Will we make contact with alien life in the next 10 years?

[TESLAMotors]

Pretty optimistic, can't imagine what would happen to all the religious nuts and the non-believers of other life forms.
http://www.rt.com/news/310300-milner-seti-hawking-breakthrough/

“There are likely billions of earth-like worlds in our galaxy alone. And with instruments now or soon available, we have a chance of finding out if any of these planets are true Pale Blue Dots – home to water, life, even minds. There has never been a better moment for a large-scale international effort to find life in the Universe.”

 

[AJstar]

Don't be too enthusiastic here about alien life.
Should we find them,or they us?
If they are inferior beings,we may be able to control the outcome.
If they have superior abilities, not only would we lose control over our future, but they may not be friendly.
We may become food?
That could spell out our enslavement or extinction.
Be very careful what you wish for.

 

[Mrbluntx]

I'd figure they should be exploring life within our solar system considering Europa has water underneath all that ice and where there is water there is life. Or explore Titan with it's oceans of liquid methane, if they can find bacteria living in arsenic then that just an example of how versatile life is and in an environment such as Titan's one could expect to find a creature adapted to those conditions... Essentially, finding life on other worlds will further prove Evolution Theory pushing it closer to a law.

The other question is, even if we do find "intelligent" life out there will they even want to talk to us? It's like calling a total stranger, you don't know their motives, and yet you want to make friends with this person, for all you know they could be a serial rapist or killer or just plain fucked up. I'm not saying we shouldn't explore but we should be damn careful about how we approach 'intelligent' alien life if we ever find it or if they find us.

I am certain that if aliens are already travelling the stars they probably know about Earth considering all the noise and stuff we send out into space, they've probably watched those episodes of "I love Lucy" figured humans were really weird to send them these transmissions. Sending voyager 1 and 2 with golden discs of Earth's address what we look like and our languages is like dropping your wallet on the ground in a mall, anyone can find you now (but do they want to?).

I think if we do find intelligent life maybe those religious nut jobs will disappear (probably in a mass suicide) or they'll just jump ship cause the wool over their eyes has finally been lifted.

It would be foolish to believe that this planet we live on is the only one planet with 'intelligent' life on it. In the grand scheme of things human existence is a mere drop in the bucket compared to how old the earth really is, advanced civilizations could have risen and fallen before the first man even knew how to create fire, and now we are on the precipice of exploring an unknown that has been calling to us since man looked up and wondered what all those stars in the sky were.

 

[IRIS]

I met a few in the past years

 

[glamphotographer]

 

[Mr. Piggy]

I'm an alien from the planet Lickalotatwat.

 

[oil&gas]

I am certain that if aliens are already travelling the stars they probably know about Earth considering all the noise and stuff we send out into space, they've probably watched those episodes of "I love Lucy" figured humans were really weird to send them these transmissions.

Some experts could perhaps answer this question of a
novice in telecommunication engineering. How big a satellite
dish is needed to detect and process the signals of an entire
episode of "I love Lucy" received in a planet 100 light years
away from earth? I found those pictures sent from Pluto
quite impressive given the vast distance of 4 light hours.
If known earth-like planets are something like 1000 light years
away the aliens must be a lot smarter than us to be able to
process cosmic background noises into HD TV shows.

 

[TeeJay]

Too sci-fi
Only way an alien meets us is if they (somehow) travel faster than speed of light
So unless we are totally wrong about the galaxy it just aint happening

 

[Mrbluntx]

Some experts could perhaps answer this question of a
novice in telecommunication engineering. How big a satellite
dish is needed to detect and process the signals of an entire
episode of "I love Lucy" received in a planet 100 light years
away from earth? I found those pictures sent from Pluto
quite impressive given the vast distance of 4 light hours.
If known earth-like planets are something like 1000 light years
away the aliens must be a lot smarter than us to be able to
process cosmic background noises into HD TV shows.

one would only hope that if a species were to travel the stars that their technology would be vastly superior to our own.

 

[notthemama]

at least we know they all speak English:thumb:

 

[LurkingInMyTent]

There has been an active search for evidence of extraterrestrial life called SETI@home running since 1999. Regular folks download software onto their PC's and periodically receive data sets from radio telescopes. The software analyses the data looking for anomalous signals that could be from artificial sources (the alien equivalent of an I Love Lucy broadcast for example). The fact that there have been no conclusive results in almost 16 years gives me little hope that this new initiative will produce any results in the proposed time frame, but I wish them luck.

