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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
We seem to have the most conducive planet to life, and so far our astronomers aren't finding many other situations like ours out there beyond our solar system.
Once again, we come back to the distances involved. Matter stops being matter at the speed of light and is subject to gigantic distortions before then. If beings traveled for hundreds or thousands of years to reach us, what kind of beings would they be that they could go away from their "home" for that long, and what kind of purpose would survive on such a time scale.
Recently on Nightline, there was a cosmologist saying that since we don't seem to find Earth-like planets in any direction, and the places beyond those places are just so incredibly far away, we need to face up to the possibility that perhaps we are alone for all practical purposes, if not in fact.
Once there was a cartoon in the New Yorker which showed a professor in front of a blackboard with an incredibly long string of calculations, and at the end were these words: "And here a miracle happens."
I don't believe in miracles.
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Yes but again those are based entirely on "our" theories and what "we" as a planet know about matter and the solar system etc. I look at things as if you don't really know what is out there. Hell there could even be a Loch Ness monster for all I know, just because you havnt seen it, doesn't mean it can't exist.
Do you watch discovery? If so did you see the special called Blue Planet where they ventured deep into the ocean and found creatures that no one on earth knew existed until that show came out? Just because we don't know about another planet / life form, imo does not mean there are not any. But it's good everyone has their own opinion, it's what makes us all unique
Andy