Zechs Merquise Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 What substeinar said. Also, if any planet has little living cells that's enough to be considered aliens, they don't need to have bodies. Also, the fact that a planet isn't like earth doesn't mean it can't support life, who's to say that all life forms need water to live and whatnot? You're right, and infact they have good evidence that there are bacteria and small microbial lifeforms on Europa, one of Jupiters moons. It looks to be covered in Ice. But really, from a scientific point of view, as the Universe is basically infinite there must be aliens. As if we take the universe to be infinite, then we must also accept that due to the nature of infinity an infinite number of possibilites are played out over different solar systems and galaxies. Thus at some point other life will naturally occur.
Jonwah Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I reckon that loads of humans were taken to other planets as slaves to parasidic aliens who posed as gods and deities over thousands of years.
The fish Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 No or they would of popped in for a cuppa by now. Your logic is a little flawed. We haven't gone to their planet yet, have we?
weeyellowbloke Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Probability pretty much suggests that life is bound to exist elsewhere in the universe. Whether it'll be similar to anything we've seen before though depends. If the planet it evolves on is similar to ours, i.e. one star about the suns size, similar gravity etc. then it is likely it will look pretty similar to stuff on Earth as evolution is just the adaptations most suited to a certain environment. For example the eye as it is seen in insects is seen to have evolved on about 3 seperate occassions in Earth's history. So it is possible humanoid creatures may have evolved and exist elsewhere in the universe! Asgard ahoy. So anyway, yeah I believe in aliens, but the chances are they exist too far away for communication with them to ever be possible.
Sméagol Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/30/nasa-makes-astrobiology-discovery-schedules-press-conference/ Tomorrow we'll know.
jayseven Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 That's probably the best bump post I've ever seen I'm sure, if anything, it'll be on a microscopic scale, but still that's fascinating news!
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Holy shit, I didn't realise this was an old thread. When I saw names like Gaijin von Snikbah and Hellfire, I knew I'd gone back in time!
The Peeps Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Given the infinite scale of the universe and the countless planets within, I find it hard to believe we're the only planet to have evolved life. Maybe we're just the first planet though, maybe the universe is still relatively young. If we found plant life on another planet I'd class that as alien existence.
Sméagol Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Was contemplating starting its own thread, but didn't wamnt to bother with an elaborate post. Searched for "aliens" in general. This came up. Congrats to Rummy as well I suppose . Seriously though, yeah, probably some bacteria fossils from Mars, but I'd love that too. But if the world ends in 2012 because of some epidemic, you know where it came from.
Tellyn Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Holy shit, I didn't realise this was an old thread. When I saw names like Gaijin von Snikbah and Hellfire, I knew I'd gone back in time! It was the mention of the Everybody Votes Channel in the first post that did it for me.
Diageo Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 I think it took me the3rdchildren to figure it out.
The Bard Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Yeah whatever, probably discovered some extra terrestrial fart particles and got excited. I have given up on the possibility of news ever being exciting, especially the kind made for press releases.
Dog-amoto Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 They could be announcing a mission to Europa - the most likely place to find life in our Solar System. Very doubtful though
ReZourceman Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Government conspiracy. I updated my FB status and its vanished....
Charlie Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8174040/Life-as-we-dont-know-it-discovery-could-prove-existence-of-aliens.html It's a microbe which can live in Arsenic. Basically it's what people have been saying for ages; aliens might exist and they might be different to us in what they eat/breath/live. Or be completely different and don't 'breathe'.
Grazza Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 You mark my words: this may be small, but they're just trying to get us used to the idea. I predict, over the next couple of years, they'll reveal that (some) UFOs are extra-terrestrial and they've been visiting us for centuries.
Sméagol Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 FUCK YEAH! THEY'VE FOUND ME! You weren't exactly discreet.
Nolan Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Holy shit, I didn't realise this was an old thread. When I saw names like Gaijin von Snikbah and Hellfire, I knew I'd gone back in time! It was the mention of the Everybody Votes Channel in the first post that did it for me. I think it took me the3rdchildren to figure it out. I clicked the thread and immediately looked at the date on Rummy's post... Anyway, I agree with what The Peeps said.
Murr Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 In September astronomers announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever found – a rocky world three times the size of our own world, orbiting a star 20 light years away. The planet appears to have an atmosphere, a gravity like our own and could have flowing water on its surface. The discovery came three years after astronomers found a similar, slightly less habitable planet around the same small red star called Gliese 581 in the constellation of Libra. The planet, named Gliese g, is 118,000,000,000,000 miles away – so far away that light from its start takes 20 years to reach the earth. That is just incredible, You cant even begin to comprehend just how large the universe is when you hear / read things like that. amazing! I wish I were alive in another time era far in the future (if the world doesn't end in 2012) as I'd love to be around to hear / see more advanced developments into space exploration.
Cube Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 That is just incredible, You cant even begin to comprehend just how large the universe is when you hear / read things like that. With a telescope, we can look at things that existed millions of years ago.
MoogleViper Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 With a telescope, we can look at things that existed millions of years ago. Fuck that. I wanna see things that will exist in a million years.
Cube Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Fuck that. I wanna see things that will exist in a million years. If the universe is exactly the same in each Big Bang Cycle (which is entirely possible now they have found evidence of cycles), then you are always looking of things that will happen in billions of years.
Nolan Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Fuck that. I wanna see things that will exist in a million years. Well....it's completely possible that something you've seen will still be around in a million years. You know, a little rock known as Earth even.
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