Poll: Aliens

[Blindswordmaster]

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I meant the collective Earth "We". And yes, concerning Aliens, I am right. If I'm wrong, please provide evidence and I'll gladly retract my statement.

Do you have any evidence that they dont exist? The only way you could possibly be correct about this is if you have omnipotent powers. I dont see how you could be so stupid as to deny ALL! life, even on a becterial scale, living on a planet other that ours. Its just impossible. Sentient Aliens with spaceships thats less likly, and denying them is understandable. But and I quote:

There is no other life in the universe, there never was any other life, and there will never be any other life.

This statment denys ALL life, somthing that is quite impossible.

I don't have to prove my case, you just have to fail in proving yours. You have no evidence, thus, I'm right. We haven't found any evidence supporting that life exists anywhere else other than on Earth, therefore we can conclude that life exists only on Earth. We can't just believe that little green men will descend from Mars and ask to be our friends if we share our M&M's with them; we can only draw conclusions from the data we have gathered so far. If something can't prove its existence, then it doesn't exist. I don't deny the possibility of life, I'm merely working with the evidence given.
-Edit: You still haven't proved me wrong, you've only called an idiot.

 

[child of lileth]

I refuse to believe that out of the entire universe, that we are the only things living. There's no way there isn't other life in at least a handful of other places.

 

[mightybozz]

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I meant the collective Earth "We". And yes, concerning Aliens, I am right. If I'm wrong, please provide evidence and I'll gladly retract my statement.

Do you have any evidence that they dont exist? The only way you could possibly be correct about this is if you have omnipotent powers. I dont see how you could be so stupid as to deny ALL! life, even on a becterial scale, living on a planet other that ours. Its just impossible. Sentient Aliens with spaceships thats less likly, and denying them is understandable. But and I quote:

There is no other life in the universe, there never was any other life, and there will never be any other life.

This statment denys ALL life, somthing that is quite impossible.

I don't have to prove my case, you just have to fail in proving yours. You have no evidence, thus, I'm right. We haven't found any evidence supporting that life exists anywhere else other than on Earth, therefore we can conclude that life exists only on Earth. We can't just believe that little green men will descend from Mars and ask to be our friends if we share our M&M's with them; we can only draw conclusions from the data we have gathered so far. If something can't prove its existence, then it doesn't exist. I don't deny the possibility of life, I'm merely working with the evidence given.
-Edit: You still haven't proved me wrong, you've only called an idiot.

Wrong I'm afraid. I throw my hat in the ring of the anthropic principle and it's simple to ask: which is more likely, that in an infinite universe there are literally NO planets such as ours, nor any other kind of life which could exist; or that there is at least one? Richard Dawkins quotes the numbers in the God Delusion, but I can't remember them. Something along the lines of, if there's a billion billion planets out there, and only one in a billion is like ours, there's still a billion planets out there which could support our kind of life.

The chances of ever meeting them or comprehending them are miniscule, but the argument is there.
So given the probabilities, I would say that you do have to prove your point. We're dealing in hypotheticals here, but the numbers are on our side.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

based on all of the stars surrounding us it would be ignorant to think this is the only planet [or moon] with some form of life on it. Not just from what we've seen in space but from what we've seen in the deep sea is also very enlightening and proves that life can exist in areas humanity deems 'unlivable'

I am unsure however, if there is humanoid life out there. If there is than either

A) They're at a lower level than us be they like the Neanderthals or, stuck in a feudal era. Hell, they could still be stuck in the industrial age or, locked in a Nuclear winter [of sorts]

B) They've reached the point where they had nuclear power [or something similar] and killed each other in a World War like we almost did all those times

C) They're far advanced and simply haven't found us

D) They're far advanced, have found us and, are studying us from afar

E) They're advanced, have found us and, are fucking with us

Of course there is always the possibility that an even higher life form could be among us without our being aware of it's presence. Kind of like how deep sea creatures have no idea what the hell a human is

 

[muckinscavitch]

As a great scientist once put it: "Life on other planets is not only possible, but probable."

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Yes, they exist. No, they aren't anywhere near us. No, they have no idea we exist.

No, we will probably never make contact with any of them. (Or at least not for millions of years.)

 

[Sovvolf]

I believe aliens exist and I feel it's extremely unlikely that in such a large galaxy, we would be the only inhabitants. However, I very much doubt they've ever visited us or even intend on visiting us.

 

[Skooterz]

Given the size of the universe, I'd say that its arrogant and foolish of us to assume that we're the only intelligent creatures that could possibly have evolved. That said, I don't think they'll be like the bipedal humanoids that most Sci-Fi series' and movies use.

 

[Kukakkau]

One out of nine (I think) planets in our solar system has cofirmed life. Considering how many other stars are out there it's highly likely a planet in it's solar system has life.

 

[Kaymish]

yes how advanced and in what form they exist and weather we ever make contact or not i will not hazzard to guess however with the shear amount of space and stars with planets and the fact that i exist makes it a scientific certainty that life has arisen on other worlds

 

[Soxafloppin]

Yea, nothing like anything portrayed in fiction though.

 

[Quaxar]

One out of nine (I think) planets in our solar system has cofirmed life.

Eight! I may be nitpicking but Pluto is no planet anymore... finally.

Well, I do believe there is life bound to be somewhere else in the universe, be it on the other end, be it on Jupiter's moon Europa. And I don't say Hollywood-esque things, bacterias alone would be a great sensation and they're life too. So yes, I am pretty sure there is some sort of life outside our planet.

 

[Chogg Van Helsing]

It'd be pretty boring otherwise. Humans need someone to mess with after Earth is done for.

sad but true, thats if there is any humans left to mess!

and aliens must exist, there is too much space, there is prob millions of them, in almost every form imaginable, well that what steven hawkings thinks lmao

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Logical consistency.

If the universe is infinitie, then no matter how outlandish the probability, it has happened elsewhere. (The development of life.)

Using bog simple mathematics, if the probability of Earth developing within a solar system is 1:2, and there are two solar systems, then there logically is a 50% chance of another earth, thus is there are four systems, there will be another Earth like system.

The universe is vast. So big humans can't even comprehend its bigness. Therefore, whatever the probability of Earth developing, there are enough solar systems in enough galaxies that it must have happened more than once.

Sorry if this was badly argued, it's late and I'm tired.

 

[Kukakkau]

One out of nine (I think) planets in our solar system has cofirmed life.

Eight! I may be nitpicking but Pluto is no planet anymore... finally.

Well, I do believe there is life bound to be somewhere else in the universe, be it on the other end, be it on Jupiter's moon Europa. And I don't say Hollywood-esque things, bacterias alone would be a great sensation and they're life too. So yes, I am pretty sure there is some sort of life outside our planet.

Ah! I was right, just out of date

But yeah my view of aliens is kinda the same - they don't HAVE to be intelligent life forms or some dangerous creature. Just an organism from elsewhere, any confirmed life at all would be awesome

 

[mr.aravaro]

There's life elsewhere in the universe, but we've probably had absolutely no contact with it.