After watching a few videos on youtube and looking at new pictures I know have a new understanding of the vastness of the universe.
I mean, I know people always say we are the only intelligent life in the universe, but how is that possible.
There are millions of stars in each galaxy and billions upon billions (possibly trillions) of galaxies in the universe, so the question should not be "Is there intelligent life?"
It should really just be a statement. "We are not the only civilization, but we will never find the others."
What do you think?
Light_Destroyer
100billion galaxies x 100billion stars = 10 000 billion total stars, or 10 trillion stars in the universe, each star with the possibility of planets orbitting it, each planet with the possibility of life.
So our Sun has Earth orbitting it which has life, but the Sun is only 1/10000000000000th (10 trillionth) of the universe and omg lol.
Dude there can be thousands of other life forms in the Universe...thousands...at least hundreds easily. And they can be like millions of years more advanced than us. Damn sexy aliens. And maybe they're perfect in every shape and would put Jessica Alba in shame. Aw sexy...evolved body parts...boobies...hmm...I'd tap an alien.
Seriously though, it's ridiculous to say we're the only form of intelligent life in the whole universe. There could be other civilizations that are at least a million years ahead of us in technology!
Whether God exists or not, it's ignorant to say we're the only intelligent life form in the WHOLE Universe.
We may or may never find the others. The population of Earth is growing incredibly fast. The survival of our species will depend on us moving out in space, because I don't see how in a thousand years everyone can fit on Earth, heck a million years. We may be able to be so technologically advanced that we can go through wormholes or whatever they're called, to "transport" to other parts of the Universe!
Homo sapiens have only been around for like 15000 years, and look how much we've advanced. Heck, just look how much we've advanced in the last 200 years. And those other civilizations out there, may have been around for millions of years (meaning the most recent species, such as for us it's Homo Sapiens).
Hawking has made several comments suggesting that the human race may become extinct within the next thousand years. "unless we spread into space ... [as] there are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet"
Though, maybe the Population on Earth will be prevented from growing too much by natural events. In history, there has been many natural disasters that have taken away a lot of life. Global Warming is natural, and perhaps that will help reduce the population numbers by a lot, where only the humans with certain genes will survive, and again, continueing on.
And if these natural events do not occur within the next thousand years or so, then the world will go insane because of high population. Insane as in....chaos, making war on eachother in order to reduce the population, but incidently causing the death of all humankind. For example...there may be 2 alliances, and after nuclear war, the whole Earth will be covered because of the effect, and the world will be dark, and cold. Carl Sagan explained in an interview on CNN a long time ago, how nuclear war can affect the Earth, where one nation's actions can affect everyone.
Remember, that we humans are advanced because of our brains. We aren't the strongest, we can't fly, our advantage is in our brains and our ability to communicate thoroughly.
What if other forms of life are more intelligent than us, but also strong!? The possibilities are limitless. Evolution most likely has been different in those other parts, heck, we can't even think of how those other intelligent beings would look like!
Concerning Space colonization, I recommended seeing here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization
Very interesting indeed!
...the goal isn't just scientific exploration... it's also about extending the range of human habitat out from Earth into the solar system as we go forward in time. . . . In the long run a single-planet species will not survive... If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, we must ultimately populate other planets. Now, today the technology is such that this is barely conceivable. We're in the infancy of it... I'm talking about that one day, I don't know when that day is, but there will be more human beings who live off the Earth than on it. We may well have people living on the moon. We may have people living on the moons of Jupiter and other planets. We may have people making habitats on asteroids... I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond. - Current NASA chief Michael Griffin
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