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ParaTracker: Articles - Are Aliens Real?
Are Aliens Real?
Author Unknown
*This question was posted on Yahoo Answers nearly a year ago. I thought the answer was very good, and decided to share it here with you.
Are Aliens Real? Most likely, yes. There are at least 70 billion trillion stars out there. I wrote an article arguing with the "non-believers" the likelihood of the existence of aliens.
Are we really alone in this universe?
This question has been burning us for decades: are we really alone in this universe? There are strong reasons for why aliens should exist and why aliens shouldn’t exist. However,
before I bring up the reasons, I just want to make sure that you know what an alien really is. An alien is not something mystical; it is simply life (preferably intelligent) on another
planet.
Some people don’t believe in aliens, some just don’t believe them because they’re like ghosts, but others have stronger reasons. “Earth is very rare. Everything is just perfect on
Earth. First of all, our star is not too bright, and not too faint. We’re just at the right distance from it to have temperatures in the comfortable zone. We have a large moon that stables
our rotation, or else Earth tumbles in its orbit. One day the Earth tilts 35 degrees and another day it tilts 90 degrees, with the moon, Earth is always tilted at 23.5 degrees. We have a
large Jupiter to divert the comets away from Earth or we’ll be bombarded with them every single year. We have a cloud that surrounds our solar system and that cloud prevents all
the biggest comets from demolishing our solar system. And lastly, we have oxygen, and we have water. You need all that just for life. That’s very rare; perhaps we’re alone in this
universe,” stated the “non-believers”.
Well, I don’t think so. Why is Earth so special? The laws of nature that created us are the same across the entire universe. This same law should have created life elsewhere in our
universe.
Any more reasons for why aliens don’t exist? Oh boy, here we go. “Ok, maybe life is out there, but animals and large plants are still very unlikely,” as the “non-believers” argued.
Well, in recent decades, we have discovered life the just loves extreme conditions and they flourish in those conditions. That suggests that life is probably widespread across the
cosmos.
Those are very good reasons, and I am not saying that you “non-believers” are wrong; I’m just saying my side of the story. Now what do you have to argue? “Man-kind is just an
evolutional fluke. If an asteroid didn’t strike 65 million years ago and killed all the dinosaurs, we humans may have never evolved. Intelligent life don’t just evolve because of the
laws of nature, they just evolve because of a sequence of unlikely events,” as the non-believers argued firmly.
Well, perhaps these flukes happen more often than we think. Everything that occurs in our universe must obey the laws of nature, if life can evolve somewhere else, the same fluke
will probably happen on at least half of those planets, the universe is not random, things happen because of a cause. And intelligence is relative. The most intelligent specie on a
planet gets to control that planet. Some sea-life are also pretty intelligent, if humans did not exist, they probably would be controlling the world right now.
Now, as I’m noticing in your arguments, first, you’re like life doesn’t exist at all, and then, you’re starting to agree with what I’m saying. Then, you’re like thinking that life do exist, but
animals don’t, and finally, you go up a level into intelligent life. The “non-believers” have something else to say, “Even if intelligent life did emerge somewhere else, they would
probably be gone by now. I mean look at us. We’ve only be here for 125 000 years and we’re already savaging our world. We’re making more mistakes, there are more fights, more
wars, and we’re polluting our air and water supplies. Natural disasters are also becoming more devastating. Take a very strong solar storm for example. If a strong solar storm
occurs now and creates a global blackout that lasts for a year, then millions of people would lose their lives. If the same thing happened 150 years ago, humans would be
unaffected, because electricity wasn’t even invented at that time. We’re becoming more reliant on technology.”
Our solar system is only 5 billion years old, but our universe is more like 14 billion years old. There are two possibilities for intelligent life that evolved before us. They’re either gone
because of disasters. Or they got so advanced (much more advanced than us) that they defeated all the disasters and can never be defeated. This means that some intelligent life
that’s still around today may be much more advanced than us. This maybe unfortunate for us. Since they’re more advanced than us, this means that if we ever meet, they may
literally tear our civilization apart. Think about ourselves, we’re the most powerful civilization on Earth. And look at us, killing all the animals and eating them. Once a more powerful
civilization comes in contact with us, we will become the prey.
