Do you believe we will find life elsewhere in our Galaxy?

lets see, there are billions of galaxies in our universe. there are hundereds of thousands to millions of solar systems in each galaxy. there are a few planets in each solar system. so if you do the math, you have about 1,000,000,000*500,000*3.5 planets that could have life. im guessing that there is life out there.

It depends who you mean by "we". I normally take this type of question as meaning "anyone alive today", in which case my answer would be a pessimistic "no".

However, it could mean our present civilization(s), i.e., people who still remember what (and why) we are looking for. In that case, my answer would be a definite "maybe".

My pessimism comes from the last times I worked with the Drake equation (gives the "estimated" number of intelligent civilizations, capable of interstellar communication" per galaxy). When it first came out, optimists found estimates of 10,000 -- even 100,000 -- civilizations per galaxy.

However, as time goes on and we see all that nature can throw at worlds to prevent life from evolving properly, the numbers have been going down steadily.

The last time I looked (admittedly, a while back), the number was down to around 0.25 (= 1/4). Instead of counting the estimated number of civilizations, we were counting the number of galaxies that we'd expect to scour, before finding one such civilization.

One thing in the favor of the optimists: the expected number of civilizations per galaxy obviously cannot be 0 (we exist). Therefore it must be more than zero.

So, it is possible that there is another civilization (or more) out there. But the question (and the spirit of the Drake equation) is: will we ever find out about "them"?

As Cark Sagan put it.......there are BILLIONS and BILLIONS of stars out there and BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of planets orbit them, just like 9 planets orbit this one........(or is 8 now, since Pluto got demoted? )

So we have 8 planets just around this one star......so of alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the planets out there.,,,,,,,,,do you really think there is nothing else?

No life, anywhere ELSE? it would be impossible odds AGAINST it.

There HAS to be. We can't possibly be the only planet out of countless BILLIONS, with life on it.

That's just arrogance.

If you consider the Stargate Show mentally........it's possible there is a whole QUADRANT out there, ABUZZ with ships going back and forth..........civilizations MILLIONS of years old.

Civilizations so OLD, they have already died OUT.

Whose to say our planet WASN'T visited way back when, and they ruled it out, as no intelligent life, because all they found were dinosaurs. ?

So they moved on and looked elsewhere. ?

In the book, the Lost Teatime of the Soul, they use a time machine, to go back to the origins of man, and it turns out, the origins of man, was a space ship that crashed in the tar pits, and one sole survivor managed to crawl out of the ooze........basically, Adam.

He was the start if life in this planet. An Alien.

Stuck here, with no way home.....Earth was now his home and that's where the HUMAN story began,

Stargate also uses this premise, as do other shows , X-Files, etc.......that maybe , once upon a time, there WAS life on this planet......a great city where the Antartic is today,.

But things happened, the city was destroyed, climate change, and buried under ice.

Perhaps, it is STILL there..........merely waiting to be discovered.

In the X-Files, a spaceship washes ashore in Africa.......and the writings on it match writings from all the main religious texts.....Jewish Torahs, Bible, and Qu'ran.

But then the ship mysteriously disappears again......... aw nuts......always the luck.........

but what IF?

What IF the stories are TRUE, and they merely described what they SAW as best they could......

Bright stars in the sky......Miracles, People being raised by the dead , in a flash of light.......

who's to say?

Since you said Galaxy rather than Solar System, I assume you refer to intelligent life?

Assuming it exists, we're still not likely to find it within the next tens of thousands of years or more.

Extra terrestrial life will find us before we find them....

We've been sending out our calling card for the last 100yrs in the form or radio signals / television broadcasts....

If history has taught us anything, it's that the most powerful advanced army's conquer the weaker nations...

Maybe we are being observed now, and have been for tens of thousands of years???

Yes I do. And I believe the first life we will find will be on Mars. Not little green men but some type of microbial life.

yea i mean look at all of space why would we be the only one talk about a waste of space if anything mars would be the only planet next to ours that could have life because mars has ice caps of dry ice and rocks from mars have carbon o i forgot but thats the basic bulding block of life is carbon

Yes Of Course:)!

But Time Will Tell!

No. We haven't even had a human go anywhere but the moon since we've existed.

Clearly we have no interest in looking anywhere for alien life.

Yes, it will be exactly like mass effect