Let me explain better: The likelyness (and luckyness) of Earth being the only planet with life is 1 out of 1000000000000, if there were exactly one trillion planets. Simple, right? Though, since we are the only planet in the Milky Way with life, and let's estimate 10 planets in each galaxy, 1 out of 100000000000. Still, not liking those odds? And, really, even something like a germ could be considered as an 'Alien'. But, seeing as we do not know how many planets have water, we could take off two or three more zeroes. 1 one of 100000000. To me- maybe to a lot of others too- this explains a lot. (Though I wrote this from scratch right now :P)
just saying if you believe in Christianity or really any other of the major religions aliens would disprove basically all ur religions...
Unless those Aliens held frighteningly similar religious beliefs. Then that would actually go a LONG way towards supporting whatever religion correlated.
One small planet that is orbiting just one star doesn't hold too much significance.
It does when that planet holds a species advanced enough you can see signs of civilization from space.
A lot of people assume that if there are other forms of life out in the universe, those forms of life will be WAY smarter than us and have giant spaceships to traverse the galaxy.
Couple of reasons for this. If we don't have the technology to determine if life is on a planet hundreds of light years a way, much less a way to even realistically travel out of our own solar system and back, any species that came here would have those abilities and subsequent technological advances that would have occurred while they were developing that technology for travel.
Let's suppose there are other living things in the universe. In fact, this is highly probable. Let's suppose further that getting to any of these other planets is just impossible. This is also probably highly likely. With this in mind, does it matter whether life exists elsewhere? If we'll never be able to contact or even verify its existence, does this become a senseless question?
Actually scientists have spotted a planet that could have life, but it's like 3 million light years away.
Are you joking? They recently found a planet only 22 light-years away that could potentially hold life. It holds the nice name of GJ 667Cc, if you need more than that article.
Let's suppose there are other living things in the universe. In fact, this is highly probable. Let's suppose further that getting to any of these other planets is just impossible. This is also probably highly likely. With this in mind, does it matter whether life exists elsewhere? If we'll never be able to contact or even verify its existence, does this become a senseless question?
There could be other ways to verify the existence of life elsewhere in the galaxy besides going to these planets. If we could discover a way of detecting the gases in these planets atmospheres that could tell us if there is life or not. For example if an alien race wanted to know if our planet had life and had this ability they would see the high oxygen levels in our atmosphere and be able to tell from that, that there is life on this planet.
The importance of it is understanding life on other worlds could help give us a better understanding of life here.
Are you joking? They recently found a planet only 22 light-years away that could potentially hold life. It holds the nice name of GJ 667Cc, if you need more than that article.
Lol that's a picture of Earth you realise. The Unites States. So :P on that.
