is there life out there?

[MoonWatcher]

IMO yes there is life out there
inteligent life
dont think so

[Sub-zero]

IMO yes there is life out there
inteligent life
dont think so

What do you consider intelligent? Not humans, I hope.

[MoonWatcher]

the ability to suppress one's natural instincts
like if I see a dirty puddle of water and im thirsty
i wont drink out of the puddle

[-ChozoChild-]

What do you consider intelligent? Not humans, I hope.

My definition of an intelligent being is a being that is capable of thinking and acting on it's own.

So animals are intelligent, humans are intelligent so on and so forth. Other things that are living but may or may not be intelligent are bacteria, viruses, fungi--they live but I don't think they they are intelligent.

[LesserChozo]

So animals are intelligent, humans are intelligent so on and so forth. Other things that are living but may or may not be intelligent are bacteria, viruses, fungi--they live but I don't think they they are intelligent.

You may be surprised. It all starts with a rogue bacterium.

The universe isn't actually expanding. The truth is that it wraps around itself in an infinite loop, so if you were to head off in a straight line in any direction you would eventually return to the point from which you started; albeit a long, long, long, looooong time later.

But honestly, there are estimated 100 - 400 billion stars in our own Milky Way alone. It has also been estimated to have a minimum of 6 billion planets; that's 6%. But here's this:

If life can only arise under a narrow set of initial conditions, Forgan estimates there should be 361 advanced, stable civilizations in the Milky Way. If life can spread from one planet to another through biological molecules embedded in asteroids, though, the number jumps to nearly 38,000.

I couldn't give you the math on that one, but it's very small. So, considering the size of the Milky Way, 100,000 light years(ly) x 1,000 ly, and that our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 ly away, there is little chance of meeting up with any of our galactic community any time soon.(read: centuries)

*One light year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year; 10 trillion kilometers(10,000,000,000).

[-ChozoChild-]

You may be surprised.


It all starts with a rogue bacterium.

You might be right. :3

[Redwing]

When did this topic get resurrected?

I think creativity is also a pretty important factor. You can't build a society without it. But, I suppose intelligence would suffice for alien life, just not a very interesting one.