Do you believe in the possibility of life in other galaxies?

[teodor88]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

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Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

Yeah, the number of galaxies is pretty high. So there is a possibility that some of these galaxies can have some forms of life ( probably even intelligent )

 

[Blues Man]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

You can't make assumptions on "chances" with only one data point.

We know about chemistry and we know about biology but we don't know how chemistry turns into biology.

Until be figure that out or actually find life elsewhere then we have nothing.

we have more than one data point.

We have trillions of stars and an untold number of planets.

There is a good probability that life as we know it or life as we don't know it exists

 

[Blues Man]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

Yeah, the number of galaxies is pretty high. So there is a possibility that some of these galaxies can have some forms of life ( probably even intelligent )

not to mention the number of intelligent life forms that are long since extinct

 

[Flash]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

Yeah, the number of galaxies is pretty high. So there is a possibility that some of these galaxies can have some forms of life ( probably even intelligent )

What do you base that probability on seeing that we only have one data point for life?

You need more than one data point to do any kind of valid statistical probability, don't you? At least that is what I learned in my college statistic classes.

 

[Flash]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

You can't make assumptions on "chances" with only one data point.

We know about chemistry and we know about biology but we don't know how chemistry turns into biology.

Until be figure that out or actually find life elsewhere then we have nothing.

we have more than one data point.

We have trillions of stars and an untold number of planets.

There is a good probability that life as we know it or life as we don't know it exists

You don't understand probability, do you?

That is like saying since we have billions of planets then there must be more Mt Rushmores.

The set is not stars or planets. The set is life. We only have one data point for life.

 

[Anonymous519]

SPACE...the Final Hoax not frontier!

 

[teodor88]

Also, I'd like to say that some forms of life ( not intelligent ) can live on Mars. As far as you may know, the red planet has waster ( ice ), so I presume that in this scientists can find some forms of life or maybe traces or hints of some form of life that could exist on Mars.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

SPACE...the Final Hoax not frontier!

Motto of Postmodern Science: IF IT'S WEIRD, IT'S WISE

The twinkling void. NA$A is a circus for childish escapist Trekkies and normal people are paying for these useless geeks to go "Wow! Cool!"

 

[Anonymous519]

Watch the movie "Capricorn One." TRUTH IN PLAIN SIGHT!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

That is like saying since we have billions of planets then there must be more Mt Rushmores.

That's absurd. A better analogy is, more life. Oh wait, that's the topic.

 

[Blues Man]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

You can't make assumptions on "chances" with only one data point.

We know about chemistry and we know about biology but we don't know how chemistry turns into biology.

Until be figure that out or actually find life elsewhere then we have nothing.

we have more than one data point.

We have trillions of stars and an untold number of planets.

There is a good probability that life as we know it or life as we don't know it exists

You don't understand probability, do you?

That is like saying since we have billions of planets then there must be more Mt Rushmores.

The set is not stars or planets. The set is life. We only have one data point for life.

No it's not like that at all.

And what we have is the probability that out of the 700000000000000000000000 stars in the universe that there are planets that will be similar enough to ours that life similar to ours may have developed that's not counting other forms of life we may not be familiar with.

And the thing is we will never really know because the distances are just too vast. But just because we are the only life we know of is not reason to think the rest of the universe is barren.

 

[Flash]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

​

Why is hard to believe that life may only be unique to earth?

The problem we have is that we have been brainwashed by 100 years of Science Fiction so we are all conditioned to think that there must be life elsewhere but the reality is we are the only known life in the universe. We of course don't know everything (not by a long shot) but what we do know now is that we are the only life.

Statistics doesn't produce life. If we only have one data point then it is impossible to make any assumptions about life elsewhere. We need more data points to make any statistical assumption.

If the universe is finite then there will be unique things in it.

We don't know how life came into existence. After decades and decades of serious research we cannot reproduce life in the lab. If all we needed were the Goldilocks Zone and liquid water then every Jr High Science class would be producing life as a class room lab experiment.

There are many complex factors that go into life and for all we know it only happen here. Just because it happen here we tend to think it can be common elsewhere but we really don't know.

This video is worthwhile watching. We could be like the prisoner that by happenstance quickly figures out the lock combination while the other 999999 die.

