Just like there are other species on Earth, there must be other life forms in other planets, provided there are favourable conditions to their particular anatomies.
I totally agree that there are separate galaxies and life forms outside of ours. I wonder if they have evolved like us or have found more sustainable ways of living.
It depends on your definition of “alone”. While I agree that there may (or may not) be life forms somewhere out there, I sincerely doubt we’ll ever reach them (or they’ll reach us), at least not in my lifetime.
As far as I’m concerned, if I can’t communicate with them or really sense them in any way, whether they exist or not is irrelevant. We are alone. So very alone…
This is turning into an existentialist rant, Oren… :-) When I was little I used to wish for aliens to come visit me, to no avail.
Given that we have 1 data point, it is hard to draw a line in an informed way, to infer the (non-)existence of extra-terrestrial life. Either way is kind of an article of faith. But I tend to agree that there is a strong possibility of life elsewhere, I’m just not sure if we can contact it.
But if they are watching I do not think they are laughing. We are, as a species, brilliantly clever little monkeys. Brilliantly clever, eternally hungry, xenophobically paranoid, genocidal little monkeys. If they have anything like game theory, they probably figured out that the best option is to embargo the Earth and monitor our technology. If we become able to compete, they may take action. At least, that’s what I would do with us, but then I am one of us :-)
But that’s just my hope-for-the-best-but-plan-for-the-worst kind of thinking.
Does everybody think that aliens, if they exist, have faster-than-light technology? Or would it be more likely that they would be based somewhere close, (dark side of the moon? Saturn’s far Lagrange point?) set up via something like a generation ship?
I could agree with the statement that there has been intelligent life at some point of time in the universe, but I doubt that there are any that we could meet today. Think of it this way, the universe is 13 billion years old, our planet is 4 billion, yet we’ve had only some level of ‘civilization’ for ~ 10,000 years, and the capability of transmitting a signal beyond this planet for ~ 100 years!
There’s just so much time involved that the chance of a species evolving to have technology to travel a few light years (something we can’t do yet, maybe never) and being within a few light year of another species with the same capability, at the same point in time is miniscule.
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