The “non-believers” would like to say something, “If the intelligent aliens are there, they should have visited us. I mean, scientists say that there are 50 alien civilizations in our Milky
Way alone. Each star in our Milky Way is on average 1.8 light years away from each other. Now it’s best to assume that each star can hold at most 1 intelligent civilization. Our Sun
only have humans. So 50 out of 300 billion stars have intelligent life, this means that each intelligent civilization in our Milky Way will probably be on average 3350 light years away
from each other. A Type-III civilization will be able to go that far with no problems, so shouldn’t they be visiting us?”
Even though as I noted earlier, that very advanced civilizations could exist, they’re still going to be extremely rare. So rare that the distances are just too much. The distance between
them and us could be billions of light years away, that is impossible for any Type-III civilization to conquer. Them traveling billions of light years is like us right now visiting Jupiter
(man actually going to Jupiter themselves), it’s impossible right now. And also, are we really that interesting? There are trillions of civilizations out there, why would they want to visit
us out of that trillion. Why don’t they visit another alien civilization? Now I’m pretty sure that there are more than 1 civilization that’s more advanced than us, wouldn’t a Type-III
civilization be more interested in a Type-II rather than us, a Type-0?
The “non-believers” have one last thing to say, “Well, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, hasn’t found any life yet, and it’s been 40 years already!”
The search is just beginning! We’ve only been searching for 40 years; this means that we’re still not very professional at it. It’s like we’re still in kindergarten, we just got into school,
and we’re still learning how to behave, and how to do things in school. Same here, we still don’t really know what signals to sent and what signals to look for. And perhaps we’re
looking for the wrong signals. Some intelligent life may not be advanced enough to send or receive radio signals, like humans in the 1950s. Others may be so intelligent that they
use a completely different way to communicate, we won’t even be able to receive those communications because our technology is so futile compared to their technology.
And lastly, the main reason for why aliens exist. If you hadn’t notice, there are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe, each containing 100 billion stars. Our latest estimate puts the
figure at 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 stars or more. Our Sun is one of them. What are the chances that only our star, the Sun, has a planet that has life on it? Are we really that
unique?
Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060728112452AAPiHGm
Author Unknown
*This question was posted on Yahoo Answers nearly a year ago. I thought the answer was very good, and decided to share it here with you.
Are Aliens Real? Most likely, yes. There are at least 70 billion trillion stars out there. I wrote an article arguing with the "non-believers" the likelihood of the existence of aliens.
Are we really alone in this universe?
This question has been burning us for decades: are we really alone in this universe? There are strong reasons for why aliens should exist and why aliens shouldn’t exist. However,
before I bring up the reasons, I just want to make sure that you know what an alien really is. An alien is not something mystical; it is simply life (preferably intelligent) on another
planet.
Some people don’t believe in aliens, some just don’t believe them because they’re like ghosts, but others have stronger reasons. “Earth is very rare. Everything is just perfect on
Earth. First of all, our star is not too bright, and not too faint. We’re just at the right distance from it to have temperatures in the comfortable zone. We have a large moon that stables
our rotation, or else Earth tumbles in its orbit. One day the Earth tilts 35 degrees and another day it tilts 90 degrees, with the moon, Earth is always tilted at 23.5 degrees. We have a
large Jupiter to divert the comets away from Earth or we’ll be bombarded with them every single year. We have a cloud that surrounds our solar system and that cloud prevents all
the biggest comets from demolishing our solar system. And lastly, we have oxygen, and we have water. You need all that just for life. That’s very rare; perhaps we’re alone in this
universe,” stated the “non-believers”.
Well, I don’t think so. Why is Earth so special? The laws of nature that created us are the same across the entire universe. This same law should have created life elsewhere in our
universe.
Any more reasons for why aliens don’t exist? Oh boy, here we go. “Ok, maybe life is out there, but animals and large plants are still very unlikely,” as the “non-believers” argued.
Well, in recent decades, we have discovered life the just loves extreme conditions and they flourish in those conditions. That suggests that life is probably widespread across the
cosmos.
