Post by Terrapin Station on May 14, 2018 17:16:50 GMT
There was another thread like this that I commented on recently.
Anyway, I agree with you. I don't think there's any way there isn't life on other planets. I think it would even be very surprising if there weren't living things on multiple other moons, planets, etc. in our own solar system.
But I also don't believe that any intelligent aliens capable of space travel have visited our planet yet. Interstellar, manned space travel is an enormous hurdle--even to get to the nearest stars. We're nowhere near that yet. We're struggling to even get a manned mission to our nearest planet. The chances that any alien species would be traveling to many different stars (and their attendant planets) and especially that they'd just happen upon our star and our planet are infinitesimal, especially given the apparent age of the universe and the likely timescale required and possibly slim chances for intelligent life capable of that sort of technology, social and physiological stability to evolve.
Anyway, I agree with you. I don't think there's any way there isn't life on other planets. I think it would even be very surprising if there weren't living things on multiple other moons, planets, etc. in our own solar system.
But I also don't believe that any intelligent aliens capable of space travel have visited our planet yet. Interstellar, manned space travel is an enormous hurdle--even to get to the nearest stars. We're nowhere near that yet. We're struggling to even get a manned mission to our nearest planet. The chances that any alien species would be traveling to many different stars (and their attendant planets) and especially that they'd just happen upon our star and our planet are infinitesimal, especially given the apparent age of the universe and the likely timescale required and possibly slim chances for intelligent life capable of that sort of technology, social and physiological stability to evolve.