Are We Alone?

The thoughts come to mind whenever I gaze out into the vastness of space, the millions and millions of areas that have yet to be analyzed or studied. Equations have been made, crazy people have been interviewed, and ambiguous phenomenon has been identified. What were those strange lights? Are the only things on other planets germs? Are we alone?

Somewhere out there, in that vast space, beyond the stars we can see, beyond the curtains of darkness, there is an alien struggling to take a shit. We must find it.

Well, probability states that there's some sort of extraterrestrial life.

I think.

I believe we're not alone.

Nah, there's like three people in the room I'm in right now.

Nah, it's a ridiculous idea that we'd be the only sentient species in the universe, considering how fucking big the universe is.

Like, really big. Infinite in fact.

There are probably little squiggly buggers on Europa and I'll bet it gets waaaay more interesting farther out.

No, you're not alone, I'm in your closet right now.

You get out of there! you creepy panty sniffer!

I wouldn't doubt that there's life in other parts of the universe. I just doubt they've ever been here though.

Dunno. If they do exist, I hope they are cool. Being cool is a must. I won't tolerate uncool aliens.

I am not sure there is sentient, intelligent life on this planet, I sure hope it exists somewhere!

Ok. How about sexy aliens! Can we have sexy aliens? one vote for sexy aliens! One vote for sexy alie....two? TWO votes for sexy aliens? Do I see two votes for sexy aliens, anyone?

Are you joking? We have the French to the south, the Scots to the north, the Belgians, Dutch and Germans to the east and Wales and Ireland to the west (and I hear it gets even crazier the further west and east that you go)! We're surrounded by alien life!

Those are called 'humans'; they're native to this world. You'll get used to them, eventually.

I'm with you, Parable. :)

Well, space is pretty cool, so unless the aliens are exothermic, well...

Well with the size of the universe, it's very likely they exist, however it's also likely that we would've noticed them by now, yet we have no evidence they exist. I really hope aliens are out there, I wanna meet one :3

Nah there's probably a whole new earth out there. Space is big. Really big. Like infinite. I wonder if they're thinking the same thing right now on their tvtropes?

It would be ridiculous to think we're alone, but I don't think it's implausible to think we were one of the first, or even that all the others are a similar age to us. The reason we haven't found other intelligent life yet? They haven't advanced far enough for intergalactic travel yet.

Yeah. Neither have we.

There's such a thing as the "Fermi Paradox", which deals with why we may not have seen evidence for alien sentience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

It's depressing as fuck.

I thought I saw a ghost once.

Yeah, hi five, Demi!

Ira: Oh , you.

Apes or angels. Don't take just distance into account; take time, too. The chances of another civilisation existing in our galaxy at a comprehensible level of development or even sentience are likely to be vanishingly small.

Put it this way: visit Earth at a random point in its history of supporting life, and you will almost certainly not encounter human civilisation. Maybe the things that will one day evolve into us that look at the bright lights in the sky uncomprehendingly.

edited 5th Nov '14 11:12:20 AM by pagad

As big and old as existence is, there probably is other intelligent life out there. But the universe is too big and too old for any of us to ever meet it, so we might as well be alone.