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It's my support for the continued existence of it here that waivers from time to time.

Absolutely. I still suspect that Einstein came from another planet.

Dunno, I am worried about life on this planet..

No. If I speculate and give in to the theory that the Universe is billions of years old, if there were life anywhere else, it may have evolved to a technological era where wireless communications would become a sign of technological advance and those communications should have reached us one way or the other. The Universe should be humming with interstelar communications from potentially many technologically advanced races. Yet, the Universe is silent of any intelligent sounds or signals.

Could there be life on other planets in our future? It certainly could, as we expand our exploration and encounter places that we could design genetically engineered plant life that could survive and reproduce in other harsh environment. Even as we speak, we have the technology to initiate the first steps to terraform Mars. And we have the technology to initiate chain reactions of Venus that could cause condensation of the clouds and create opening in the atmosphere that would allow heat to escape from the surface into space and cool down the planet. Further away, we can send probes with altered plant seeds on several of Jupiter's moons that have shown the potential to sustain some kinds of plant life forms. Eventually, we may master the technology of faster than light travel and reach other stars and planetary systems and terraform them to make them suitable for life.

The sky will no longer be the limit. Actually, there will be no limit anymore.

End of speculation.

it is possible. if there is life on earth,there may be a chance of life out there somewhere else. not sure what kind.would not be shocked if we get proof of life on another planet.

Some things we can't be sure of, like wether Earth has been visited by extraterrestial intelligience, or ifthere is life on other planets, but because of the ast size of the Universe it would be impossible to rule this out. However, advanced civilizations may be a rarirty or hard to find. Maybe ET's are interested in Earth because Earth like civilizations are rare in the Universe.

I hope so, and as soon as they find it, I'm ditching this popsicle stand and heading there!

I don't doubt it, but this universe is so immense, who's to know really what all is out there? I'll admit, it's sort of fun to imagine sometimes, but most of the time, I've got other things on my mind.

Why would would there be 8 other planets with no life on them?

I trick myself to believe that sometimes. Our universe is too huge only for one human race to exist. There is must be some sort of life out there.

Sure. But not necessarly the ones orbiting the earth

Probably there, if only as a matter of mathematical likelihood. If the universe is indeed without end or even so large that some suspect that it doesn't end, it stands to reason that in at least one other corner of all creation, life should exist. It may not be anything even remotely resembling us carbon-based types or aspire to do anything we could appreciate/fathom but as a matter of sheer odds, I deem it more likely than not to be out there somewhere.

Very much. The size of our galaxy alone makes it difficult to believe there is no intelligent life anywhere other than Earth. It is likely that we are just separated by both enormous amounts of space and time. Our technology can not cover the tremendous distances it would take to discover life on another planet and it might always be that way.

Without a doubt. We aren't just talking about our solar system, we know there is no other intelligent life in our solar system. There are billions of solar sytems in our galaxy, and an infinate amount of galaxies in the universe. You would have to be very close-minded and in denial if you think that we are it.

Definitely because I was from another planet and I'm usually in my own world.

Considering how wide and deep space is, absolutely. Think about it. I'm sure there are other planets that have similar atmospheres as ours and are able to sustain life somewhere in the infinity of space.

I would think that odds would be in favor of life on another planet, somewhere in the vast universe, rather than against it.

Absolutely, I think it would be ignorant not to.

Yes-It would be conceited of us to think that we are the only intelligent life in the entire span of the universe. I highly doubt that Earth is the only inhabited planet.

Let's just say that it is highly unlikely mathematically that in the whole,infinate universe we are on the only inhabited planet.This kind of egocentric thinking is exactly the same psychologically as the disproven theory that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Scientifically likely, for there is already evidence of simple organisms found elsewhere in our galaxy. Not every planet would be conducive to life, but odds are there are others out there besides ours.

I believe that singled celled microscopic bacterium may live on other planets, but I don't think other intelligent life does, not in this Solar System at least. Possibly elsewhere in the Galaxy.

Yeah, we have to believe in something, so why not in the fact that we are not alone in the univers. That would be not only boring but stupid too.

If you look at it mathematically then the odds are that there is another place similiar to earth that may provide life. I mean out of the billions and trillions of galaxies theres bound to be atleast one with features similiar to earth.

Well ofcourse their may be but not in what most people think, they may just be organisums that are adapted to thier planet, but I can't see them as geniuses wanting to concat us.

I'm sure it's out there somewhere. With the increasing sophistication of our observations, I wouldn't be surprised if first contact isn't far away, if only a radio trace.

why not we are on earth arent we. Why wouldnt there be life on other planets.

I will say that it is a possibility. If beings exist on other planets, I hope they would have a lot to teach us.

Of coarse! The universe is infinate, so not only is there life elsewhere, but there are infinate worlds just like this one with one slight difference from eachother. Well, it's just a theory, but it's cool to think that I'm rich in another universe.

There are trillions of stars contained within all the galaxies of the universe. The odds are very high that at least one of those stars will have a solar system with a planet that has a similar biosphere to Earth's. Besides, to think that we have a monopoly on life in the universe would be very selfish of us!

An almost certainty. If you think that there are like a hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone, and there are millions of galaxies detectable from earth. Not every star has a planet system, but the odds are almost certain that there is at least one star with a system much like our solar system, with conditions on at least one of its planets being suitable for supporting life. All that would be needed would be for certain chemical compounds to start self-replicating, and life would spring forth. It may not be as complex as life on earth, or sentient like human beings (mostly) are, but guaranteed there's life on other planets. We'll never get to observe this life first-hand though, as it would take millions of years to travel to most of these places even with an extremely fast space ship.

Probably. With so many other planets, there's got to be one out there with some form of life on it. Whether it's as complex as the life that exists on Earth, now, that's another story, but I'm sure there's some equivalant of a unicellular organism out there somewhere.