7 August 11th, 2002, 07:06 PM

If everything goes as planned, we might have the definitive answer about existance of alien life in 40-50 years. I refer to the project of building space-based interferometer telescope. It should be able to detect Earth-sized planets around nearby stars and even suuply information about atmosphere composition which should give us some ideas about the presence of life forms.