[FreedomNeocon]

The question of IF there is extraterrestrial life is not a hard one to answer.

OF COURSE there is life outside earth. We've studied like 4 planets... we've "glanced" a dozen more. And on those we've already found evidence of water and rivers, and microbiological organisms in the planets past, and now geysers currently on moons of Saturn shooting water into the air.

There ere are billions of billions of billions of planets in the in the universe, we've seen .00000000000000000000000000000000000001% of them, and 'discovered' even less.

The question of "is there no life other than Earth" is an absurd one... it is virtually guaranteed mathematically. Most people just aren't able to conceive of just how large the universe actually is. I would also argue is it virtually guaranteed (if you factor in passage of time greater towards the center of the universe) that intelligent life is much more rare, but also guaranteed.

The better questions, is how can intelligent species ever hope to traverse the IMMENSE distance between solar systems and galaxies, where even 'light' takes hundreds and thousands of light years (at the short end), which gets into bending space-time by exploiting 'weak' force emitted from decaying element255 bombarded with specific radiation. (or at least so the urban legend goes... ;) )

[frogjerk]

OF COURSE there is life outside earth. We've studied like 4 planets... we've "glanced" a dozen more. And on those we've already found evidence of water and rivers, and microbiological organisms in the planets past, and now geysers currently on moons of Saturn shooting water into the air.

We have found definitive evidence of microbiological organisms (past or present)on other planets? Do you have a link to this definitive claim?

[Red Badger]

Fold space. Einstein says it will..........

[aligncare]

Whoa, dude. Space is "Far out, man!"

[Mogollon]

The question of "is there no life other than Earth" is an absurd one... it is virtually guaranteed mathematically.

Really?? You sound awfully sure of yourself about something that no one actually knows.

IMO the preponderance of evidence is that there is no intelligent life out there. Scientists have been able to detect the background radiation left over from the big-bang at the furthest reaches of the universe, yet they have not detected one radio signal at any frequency that can be considered from an alien civilization.

We have been broadcasting for about 85-90 years so it's conceivable that our radio signals could be detected as far away as 80 light-years from earth. So we should have detected something from older more advanced civilizations if your premise is true that life abounds throughout the universe.