My thoughts on Aliens.... (from outerspace)

[I Love Me Some Me]

I find it interesting that many who use a lack of empirical evidence of a higher power as a reason to believe God does not exist, are the same people who ignore a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of life on other planets.

[Blake]

Then why bring it up?

you didn't really read the rest of the thread.

[Blake]

I find it interesting that many who use a lack of empirical evidence of a higher power as a reason to believe God does not exist, are the same people who ignore a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of life on other planets.

I concur. I would say b2b belongs in angel luv territory, but I wouldn't want to do that to her.

I would also add that if God were somehow scientifically proven to exist, that I would think the odds for intelligent life elsewhere go up exponentially.

Without God, the odds of abiogenesis happening and then life forms not only surviving in rough condi ions, but evolving all the way up to humans intelligence levels, are low enough on their own.....but then to say that it is "probable" that it has happened the same way elsewhere in the universe is ludicrous.

[Blake]

I'm glad you admit something we already know exists is possible elsewhere in the universe. When you started talking about this being the only habitable planet anywhere, I was worried about you.

I never talked about this being the only habitable planet anywhere. Thanks for not reading.

[DarkReign]

how many planets do you know of that are capable of sustaining life?

Dont know, but hundreds are found every month and that rate is only going to increase with the launching of a new "telescope"...

The Kepler Telescope is also due to be completed, and its only mission will be to look for inhabitable planets in solar systems around distant stars. Working in approximately the same field of research, the Allen Telescope Array will feature 42 radio scopes, which will listen day and night for extra-terrestrial messages that might be on their way from another star.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/2009-...s-101809.shtml

There is also another telescope to be completed before the end of the decade (the name fails me) that will be able to see the absolute limit an optical telescope can. Meaning, this telescope will see as far as we will ever be able to using only lenses. The analogy I remember was from Earth orbit, you could read the license plate of a car on Mars with ease.

Point is, there are habitable planets in the universe. Hundreds discovered every month. There are so many in fact, that billions of dollars of government and private money is spent on the search for them.

Why is there an assumption that just because a planet is habitable that life automatically will spring from it?

I dont believe that to be assumed. I think that is the "I dont know" portion of this equation. If bacterial life is found on some meteor/planet, it will prove without a doubt that life is very common. If even basic "life" is common in inhospitable conditions of a meteor or even Mars, then its pretty safe to assume that life is much more adaptable and less delicate than we thought.

Thats all. We arent there yet...maybe we never will be. Maybe we are the only known life in the Universe. If so, that is one gigantic waste of space.

[Blake]

Dont know, but hundreds are found every month and that rate is only going to increase with the launching of a new "telescope"...

Point is, there are habitable planets in the universe. Hundreds discovered every month. There are so many in fact, that billions of dollars of government and private money is spent on the search for them.

Name the nearest planet to Earth known to be capable of sustaining human life.

If bacterial life is found on some meteor/planet, it will prove without a doubt that life is very common.

Fermi's Paradox

If so, that is one gigantic waste of space.

If God exists, then I would want to ask why the waste of space.

If not, then we are here by some crazy freak accident, with the chances of being duplicated in the same manner being "astronomically" low.

[iilluzioN]

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If you look in the lower left corner, you will see that there is another body on the picture..... I can understand that some people might want to fake an alien, but why make two, and only post pictures of one of them?
Furthermore, the head shape really reminds me of the starchild skull...


Despite criticism from established science, the skull has gathered great interest within the study of alien life....
Some people think that it is the skull of an alien, or a human/alien hybrid, based on the shape of the skull bearing similarities to the common representation of aliens as "grays"

[Blake]

great

[BacktoBasics]

Probably a still born baby or twins with harlequin syndrome. They are often used to represent alien like creatures.

[DarkReign]

Name the nearest planet to Earth known to be capable of sustaining human life.

Re-reading what I wrote...what a stupid thing to say. I forgot the keyword, "...there could be habitable planets in the universe".

Next generation of telescopes will answer these questions about possible atmospheres and even water.

I stand corrected. To answer your question directly, there are no known habitable planets.