I have no idea how we got to this topic, but today in English, Sam, Bre, and I touched on the topic of the universe. I've thought long and hard about this and have come to one simple conclusion: Since there's infinite space, everything's happening somewhere. It's hard to imagine but it's true. Some people, though, (like Sam and Bre) disagree.
Sam, one of the smartest people in our class, pretty much said that my theory is impossible. Psh, impossible? Improbable, yes, but nothing's impossible. He said, and I quote, "There may be infinite space, but we're alone."
WTF is that? Sure, our mere existance is pure dumb luck, but who's to say some other planet wasn't just as lucky? In the universe, there's gazillions of galaxies, and in those galaxies, there's millions of stars, and many of those stars have their own system of planets, so how can someone deny the existance of other life when there are so many possibilities that it can happen?
Sam, one of the smartest people in our class, pretty much said that my theory is impossible. Psh, impossible? Improbable, yes, but nothing's impossible. He said, and I quote, "There may be infinite space, but we're alone."
WTF is that? Sure, our mere existance is pure dumb luck, but who's to say some other planet wasn't just as lucky? In the universe, there's gazillions of galaxies, and in those galaxies, there's millions of stars, and many of those stars have their own system of planets, so how can someone deny the existance of other life when there are so many possibilities that it can happen?
Can't happen, it's pretty much scientificaly proven, we haven't found life yet, and no other planet (that we know of at the moment) is capable of containing life, let alone intelegent life.
w00t! I posted that comment at exactly 9:00 I'm happy for me! lol
With infinite space, it's not so much a matter of science, but a matter of faith. We can't know everthing about the universe. We need to accept that. To believe that we have seen everything the universe has to offer is ignorance. Whether it's intelligent or not, there IS life out there. We just haven't found it yet.
My point is, it would take intelengence to do something like Star Wars(SW), you were saying that SW could happen, it can't.
huh? i didn't say Star Wars
o m g.... THATS WHAT STARTED THIS WHOLE THING!!! THE SW ARTICLE ONLINE!!! YOU SAID THAT SOMEWHERE SW IS HAPPENING AND SAM AND I SAID THAT THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE so there.
The universe is not actually infinite, but is expanding.
Even so, it appears that there is most definitely a finite amount of matter.
The sheer quantity of that matter, however, assures us that there must be other intelligent life out there someplace, though it probably isn't much like us.
But there are probably far fewer that have achieve technology, and fewer than that who have acheived space exploration.
And, given the distances involved and the sheer amount of time, it is unlikely that two civilizations will ever come into contact with one another, or even be around when the other's long-dead transmissions pass by.