The thought of being alone in the universe scares me. All of this room just for us, and we are incapable to explore it fully because of our physical and technological state.
But the thought of something else being out there scares me too.
I mean, with all the jerkweeds that are on our world today, what with all of their nuclear weapons and crap, Earth will probably go to hell soon. Like, next 150 years soon. There will be no human race because the human race blew themselves off the face of the earth, and the only thing I can think about is the humans dying out, and the universe would still be going on. All the things that we researched about the universe would still go on. It would expand with no life; nothing but gaseous planets and stars to be formed. If I could only be immortal, I would just sit back and see how humanity develops.
Really it gets narrowed down to two quotes in my eyes:
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Saying there isn’t any other life in the Universe is like scooping up a glass of water from the ocean and saying there are no sharks in it.” – Forgotten name
✅ Answers
Answerer 1
The answer lies in science and the laws of probability and the fact that the speed of light is finite and constant at 300,000,000 meters/sec
At current level of scientific knowledge and the fact that mass can never reach the value c;that means weare doomed to stay on earth until the day we die.What we learn about the universe is via telescopes and sensors.Landing man on the moon was fantastic but scientiffically trivial The nearest star is 2.2 light years way (which means the round trip distance is 4.4 lightyears) Do you math and calculate how long it take a space vehicle to make the round trip.You will convince yourself it is technically and cost wise not possible,
What sounds like bad news is to my mind good news! Preserve the earth or lose it
!Do you believe the god that sends earthquakes and tsunamis will save you You do! Then why does he send natural disasters to kill us?
Religions appear to be man made but currently we do understand why
Putting aside mam made religions; consider the billions of galaxies containing billions of stars and planets Are we alone? YES an NO . We certainly are alone on this planet Earth; but what kind of hubris is required to believe that a creator wasted his time and energy to create the galaxies and no other life forms
Source(s):
common sense and wikipedia
Answerer 2
I definitely think that we’re not alone.
Call me a science geek or whatever, but how could we be the ONLY planet with life when there are more planets, galaxies & nebulas than we can fathom? Maybe there isn’t any life in THIS galaxy, but what about the other trillions of galaxies? Are they just empty, with planets there simply to “fill up space”?
And look at the Mars statues. I don’t think there’s like there anymore, but I think there probably was at one time.
Oh, and another thing. People claim Earth is the ONLY planet that could inhabit life. Well, could a penguin survive in the desert? No. Other species of alien could survive in completely different conditions.
Answerer 3
I think that we are alone. I think that you should put your faith in God, and you might not feel so alone anymore. It’s great to have God on your side, and when the human race does actually destroy itself, you will always have God. I don’t know what religion you are apart of, if any, but Christianity is great and helps you stop wondering about the world so much because you know why we are here and who created it all. Just a little though, don’t mean to be shoving my beliefs down your throat though.
Answerer 4
It’s a matter of how one looks at things…
Is it possible for life to exist around some other stars? Yes, and the probability is quite high.
Is the dominant species out there sapient? Maybe, but probably not – most sapients are too likley to be agreesive, and they are likley to be like mexican sandcrabs – the ones that might escape are pulled back by the ones that want to be close to escape.
WIll our species blow itself up? Maybe not, but we’re like the same mexican sandcrabs – we are too interested in ourselves to make the effort to really escape from the confines of the earth — too many do-gooders who are trying to make everything safe, so that no one can get anything done.
Answerer 5
I personally thing we aint alone of you think about it the solar system was made from a very hot gas cloud some billions of years ago and during the early life of Planet Earth it was bombarded with Asteroids, Metors, Meterorites and Comets now Comets carry the main ingredient for the Orgin Of LIfe and that’s H20 (water) if Comets bombarded another plant with the same type of H20 anything is possible the Universe is expanding rapidly we have only Discoverd 0000.9% of the universe so we may not be alone
Answerer 6
I wonder if our weapons or our climate modifications are really up to the job?
I think sometimes we equate our own modern Western culture with human civilization with human life with intelligent life on Earth with all life on Earth. Think about the last ice age, which humans survived, and the one before it, same … I’m not saying the people around 1000 years from now will speak English, enjoy reality TV, and listen to iPods; I’m just saying that our species has adapted to some harsh circumstances before, and likely will again.
Of course we are a species, and all species eventually go extinct, as far as I can tell. So, in our time, we will go. But there are other big-brained, object-manipulating terrestrial species out there and perhaps they should get their chance.
I agree with you and Clarke that both possibilities about the population of the Universe are terrifying. But in a way that’s good — it means we aren’t tempted to choose one just for comfort. We can wait until we have, at least, the ability to see reflected light off the cloud-tops of distant planets. That time is coming soon, and if we are to judge by what has happened with exoplanets so far, it will be weirder than we can anticipate.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equat…
http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex…
Answerer 7
Absolutely not.
The universe is so incredibly massive that it is almost guaranteed. It’s ludicrous to think that there is not other intelligent life elsewhere.