Well, if the referees out there each have sixteen eyes, that would be a given, one would think.
Went on a hike in Bryce Canyon a few years back with a NASA employee who explored space and it's outer reaches for over 20 years. I asked him if he thought there was other life out in the universe and his response was..."Yes, there are more stars and planets in our universe than there are grains of sand on the the face of the earth. So, yes there is very good probability that life extends beyond our solar system." Interesting thought....
There are more galaxies than there are stars in the Milky Way. I put the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial life at 1.
Life? Yes. Intelligent? Each day, I feel (we are) dumber after watching the news.
Life could mean a lot of things. Maybe plants but not animals. Hopefully not these guys
I think it's certain we'll encounter some form of life. The most likely first encounter, IMHO, will be simple microscopic organisms. We'll find them on a moon of Saturn or Jupiter. Extraterrestrial life we can communicate with?? I don't any of us will live to see that.Life could mean a lot of things. Maybe plants but not animals. Hopefully not these guys
I had read up on this a bit and the simple answer is we are so unlikely to ever find intelligent life simply because space is so huge so as to make it practically impossible to actually locate and contact and interact with a thriving civilization in real time. Essentially it's like trying to communicate across an ocean by screaming at each other from the beach. Assuming you could communicate this way, it would take such a long time for the message to travel and by the time it did get there the civilization may already be dead, or the conditions on the other side of the ocean changed (say they are now located ten miles upcoast) and they never get the message.
