Question:
Is there life apart from what we know here on Planet Earth?

Choices:
Yes - we are not alone
No - this is all there is baby
Maybe - Maybe not

 

It is almost certain that there is life beyond here on Earth. Infact, going by what we know of life here on Earth, that life will be quite similar to what we already know. The intelligent life will most likely be humanoid like ourselves. Due to slight differences in atmospheric composition, gravity, electromagnetic exposure etc, there maybe noticeable differences in colour, height, chest size etc ... but it will be like here on Earth, more or less.

Though i appreciate that Alien planet is based on science, it does not make sense to develop models based on life forms that are the minority on earth and largely ignore a life form that accounts for 6 billion members of a species. The reason why we are at the top of the food chain is because we are the best survivors and most adaptive. So, expect to see more bacteria, viruses, photosynthesing trees and humans only more adapted to the different worlds.

Hi there,

I could not agree with you less about the possible form of life on another world. Why indeed should it be like the life we have on this Earth? Next to impossible I say. If you had been an alien visiting this earth, you will have to have visited in the very last 4,000,000 or so years to see anything 'humanoid' - yet the Earth has been around for at least 1,500,000,000 years. I'm not a statistitian, so maybe someone else could work out the odds of an alien visitation occuring within the 'human' era. Aslo, are we indeed the 'best survivors and most adaptive'. As I said, the human line has so far lasted about 4,000,000 years. Contrast with this the dinosaurs who managed about 160,000,000 years - seems like we have quite a way to go before we can claim to be the most successful life-forms on Earth. And this is saying nothing for the insects, crustaceans, molluscs or even birds ... I could go on.

Anyway, alien planet is a great and very enjoyable show and alot of thought has gone into it. It is just a possible scenario which is really anyone's guess. Just look at the sheer diversity of life on this Earth and it gives you a little idea of all the possible ways and means there are - of surviving and continuing your line. I personally feel that life on another world would look very different to our own world - though if on the same chemical basis as Earth-life, we would be able to recognise it as life.

This brings me onto my other point. Who says 'life' must be c=based on the exactly the same chemistry? We would have to refine our definition of life here. Some modern ideas are based on quantum coherence on a macroscopic scale which is at the basis of what we call consciousness, and the ability of life-forms to spontaneously act - from its most basic forms exhibited by single-cells up to the human intellect. What we would need here is some system which would allow that kind of quantum coherence to manifest. It need not be earth-like, carbon-based life. Other possibilities could be, say mineral-based life on a very cold world - near absolute zero, where superconducting features develop/evolve. Energy could be absorbed directly from electromagnetic radiation possibly. We can excercise our imaginations and think up all kinds of scenarios. I feel in the quest for extraterrestrial life, we must not be too blinkered.

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Originally posted by boyka:
Hi everyone. Just wanted you's all to know that aliens really do exist. Check out (projectdisclosure) and watch the 2 hour video. God bless all and I'll say no more.

Hi Boyka

I think you were trying to link through to this: The Disclosure project

Thanks

Definitly. Is this a question? Statistically speaking the probability of not finding life elsewhere is impossible and unlikely whatever the logic. Hmm and know it is not relevant to this Q, the chances of finding intelligent life is also huge not to mention the contrary or life 100's or 1000's of times more intelligent than us. Human beings dont like the idea of other life cos its the fear of being treated the same like we treat the poor animals which cant talk back. Well sorry for getting way out of topic here....

I think other lifeforms exist, the galaxy or the universe is way too big to just have life on one planet. There has to be more lifeform somewhere in this massive universe. The simple answer is IMO, that we haven't found it yet. For all we know, there could be other lifeforms that are lightyears ahead of us in the technology department, the very latest gadgets we have now could be absolute antique's to them. If the universe wasn't so big, then i might say no, but as it is, i think there has to be lifeform out there, just has to be.

aliens so totaly DO exsit!!! i have seen ufos before and i was scared for my life. my brother thought we were going to be abducted!!!we ran into the house with my brothers friend. we were scared but it has comfimed my suspitions aliens exsit

besides nobody knows exactly what aliens look like, there could be all of them descriptions, there’s going to be more than 1 life form. There will be several types, of all shapes and sizes. Like us none of them will be the same as another. They may be similar but not exactly the same. Nothing anywhere will be the same. Or they could look just like us, or morph into something like us. Or an animal found on this planet could be an alien. Nobody actually knows.
The thought that aliens speak English is highly unlikely, it isn’t ruled out as a possibility because some people may have spoken it, or they may be monitoring our language and movements, they may have greater technology, and may be monitoring our movements. Nobody actually knows about aliens. There are sightings and also things like crop circles, large buildings like the sphinx in Egypt (possibly alien made.

