Are There Aliens Out There?

Are there Aliens out there?

When answering this question we must first have some understanding of the size of the cosmos. The Universe is possibly infinite; we have absolutely no idea whether there is an edge to the Universe, when we simply hit a wall in space. We don’t even know whether our Universe is the only one, for all we know there could be billions of other Universes’s out there filled with their own galaxies and solar systems. In 1999, approximately 125 billion galaxies were estimated to be in the Universe. Not all of those are visible as the light from those objects has not reached us here on Earth. Within each of those galaxies there will be billions of stars and planets within them, just like our galaxy, the Milky Way.

With the myriad of galaxies in existence, we lean toward the answer that there probably is alien life form out there in the distance cosmos. Scientists have not yet made contacts with any alien species however, (they have been trying to detect radio waves).

In terms of loose probability, I assume there is an extremely high chance that there are other life forms in the Universe. As in the previous paragraph I stated that there is a possibly infinite amount of space and opportunities for existence. It seems so unlikely that it is only planet Earth which has been inhabited by life.

Whether the alien life forms are an intelligent set of species is difficult to speculate on, or in other words, impossible without observation. There is of course the danger of intelligent species. If you were a dominant species, with the ability to reach other life forms on another planet, which would require some sort of spaceship which could travel near the speed of light, or indeed the species could have an extremely long lifespan, then we can’t really expect them to be kind and respectful can we? Finding another form of life on another planet could be seen as threatening to their species, they way even launch attacks from outer space, and if that species had reached us we assume that their weaponry would be far superior to our own. Of course we don’t know whether they are an extremely violent, extremely kind, or just a vociferous species. Until we see them we won’t know!

I thought I’d point something out. The existence of aliens isn’t like the existence of religion. Just because we can’t prove either way whether there are alien species, doesn’t mean they exist. That is to say, religion only exists on the basis that it cannot be proven otherwise. This isn’t the case in science however, for something to be true it must be observable.

There could even be the possibility of one single maverick being who has decided to fly by himself to planet Earth just to see what all the fuss is about around here. Needless to say, by the time any alien life form reaches planet Earth, we’ll probably be in a state of Apocalypse due to religious groups fighting each other. Of course, if the smarter people of the planet were put into government and an extremely meticulous plan was made to defend against religious Anarchy then we might all be saved. Although the salient difference is that those in office are generally religious, and generally idiotic...