Your View(s) on aliens/extraterrestrial life

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

I'm defining intelligent life as creatures that are as smart, or smarter than us.

Simple life would be things like bacteria, single celled organisms, fungi, etc.

[Mr.Bakari-Sellers]

Intellectual life, which is a GOD like force, alien or nit, is out there.

[Red Willow]

Considering the size of the universe I think it's impossible other intelligent life doesn't exist.

[PSOL]

I don’t believe that we have yet to interact with these forces, whether simple organisms to cataclysmic beings out of our comprehension, but they possibly exist in some area in the patchwork of barren lifelessness that is our universe

[Abolish ICE]

I hope not

[The Mamdani Virus]

Aliens do exist


In the form of bacteria and other microbes on other planets

[lfromnj]

Considering the size of the universe I think it's impossible other intelligent life doesn't exist.

[dead0man]

Considering the size of the universe I think it's impossible highly unlikely other intelligent life doesn't exist.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Consider that in our Galaxy alone, there could be as many as a trillion planets, and there could be as many as 100 billion Galaxies in the known universe. given the unimaginable number of planets that exist, I think there's basically a 100% chance there's other intelligent life out there, and there's likely (at least) billions of planets that are home to such life.

[7,052,770]

Almost certainly exists somewhere, but probably nothing in our galaxy much more advanced than us or we'd be able to see signs of it.

[Mzal98]

Any ET life is probably very far away, and considering that it takes so much time to travel such distances I don't ever see where we will be able to 100% prove their existence unless they communicate with us via radio waves.

[HillGoose]

We are aliens they came to earth in the olden days and we are descended from them we all have Annunaki blood running through our veins. The aliens have been trying to help us realize our potential ever since some humans betrayed them and became despots to take power over the people, and the aliens have attempted to help the people overthrow monarchy, theocracy, and authoritarianism ever since. The American and French revolutions were both aided by the aliens, as were the outcomes of World Wars I and II and the Cold War.

They work closely with the US and other democratic governments to aid the cause of freedom and liberty around the world, but the lamestream media won't tell you this.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Almost certainly exists somewhere, but probably nothing in our galaxy much more advanced than us or we'd be able to see signs of it.

Or maybe these super intelligent beings just don't want us to see signs of them. perhaps they've been observing us somehow and realize how violent and destructive we can be as a species, so they'd rather remain hidden from us. it's a bit out there, but I think it's within the realm of possibility.

[Virginiá]

The idea that we are alone in the universe or even galaxy seems extraordinarily implausible. I'd consider us lucky if our technological achievements even makes us average among intelligent life that current exists or did before us.

What does seem reasonable to say is that space-faring civilizations are rare for one reason or another. Perhaps the Great Filter is true and civilizations rarely ever manage to make it past a certain stage of their evolution as a technological power. Or perhaps there are plenty of capable beings out there but have chosen a different path, such as virtual reality. Or perhaps faster-than-light space travel truly is impossible in any way, and it simply takes too long to cross the vast expanse of the universe (not to mention too difficult at significant fractions of c).

[Senator Sirius]

The universe is too large for there not to be at least one other "intelligent" species. I just hope that people don't freak out when we come in contact with them. Tbh the most likely reason we'd end up with an alien war is because we got all aggro with them for no good reason.

[Frodo]

Definitely the last two options...

[Illiniwek]

I think statistically, it has to exist. Intelligent life? Maybe possibly but I wouldn't bet on that.

[RINO Tom]

It almost certainly exists somewhere, but it is likely so far away that we will never detect it.

[Blue3]

Intelligent life exists, but
1. It's very rare
2. There's no such thing as Faster-Than-Light travel
... so we will never encounter it.

The galaxy alone is huge. Just 1 pixel of a photo of the Milky Way, that includes the Sun, also includes our 40,000 closest stars. And the closest is light years away. All the planets of the Solar system could fit within the space between Earth and the Moon. Space is huge.

[HillGoose]

Intelligent life exists, but
1. It's very rare
2. There's no such thing as Faster-Than-Light travel
... so we will never encounter it.

The galaxy alone is huge. Just 1 pixel of a photo of the Milky Way, that includes the Sun, also includes our 40,000 closest stars. And the closest is light years away. All the planets of the Solar system could fit within the space between Earth and the Moon. Space is huge.

that means we have the whole galaxy to ourselves to exploit 😈😈😈

[Reaganfan]

Considering the size of the universe I think it's impossible other intelligent life doesn't exist.

This.

[Del Tachi]

I find it very unlikely that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.  Nothing demonstrates the improbability of the origin of high intelligence better than the billions of earthly species that failed to achieve it.  Biologist Ernst Mayr estimated that some 50 billion species have ever existed on Earth, and only one of these achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization.  And this one civilization is extremely fragile and likely to exterminate itself due to war/climate change/disease/etc. within 500 years of inventing radio/space travel.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

I find it very unlikely that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.  Nothing demonstrates the improbability of the origin of high intelligence better than the billions of earthly species that failed to achieve it.  Biologist Ernst Mayr estimated that some 50 billion species have ever existed on Earth, and only one of these achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization.  And this one civilization is extremely fragile and likely to exterminate itself due to war/climate change/disease/etc. within 500 years of inventing radio/space travel.

If the odds of intelligent life existing are 1 in 50 billion, then there would likely be many intelligent beings throughout the universe, given the sheer number of planets, stars, moons, etc.

[Del Tachi]

I find it very unlikely that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.  Nothing demonstrates the improbability of the origin of high intelligence better than the billions of earthly species that failed to achieve it.  Biologist Ernst Mayr estimated that some 50 billion species have ever existed on Earth, and only one of these achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization.  And this one civilization is extremely fragile and likely to exterminate itself due to war/climate change/disease/etc. within 500 years of inventing radio/space travel.

If the odds of intelligent life existing are 1 in 50 billion, then there would likely be many intelligent beings throughout the universe, given the sheer number of planets, stars, moons, etc.

The odds aren’t one in 50 billion.  At best, they are one in 50 billion on habitable planets.  And that’s not considering the likelihood of intelligent life existing now as opposed to millennia ago or in the distant future; I think this criterion is perhaps the most limiting, given that we have no evidence of any space-faring civilization that is older than ~80 years.  If there were numerous intelligent civilizations existing right now, their existence would be so apparent that’d it be impossible not to spot them (even if they were only a few centuries “ahead” of us, they’d likely be at the point of terraforming planets or moving stars).

[Dr. MB]

Intelligent life definitely exists somewhere.