Seed of intelligent life

[Divadish]

The Hubble picture of the galaxy at first got me thinking how insignificant we really are which then got me on to something i had banging round my head a few years ago which was this. Maybe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, sure they maybe micro-organisms ,aquatic life possibly even land based mammals scattered all over the place but as far as being able to communicate, plan and act upon, i think it's quite possible, given the critical planetary and climatic conditions that have come about to get us where we are at this moment in time that we are the only intelligent lifeform in the universe , i mean everything has to start somewhere maybe this is the cradle of intelligent life. And as such is it not our obligation nee our duty to leave this planet at some point and spread the seed of intelligent life throughout the rest of the universe, that's if we don't wipe ourselves out first. Just wondered if any one else had any opinions ?.

Divadish Reviewed by Divadish on 05-31-2007. Seed of intelligent life The Hubble picture of the galaxy at first got me thinking how insignificant we really are which then got me on to something i had banging round my head a few years ago which was this. Maybe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, sure they maybe micro-organisms ,aquatic life possibly even land based mammals scattered all over the place but as far as being able to communicate, plan and act upon, i think it's quite possible, given the critical planetary and climatic conditions that Rating: 5

[Divadish]

Yes i couldn't agree more that's why we should be finding these new worlds and finding out we get to them. With the foreknowledge and intelligence we now have we could create true Nirvana on another inhabitable planet. A bit far flung i know but i really believe it's the way forward for us as a species.

[Melkane]

I think that the chances of intelligent life, as or even greater intelligence than ours is almost certain due to the sheer vastness of the universe. The sad thing is, most likely our planet will never communicate with other said intelligent life due to the very same thing...the vastness of the universe. Even at light speed the distances are nearly unfathomable.

Unless we get some form of communication or transportation thats so highly advanced that time/distance mean nothing in regards to it we just won't be able to communicate with any said species. Unless we are just astronomically lucky and intelligent life can be found at one of our closest stars.

Really I don't think it far fetched to make the guess that there is probably at least one highly intelligent form of life in each galaxy.

Just any form of life is proabably highly common in the universe though, the more primitive the more common. Though I imagine there are a lot of planets that animal life has reached dog/cat level of intelligence.

[Brett1038]

how crazy is that to think about though?

maybe one hundred trillion light years away, some form or people or humans or intellligent life or whatever could just be sitting there and we are completely oblivious to it

i would love to see visit another place where intelligent life exists and see just how different we really are

[anomalousirrelivance]

Just any form of life is proabably highly common in the universe though, the more primitive the more common. Though I imagine there are a lot of planets that animal life has reached dog/cat level of intelligence.

If you think about the universe and how time is a quantifiable thing, faster moving parts of the universe have probably evolved so strange of things that we cant imagine.

[scottbrochill]

I saw on some show in the national geographic channel, talking about finding another habital planet after the earth is used up, and they were saying that evenm just in our galaxy there are thousands of planets that probably have intelligent, just in the milky way....

This whole subject really gets you thinking man, it really blows your mind how small even our life spans are in the grand scheme of things, we liv 100 yrs at the most, but planets last billions of years, and there is no telling how long the entire universe has been around.... whoa

[Divadish]

If you think about the universe and how time is a quantifiable thing, faster moving parts of the universe have probably evolved so strange of things that we cant imagine.

So their path of evolution/intelligence could be a faster one than ours and they might have reached levels of conciousness, awareness and technologies that we might not conceive of for another 1000,100,000 who knows 1,000,000 years should we survive that long. As individuals we do seem rather insignificant don't we ? p.s. if they are that far advanced then they should get in touch :jointsmile:

[palerider7777]

i just thought i'd ad my 2 cents i know quite abit about alot of things as im always thinking about something my mind seems to never stop and i don't even smoke just my choice but i don't judge anyone either i used to hate the stuff when i was lil all my cousins and brother started when they were like 12.lol i went as far as to one time i lived in mobile al and my brother and his friends 16 at the time was growing some shit in his room and he pissed me off so i went and bought sum weed killer spray and when he was gone i went in his room and took his spray bottle with nutes and poured in the weed killer so when he sprayed his plants he was killing them himself i did'nt kill them my self i and i would wait and then change back his nutes so he could get another batch going and then do it again i would hear him cursing in his room saying i don't know what the fuck im doing there doing great and then all the sudden the get fucked up i know i was mean to him but thats how brothers are when there that age anyways back to the subject at hand first off let me say iv'e been all over the usa and my dad and i used to go out to colorado to prospect and camp out on our land out there it was great and at night we would look up in the stars and by the way there so much brighter and way more to see up in the mountains than say in jax where i am now anyways we would look up in the sky and just wander whats up there and b4 that we were in nm and i saw what at first i thought was a falling star i mean it was far away as a star not near the earth i mean it looked like a star and then it started zig zaging and backtracking so we were up in colorado looking up and reflecting on what that was and we started looking and after a few nights of this i spotted the same thing and we started tracking it we started to see it every night between 9 and 11 at night and it would come from the same place it looked like the milkyway or blackhole i don't know but it was a dense group of stars and it would zig zag around across the sky or space and then disappear into another cluster of dense stars and it would just go back and forth to this day i can go out there and see them at nite what they are i don't know but we have tracked them in the sky and a plane for a reference and the plane would take about 30 mins to an hr to go from one side of view to where we could'nt see it anymore like say from north to south and the things we would see in space would do a run like that in 5 to 10 mins and it was far way as a star so cont

[palerider7777]

cont so after saying that lets talk about what it takes to sustain life as we know it anyways and this is for u atheists out there that think we just happened and evolved from frogs and shit (yes i belive in god)ok here's what iv'e come to first what does it take for us to sustain life well we need water, sun, food among other thing but im just talking about elemental stuff here minerals vitamins stuff like that and we need just enough of each one right not to lil not to much right?well name another planet or moon or star that is just close enough to the sun for everything to be perfect not to close not to far just right the planet infront of us is to hot and the planet behind us to cold but of course u could live on a planet that is cold rather than to hott and of course us humans would have to make stuff to adapt to the colder planet but as far as everthing being just right the earth #1 the sun is just the right distance the plants gets just enough as u all know how delicate plants are they need just enough to thrive so to say this just all happened (big bang theory) not to say thats not how but by whom is the real ? the lord is the only 1 big enough to complete something of this magnitude could only be done with planning it didn't just happen just some of my cents

[Melkane]

, and there is no telling how long the entire universe has been around.... whoa

Actually the current scientific evidence points the universe to be about 14billion years old or so.