There are an estimated 30 to 70 billion trillion stars in the universe which means there are at least that many chances that life may have existed or does exist in other parts of the universe.

that makes it probable but we will never know as the distances involved are just too great

You can't make assumptions on "chances" with only one data point.

We know about chemistry and we know about biology but we don't know how chemistry turns into biology.

Until be figure that out or actually find life elsewhere then we have nothing.

we have more than one data point.

We have trillions of stars and an untold number of planets.

There is a good probability that life as we know it or life as we don't know it exists

You don't understand probability, do you?

That is like saying since we have billions of planets then there must be more Mt Rushmores.

The set is not stars or planets. The set is life. We only have one data point for life.

No it's not like that at all.

And what we have is the probability that out of the 700000000000000000000000 stars in the universe that there are planets that will be similar enough to ours that life similar to ours may have developed that's not counting other forms of life we may not be familiar with.

And the thing is we will never really know because the distances are just too vast. But just because we are the only life we know of is not reason to think the rest of the universe is barren.

I don't think you ever have ever taken a course in Statistics.

You can not postulate a probability based upon one data point.

The data point is not planets. The data point is life.

You can determine the probably that a star will have planets because we have a fairly large number of data points. That would be valid.

However, you can't determine a probability of life if you only have one data point.

It may be that the factors that created life on earth only came together one time in the history of the universe. If this is a finite universe then we can and will have unique things in it. Life may be unique.

Just because we live on a planet where life evolved doesn't mean it is possible that it is elsewhere.

Go back and look at the video I posed earlier. Prof Kipping explained it a lot better than I can.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The data point is not planets. The data point is life.

Well that's totally wrong. You clearly know nothing about stats.

 

[playtime]

100%.

 

[teodor88]

I wanna discuss one interesting point. This point is based on the information about Proxima B. I have heard some interesting ideas about Proxima B and some scientists are convinced that this exoplanet might be the second Earth. What do you think about that?

 

[miketx]

I wanna discuss one interesting point. This point is based on the information about Proxima B. I have heard some interesting ideas about Proxima B and some scientists are convinced that this exoplanet might be the second Earth. What do you think about that?

I trust science, I just don't trust scientists.

 

[borninnj]

As both a technician, scientist, and nearly becoming an astronomer, I'm certain that life abounds everywhere, in every nook and cranny it can take hold, wherever there is liquid water, carbon, and whatever else needed.

THE REAL QUESTION is what about INTELLIGENT life: sentient life and technological civilizations. That's where everyone differs.

No chance of intelligent, advanced life anywhere else here in our solar system, but across the Milky Way galaxy, 100,000 light-years across with untold trillions of stars? No doubt there must be other civilizations somewhere that we can catch reaching fruition along the same time frame as our search.

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There is just no way there is no other civilizations out there in all of this.

"THE REAL QUESTION is what about INTELLIGENT life: sentient life and technological civilizations. That's where everyone differs."

Lifeforms compete for resources, and sentience is no doubt universally a great evolutionary advantage, so I would imagine that the eventual occurrence rate of sentient life is very high (barring an extinction event) on planets that develop life at all.

Nice post, by the way.

 

[skye]

Living in an Infinite Universe....the possibilities are endless, everything is possible.

 

[frigidweirdo]

With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. It is hard for me to believe that there is not at least one other solar system with life. Especially, when some scientists claim that they have already found some exoplanets that can be like Earth

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I don't believe in the possibility. I know there is a possibility.

But that's all it is, a statistical possibility. There's a possibility of life in our own Solar System, though probably not very intelligent.

Without our own arm of our own galaxy there's a big possibility of life.

 

[Flash]

Yeah, the number of galaxies is pretty high. So there is a possibility that some of these galaxies can have some forms of life ( probably even intelligent )

You can't say that.

With only one data point you cannot do a probability analysis. Your probably statement is flawed. It is your belief and it not based on any facts.

We do not know if we are unique or not.

It maybe that the chain of events that produced life on earth has never been reproduced before.

The fact that we cannot reproduce life in a lab is a great indication that life is extremely rare, if not unique.

Also, where we look outside of earth all we see are environments that are toxic to life as we know it. We see no earth friendly planets or moons. Any place off earth that we know of life would die in a matter of a short time.