I’m 100% sure they exist and I’m 99.9% sure there won’t be any contact over the next 10 years. It’s entirely possible there will never be, though I do hope otherwise.
Yep, 10 years is too short.
The universe is so big there must be life somewhere else. I’m also wondering is there is any more dimensions (4th dimension and upward), where there would be life that we can’t interact with…
The universe is so big there must be life somewhere else
Agreed, and it’s also that it’s so old - there could well have been life billions of years before Earth had any, which died out already.
All of this is layman with some basic understanding only.
So, on the one hand in our galaxy alone there are between 100 and 400 billion stars (wikipedia), now a lot of those have no planets, but of course a lot have many more than our system does. So at least the same number in planets. There’s a good chance there’s more than one planet capable to supporting life among that number.
In fact as we improve our ability to observe our galaxy we are able to verify more and more viable planets and even a reasonable number that are similar to our own planet.
This means that there’s definitely going to be a reasonable chance that somewhere, life has evolved to similar or beyond our level already.
But, this for sure doesn’t mean there’s any reason to expect visitors. That’s because even if they can travel at the speed of light, it’s still going to be thousands of years for the majority of them to reach us, provided they even choose to come to us. Because, from where they are they wouldn’t be able to make out our radio signals, nor likely any other signs of life. So we’d be one of many “potentially live bearing” planets.
So, just my opinion. I think the chance of life being out there is reasonably high, the chance of actually being visited (assuming it holds true that we cannot travel faster than light) is probably very very low.
I fucking wish. Why would they come though? We demonstrably suck. Project cats to the universe and maybe we can attract some nice folks.
Dunno but if I were an alien the stupidest thing I could do would be contact “humans”.
I love Greg Bear’s take in the War Dogs trilogy.
They show up but slowly introduce themselves, give us trinkets, coerce & exploit us , then after much happenings, leave and the world goes on like nothing ever happened.
Earth is the neighborhood you roll your windows up when you drive through at max speed.
Human aren’t worth their time
Maybe we are part of an extra terrestrial being. Like the things on our eyelids or blood cells or anyother microscopic lifeforms that are part of our organism.
In that case we are already in contact. So maybe an autoimmune response will be the next step.
If they’re looking to build a relationship with Hunanese people, I hope these aliens are ready for spicy food.
there wont be
i’d like to think life exists on every single rocky planet. i remember reading about the discovery of single celled organisms deep in the earth’s crust. they exist in a very low-energy environment and therefore have slow metabolisms. some of these are theorized to be able to live for over a million years. they literally extract energy from inorganic compounds in metabolic pathways we don’t understand.
the question is: did life originate on the surface (deep sea hydrothermal vents are still surface in this context) or deep in the earth?
if life originated in the earth, then I think there’s a very high probability every single rocky planet is essentially a seed. inside of it’s core it has life and whenever the surface environment grants some long term stability, the life slowly emerges and evolves into different forms.
so how would extra terrestrial beings and humans interact in the next 10 years?
basically, I think there’s a chance (although low on such a short time scale as 10 years) that we will discover life on another planet. or at least some very significant signs of life. either on Mars or Venus or some Galilean moon, etc.
So I believe in aliens only in a statistical sense. There is a lot of space out there so SOMETHING has to be elsewhere. But those same stats tell me that the odds of it being intelligent is low, intelligent enough to contact us very low, existing at the same time as us (since we are a blip in the history of the universe) astronomically low and having the ability, or desire, to travel to us hilariously, laughably, insanely low.
I don’t think people who say aliens have been to earth are serious people. Sorry.
