Do you believe that there are other life forms than humans in the universe?

We want so badly for there to be other being more advanced that will come and peacefully solve our problems, or at least be interesting…what if WE are the most advanced beings out there so far? What if aliens came to us and needed help?

It’d be highly unlikely that there isn’t. And this question has been discussed soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times on Fluther.

@nocountry2 That’d be kind of sad, most of us humans don’t even know how to live the lives we’re given successfully. If we’re the most advanced, yikes. Though we’ve accomplished and succeeded in a lot and still continue to do so..there’s a lot we’ve progressively fucked up and continue to fuck up on/with.
@girlofscience I was thinking about it, so I asked. New around here and didn’t check the tags, sorry if seeing the question again irked you.

I think it was Carl Sagan who postulated that, with the astronomically large amount of celestial bodies in the universe, there is a better than average possibility that some type of life form or forms probably exist in other parts of the universe.

As far as my personal views on this question, I would very much like to believe that we are not alone in the universe but without evidence to support that, who really knows?

Seems more believable then the magic man in the sky theory.

i met this girl the other day and she was an alien. But, green is my favourite colour

I believe its possible.. but I also believe that said life would not be sentient.

It’s statistically possible but I wouldn’t go as far as the Fox Mulder “I want to believe” “They are among us” crap.

I think there are more life forms, it’s simply probable when we consider the massive size of the universe and the millions of billions of planets.

The question is, did they exist in the past, do they exist now, or will they exist in the future? Similarly, how far developed are they? Are they a space-faring species?

Regardless, space is where we need to go. I agree with Stephen Hawking’s thought that humanity is doomed if we stay on Earth without colonizing other planets – it’s just too many eggs in a basket that continues to change and break and mend itself.

I wrote a small essay on this here.

onesecondregrets is on to me, must get back to mother ship now

Statistically, yes.

Do you believe that there are other life forms than humans in the universe?

Well, there’s dogs and cats and horses and flies and mosquitos and badgers and raccoons and beetles and birds and flora and fauna.
Probably not what you meant though

Yes. It’s a pretty big place, I’m sure there is something somewhere.

with the size of the universe…. it wouldn’t surprise me at all that there is at least SOMETHING else out there, otherwise it’s just impractical.. why have a universe that’s .. well the size of a universe with only one world in it?

I’m with Carl Sagan on this one… It’s quite improbable that there ISN’T other life. We should also keep in mind that humans are very late to the game (there were complex dominant beings on this planet – dinosaurs – for 700 million years before we came along) and earth is a relatively young planet in a relatively young solar system. So, if we ever did meet other sentient beings, odds are that they would be many millions of years, and potentially hundreds of millions of years, more advanced than we are. So, who’s to say what is or isn’t possible at that point.

Yes. What Empress said.

Agreed. We make up for such a minuscule part of everything that it seems ridiculous that we’d be all alone here.

why not? i think it’s a huge possibility. i think humanity in general is a bit conceited to think that we’re the only ones that can be alive. however this is coming from a person with absolutely no scientific knowledge, but my guess is that if space is as huge and endless or whatever, we can’t possibly know everything about it.

@tennesseejac well was she a deliciously green alien?
@jonsblood no, you don’t have to go back to the mothership..just phone home. LOLZ.
@fireside way to be a literal lindsey with the question, geez. just kidding. haha.
@richardhenry that was really interesting, haha. not surprising you said you’ve been into it for a long time by what you’ve kind of theorized. “There probably has been life exactly like us an uncountable amount of times before, and there will be again, all over our local bit of the universe and beyond. Is it there right now? Local enough for us to speak to? Probably not.”...absolutely agree with that statement.

Everyone else who answered pretty much has similiar views, that there is quite the possibility of other life forms than the human race. I am completely on that level. I just started reading about the Pleiadeans recently, and though a lot is hogwash..just an interesting concept to ponder.

Do you believe that there are other life forms than humans in the universe?

I could introduce you to my ex-wife…..