[chuckinca]

NASA reports that it expects to encounter alien life forms within the next 20 years.

NASA says discovering alien life in next 20 years is 'within reach'

"Astronomers think it is very likely that every single star in our Milky Way galaxy has at least one planet."

Based on those predictions, NASA believes that there could be literally 100 million planets within our own galaxy alone that could host life."

Anybody out there?

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[l2ridehd]

I read this somewhere and may not recall the exact math, but it went something like this.

If we look at just the Milky Way Galaxy, and assume one in every 100,000 stars has a planet revolving around it, and of those, one of every 100,000 planets has the ability to sustain life, and one of the 100,000 that could actually does have life, there are 100,000 planets that have life just in our Galaxy. And there are now what, 10 known Galaxies? Maybe more by now.

Just the math alone makes it impossible not to believe there is life besides us out there. And some of that life has to be more advanced than we are.

[shcisamax]

I'm a believer. To think that we are the only ones here is, if not arrogant, completely illogical.

[DougB]

Call me arrogant.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

NASA reports that it expects to encounter alien life forms within the next 20 years. Anybody out there?

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NASA didn't say intelligent life. Even the black stuff in my shower is alive :-)

[quirky3]

What a coincidence! I am missing three hours of consciousness from last night, and found this note on my pillow....

[Taltarzac725]

Still cannot understand the Theory of the Big Bang? If there was an explosion in a vacuum would not all these particles or whatever go in all different directions? No molecules would join together to eventually somehow mutate and eventually get pulled together with others and somehow, someway create life?

Maybe, multiple Big Bangs???

There is probably life out there but still cannot see why they would want to meet us if they are intelligent and very advanced in technology. Observe us, yes. Take our resources if they needed them, perhaps.

[Tobys Dad]

I agree, there has to be more intelligent life out there, certainly not that much down here!

[DonH57]

You earthlings crack me up.

[billethkid]

what the article failed to state was who is it that is going to taxi us up there to make the discovery??

And if we are just a passenger in a vehicle of a nation that has a space budget, how much credit can we expect to claim.

Ahhhhhh, for the good old days when things like space WERE a priority!

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by DonH57

You earthlings crack me up.

Did you forget that we were told that the mother ship would be back to pick us up and bring us back to face charges if we slipped up and revealed our existence here?

[DonH57]

Originally Posted by skyguy79

Did you forget that we were told that the mother ship would be back to pick us up and bring us back to face charges if we slipped up and revealed our existence here?

Oh. Yeah. I forgot about that. I should not have trusted them and their " herb". Jeesh.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Still cannot understand the Theory of the Big Bang? If there was an explosion in a vacuum would not all these particles or whatever go in all different directions? No molecules would join together to eventually somehow mutate and eventually get pulled together with others and somehow, someway create life?

Not that it will help much, but at the time of the Big Bang there was no space, just a point of infinite density.

As space itself expanded (incidentally, the one thing that can travel faster than the speed of light) the "particles" did go in all directions and, as they slowed down and cooled down, gravity worked to clump them together.

[Vic&Judy]

Originally Posted by DonH57

You earthlings crack me up.

Remember ALF?????

[DougB]

Originally Posted by billethkid

what the article failed to state was who is it that is going to taxi us up there to make the discovery??

And if we are just a passenger in a vehicle of a nation that has a space budget, how much credit can we expect to claim.

Ahhhhhh, for the good old days when things like space WERE a priority!

Cab fare would be astronomical. Think it would take about 70,000 years to reach the next closest star.