Are we alone, If not what are they waiting for?

Hmmm, I'm sure this has prolly been discussed in detail in the past, but here goes anyway.

Do you think that we are alone in this universe, or cosmos? If not, Do you think that there are more advanced societies than us? If there are more advanced civilizations, have they contacted us? On a similar note, do you think they are waiting for a certain time when we have discovered interstellar space travel, or some other advanced technology before contacting us?

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Taken from the motion picture Contact.
If we are alone, it seems to be an aweful waste of space.

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Originally posted here by xmaddness
If we are alone, it seems to be an aweful waste of space.

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I first started reading this post, that quote up there from "Contact" is exactly what I thought of! ;)
Anyways...I believe that there is other life out there somewhere, but they haven't stumbled across us yet-or vice versa in the small amount of space that we've travelled ourselves....
About a month ago, I watched a bit of History channel about S.E.T.I. and there was actually a signal that a group found (I think it was in the '70s) that was actually arguably proven to be something other than a star, planet, or blackhole. If I remember correctly, the signal lasted for about 5 minutes...maybe somewhere else here has more info on this, but I thought it was pretty kewl......some ppl argue that it wasn't intelligent life.......

hmmmc ouldn't find any info on google about them actually recieving a signal - might take a better look for it later.......as for are we alone, I doubt it but any other civiliasations are prolly doing the same as us and scanning space for signs of life - maybe someday one of us will spot the other but with there being so much space to cover who knows when that will be??? Maybe they have found us and tried to contact us but don't have the technology to do so with anything other than radio which could take thousands of yrs to reach us...

v_Ln

I haven't seen this thought brought up that much in science or science fiction, but what if we humans are the most advanced species in the universe?

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Do you think that there are more advanced societies than us?

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Of course there are more advanced societies than us. Havent you ever been to Canada? I never knew there was a such thing as a big city that wasnt all dirty and ghetto looking until I went to Toronto.

If you're impressed with Toronto, try Vancouver next. The Canadians have clean, large cities.

Yes there is other life out there, but it exists in a different dimension.

Besides would you want to vist earth if you were from another planet. With all the trouble that is happening here chances are they would be killed for being different. I believe that if and when we finally get our **** together and stop killing each other then aliens will make contact but till then we`re on our own.

I believe that aliens would try to contact almost immediately after discovering us for several reasons-the best reason I can think of is for the exchange of information ;)

Free round of information for anyone in here!

I believe there are other civilizations out there rather than us. It would be self centered of us to think that we were the only ones in the universe. One day, probably not in this life time, we or they will find each other.

2 things to say :

1) If Aliens came here they would probably eat us! :D

2) Concerning Canada, Montréal is a nice city but beware its inhabitants, they are close to aliens and will probably abuse you and probe all your orifices! lmao :D

Scorp has been to Montreal! ;) Ok, outside of that particular city, the rest of Canada has clean cities.

There was one old short scifi story I read once... ah! Here, I found a link to a copy on the net.

The basic idea was that they realized we were too weird, nobody would want to talk to us.

lmao I went to Toronto and Vancouver too, I might have spoiled those cities too :D

My Ideas:

• Aliens do exist
• If they knew of us, that obviously means they have a higher intelligence and could learn all they wanted by viewing us secretly
• Vancouver is the best Canadian city
• We may be the most intelligent life form in the universe

I remember reading that television signals keep on going after they leave the plant. So it's possible that some alien could be watching "Laverne and Shirley" or "Survivor" right now. Which means, they have probably decided not to ever come to earth. :D But seriously, I'm not sure if there is life on other planets. Actually, the Bible doesn't say anything about it. It's possible that God may have created on other planets. I guess we will find out for sure one day.

Life on other planets does exist. I'm constantly in contact with them. And believe me, they're coming! They've just got to iron out a few bugs in their fresh SlackWare install. Apparently the control computer for the Mother Ship runs Slack...


Anyways, I better go take my medication....

If there is a higher life form out there, I hope they don't watch our television signals... They'll surely come to earth to sanitize the galaxy...

/me believes there is life

not neccessarily higher life...not neccessarily lower life, maybe they're at the same technilogical stage were at? they might not have the ability to visit or send signals to other planets...

hey bear wiht me plz i may make some sence :P
When the Big bang happend all differnet sorts of matter were, more or less blown apart, the earth is an example of matter and elements in the matter, coming together, who dissagrees wiht teh fact that the same matter may exist in another part, after all if u look up right now the distant stars are more or less other suns burning afar, life may exist close to those just like we are now. And if their is potential for life u all asume the fact that its more advanced than us, mebe in a cruel twist of fate that life is still to evolve or has died many years ago.
If their is advanced life out their may be they havent found us yet, or as a scientist said "could be lurking among us" or waiting for us to evolve, past our primate instincts to fight and kill for what we need.
Wars are very bad examples of human nature, Any of u seen rol dahls "B.F.G"? (sorry i dunno how to spell his first name) they are not allot of creatures that distroy their own kind, and the ones that u will find dont really evolve at all, and in the animal kingdom have a pointless existece.
The paralel dimension stuff i read from one of your posts, is only really scientists thinking "what would happen if this were different?" their is not such thing, only the physical can exist, and this my freinds.... the earth is definetly there.
Even if these "advaced forms" of life exist mabe they wiped theirselves out years ago, thats if they are anything like us, were getting quite close at the moment

preep
hope i made sence

As the old saying goes .. "There has to be intelligence out there since there isn't any here". Perhaps as per Star Trek's Enterprise.. we are not ready yet.

But.. I BELIEVE!

keep watching the skies!!!!!
lol ;)

v_Ln

From a mathematical stand point there has to be some type of life out there. Figure there are how many billion galaxies in the cosmos. well say 1 billion for this purpose. Okay 1 billion galaxies, in 1 galaxy there has to be at least 1 million solar systems in that galaxy that have planets rotating around it. Okay 1 million, no lets just be safe and say 100,000. 100,000 solar systems in 1 galaxy. If in those 100,000 solar system if 100 have planets that are within the "life range" from the star it orbits, that means that there is a good chance that life will be able to thrive there.

So, doing the math we get 100 planets from each galaxy that may be able to sustain life. now count in the billions of galaxies and we have a pretty good chance of having life out there.

The technology aspect? I have no clue. There may be and there may not be. But I definetly know that there HAS to be life out there somewhere.