Extraterrestrial Life

Post by **Vincent** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:43 pm

So I'm taking a class this semester called (I kid you not), "Extraterrestrial Life."

...Not being able to resist a class with that title when I saw it, I signed up for it!

I have a homework assignment where I have to ask ten people the following yes/no questions.

...so help me do my homework!

1) Do you believe extraterrestrial life exists?
2) Do you believe that UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors?
3) Should the US fund searches for extraterrestrial life?

Thanks!

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:24 am

There is no Yes, Yes, Yes category.

So i'll go with Yes, Yes, No when i vote.

spacemusician · Post by **spacemusician** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:59 am

dude thats what happens when you go to school in the middle of cornfields.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:14 am

What does my going to school in the middle of cornfields have to do with my belief in extraterrestrials? It's not like they landed in the nearest cornfield and pursuaded me to vote the way I did. Not to mention that I now go to school in a considerably larger city.

Post by **Vincent** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:38 am

Space Nerd wrote:There is no Yes, Yes, Yes category.

Doh!

I made one, of course I did! ...It must not have taken when I hit "submit."

Fixed.

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:10 am

Wow, the things I missed out on when I was in University!

Keep us posted on this class Vincent - it sounds like an interesting one.

Cerver · Post by **Cerver** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:50 pm

Extraterestrial life undoubtably exists. However, the chance that they exist within any reasonable distance is almost 0. The distance of space is an infinite amount of lightyears. Which means the time of our existence as a species is infintisimal with respect to how long it would take a data transmission to reach the "edges" of the universe.

If we ever recieved a radio transmission, the origin of that transmission is already gone. It would be nearly impossible to detect which planet it came from. Most likely it's star already turned into a red dwarf/giant/supernova and it is gone.

Something many people dont realize is that we could be the first intelligent life in the universe. Although it is garanteed more will adventualy come into existance, it will be impossible to contact them in our infintisimal existence.

Remember, we can only see 40 billion light years in any dirrection, beyond that, who knows.

spacemusician · Post by **spacemusician** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:27 pm

no no no lyn im sorry i wasnt talking about you i was talking to vincent since he goes to university of illinois in central illinois and thats pretty much in the cornfields

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:42 pm

1) yes extraterrestrial life exists but i think it is either A) simple bacterias or B) so far away we will never find or know about it

2)I dont believe in UFOs

3)yes, but up to a point.. i dont think we sould spend billions and billions of dollars looking for something we most likely will never find

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:50 am

This has been a really interesting thread. I must say you have the most interesting homework assignments i've seen yet, Vincent!

Extraterrestrial Life

Answers to my questions (See Below):

Extraterrestrial Life