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Calculating The Odds of Intelligent Alien Life

What are the mathematical odds of intelligent alien life? Using applied mathematics, this fun animated video will show you the possibility of how alone we truly are in the universe. Explore the answer with the Drake Equation — a mathematical formula that calculates the possibility of undiscovered life.

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  • My Dark Passenger

    I may not be a scientist, I may not even be all that smart. But even I know that life exists around us that does not originate from this planet. Look to the sky, look at space mission footage for example. You see the proof of life originating from places that are not of this planet. Ask yourself the next time you walk past an Ants nest, why you didn’t stop and introduce yourself. These other forms of life exist, they are clearly smarter and more technologically advanced than us. We are the Ants to them. I would say we would do well to hide from other life forms for as long as we can, for our own well being.

    • Eric

      But where is your proof? Real proof. You can’t just speak as if it’s
      fact when it’s really only your own opinion. You’re saying you “know”,
      how? Because you just do?

      • surely

        To think that we are the only known life in the universe is simply arrogant. To think that there is no other life whatsoever is simply stupid… We had/have millions of different lifeforms on our planet, that is proof enough to say there must be life somewhere else. Or how do you think life originated on this planet ??? I will tell you, it came from outside… But lets not fight about it. Lets just say everybody is right.
        surely

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=689028007 Dan Banan Nyström

          Life outside of planet Earth might be obvious, and I’m dead certain that it’s there, but without sufficient and satisfying proof it doesn’t matter.

    • stzzla

      Your viewpoint is one I keep coming across and I keep having to explain the same idea over and over which is getting frustrating but please bear this out.

      This whole “we are ants to them” analogy is conjecture. You are placing human behavioural traits on beings that you know nothing about. How do you know they would view us as ants? How do you know that millions upon millions of years of evolution, you’d still end up with some ignorant creature who looks upon other creatures like ants?

      WE are the ignorant ones, no the the aliens. If advanced species exist, it will be because they’ve had the time to evolve. We are the ones who have had five cosmic seconds to evolve, we are the immature beings. Why then would you place our shortcomings on beings that you have never met, and whom you have no idea about how long they’ve had to develop their empathy with other creatures?

      It’s worth thinking about, and its worth asking questions that you dont yet have the knowledge to ask. Try to to ask them anyway, because the answers may surprise you. Dont ask questions as a human. be more critical than that. Question the universe from the viewpoint of a being that wants to know things, not from the viewpoint of a being that thinks it knows things.

      Thats my advice anyway, you can take it or leave it, it makes no difference to me either way becayse neither one of us has proof of anything – its just that one of us is asking the right style of questions, and the other is assuming answers. You have to be more critical than that if you want answers.

    • stzzla

      Another point I want to put across to you is this. You have pre-judged any alien species, and you have judged that they hate ants, or at the very least, that they find ants something to ignore or something to kill.

      That is how WE think of ants, granted. But why would they think that way? What if. they come from a planet where ants provide a really useful service in nature, and what if these species are so advanced that they have come to appreciate the ants role in nature, tolerate it, and, shock horror, even encourage it? How do you know what role ants plays elsewhere in the universe? How do you know that ants are’nt thought of highly elsewhere.

      This is the whole thing, you’ve got to ask questions from different angles. You are asking questions from the angle of a self hating, frightened, assuming human being. It;s not logical.

      If an alien were to appear before me, I would be frightened or run. I;d make sure my behaviour couldnt be interpreted as as negative emotion like fear, or aggression. I’d present myself as a passive non hostile being.

      And then I would beg it to teach me everything it knows.

      Even if it looked like an ant.

      ;)

  • anonymous

    https://www.google.com/search?q=crop+circle+britain+august+2012&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Muh&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=wiY5UNyXKMKt0QXowIGgDQ&ved=0CFQQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=632

    I can’t believe some people still think these (above) are created by pranksters with rope and planks. These signs have meaning….we are heading in the wrong direction as a species and we need to sort ourselves out. Would you come here if you were watching from elsewhere? We are horrible, ignorant, violent creatures, so the fact we haven’t made first contact yet is hardly surprising. By the way those images are only from BRITAIN this year, 2012. Who knows how many all over the world, since there’s a media blackout you don’t know without actually looking for the info.

    • stzzla

      I dont buy into crop circles at all. You are right, human beings ARE ignorant. All you have to do is apply some common sense and critical thinking. The first crop circles were very simple in nature. They have become more and more complicated as time passes, implying that the people or beings doing them are getting better at it. If it were aliens, they would have had these skills from the outset and would have been able to produce amazing complicated pieces from the outset but thats not what I have witnessed. The early ones were very basic.

      It’s like I said, common sense and a bit of critical thinking means I dont have to go chasing your pretty circles because their designs over time imply human behavioural patterns i.e, humans get better at things over time, whereas any alien species that might exist might have had so much time to evolve that they could produce things far more complicated than 2d crop circles. To an alien thats probably the equivalent of a 1 year old doing some finger painting.

      I believe that if advanced alien species exist, they would choose to communicate in far less esoteric ways than crop circles, and far more advanced ways than using pretty patterns. To give them any less is to do them a great dis-service. What was that you were saying about humans being ignorant and stupid?

  • stzzla

    The key to critical thinking is this:

    Stop thinking as a human being. Take yourself out of your human skin and put yourself into a blank box. A box that has no values, no opinions, a box that can only ask questions but cannot provide answers.

    When you stop trying to provide the answers for yourself, you start to ask the right questions. When you stop assuming what the answer will be, you become a little bit smarter.

    Someone once said the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

    Thats only half of what true wisdom is.

    True wisdom is knowing that you know nothing, whilst still knowing what questions to ask and how to ask them.

    Until you develop that skill, you will always be a hamstrung human being. the evlotionary equivalent of bio sludge.

    We need to move on, and it starts in the brain. Stop using your brain to assume, and start using it to ask, but make sure you dump those human traits before you start the asking or you will just end up with bio sludge for answers.