Life Beyond Earth – Discussion 2

I believe there is the possiblility of life existing on other planets, although I am sure it is vastly different from our definition. Do I believe that aliens visit cornfields late at night and abduct rednecks? No, not for a second. I think that if there is intelligent life out there they have slightly better things to do then cruise around making crop circles.

Part of the reason that I think that there is a good chance that there is life on other planets is because the universe is a great big question mark. If you do believe in God, is it really so hard to imagine that something as infinite as Him wouldn't have other entertainment out in the galaxies besides us humans?

In the sci-fi thriller The Faculty, one of the characters wonders if all the sci-fi movies and books were meant to be a preperation for whats to come. Here's the quote:

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CASEY: How do you know there's not a conspiracy?! Like maybe the X-Files is right. Where do all these movies come from anyway? How do we know Spielberg, Lucas, Sonnenfeld, Emmerich haven't been visited by aliens? Maybe they're aliens themselves...maybe they're simply preparing us for what's to come.
STOKELY: You know Casey, it's fiction. Okay? It's science fiction.
CASEY: Exactly! Everyone is getting hung up on the science part which has nothing to do with it - they're really getting us with the fiction.
STOKELY: So...aliens just have been setting us up over the years, creating this happy, make-believe, little existence with their E.T. and their Men in Black movies just so nobody would believe it if it really happened?

It's just a crazy, out-there thought...but what if?

I believe that there is indeed life elsewhere. Within a vast cosmos there are other solar systems matching ours, and yet we need to have concrete proof to believe that this exists.

There was a time once that everyone believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe.

There was a time once that everyone believed that the Earth was flat.

Imagine what people may believe tomorrow.

The probability that another planet exists matching ours is pretty high. However due to our own failing technology we are able to scan patches of the sky equivalent to the size of a grain of sand to the naked human eye every night. That's alot of space to cover. Will something be discovered in my lifetime...I doubt it.


People need to feel somethings to believes, hence the issues with the crop circles and the nonsense that happened back when. If they want us to know, we'll know.

I think there is life one anther planet but it will take humans centuries upon centuries of work and many lives before we find it. I reackon there was once some form of life on Mars but only microscopic beings not multi-cellular, fully formed beings with deffinate features like somesort of breathing organism

Note: I will be basing my points off of the Big Bang Theory. I apologize if this offends anyone because of their religion.

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth?
Absolutely. The Big Bang, upon compression of the universe, exploded enough to make all of the planets in our solar system. With such a huge explosion, I have no doubt it created other solar systems similar to ours. If there is proof that at one point there was water and thus life on Mars, how could you deny existences of other planets with life in other solar systems in other galaxies? Who knows, maybe George Lucas didn't think up Star Wars on his own ;-).

Will we ever discover it? Were we discovered already? Are there higher forms of intelligence out there?
We need to develop our space shuttle technology, including accuracy and precision of flight. If we can fly a rover to another galaxy and navigate it to land on a planet, maybe we will discover another planet. I would say the chances are slim that we have been discovered, but there's always a chance that beings much more intelligent have invented the technology to view planets billions of light years away. However, none of these points cannot be made with founded evidence, and thus the points remain moot.


Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?
I think if we had the technology to find a planet with a similar atmosphere to earth, we'd probably already have the technology to bond two hydrogen atoms to an oxygen atom. At that point, creating our own water would be a lot more cost effective than moving, let's say, 20 billion people to a new planet. Plus, that could be disrespectful to the beings on such said planet.

I base my thoughts partially on religion, sorry if that offends someone.

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth?

This is an extremely tricky question to answer. I am practically torn in two about. On one hand I don't really think it's possible, as a very religious person I think that if God created other beings other there somewhere then there would be some kind of written evidence somewhere in the Bible. I mean I know it talks about him just creating the Earth and not the universe, but I think maybe he just made this big old universe for us to explore and see other planets and why we can't live there.

On the other hand, why would there be such a huge universe filled with many planets and galleries, if it were empty. I mean it would be kinda a waste to create so many things and just leave them blank, unless of coarse there is beings out there that just aren't intelligent. And that could possibly be why, if there is anything out there we haven't seen or heard about/from it.

Will we ever discover it? Were we discovered already? Are there higher forms on intelligence out there?

I honestly think that if there is even something, we may never discover it. It, whatever it may be, may have to discover us, which I don't really think is possible, but who knows. I don't think we really have the potential to ever really discover something, and we most certinally haven't already. Once more if there is anything out there I don't think it's more intelligent then the human race.

Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?

I honestly don't think there is another planet out there that is exactly the same as Earth, because if there were that'd mean that there were more humans out there and we would have certinally discovered them by now, or they would have discovered us by now. And if that were the case (more humans) I doubt we'd be able to move to that planet as they might be in the situation as we are.

Disclaimer: I am not attempting to offend anyone, I am merely posing a question.

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This is an extremely tricky question to answer. I am practically torn in two about. On one hand I don't really think it's possible, as a very religious person I think that if God created other beings other there somewhere then there would be some kind of written evidence somewhere in the Bible. I mean I know it talks about him just creating the Earth and not the universe, but I think maybe he just made this big old universe for us to explore and see other planets and why we can't live there.

Your point really interests me. Even though I am an atheist, I do know several facts about the Bible. God did not write the Bible. God's followers wrote the Bible. Perhaps they, being on Earth, had no knowledge of other planets? Perhaps God gave us the natural curiosity for the world around us? Perhaps he wanted us to figure out if He created other planets? That's the only reasoning I see behind the idea that God could have created other planets. I mean, if the Bible told us the answers to everything we ever needed to know, we wouldn't have any reason to be curious, now would we?

Once more, sorry about the religion, not trying to offend anyone.

You make a good point, I think that why curiousity is a nessicary thing, it drives us to do many things, I also believe that sometimes things have the purpose to be there just to make us curious. Prehaps those planets are there simply to make us curious. To make us want to explore and learn about the vast unknown and see why we are on Earth. Why we couldn't be on another planet. What makes our race the one's that are so speical, after all God did form us in his own image. So that's got to mean that we are indeed a speical race, and prehaps it means (in responce to one of the eariler asked questions) that we are indeed the most intelligent race there is.

Also, God wrote the Bible through man, it was his word that was written. Prehaps, he never intended for us to know about the rest of the universe. Prehaps it was just something that happened through the curoisity. Maybe the other planets were suppose to be grounds for him to start over if we ever screwed up badly enough. I don't think we can ever quite know why there is so many planets out there, if they aren't being used for other life. But I'm banking on that you're porbably right, and that it is just for the sake of curiosity.

(Also, I think I switched sides several times and took argument against myself in this post XD I'm sorry about that, it's just how it happened XD. So if you're confused I don't blame you XD)

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth?
My first answer would be no, but that's a selfish answer. I think there is intelligent life on other planets, but it's not life like we know it. Since we are a carbon-based lifeform, I think there SOMEWHERE is a silicon-based lifeform. Now whether it's in this galaxy or this universe, I have no clue.

Will we ever discover it?
This is a hard question to answer. As we get more technologically advanced, there is a hope that we will discover other life, but we also get smarter. We know what it takes to go to the moon. It's a lot of money and technology we don't have right now, to go to the other end of the universe. Maybe eventually we will be able to, but i don't think it will be in the next 100 years, for sure.

Were we discovered already?
I don't think so. I mean, if we were discovered don't you think they would have shown us they've seen us? Or at least, wouldn't they try and attack us?

Are there higher forms on intelligence out there?
Probaby. We can't possibly think we are the smartest. We aren't all that smart. There are so many things that we can't do that SOMETHING out there probably can.

Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?
What do you mean by dried Earth? As in resources? Well, if we've dried Earth, how in the world do you expect us to get to this other planet? But if there was a way, I think we would move there. It would be hectic and probably a MISERABE time because we'd have to build roads and houses all over again. Money wouldn't work right, cuz there would be nothing to buy, with no shops to sell, i mean. People would just take stuff from the wild.

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth?

I don't know. It would be hard to say for sure. Maybe there is in some other universe or even Galaxy. The chances of their being another planet like our just seems likely to me and I don't know why. Yes I think there is other life forms and such beyond earth.

Will we ever discover it?

I think so yeah. With the way our technology is going of course. It probably won't be to long now that man will step on mars and not soon after that will we be able to travel millions of light years into space. Yes it is possible that if there is life forms out there we will discover it.

Were we discovered already?

Arn't we discovered by us? I don't really get the questions so I am guessing. If there are other life forms I don't think they discovered us or we would have alians running around.

Are there higher forms on intelligence out there?

I don't know. To me we seem pretty smart and I dont think there are smarter people out there. Or they would have found a way to find us. Or if they didn't want to be found maybe they are smarter then us and found a way to hide from us. I like to think we are the most smarticle out there.

Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?

I don't know. Looking at our galaxy it doesn't seem likely that another planet like earth would be out there. I guess it is possible not all that likely but possible. The question is if there is will we be able to get to it. I think by the time we kill earth we will have enough technology to go and find another earth and start moving people.

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To think that we are
the only intelligent life forms, with all the millions of galaxys that
stretch to infinity, would just be, selfish. The human race, is very
impatient as a whole, and it wont be long until we take it to such an
extreamity that we do discover more life out there. For all I know, we
could have been discovered, and known all about by other life forms,
but It will probably be a mystery, until we ourselves find one or more
of these life forms.

Interesting point Jess, but I have a different take on it. Yes, we are impatient, but I don't think that any time soon we are going to be able to have the technology to find these other races, if they do indeed exist. Also, I'm sure that people have been wondering about this for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. But yet it's taken us this long to get where we've gone so far, and we haven't gone that far. Also, if we had been discovered by another intellegent lifeform, don't you think they would have tried to contact us. To see who and what we are, how we differ from them?

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth?
Ofcourse there is! The universe is more than we could ever fathom and just by sheer numbers, the idea that Earth is the only planet with intelligent life is ridiculous.

Will we ever discover it?
That is hard to say. The powers that be have been keeping our nose to the ground and focused on ourselves. The closer we get to 'doom', as far as the planet goes, the more we are looking for answers outside our known realm of existence. So, I'd say that if we are more open to the idea, really open, and think outside the box in term of what intelligent life is, we may be closer to discovering it than we think.

Were we discovered already?
There is this whole idea that what we call nanobots, a real possiblity in technology for the future of our world, have already come to the earth. I'd say that this is very possible. You have to consider the idea that if we have been discovered, their technology blows ours out of the water. Why would they want to display themselves so obviously if they have the technology to sneak in with half biological, half non-biological technology (nano technology)? So yes, I'd say we have been.

Are there higher forms on intelligence out there?
To refer back to my previous topic, if we have already been scoped out there is definitely higher intelligence than ours. I'd say that, in general, the possiblity of higher intelligence is immense. I mean, we've only tapped into the most infinitesimal portion of our capability.

Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?
I really don't know if we will acheive that goal in time. We've been putting so much energy into known planets only and haven't really dug our heels into the fact that we are on a time limit and the limits of other planets are endless. If that makes sense. So, we could find one, yes. But will it be in time? I don't think so.

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Interesting point Jess, but I have a different take on it. Yes, we are impatient, but I don't think that any time soon we are going to be able to have the technology to find these other races, if they do indeed exist. Also, I'm sure that people have been wondering about this for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. But yet it's taken us this long to get where we've gone so far, and we haven't gone that far. Also, if we had been discovered by another intellegent lifeform, don't you think they would have tried to contact us. To see who and what we are, how we differ from them?

I dont mean that we will do it in the near future, I just mean that eventually it will happen. And what says they would try to contact us.. have you ever encountered a scared human amber? We dont usually take well to new things and we freak out when were scared.. another life form could be just wanting to say hi..and we would try to blow them up. And who says they havent tried.. Crop circles and other things that we cant explain could all be different forms of communitcations that we dont understand.. and it could be really hard to communicate through the millions of galaxies..

I believe there is, in fact, intelligent life on planets other than Earth. Perhaps we won't find them in our solar system or even galaxy, but farther away in the vastness of the universe. Unless we gain the proper technology to travel that far, we will never know for sure if there is other intelligent life forms. The idea of us ourselves being discovered is quite possible, alien life forms could have been living for centuries before Earth was even created. These life forms could be primitive or highly intelligent, but as I stated before, we won't know for sure unless we have the technology to search for them. There may not be a planet with twin conditions to Earth in our galaxy, but perhaps there are many "Earths" farther out in the universe.

i was flipping through my science book when I found this:

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Many scientists think that Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, may have the conditions neccessary for life to develop

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In 1970, a spacecraft found regions on the surface of Mars that look like stream bes with crisscrossing paths of water. Since life as we know it requires water, scientist hypothesize that Mars may have once had the conditions needed for life to exist

if the places in the solar system that we know have suitable living requirements there must be some place where there actually is life

I think that there is life on other planets other than Earth. Say that I've been watching to many Sci-Fi movies, that is true, but it really doesn't waver my standpoint on this topic. I can't really say that the life forms on other planets are intelligent, but I can't say that they're not smart either considering that I've never met anyone from a differant planet. I also think that at one point there may have been life on Mars. Is it possible that there are life forms in other solar systems? Yes, I believe so, but it would take an eternity to find them, or for them to find us considering the unlimited size of space.

