but just cuz there is a lot of planets, doens't mena there's a lot of life. on earth we're very very lucky. we live on a planet that isn't stagnate. there is a lot of change. freezing, melting, and flow of air, circulation.
just talking about this solar system, we have Jupiter to collect a lot of asteroids that could just help destroy the planet and it's stable environment, we have the asteroid belt after that to help knock anything else out.
then in the milky way, were on the outer edge, not far enough away that we'd freeze, but not too close to the center everything would be on fire. closer in there is a higher density of matter and more destructive asteroids.
asteroids could destroy us, and we didn't even fucking know about them until very recently, looking at how long humanity has been around.
then the milky way galaxy not being a galaxy that is near another galaxy, even though we're on a crash course with another one in a few hundred billion years, i think.
if you look at it as number of planets = life, or number of stable planets, that although is not like earth, but is similar that won't be pummeled by massive rocks that can literally change the entire atmosphere of the planet of hundreds of years.
yea, not as much. we live on a knifes edge. we watch star trek, star wars, star gate, and babylon 5, and think that anywhere we go is good enough for life. just find the closest class M planet.
we maybe one of the few planets that have what we have to be stable and habitable. some think the asteroid belt was another planet that was destroyed by another meteor.
helps make the universe that much smaller.
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I basically agree with Halph. Life elsewhere in the universe may exist but it can't be taken for granted just because there are lots of stars and galaxies out there. That's too simplistic because the requirements for life are very, very numerous. And if any of these requirements change even a little, then life either suffers or gets wiped out. And even when a planet (such as ours) contains an atmosphere that is hospitable to life, it can still be subject to attack from asteroids. Indeed, on several occasions life on earth was very almost wiped out completely. But thankfully it didn't and if Earth can do it, maybe others have done it too. Hope so.
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oh don't get me wrong, i know the chances of life out there are very slim, but i think its a bit naive of us all to think that we are the only planet in this vast vast universe that carry lifeforms of any description - life doesn't have to be an advanced civilisation - it can be bacteria, it can be any living thing, even a complex organism..
we will never know....unless we find them...or they find us first....or they have already found us and are simply watching us (what a fascinating species we are - human beings - predictable creatures
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Originally posted by Ketz
oh don't get me wrong, i know the chances of life out there are very slim, but i think its a bit naive of us all to think that we are the only planet in this vast vast universe that carry lifeforms of any description - life doesn't have to be an advanced civilisation - it can be bacteria, it can be any living thing, even a complex organism..
we will never know....unless we find them...or they find us first....or they have already found us and are simply watching us (what a fascinating species we are - human beings - predictable creatures
) ok i'm waffling now....and slightly pissed
like i said.. anal probes at the ready.. oh sorry, that's the USA..
Scientists nowadays don't see the universe as the biggest thing surrounding us. They even use the term "Multiverse".
When I start to think about the "container" for those muliverses and what that would be I get really dizzy and scared.
I remember the end scenes of the movie "Man in Black"... not even all that stupid or?
The chance of finding intelligent life out there is very very small.
Given equal conditions for life to develop, just look at the earths timeline and look at the little bit of it where human life was active. The chance that this is happening at the exact same time on another planet is damn small.
Science Fiction tries to give you the freedom to believe that we're not stuck on this piece of stinking rock (stinking because we basically ruined it).
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