Do you think we are alone in space?

Simple poll.

What do you think?

[Ramrod]

'Course not

[Raistlin]

Put it this way.....

There'd better be intelligent life in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

Originally Posted by Raistlin

There'd better be intelligent life in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

Haha!

[jamesclarke555]

No and anyone who thinks otherwise is either religious, ignorant or both

There could even be life in our own solar system; on Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is basically an ice planet, underneath the ice may lie vast oceans with god knows what swimming around

Obviously conditions have to be just right for intelligent life to exist and there may only be a small percentage of a given planets life where this can happen. Picture primitive Earth, it was a total wasteland and very uninhabitable.

Earth can’t be the only planet in the Universe that lies in the “comfort zone�.

If science has taught us anything, it's that life can thrive in the most hazardous of environments.

[Halcyon]

I beleive there are lifeforms elswhere.
Look at what we have discovered living in the depths under the oceans and in places where there is no oxygen but other gases. It shows lifefroms do exist in other environments.
I am sure there are other creatures elswhere.

I beleive there are other intelligent species out there. There's far too many galaxies and universes to think there isn't. It's just a matter of when, and how we find them.

Well taking part in SETI@Home is getting us closer to finding them

Well the odds that with 150 billion or so planets in our galaxy, and 150 billion or so galaxies in the observible universe, then the odds are stacked against it that we are the only ''intelligent'' life in the universe. I think only monumental arrogance or ignorance will let people argue against reason. If the basic building block of life (amino acids) can be found floating around in the ''void'' of interstellar space, then I think its reasonable to assume that life (in whatever shape or form it takes) flurishes ''out there''.

Whilst, technically, I should put "Don't know", because there's no proof, frankly I think it's incredibly unlikely that we are the *only* life in the entire universe!

[bopdude]

Deffo not, 'nuff said

[punky]

One thing that makes me laugh, about these so called scientists at NASA, they always say "No life on that planet, its too cold" or "no water" or "sulphur dioxide in the air". That surely means there are no humans on the planet. Surely though, as we live off oxygen, can't an alien evolve to live off something else? Like CO2 of SO2? And be able to survive harsh temperatures? Seems myopic of them.

[AndrewJ]

I so agree Punky there we are looking at the wrong forms of life, how do we know life is just carbon based humaoid people, they could be tiny microscopics, they could have a totally different makeup and even be in a different plane to us in the universe, they could be made of gas and just pass right through us and not need ships to move in space.

END of the day no one knows. But something sure as hell is out there.

Originally Posted by Scott

Simple poll.What do you think?

I know I surely must be an alien, simply because I'm so awkward and stubborn.

[Thorn]

It would be very naive of us to believe that despite the size of the universe that we could possibly be alone. There are probably millions of civilisations just like ours dotted about the universe. Either they are advanced enough to avoid us (who would blame them?) or not advanced enough to make contact.

Originally Posted by Thorn

or not advanced enough to make contact.

Well we have been trying for a couple of years, sending signals out to different parts of space but so far the SETI@Home team havn't got anything interesting back

I do remember the "wow" signal though, was supposed to be most acceptable signal that intelligent life exists, but now however many times they try to get it from the same location again they can't find it.

Linky can be found here: http://www.planetary.org/html/news/a...s/2001/Wow.htm

So far SETI@Home only use the Arecibo observatory (which doesn't cover much of the sky) but they have already said they will be able to use other observatorys soon, such as the array in Mexico (which would help a lot!).