Do you think there is life out there in the Universe besides us?

First of all, yes, I acknowledge that there have been threads in the past similar to this. However, nobody wants me to bump a year old thread, because that's dumb.
 
So anyway, do you believe that there is life out there in the Universe besides us? I definitely think so. NASA is discovering more and more planets all the time, so it seems highly improbable that planet Earth is the only one habitable. What do you think?
 
Also, something to think about:
 

 
These are all galaxies that contain billions of stars, and those billions of stars could have planets orbiting around them.

Might be. Might not be. I have no strong opinions either way to be honest. 

dude there's just so much shit out there, there has to be some form of life!

I live on the Moon and am a highly different lifeform than you humans. Does that count?

Yes there is.  If there was us then there are others.   There are billons of gallaxies filled with billons of stars surrounded by hundreds of planets.  

" I live on the Moon and am a highly different lifeform than you humans. Does that count? "

" @Video_Game_King said:

" I live on the Moon and am a highly different lifeform than you humans. Does that count? "

From a realistic standpoint, no. "

By probability, with all the trillions of planets out there, I would bet at least one other planet met the conditions to sustain life. 

I think yes just based apon the numbers. The amount of planets and solar systems and galaxy's we have seen so far, the odds that none of them have no kind of life at all just seems really really slim.

" By probability, with all the trillions of planets out there, I would be at least one other planet met the conditions to sustain life.  "

" I think yes just based apon the numbers. The amount of planets and solar systems and galaxy's we have seen so far, the odds that none of them have no kind of life at all just seems really really slim. "

there are definitely organic lifeforms. How advanced they are, who knows.

" However, I don't think not one race of beings has the ability to travel several thousand lightyears to other worlds

Of course there's life somewhere else! They're watching us right now... As we work... As we socialize... Just watching, and planning, waiting for that moment to strike... They're in here now! Don't look at me! *Runs away*

As other people have pointed out, sheer numbers would allude to the probability of other life forms being out there just by virtue of logic. One of the main hurdles to actually finding life is being able to come up with a planetary detection method that can actually detect relatively small planets within a size range similar to our own, since there are some pretty specific conditions required for fostering life on a planet and size plays a pretty significant role in that. Out of the three main detection methods in use now, I believe the smallest planet that's been detected has been one that was twice the size of our own. There are a lot of reasons as to why we haven't found anything as "small" as our own, but it's definitely an issue that needs to be overcome before we can come up with any definitive answer as to whether there's life outside of our own solar system.
 
For the record, too, physics laws dictate that nothing can attain a velocity higher than the speed of light, so direct travel to most potential planets would be out of the question if we ever actually built something that could go that quickly. Of course, I suppose things could change if those laws turn out to not work so well under certain conditions, but I doubt that will turn out to be the case particularly soon.

You know how many stars we know are out there? 
 
1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000
 
and thats what "WE KNOW ABOUT".

It's possible, but if we do find 'em... I gotta be the first to hit that. 
 
At least if aliens are anything like cheesy b-movies lead me to believe. 
 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7234703671566899581#

It's quite telling that thus far, no one has voted "no way". Guess which one I voted.

Nothing says Merry Christmas like a random ass thread.

 "These are all galaxies that contain millions of stars, and those millions of stars could all contain planets. "

Someone's gotta be responsible for all those anal probes.

Yeah I think so.
 
But I always thought it would be cool if say there were humans living on Mars, and they had the exact same technology as us.  So all we could do is look at each other through telescopes or satellites.  I think it would be funny.

 Nah, I doubt it. If the universe is as big and as old as they say it is, a master race would have conquered the universe a long time ago. We're probably alone.

I voted "absolutely" because there was no "probably" option.

"  Nah, I doubt it. If the universe is as big and as old as they say it is, a master race would have conquered the universe a long time ago. We're probably alone. "

"  Nah, I doubt it. If the universe is as big and as old as they say it is, a master race would have conquered the universe a long time ago. We're probably alone. "

" I voted "absolutely" because there was no "probably" option. "

" @TooWalrus said:

"  Nah, I doubt it. If the universe is as big and as old as they say it is, a master race would have conquered the universe a long time ago. We're probably alone. "

It would take like 4.5 years at the speed of light to reach the nearest star to Earth. And the whole Universe is about...just googled it... about 156 billion light years wide, and growing. So if there is a race doin' this, it may be awhile before we hear about it. "

Duder, Drake equation time (as per it's wikipedia post).  As you can see it's the timing that's the really tricky part, not the distance.  If Rage, Fallout, and games of that ilk are correct then the L value could be depressingly small.
 
