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Originally Posted by oasis
sorry thats not what I meant in the looks department.
I what I meant to say is if they were intelligent like us and wanted to know whats going on around them they would be doing space exploration too.
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I'd like to think so too. But there's always the chance that somehow they developed into a very isolationist society and don't want to search the universe for life. Maybe due to a form of religion or they have a very controlling leadership that isn't interested in finding other life. Could even be that they just assume nothings out there and they neglect to search. In that case the burden is on us to find them.
Like Kong said earlier it's a miracle that life formed on this planet, the conditions had to be just right. But, we know there's most likely limitless amounts of planets in the universe due to all the stars we can see from earth(we also know there's alot more we just can't see) so it's really silly to assume life only formed on this one.
Our planet is kinda fragile, if the conditions change all life could be wiped out. But we see evidence of life surviving in unimaginable conditions. Like recently discovered life that lives in the deepest parts of the ocean. They live in extreme pressures and temp. Not to mention they need no light to survive. It's just one example of lifes ability to survive in almost any known environment.
To me that proves life could exsist on almost any type of planet, which just makes the odds of alien life go up.
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Originally Posted by Tails
What I was saying we are Aliens is that if there is life on other planets we would be considered aliens to them thus we are aliens.
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Well yeah Tails, that's kinda obvious. The word alien just means foreign. A better way to say it is Extraterrestrial which means life originating away from earth.
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Originally Posted by rambo
I once learned in one of my science classes that another material that could possibly, or rather very likely could make up a creature is almost like glass. That is another material other than carbon which is basically what we are. Interesting to think there could be glass people walking around somewhere in the universe.
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It's interesting but it probably couldn't be like the glass we know. Earth glass is only flexible at high temps. But like I said before, anythings possible!
