SPACE NEWS! Mankind has reached the edge of our solar system!

[Lawdog1521]

Here's a brain bender...

What if they have been getting our signals and they do understand them? Even if they couldn't understand our language, television provides a potential visual medium. (assuming they have sight)

They may love 80's wrestling (something they may just now be receiving) and Hogan could be a deity to them. In fact, their first communication to us could be the word "bruther".

[AzureAngel17]

Here's a brain bender...

What if they have been getting our signals and they do understand them? Even if they couldn't understand our language, television provides a potential visual medium. (assuming they have sight)

They may love 80's wrestling (something they may just now be receiving) and Hogan could be a deity to them. In fact, their first communication to us could be the word "bruther".

Never give up, NEVER SURRENDER!

[Lawdog1521]

That's what makes it so hard to contact alien life. If you think about it, only certain types of life will be able to communicate with each other or even be aware of each other existence.

Suppose our neighbors are highly advanced yet can't see, smell, taste, touch, or hear. What if they perceive biomagnetic fields like a shark? These shark people could dwarf our own civilization in size and scope but have no way to know we're here.

Or as space monkeys we may not be able to perceive an alien life form right in front of us.

And I haven't even been drinking tonight.

[FlyGuyLXI]

Telescopes aside, space technology is still relatively young so don't rule out the possibilities of ever making contact or even just finding traces of extraterrestrial life in your lifetime. It might not happen, but it's pretty much set in stone that there will be other life out there. This is all best out of theory but my previous astronomy professor introduced the Drake Equation which, through a process of elimination guarantees thousands up to millions of potential alien civilizations in our galaxy. Light-years away despite.

Earth-like planets are a lot more likely than people expect. Every star with its own solar system capable of grasping at least one of these possibilities is quite likely. It really depends on how near or far away they are to the star. Think Goldilocks and the Three Bears, it has to be just right for best results.

[Lawdog1521]

Of course the nay sayers will throw the Fermi paradox at the Drake equation.

[Dangimarocker]

I wanna go to space... i wanna go to space.........

[Lawdog1521]

Check please!

[jibjqrkl]

happy B-day Azure

[dragoninforcer]

Happy birthday!

Also, space.

[DAMdude]

Telescopes aside, space technology is still relatively young so don't rule out the possibilities of ever making contact or even just finding traces of extraterrestrial life in your lifetime. It might not happen, but it's pretty much set in stone that there will be other life out there. This is all best out of theory but my previous astronomy professor introduced the Drake Equation which, through a process of elimination guarantees thousands up to millions of potential alien civilizations in our galaxy. Light-years away despite.

Earth-like planets are a lot more likely than people expect. Every star with its own solar system capable of grasping at least one of these possibilities is quite likely. It really depends on how near or far away they are to the star. Think Goldilocks and the Three Bears, it has to be just right for best results.

This is true but as a space enthusiast this same truth is what scares me. Though odds of extraterrestrial life in our own galaxy is a given. (It's pretty stupid for a person sitting in their house to believe he or she is the only person on our planet.) Their are a number of planets in the Goldilocks Zone in our galaxy. Hell our own star has two of them.

But that's the point, we now know that Mars at one point had a stronger atmosphere. Which allowed the planet to hold water, streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. And as everyone knows, where there's water, life is not far behind. But Mars' core has stopped, it's atmosphere almost gone, it's surface beaten everyday with almost toxic levels of radiation. Mars, is a dead planet. It could of held life, maybe intelligent life. But if so, they are dead and gone now.

Bringing me back to my point, life on other planets, given. Intelligent life on other planets, given. With as old as the entire universe is, intelligent life on another planet at the same time as us...to be honest, probably given too. But we will find microbial life first, complex life second, and most likely the ruins of extraterrestrial civilizations last.

The human race has been an intelligent race for 4,000 years, but our planet has been here for 4,540,000,000 years. And with mankind creating new ways to kill ourselves everyday, we will probably be the hand of our own demise SOONER than later. Who's to say extraterrestrial civilizations did the same.

With all that said, I believe we will find microbial life within the next 10 to 15 years. Complex non-living life on another planet within our generation, and we will be contacted by intelligent life by the end of the 22nd century.