In light of Gliese 581 (ironic pun intended) I am just asking . . . . . do you believe in . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

Poll question: In light of Gliese 581 (ironic pun intended) I am just asking . . . . . do you believe in . . . .

. . . . intelligent life on other planets? Maybe life more advanced and evolved than ours?

While this is a poll, it is a topic which really begs some comment.

Link to SF Gate article: http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-29/news/24104373_1_goldilocks-zone-habitable-zone-steven-vogt

[Uncle Joe]

1. I would be astonished if there was not more intelligent life on some other planet.

The odds are simply too great for there not to be a more intelligent life form somewhere.

Thanks for the thread, Stinky.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Yes, just not on the one named Earth.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. It is 99.9999999% that there is intelligent life elsewhere.

It may be 0% that we ever encounter them or their artifacts.

The biggest thing in cosmology in the last generation was recognizing the inflationary phase following the big bang.

Result: the universe is a zillion times bigger than we ever thought.

If sentient life only occurs, on average, once per galaxy (meaning very, very, very rare) then there are still billions of intelligent species in the universe.

But that doesn't mean we will ever be aware of such life, let alone contact it.

(99% of science fiction is set in our galaxy because even when we postulate faster-than-light travel as a narrative expedient the idea of intergalactic anything still feels far-fetched.)

[HopeHoops]

4. There HAS to be intelligent life out there - there sure isn't any here.

[rocktivity]

5. I agree with whoever said that there must be intelligent life on other planets

because it's been intelligent enough not to contact us.

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rocktivity