I definitley think that there is life besides Earth. I find it impossible that we could be the only living thing out of the whole ever expanding universe. I think there are very intellingent life forms out there who might be more intelligent than us...though I find it higly unlikely we will look almost exactly like these other lifeforms, I believe there will be certain similarities between us. Like other people have been saying, Mars used to be able to support life before it dried out. So, I find it possible that we could find an alternate planet capable of living in but it might already be inhabited by other living creatures. I also believe it will take us thousands of years to find this planet or other intelligent creatures.

~ginnyunited

Ever since I was a young child, I have felt that it was very arrogant to believe that we are alone in the universe (not to mention a bit depressing). I would love it if we could meet some other races from out there, unfortunately I can't imagine it happening in my lifetime. I do think it's extremely possible that we have been "discovered" by others, but we were to immature to strike interest with more advanced civilizations. One of the things I think of in regards to other life forms is the question of how it would affect our philosophies, religions, and values. Will other lifeforms help us to grow in this way? Will we adopt other ideals, that have gone otherwise unthought of? I hope so. I think that it's a beautiful thing to add to one's ideals and to learn of other people's points of view.

As a species I think we are really screwing up. I hope and pray that we either get our act together and take better care of our home, or that fate, God, or some other higher power/being will give us a second chance. Maybe we will find a new home if we dry up our planet. However, maybe it would be better if we didn't. Would we learn from our mistakes if we did? Or would we do the same thing to our new home? I hope that we do either get better or recieve a second chance and make the best of it.

Hmm, this is a good topic. I think yes, there is life beyond Earth, and no, the other life is not intelligent. I believe that on other planets, like Mars and Saturn, there is microscopic bacteria that has a very unique way of surviving. I also believe that there are plants on other planets to. I bet that they are much more interesting than the plants on Earth. Maybe they grow upside-down, or don't drink water, for the planet they live on might not have any water. I would love to figure out what really lies beyond Earth.

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth? Yes, we have already found signs of water on Mars, something 'may' of lived there at one point
Will we ever discover it? Probably, we've created a lot of amazing things lately such as, the computer were using right now, we created this out of raw materials from our planet.. Were we discovered already? I think that other life forms are as in the dark as we, but I did watch a show on how there actually was a spaceship landing in some kind of farm, but was covered up by the government, it is supposedly true but i'm kind of skeptical. As for a second planet to use when earth dries up, that is one thing I am almost certain there 'won't' be. Were drying up our current planet so fast, even if we do find one, we won't have enough time, of course we should still try to find another planet but I feel we won't have the resources to transport enough over. So many people will want to leave, and so many won't be able to. This is because the distance, we can't send in major starships over transporting thousands, too much weight we won't gain enough speed. On a final note, if we there is life out there, i hope we never find it, the saying curiosity killed the cat applies here, we don't know how other people reason out there or there technology. What may seem civilized to us may be insulting to them, too many problems were best left alone.

Do you believe that there’s intelligent life in other planets beyond Earth? Will we ever discover it? Were we discovered already? Are there higher forms on intelligence out there? Will we find a planet with the same exact conditions that Earth possesses so we can move there once we’ve dried Earth?

I do believe there is life on other planets. We can't be the only ones living in this galaxy there must be something more. Then why else would there be 9 planets? In my opinion the only 2 planets where there can't be life is in Mercury because it is way too hot since it's right next to the sun. And Pluto for being so far way and so cold.

I think we will be able to discover it. With technology advancing so fast there's no doubt scientists and researchers will find a way to discover what's out there. And you know there have been sightings and stuff liek that. SOme people doubt those are real but in case they are it would mean they have discovered us already.

If those sightings and apparitions are true, it's pretty clear they have discovered us already. Why haven't they don anything? Probably they don't want to harm us in any way. Maybe they just want to see what we are like. Or maybe the whole oopsite I don't really know, I just wish they mean no harm.

Will we find a planet that's exactly like Earth? I don't think so. We may find one with enough land and water for all of us. But what about all the other stuff, us humans have built and created? I believe we won't find those stuff. And we would have to start from 0 all over again. Unless we find a planet that's advanced and has everything we need ready for us.