There are many non-believers like different religions. Christians for example think god created the world and everything in it.
So why would he make a different civilisation somewhere else in the world. But then my argument to this is if he didn’t want to have a different civilisation then why did he create so many different planets in which we may be able to exist? And why did he create people trying to make people think UFOs are out there? People pass lie detector tests. They may just be dreaming I know but you know when you wake up when you are dreaming. Or at least most people do. so id like to know what you think too!!!

kez... that story is quite unbelievable, why wouldn't this have been reported to the news?

kez, the last paragraph is soo right, i cant believe christians dont believe in evolution and how we were created seperately from other cretures when you see creatures that have such similar characteristics and see humans who look like monkeys.

aliens have to exist look at the countless galaxies in the universe which is most probably infinite...are we really alone? i doubt it very much

Someone look up Drakes equation about the likleyhood of ET. After all it was this mathamatical genius(?) that got the US government to spend a few hundred million dollars looking for other imtelligent life forms.
Is there other life? You bet. How can mankind wander around our piece of the universe & be so pig-headed as to believe that there's nothing else out there?
If we take 'life' as being an organism that ingests food of somesort, & can reproduce itself/others of the same species, then from the smallest single celled organism to our largest here on Earth (the Blue Whale), this is life.
As for being 'visited'; well........

I seem to remember a photorealistic picture book that came out a while back that was very simular to Alien Planet. After looking at the Wallpaper image of the huge tripod beast roaming across the plains, I am inclined to beleive that this show is a derivitive work of said book. Does anyone else remember this book? Some of the more notable life forms in the book where: a one legged plains runner where both of its legs had fused at the knee into one leg, a catlike aiien (possibally the same as the one on the wallpaper of the alien clinging to a tree) that had a main claw that was set up to go through the 'palm' of its hand, and an asymetrical forest dweller that had one large arm and one small arm. I also seem to remember that the aliens in this book did not 'see' per say but had a form of sonar like vision that they used.

Edit: found it. it is a book called 'Expedition' by Wayne Douglas Barlow
wiki link

Hi Everyone,

I just thought that we can not prove that Aliens do not exist because they may be completely different to ANY life on earth.
They may be able to withstand EXTREME Radiation or Heat or even millions of volts of Electricity. We dont know what life could be out there.

That is my opinion.

Ummm, let's see. There is only life on Earth due to a succession of good luck:

• A stable, long-lived, single star in a quiet region of the galaxy.
  
• A planet in a stable, near-circular orbit.
  
• A planet with stable weather, helped by a large moon.
  
• Other large planets in the system to reduce the bombardment by meteorites and comets.
  

That said, there are billions of stars in each of billions of galaxies. If just a few have suitable planets, life still seems pretty likely to me. If the ultimate goal of life is intelligence, then so long as no major disaster has happened during their evolution, I don't see why there would not be intelligent aliens.

However, even if intelligent aliens evolved in a nearby system, they wouldn't be able to come here without a massive investment in time and energy. Aliens - Yes! Little green men in UFOs - No!

Agh. The good auld alien debate. Classed as the unknown because it can't be proven or disproven. Bit like God really. You can have your belief in your God. But can you show us anything other than your belief ? It is all down to the individual. They either want to accept aliens are real or they don't. Bit of a catch 22 agruement come the end of the day.

But to Ufoligists ( people who believe in ufos ) and to alien believers, who run with the claim that various governments are hiding the truth. What you do tomorrow if your government said ' you are right. Aliens exist. Here's one. Here's a UFO too '. Would that make your lives a whole lot better ? Do you not think that at times some things are best off not knowing the truth about. The whole mystery. Take the mystery away and that is your life gone too. Best off not knowing. That way you can carry on the belief and the crazy conspiracies.

Good answers Cuchculan. It seems to me that the people who believe are more interested in justifying the purpose for their existence than getting on with daily living.

Hello there!
If you take into consideration the millions, possibly billions of plants in the universe, and the vastness of space, there are most likely to be life on other worlds, less or more physically or tecnollogically advanced than our own human species, unless in the milky way galaxy, the most common form of domanant specie is of the human form, if in one out of 80 solar systems has a planet able to support like, being further yet close enough away from the solar systems star to maintain an earth like state with water and land..... we must remeber if there is life in the universe and weve sent out radio signals in the last 75 years, and if the civilisation is advanced enough, to reply in the same terms, than we should tecnically get a reply in the next 25 to 50 years!, they've not already said hello via the UFO phnomanom! even thow, during that time of the durastic UFO phnomanom, the russians were experermenting with flying saucer tecnollogy, fly UFO, or (FLYING SAURSERS) over the north pole and over north america and canada............."We are living in an exciting, confusing time were hummanity shall do great things with extrerterstial life" HOPEFULLY!

Sorry about the spelling mistakes in my previous letter!