Are we alone out there?

[picholas]

A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space

EDIT:

More info from Astronomers Telegram (the scientific mumbo jumbo for those who care)
ATel #11901: First detection of fast radio bursts between 400 and 800 MHz by CHIME/FRB

 

[NorthMich]

It’s me. I left the toaster door open

 

[picholas]

It’s me. I left the toaster door open

Is that why it suddenly sounds like Taylor Swift?

 

[MindlessWork]

It’s alien music

 

[NorthMich]

Star Radio

 

[Eman]

 

[picholas]

I still can't wrap my head around time slowing down relative to you as you approach the speed of light. Time dilation *shudder*

I'm a biology guy. Some chemistry. Physics was never my forte.

 

[NorthMich]

I think any physical “laws” as we understand them might be out the window in another 100,000 years.

Old aliens = better tech

 

[Sparkyp]

Nobody in 2018 can still possibly believe we are the only living planet.
Space is beyond massive. Billions and billions of universes with many more billions of planets and stars. To think we are the only life in the entire universe is small minded.

There has to be life out there light years ahead of us in every aspect and other civilizations light years behind us

 

[Eman]

Nobody in 2018 can still possibly believe we are the only living planet.
Space is beyond massive. Billions and billions of universes with many more billions of planets and stars. To think we are the only life in the entire universe is small minded.

People in 2018 still believe in a flat Earth, that the dinosaurs never existed and that a dude in the clouds created the Earth 5000 years ago. So yeah, I'm thinking there are still people small minded enough to think we're alone. Lol.

 

[Sparkyp]

People in 2018 still believe in a flat Earth, that the dinosaurs never existed and that a dude in the clouds created the Earth 5000 years ago. So yeah, I'm thinking there are still people small minded enough to think we're alone. Lol.

Lol. True.
Your post reminds me of one of George Carlin’s skits

 

[NorthMich]

Eman has a point

 

[picholas]

I should have specified, sentient alien life. I'm sure there's microorganisms, single celled life, and simple life forms equivalent of insects, fish, crustaceans, lizards, etc. I'm sure there's even the equivalent of space cows and pigs out there.

But do you think there is intelligent life out there, intelligent enough to challenge our own, perhaps surpass ours?

 

[NorthMich]

For sure. The Milky Way is young relative to elsewhere

 

[AnTabolic73]

Nobody in 2018 can still possibly believe we are the only living planet.
Space is beyond massive. Billions and billions of universes with many more billions of planets and stars. To think we are the only life in the entire universe is small minded.

There has to be life out there light years ahead of us in every aspect and other civilizations light years behind us

I never liked the whole probability arguement to prove life exists out there. There's billions of planets so there has to be life out there? That's not really proof.

 

[NorthMich]

Well, math is math. The probability is staggeringly in mathematical favor of other life.

If there is no other life out there, then something purposely eliminated it, and that’s far less likely.

 

[picholas]

Do you think it is possible that life exist at a higher plane of existence?

 

[Eman]

I never liked the whole probability arguement to prove life exists out there. There's billions of planets so there has to be life out there? That's not really proof.

You must have been real popular with your math teachers growing up.

 

[Sparkyp]

The Milky Way is 1 galaxy that has millions of solar systems and billions of planets. There billions of galaxies holding infinite amount of planets.
I’d bet anything there many thousands of planets if not more of which that have single cell organisms and intelligent life. Intelligent life less than, equal and more advance than ours.

Sure, no proof. But with that many planets it just has to be. How can the universe be around for so long yet life sprung only after earth cooled a few billion years ago? What about all of the other planets? There’s only trillions of them. A few have to have perfect conditions like earth

 

[AnTabolic73]

The Milky Way is 1 galaxy that has millions of solar systems and billions of planets. There billions of galaxies holding infinite amount of planets.
I’d bet anything there many thousands of planets if not more of which that have single cell organisms and intelligent life. Intelligent life less than, equal and more advance than ours

Sure, no proof. But with that many planets it just has to be. How can the universe be around for so long yet life sprung only after earth cooled a few billion years ago? What about all of the other planets? There’s only trillions of them. A few have to have perfect conditions like earth

I hear what you're saying. It's just not proof. You think if you flipped a coin a billion times you could get heads 10 times in a row? 100 times? Maybe. You think it would ever land on its edge? Never. Humans are like landing a coin on its edge.

I'm not saying life cant exist out there. But just because space is seemingly infinite isn't proof enough for me. What'd would you expect, for space to just end? For it to just stop at a certain point?

Its gonna go as far as we can observe, but the key is it takes an observer.

(And yes I see the irony in using probability to try and disprove an argument on probability)