• Question: are aliens real

    Asked by derm1tad on 22 Feb 2024. This question was also asked by tech1apt, meet1new, keep1yes, jay, dean1fray, safe499cave.
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      Martin McCoustra answered on 22 Feb 2024:


      The chemistry and physics from which created the primordial soup from which life arose on Earth are pretty universal. They won’t change from place to place or time to time. So the chances of forming a primordial soup and evolving life on a distant planet around another star are good. Whether that life is intelligent is another matter… I’d ask why would aliens want to come here anyway? Earth and our Solar System are pretty boring on a galactic standard!

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      Michael C Macey answered on 30 Apr 2024: last edited 30 Apr 2024 9:24 am


      Single celled microbial life – it is possible. Life as we know it requires specific elements, water and energy and these requirements could feasibly be met on other planets – for example, we know that early Mars (billions of years ago) was a water rich planet that met many of these requirements.

      However, multicellular and intelligent life is less likely when we consider the number of evolutionary steps required to reach this point and the fact that mutation is random – there are no goals to evolution, the most successful organisms survive, meaning that intelligent life may not arise where there is life.

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      Caroline Roche answered on 7 Jun 2024:


      Probably, the likelihood of us being alone in universe is very slim. Though the chance of meeting aliens like those we see in the movies is probably just as slim. Most likely we will find alien microbial life rather than anything more substantial.

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      Sharron Kenny answered on 11 Jun 2024:


      we are ourselves an alien form of life. and since we developed and evolved it is quite likely that other things did too in other places rather than a one off event.

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