• Question: do you believe there’s life on any other places other than earth. if so what and where

    Asked by anon-245254 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      I do believe there’s intelligent life somewhere else in the universe. It is just so mind-numbingly vast that the odds of it only happening once must be tiny.
      It is however likely to be fundamentally different from us, if it evolved from different starting conditions. So if we met it, it might be difficult to recognise it as intelligent. It may even be difficult to recognise it as life!

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Surely there has to be – it seems incredible to me to think that we are the only life in the entire Universe! I do think however, that we are if life does exist elsewhere, we will probably never see it ourselves as I think it would be too far away. But I don’t have any particular reason to know this is the case, so perhaps in the future, we may discover other life!

    • Photo: Ondrej Kovanda

      Ondrej Kovanda answered on 14 Mar 2020:

      I believe it was Einstein (don’t quote me on that), who said this – if we were the only life in the universe, it would be a terrible waste of space! I can’t imagine us being the only one – there has been enough space and enough time for life to develop elsewhere as well, probably in form rather unimaginable to us. Due to the unimaginable vastness of the universe, however, there’s a very tiny chance of it happenning anywhere near us.

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