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Are we alone in the universe?
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17th May 2023, 05:57 AM
Loki wrote on 29th December 2022, 02:24 AM:
Anyone else here ever look up at the stars at night and think about how around each star there is a possibility of some kind of life existing around it? All those stars with all those planets around them. Maybe it isn’t life like we know it. Who says all life forms must be carbon based? I don’t think we’re alone in the universe. Do you?
Zendaya2408 wrote on 29th December 2022, 01:48 PM:
I'm a bit of a space geek so I'm gonna say this;
I don't think we're alone in the universe, but there aren't many planets out there that could sustain life of any form. There are only 24 planets out there that might potentially harbor life but they aren't all that great once you look at them. Most of them are tidally locked, meaning there would be no day or night cycle and temperatures would only be sufficient for life support towards their middle cubes 2048. And most of them are in such close proximity with their host stars that the level of radiation and heat would destroy almost any life before it has a chance to thrive.
Of the 24 planets, the most hopeful potentially inhabitable planets are:
Gliese 581g, or Zarmina, which is tidally locked with its star, making it so one half of the planet is locked in eternal darkness while the other half is being constantly baked.
Kepler-452 B, which is perfect for life and is almost a completely duplicate of Earth but is so far away that it'll take about 26 million years to get to it and the planet may be dead by the time we get to it.
And Proxima Centauri B, which is the closest to us but is dangerous because of the instability of Proxima Centauri. There would be a ton of radiation on PCB which would end up killing anything on it.
NASA has been suspicions of a planet that may potentially have a life form on it but I forgot its name. It was discovered in the early 2000s and they sent out a message to it. The message is meant to reach that planet in 2029 so we won't know until at least 2040+ if there is any life on it.
I think there is life out there. Both alien and other. I'm a heavy believer in the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. There is no true foundation to support a counterargument because no one truly knows the basis of evolution and if we are alone. I mean to say, space exploration is still extremely, extremely new. We only reached the moon in the 60s. That was 60 years ago. Not even a full century ago. And astronomical records date back to the 1200s and beyond. The universe is infinite. There are a number of galaxies outside of our own and because of that, I do think there's life out there. But nobody can say for certain what level of intelligence they're at, or if they'd even be able to communicate the same way as us.
I don't think we're alone in the universe, but there aren't many planets out there that could sustain life of any form. There are only 24 planets out there that might potentially harbor life but they aren't all that great once you look at them. Most of them are tidally locked, meaning there would be no day or night cycle and temperatures would only be sufficient for life support towards their middle cubes 2048. And most of them are in such close proximity with their host stars that the level of radiation and heat would destroy almost any life before it has a chance to thrive.
Of the 24 planets, the most hopeful potentially inhabitable planets are:
Gliese 581g, or Zarmina, which is tidally locked with its star, making it so one half of the planet is locked in eternal darkness while the other half is being constantly baked.
Kepler-452 B, which is perfect for life and is almost a completely duplicate of Earth but is so far away that it'll take about 26 million years to get to it and the planet may be dead by the time we get to it.
And Proxima Centauri B, which is the closest to us but is dangerous because of the instability of Proxima Centauri. There would be a ton of radiation on PCB which would end up killing anything on it.
NASA has been suspicions of a planet that may potentially have a life form on it but I forgot its name. It was discovered in the early 2000s and they sent out a message to it. The message is meant to reach that planet in 2029 so we won't know until at least 2040+ if there is any life on it.
I think there is life out there. Both alien and other. I'm a heavy believer in the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. There is no true foundation to support a counterargument because no one truly knows the basis of evolution and if we are alone. I mean to say, space exploration is still extremely, extremely new. We only reached the moon in the 60s. That was 60 years ago. Not even a full century ago. And astronomical records date back to the 1200s and beyond. The universe is infinite. There are a number of galaxies outside of our own and because of that, I do think there's life out there. But nobody can say for certain what level of intelligence they're at, or if they'd even be able to communicate the same way as us.
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