Those are very good reasons, and I am not saying that you “non-believers” are wrong; I’m just saying my side of the story. Now what do you have to argue? “Man-kind is just an
evolutional fluke. If an asteroid didn’t strike 65 million years ago and killed all the dinosaurs, we humans may have never evolved. Intelligent life don’t just evolve because of the
laws of nature, they just evolve because of a sequence of unlikely events,” as the non-believers argued firmly.
Well, perhaps these flukes happen more often than we think. Everything that occurs in our universe must obey the laws of nature, if life can evolve somewhere else, the same fluke
will probably happen on at least half of those planets, the universe is not random, things happen because of a cause. And intelligence is relative. The most intelligent specie on a
planet gets to control that planet. Some sea-life are also pretty intelligent, if humans did not exist, they probably would be controlling the world right now.
Now, as I’m noticing in your arguments, first, you’re like life doesn’t exist at all, and then, you’re starting to agree with what I’m saying. Then, you’re like thinking that life do exist, but
animals don’t, and finally, you go up a level into intelligent life. The “non-believers” have something else to say, “Even if intelligent life did emerge somewhere else, they would
probably be gone by now. I mean look at us. We’ve only be here for 125 000 years and we’re already savaging our world. We’re making more mistakes, there are more fights, more
wars, and we’re polluting our air and water supplies. Natural disasters are also becoming more devastating. Take a very strong solar storm for example. If a strong solar storm
occurs now and creates a global blackout that lasts for a year, then millions of people would lose their lives. If the same thing happened 150 years ago, humans would be
unaffected, because electricity wasn’t even invented at that time. We’re becoming more reliant on technology.”
Our solar system is only 5 billion years old, but our universe is more like 14 billion years old. There are two possibilities for intelligent life that evolved before us. They’re either gone
because of disasters. Or they got so advanced (much more advanced than us) that they defeated all the disasters and can never be defeated. This means that some intelligent life
that’s still around today may be much more advanced than us. This maybe unfortunate for us. Since they’re more advanced than us, this means that if we ever meet, they may
literally tear our civilization apart. Think about ourselves, we’re the most powerful civilization on Earth. And look at us, killing all the animals and eating them. Once a more powerful
civilization comes in contact with us, we will become the prey.
The “non-believers” would like to say something, “If the intelligent aliens are there, they should have visited us. I mean, scientists say that there are 50 alien civilizations in our Milky
Way alone. Each star in our Milky Way is on average 1.8 light years away from each other. Now it’s best to assume that each star can hold at most 1 intelligent civilization. Our Sun
only have humans. So 50 out of 300 billion stars have intelligent life, this means that each intelligent civilization in our Milky Way will probably be on average 3350 light years away
from each other. A Type-III civilization will be able to go that far with no problems, so shouldn’t they be visiting us?”
Even though as I noted earlier, that very advanced civilizations could exist, they’re still going to be extremely rare. So rare that the distances are just too much. The distance between
them and us could be billions of light years away, that is impossible for any Type-III civilization to conquer. Them traveling billions of light years is like us right now visiting Jupiter
(man actually going to Jupiter themselves), it’s impossible right now. And also, are we really that interesting? There are trillions of civilizations out there, why would they want to visit
us out of that trillion. Why don’t they visit another alien civilization? Now I’m pretty sure that there are more than 1 civilization that’s more advanced than us, wouldn’t a Type-III
civilization be more interested in a Type-II rather than us, a Type-0?
The “non-believers” have one last thing to say, “Well, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, hasn’t found any life yet, and it’s been 40 years already!”
The search is just beginning! We’ve only been searching for 40 years; this means that we’re still not very professional at it. It’s like we’re still in kindergarten, we just got into school,
and we’re still learning how to behave, and how to do things in school. Same here, we still don’t really know what signals to sent and what signals to look for. And perhaps we’re
looking for the wrong signals. Some intelligent life may not be advanced enough to send or receive radio signals, like humans in the 1950s. Others may be so intelligent that they
use a completely different way to communicate, we won’t even be able to receive those communications because our technology is so futile compared to their technology.
And lastly, the main reason for why aliens exist. If you hadn’t notice, there are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe, each containing 100 billion stars. Our latest estimate puts the
figure at 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 stars or more. Our Sun is one of them. What are the chances that only our star, the Sun, has a planet that has life on it? Are we really that
unique?
Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060728112452AAPiHGm