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[einstein314emc2]

I was wondering how many people believe there is extraterrestrial life out there? How about intelligent extraterrestrial life? With the billions of galaxies, and billions of stars in each galaxy, I certainly think its guaranteed there is life out there. I run SETI@Home, but I don't think we'll make contact. Space is just to big, but who knows.

 

[ryfso]

I hope so. My main hope is that their biology is fundmentally different from ours, like they are comprised of silicon and not carbon or something.

Oh, and hot alien chicks for me to make some hybrids with.

 

[revolutio]

Most likely, intelligence is less likely than life but still likely.

Assuming no catastrophes contact is inevitable, but the time frame might place it millions of years from now.

 

[Brahe]

My position on the matter is that it's most certainly possible that there's extra-terrestrial life and that some of it may be intelligent. However, that's a long way from it being probable that there's intelligent life not from Earth. Sure, there's a lot of stars out there, and many of them could certainly host planets orbiting in the habitable zone. However, without better data on abiogenesis and the probability of intelligent life evolving, it's impossible to give odds on the matter. The Earth may very well be unique in the universe in its hosting of life. Or other planets may host life in abundance, but all of it's unicellular. Or we may be the first intelligent species to arise, and there are numerous other candidate species out there whose descendants will be intelligent. Or humans could be just one of millions of sapient species in our galaxy.

 

[einstein314emc2]

My position on the matter is that it's most certainly possible that there's extra-terrestrial life and that some of it may be intelligent. However, that's a long way from it being probable that there's intelligent life not from Earth. Sure, there's a lot of stars out there, and many of them could certainly host planets orbiting in the habitable zone. However, without better data on abiogenesis and the probability of intelligent life evolving, it's impossible to give odds on the matter. The Earth may very well be unique in the universe in its hosting of life. Or other planets may host life in abundance, but all of it's unicellular. Or we may be the first intelligent species to arise, and there are numerous other candidate species out there whose descendants will be intelligent. Or humans could be just one of millions of sapient species in our galaxy.

I agree we need better data. But what I find interesting is the thought of how advanced other intelligent civilizations might be. Just look how much we've advanced in the past 100, years, and then imagine a civilization that passed that leval of technology a million years ago.

 

[Starcrystal]

Oh, and hot alien chicks for me to make some hybrids with.

Thats what they thought in Genesis 6 and it led to disaster. Besides, I don't think the froggy little grays are too "hot"

I already stated my views on what these creatures really are on other threads, so here I'll just answer the poll.....