  N = R* x  f p x   ne  x  fℓ  x   fi   x  fc x L 

 
where:
 

and

 
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" @FunExplosions said:

" @TooWalrus said:

"  Nah, I doubt it. If the universe is as big and as old as they say it is, a master race would have conquered the universe a long time ago. We're probably alone. "

It would take like 4.5 years at the speed of light to reach the nearest star to Earth. And the whole Universe is about...just googled it... about 156 billion light years wide, and growing. So if there is a race doin' this, it may be awhile before we hear about it. "

I guess that means, until some alien race says otherwise, humans have officially conquered the universe.  I'm calling it, humans are the master race.  Congratulations my fellow humans. "

Crushchill what are you saying mate?
4000 species on earth? the estimates are around perhaps 10-50 millions, we have discovered so far over 2 millions. How did you come up with 4000? anyway, with insects etc in the amazons there are a lot we havnt seen yet.

"Here is the problem, there is 100's of billions of galaxies, and we live in "ONE". and havnt even explored it yet. "

@quezen: I meant the main amount. Not sub-species and not sub-species of sub-species  and not even sub-species of sub-species of sub-species of sub-species lol... Which is where it start's to get complicated and ever expansive lol. 
 
ie: a group of cuttle-fish have developed a new small fin that dosn't really do anything. but it still counts as a new species/sub-species.  
Do you understand what I mean?

It's perfectly possible given the size of the universe, but given the size of the universe it also appears incredibly unlikely that we'll contact anything for a good long while.

Was having this convo with my friend yesterday. Something to think about: Space is infinite. We acknowledge that, but do we really grasp that? We look at our world as this encased bubble with everything with a "back wall" so to speak. But space, space is infinite; there is no back wall. Simple concepts such as up, down, left, right do not even apply in space because it breaks the barrier of all things that are fathomable or possible. Why couldn't there be a star wars galaxy out there? There sure could be because space is infinite it could be so far away we just don't see it. Imagine other suns being so far away we can't even detect them. Sounds improbable, but it isn't impossible. 
 
The idea of  "aliens" existing is a touchy subject because we truly do not know what is possible. Lets say they are real, lets use the infinite-ness  of space as an example of why we never see them and are unsure. If an alien race existed in some VERY FAR AWAY distant galaxy they would have to have mastered space travel. Not only that, to be able to reach our planet they would have to have perfected "speed of light" travel. This could be a reason for wormholes and why we aren't able to see them moving. They are just moving too fast. As humans we are able to break the speed of sound and we can see a break in the atmosphere because of it. If aliens did exist they would be traveling MUCH faster than that breaking though to the speed of light which is not detectable to the naked eye. 
 
So my main drawn out point it whether or not that aliens are real or not, you can't deny the possibility of their existence due to our general lack of knowledge of the universe. The word universe in and of itself is a paradox because it is trying to encompass the entirety of space. As we know space is infinite so it actually negatively curbs our outlook on how space exists. Just something to think about.

All of you saying stuff like "billions of planets=life" I think you have to remember the perfect circumstances in which we were made, the probability of those circumstances being replicated or something close to them is incredibly improbable. 
Saying that however I did pick "absolutely" because DUDE! BILLIONS OF PLANETS=LIFE!

I think humanity's grasp of what could be called a "life form" is too narrow. Have we ever looked for anything other than carbon-based life? The problem is, how do you contact a gaseous form, or whatever that other life may be?
 
I also think that if you don't believe that somewhere out in that seemingly endless void of space, with its countless planetary systems, planets, asteroids, or what have you, that there isn't other life forms, I'd think you pretty crazy. What are the odds that somehow, this one planet is the only one that has developed life? And, if you want to go there, intelligent life?
 
I think it's fairly obvious that other life forms that are alike us enough to be recognizable must be very far away, since we have no record of alien life reaching us. I also think that it may be impossible, with the resources available on our planet, to ever be able to reach outside of our solar system in any timely enough manner to expect to return home within an astronaut's lifetime. The best we could hope for is a massive ship capable of sustaining life for multiple generations to slowly work its way out there. The biggest limiting factor, in that regard, is the monetary system. There is just no feasible way for that to happen, given the costs of going into space. The only way it would ever happen is if the whole world collaborated on the project, and that will never happen.

 
Who cares?

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Who cares?

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" @natetodamax said:

 "These are all galaxies that contain millions of stars, and those millions of stars could all contain planets. "

Not to be a dick, but stars can't contain planets. I'm sure it was just a typo, though.  And I believe there are millions of other sources of life in the universe, and probably intelligent life, as well. "