To paraphrase Agent Mulder "I want to believe".

 

[oil&gas]

Aliens must have the technology to transmit their equivalent of
I love Lucy show in faster-than-light speed that we can pick up
intact. But UFO nuts would tell us detection of their signals has been
covered up.

 

[IM469]

Too sci-fi
Only way an alien meets us is if they (somehow) travel faster than speed of light
So unless we are totally wrong about the galaxy it just aint happening

Alien life doesn't have to be an intelligent being travelling to earth in a space vessel. Alien life could take the form of an organic slime or spore travelling on a wayward comet that is caught by gravity and transferred into our atmosphere where it quickly multiplies. We could be doomed simply because it represents causes a fatal toxic reaction that our bodies have never had need to develop immunity.

We could be wiped out by an alien invasion that we cannot see.

 

[foxxxy lady]

Pretty optimistic, can't imagine what would happen to all the religious nuts and the non-believers of other life forms.
http://www.rt.com/news/310300-milner-seti-hawking-breakthrough/

“There are likely billions of earth-like worlds in our galaxy alone. And with instruments now or soon available, we have a chance of finding out if any of these planets are true Pale Blue Dots – home to water, life, even minds. There has never been a better moment for a large-scale international effort to find life in the Universe.”

I hope they are horny love n respect the sp's

xo

 

[ExerciseGuy]

Apart from just searching through the vastness of the universe, we also have to be lucky enough that the other intelligent life exists during our lifetime. There may have been many civilizations that have already come and gone and we may or may not find traces of them.

 

[basketcase]

Aliens must have the technology to transmit their equivalent of
I love Lucy show in faster-than-light speed that we can pick up
intact. But UFO nuts would tell us detection of their signals has been
covered up.

Doesn't have to be faster than light but would have to be a very powerful signal (or very close space wise) for it to still be readable at any distance.

 

[Mr Deeds]

Why the hell would a race from an other world want to contact us. We cant even get along with the people on our own planet let alone another one.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Alien life doesn't have to be an intelligent being travelling to earth in a space vessel. Alien life could take the form of an organic slime or spore travelling on a wayward comet that is caught by gravity and transferred into our atmosphere where it quickly multiplies. We could be doomed simply because it represents causes a fatal toxic reaction that our bodies have never had need to develop immunity.

We could be wiped out by an alien invasion that we cannot see.

Naw. In War of the Worlds, our earthly bacteria killed those Martians!

Seriously though, the earlier point here about whether extraterrestrials are benevolent or malevolent is a serious one. This concern was raised by Stephen Hawking himself.

Someone else says that unless we're wrong about physics or the galaxy, far away aliens would have to travel faster than the speed of light, which is impossible.

However, we still don't know a lot about the universe, and more advanced life forms could easily be a million if not more years ahead of us. They might understand how to manipulate or travel through worm holes, blah blah blah, and visit distant galaxies in much shorter time.

Frankly, I believe we have already been visited. Not all UFO reports have been explained away. Even Dan Aykroyd, who is a UFO buff, has researched this topic and discusses in a video with footage, strange giant objects orbiting our planet that are not observable in the visible spectrum of light. Too many strange things out there.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Why the hell would a race from an other world want to contact us. We cant even get along with the people on our own planet let alone another one.

To study lower life forms like we do ourselves. Perhaps it's an archaeological exercise to observe primitive life forms, like us. Perhaps to use some of our resources. Maybe just to make a pit stop.

 

[GPIDEAL]

I think aliens or inter galactic planetary beings have been with us all alone....too many sightings.to be fakes...rhen you have Neil Armstrong telling Houston that they are watching us from the moon and that we were forced off...then you have hyroglyphics of ancient astronauts....
There's too much out there...while we may not have had much luck contacting these aliens they definitely have been keeping a watch on us from a distance.:Eek:

I agree.

I've never heard Neil Armstrong say that but I know that Buzz Aldrin sort of intimated something like that until he was told to be careful what he says.

There was also a transmission from one of the Apollo command modules that they observed something that didn't belong to NASA or other country, and that it wasn't a satellite. They later retracted with a dismissive explanation.

One of the Apollo astronauts has spoken about aliens (not sure if Michael Collins or someone else).