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Who belives aliens are real?
If so explain why
12 Answers
- ?Lv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
There are billions of stars, solar systems, and planets in this galaxy alone. There are millions of other galaxies out there too and possibilities of multiple universes. Only an ignorant fool would say we are the only planet that has a form of life.
- Fred FLv 78 years ago
With an estimated 13 billion Earth like planets in the known universe, I would think the odds would be favorable to alien life some where other than Earth.
- PaulLv 78 years ago
We have discovered over a thousand rocky exoplanets in the fantastically short time we've been able to do so. I find it highly unlikely that at least some of them don't harbour some form of life, given how abundant both water and the molecules for life are in the universe (amino acids have been detected in distant nebulae).
But if that life is intelligent is debatable. And it's a near certainty it has never come to visit. The distances are simply too great, not to mention other factors.
- 8 years ago
it depends on what you mean by aliens... Humanoid aliens are rather ridiculous in that life on earth all stemmed from the same cell organisms that came about due to specific climate, gravitational, and atmospheric conditions... Thusly, being bi-lateral... 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 ears...... that won't work in another galaxy....
To say that the universe is infinitely big is not entirely accurate. I'll argue that the chance of life on earth was a series of events so astronomically unlikely that its a bigger number than the universe is expansive.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
There will be alien life in the universe because of the sheer numbers of stars, so the probability of life developing on one of them is unbelievably high, if not a certainty. However, we might never be able to contact them and almost certainly won't be able to visit them unless Einstein was wrong because of the sheer time it would take to reach them.
- 8 years ago
In my mind it makes sense to assume that there is more 'life' of some sort out there. I have nothing to prove this, but I also have nothing to disprove this. So I suppose in these cases it makes most sense to be open-minded, for it we came to exist then who's to say that something else didn't? Likewise who's to say that it did? So I suppose you have to just stay open-minded to both possibilities, though logic does side with the possibility of existence.
- Anonymous8 years ago
It is very possible. I don't really think that an alien like creature like we see in movies, I belive that there is PLANTS not an alien creature.
- 8 years ago
Be more specific.
Do you mean here? other planets? The aliens from Predator vs. Alien? Or do you mean do there are aliens that exist but either do not want to contact us, tried to and failed or haven't the ability?
- 8 years ago
When using certain figures and estimates the drake equation states that it is highly likely (of course this is not the only equation out there)
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation - LesleyLv 58 years ago
I do. And I don't really understand why other people don't. When you look at our planet and how it's evolved, it's ridiculous to assume that this is the only planet that has evolved to sustain life.