"In what sense? Does life exist in other solar systems? Yes. Have they visited Earth, maybe "
The mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived, screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
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By (user no longer on site) 36 weeks ago
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Ofcrose they are would be crazy to think we are the only living planet in the galaxy / solar systems / space
Now can they travel space to get here is another matter
If they can travel to this planet then we as humans
Are vastly below them and have nothing to offer them
Other than natural resources off or planet
They mastered space travel we haven’t if they can get here |
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It's likely that other life forms have existed somewhere but them existing at the exact same time as us and being able to communicate and travel, in the few thousand years that we've been around, seems far, far less likely.
And having technology to be able to travel the vast distances, at this brief period of our existence, is even much less likely in my opinion.
So I can countenance that some life, somewhere existing just now. Likely billions of light years away. It's probably not going to have much ability to do much though, other than just existing. I think the simplest forms of life are the most likely. |
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By *ild_oatsMan 36 weeks ago
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. |
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