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Originally posted by Marty Ward:
Lucanos,
Sorry I didn't elaborate more. I meant that given the large number of galaxies there are it is almost certain that there are life forms similiar to ours, life forms that we are totally incapable of recognizing, and every possible combination in between.
There is also probably a 50 - 50 chance that the first life form that comes in contact with us will be one we will not obviously recognize. If it happens that we meet another life form I hope we do recognize it, we may only get one chance.
I totaly agree (almost). I think the chance of recognition is smallar than 50%, though. More like 1% or so.
The small insect doesn't know it's crawling on a more intelligent lifeform when it's crawling on a human, as the humans don't know they're walking on a more evolved lifeform. They don't recognize the planets as alive.
Maybe they are alive? What do we know? Really?
If you ask me - everything that is moving is alive - while saying this I might add: nothing is actually still.
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