Results: Life Elsewhere ?
Published on 01/13/2023
"If it's only us is sure is a big waste of space" - from the movie Contact.
With all of the possibilities of infinity it's very easy to think life exists elsewhere in the universe. The question is are we too far away from it to actually find it and even if we do what stage of life would that planet be in it's evolution? If we found another perfect Earth like planet exactly like ours out there would life there evolve the same as it did here given the same environmental conditions?
Our Solar System is said to be roughly 4.6 billion years old in a galaxy that is 13.6 billion years old. This would suggest that if there is other life, in our own galaxy, we would not be at the top of the food chain so to speak. So maybe the real question is.....
Will other life find us first?
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Will we find life elsewhere in the next 100 years?
Yes
31%
709 votes
No
27%
610 votes
Not Sure
43%
981 votes
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In order to make any real progress in our ability to discover we would require a breakthrough in propulsion technologies in order to cover the vast distances in any reasonable time scale. Do you believe we will discover a new propulsion or traveling ability in the next 100 years?
Yes
41%
941 votes
No
21%
485 votes
Not Sure
38%
874 votes
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Even with advancements in propulsion technology space is vast! Our nearest galaxy, which will eventually eat the Milky Way alive is Andromeda the next door neighbor at 2.5 Million light years away. To give you a better idea of that distance even with the Starship Enterprise on a 9.99 warp drive (9,000 times the speed of light) it would still take them 300 years to get there!! So something will have to break or be discovered in order to get anywhere outside of our own galaxy. What do you think it will be?
Albert Einstein is proved wrong, you can travel faster than light.
11%
256 votes
New discovery about gravity allows us to wield it in order to bend space time which will shrink distances without the need for faster than light speed.
18%
407 votes
New propulsion discovery greatly increases our ability to send probes vast distances quickly to retrieve real data about other celestial bodies.
30%
693 votes
Some other alien civilization has already figured it out and their probes find us.
28%
641 votes
Other (please specify)
13%
303 votes
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Our intelligent life forms posses the greatest ability of figuring out just how best to kill everyone else. Some say we shouldn't even waste money on space exploration; it will cost way too much and provide very little new discoveries in return. Some say will we destroy ourselves long before anyone else has a chance to do it. What do you believe will be the fate of homo sapiens?
We will eventually enter a nuclear war which will destroy basically every living thing on the planet.
28%
651 votes
A new virus will rip through humans like no other leaving no survivors.
22%
497 votes
Another inevitable rock slams into Earth turning us into the like of the dinosaurs.
17%
385 votes
Another alien species find us and decides this will become their vacation planet, humans not welcomed!
15%
334 votes
Other (please specify)
19%
433 votes
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Yea!! We found another Earth close enough for us to actually get to it. So who's going? It's a 20 year trip and there is no return and no guarantee that you will even make it there. You will be placed in a cryogenic state and sleep for 19.8 years. Time will slow at your speed and you will only age 10 years during sleep. Will you sign up?
When do we get started?
15%
337 votes
No! Have you lost your mind!
50%
1155 votes
I'll just make some popcorn and watch the TV specials, good luck!
35%
808 votes
- Leave that trip for people in their 20's.
- Not sure
- Imagination can be stupid and dangerous
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