Is there life in onther planets besides earth?

I really do think that there is life on other worlds. I dont think they are big-eyed aliens. More than likely like us. My two cents

NO.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

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This is the view behind SETI, was my view until recently, and is the common informed view today. Although SETI has not yet looked everywhere, it has already covered a substantial portion of the Universe.

Chart by Scientific American

In the above diagram (courtesy of Scientific American), we can see that SETI has already thoroughly searched all star systems within 107 light-years from Earth for alien civilizations capable (and willing) to transmit at a power of at least 1025 watts, a so-called Type II civilization (and all star systems within 106 light-years for transmission of at least 1018 watts, and so on). No sign of intelligence has been found as of yet.

In a recent email to my research assistant, Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute points out that a new comprehensive targeted search, called Project Phoenix, which has up to 100 times the sensitivity and covers a greater range of the radio dial as compared to previous searches, has only been applied thus far to 500 star systems, which is, of course only a minute fraction of the half trillion star systems in just our own galaxy.

However, according to my model, once a civilization achieves our own level (“Earth-level”) of radio transmission, it takes no more than one century, two at the most, to achieve what SETI calls a Type II civilization. If the assumption that there are at least millions of radio capable civilizations out there, and that these civilizations are spread out over millions (indeed billions) of years of development, then surely there ought to be millions that have achieved Type II status.

Incidentally, this is not an argument against the SETI project, which in my view should have the highest possible priority because the negative finding is no less significant than a positive result.

It is odd that we find the cosmos so silent. Where is everybody? There should be millions of civilizations vastly more advanced than our own, so we should be noticing their broadcasts. A sufficiently advanced civilization would not be likely to restrict its broadcasts to subtle signals on obscure frequencies. Why are they so silent, and so shy?

I love the quote from the movie contact “if we are alone in the universe that is an awful lot of wasted space”

similar questions have been asked before… you should check out these answers…

http://www.fluther.com/disc/12016/does-anybody-believe-there-is-life-in-other-planets-just-like/

http://www.fluther.com/disc/6716/does-anyone-think-aliens-exist/

http://www.fluther.com/disc/4681/do-you-believe-in-aliens/

http://www.fluther.com/disc/8702/do-believe-in-extraterrestrial/

… there’s more, but i’m too lazy to paste them all… just use search :D

Ooooh.. and to answer your question… yes

I would be surprised if there wasn’t. Our need to feel “special” sometimes overpowers logic.

I think there defiantly is….

they just haven’t visited us.

That’s a freaken long answer by that Malloc guy. No there is not any type of living substance/bacteria/life form anywhere but Earth. If you read the bible, God did not place anything anywhere else but on this Earth.

Famed astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking gave a speech at George Washington U on Earth Day. He talked about the possibility of primitive alien life form….a lucid and informed speech based on research,observation and theory AlienI – UFOS

He also spells “definitely” correctly, keeps his religious views private, and doesn’t feel that profanity is a useful or persuasive rhetorical technique.

maybe he was actually being defiant?

@zack I hear what ur saying, but man cannot be so cocky and sure of ourselves to think that with the vastness of space, there isn’t something else out there. Even if it’s microscopic.

Zack In Black – For you to completely dismiss the possibility of any living substance or life form on other planets other than Earth simply because “The Bible says so!” is absolutely ridiculous. I guess that means slavery is okay too since The Bible clearly approves of it in several passages in both the Old and New Testaments!

@wine321, what about the vastness beyond space? the space between space? the reality beyond this reality. you can only acknowledge what is tangible, for everything else there is either god, atheism or agnosticism.

The real question is Is there intelligent life on Earth?

From today’s NYT: For Alien Life-Seekers, There is Hope

Registration is free; brush up on your elementary astrophysics.

there definatly is. how else do you explain all the ufo sightings out there.

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Ow. My ears.

@AstroChuck: But, lo, there definatly is..

yes there is a debate going on that is signs of life on mars
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/viking_life_010728-1.html
i also think that there is life out there and that they do come here to observe us and watch us to see where we are with our technology and to see what we’re like there are prob thousands of years ahead of us tech wise and have prob been around longer than that