UFO exist
By mikhaaail
@mikhaaail (62)
Philippines
4 responses
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
12 Dec 10
I assume you meant to say that aliens exist, am I correct? I know that unidentified flying objects exist, I see all sorts of things in the sky I can't identify....but it doesn't mean they are aliens. As for aliens existing, i believe they do. However, let's define "alien". Alien, as used in this discussion, would mean any form of life on a body other than earth. I believe in the next 50 years, we will find "life" is fairly common. I believe single celled organisms may be found deep in the soil of mars. I believe that single cell life and perhaps even very simple life forms may be found in the oceans of Europa and Enceladus(a very small moon around Saturn with liquid water geysers). I believe that simple life may be common in the universe.
However, when you start escalating that to alien civilizations, especially advanced enough for space travel....I believe these to be very rare. The reason being is that the conditions for life are fleeting in terms of cosmic time. In order for a species to become that advanced, conditions for life must remain stable for very extended periods of time...and such events are rare in the universe.
As for being advanced enough to achieve interstellar travel (travel between stars)....well, now you're talking about something that would probably be extremely rare, if at all possible. And the likelihood of us ever encountering such a civilization are almost zero. Think for a minute about the size of the universe and the distance between stars. Our nearest neighbor star is several light years away and it isn't a very friendly star either...the conditions for life on planets surrounding this binary star system probably didn't happen as it is a very hostile system. And the next nearest star is a dozen light years away....then we start getting in to hundreds of light years away...then thousands...then millions...etc. In order to travel that far, a species would have to develop near light speed travel. And to travel between some stars, even light speed would not be anywhere near fast enough as the trip could still take thousands of years.
So, while I believe that there may well be other civilizations out there, we will likely never see them or have any way of knowing they are there as they are likely so rare. In fact, it is possible that one may have been somewhat near us (closer than 5000 light years from us) and it could well already have come and gone a million years ago...and we would never have even known it ever existed. Besides, we have no evidence at all that any of these civilizations ever visited us.
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
13 Dec 10
Just to add a little thing to your awesome comment it is from the Discovery Channel I believe Science Channel version of Discovery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftF8sXzoWk
@mikhaaail (62)
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
@xfahctor,yeah i mean ufo that used also by alien..it was a great explanation that you made.thanks for it.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
17 Dec 10
Joey:
Michio rocks!!!! Love this guy. Quite possibly one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists out there, and still able to explain things in a way that even an idiot like me can understand.
Mikhaaail:
Glad to be able to contribute to the conversation. Things like this and nearly anything astronomically related fascinate me.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
14 Dec 10
I never see UFO but millions have seen them, and in many countries too
so yes I believe UFO exist
there must be other life forms occupying other planets than Earth
you can see ancient drawings on ancient structures walls
extraterrestrials have been in contact with our ancestors for thousands of years
true I'm not a scientist, but I'm sure the ancients had better things to do than writing tablets and carving things on the wall
they wouldn't do that if not because it's important legacy for future generations
@yumcookie (146)
• United States
13 Dec 10
I don't know to be honest. There is a good possibility that they are out there somewhere but the answer may never be known. There is no real proof of aliens being around. For all we know all these UFO sitings could be just government testing new equipment or something.
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