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User voted I'm not sure.
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Apr 1, 2015

I certainly think it's possible. I would like to believe it is so, but I haven't seen any clear evidence of it. As for the universe being way too big for us to be the only game, I'd like to believe that is true too. But we haven't fully explored our own planet, much less our own solar system, our own galaxy, or the neighboring galaxies, much less the billions of galaxies that we've so far detected with our telescopes. We have so little first-hand observation of the universe, that we really don't have enough data to assume that life is the rule or the exception. If we can visit or send a probe to another oxygen atmosphere planet in the Goldilocks orbit of its sun and find it teaming with life, I'd be more willing to bet that there is lots of life out there and probably some of it is intelligent.

Another possibility is that there was intelligent life in some of the older solar systems in the galaxy, but their stars went super nova before we were born, or they reached the nuclear age and wiped themselves out, or they had a civilization that lasted millions of years and then died out for reasons we can't imagine.

I'll tell you one thing: If Harold White at NASA manages to perfect the Alcubierre "warp drive" before I'm 90, I think I'll volunteer for the first trip. :-)

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Jul 17, 2016

The question is not whether or not there is an intelligent form of life out there. Based on pure statistics, the absence of another intelligent form of life beyond earth is impossible given the billions of (known) galaxies with their many billions of stars supporting innumerable planets. As for intelligence, that is a matter of scale. All creatures are intelligent in some way, otherwise they would become extinct. What matters is if that intelligence is on a scale that is what we would consider "sentient" (knowing that you are what you are and having a sense of self). On probability alone, the chance of this being the case is 100%. Will we ever meet them in our species existence, that is the great unknown.

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May 15, 2015

I'm not sure.

I think, really, that we could either not be alone in the universe (since hey, probabilities) but I think too that we could just be an experiment of some kind of god that want to check how we would react when we realise that the relative loneliness we are feeling toward the universe is stupid since we are thousand and thousands.

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Feb 15, 2016

Using the Drake Equation {Albiet extremely varied, inaccurate and potentially unreliable} there are roughly 300 other civillizations in this galaxy alone with similar technology to ours {This is, if I remember correctly} so I think it's pretty arrogant of us to say we're the only civilization in the Universe. Do I believe that UFO's visit our planet everyday?

No.

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May 20, 2016

Well, the high probability (and Drake Equation) will have it possible to have life somewhere in the Universe (and probably in the Milky Way Galaxy), given that there are billions, if not trillions of stars in the galaxy alone with planets similar to Earth, and even more stars in the Universe, however, the lack of evidence suggests that there isn't life in the galaxy or Universe (since if there was, how come there are no Civilizations that have contacted us?) This is the Fermi Paradox (or Fermi's Paradox, either one) which states that the answer of if there is life in the universe comes to zero, since the high probability but lack of evidence negate each other, equaling to an unsure answer.

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Jun 13, 2016

It is very possible considering the vast number of solar systems.

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Aug 2, 2016

I think people want there to be more intelligent life in the universe in the same way that we would rather have a world full of superheroes and superpowers. We want more out of this world and think it's boring. Of course it's entirely possible that there are aliens out there, but I think "Yes" is quite an ignorant option as there is literally no evidence, though it is very plausible according to certain theories.

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Sep 13, 2016

Depends how you define "life" and "intelligent". There might be extra-terrestrial intelligent life forms that we've already met and yet did not recognize them as life...

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User voted Yes.
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Jul 20, 2015

Thinking otherwise in such a huge universe is ridiculous

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Mar 31, 2015

It's way too big a place for us to be the only game.

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Mar 31, 2015

I think so too. But the question is. How close are they?

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User voted Yes.
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Apr 6, 2015

Why would that matter?

A better question would be "what have we done as a race to deserve to join them?".

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Jul 22, 2015

Why should we(humans) believe that we are intelligent life?
Maybe there is a better, more accurate way to describe it. Maybe on a grander scale of being self aware.

Given the possibilities, the ones we're aware of, I would think, yes. I think likely, it looks just like us.

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Mar 8, 2016

Given the size of the universe, there is no doubt there is not only life outside our universe, but intelligent life.

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Apr 3, 2016

My personal opinion is that in the vastness of the universe, there is extraterrestrial life. Maybe it will discover us, maybe we will discover it. Time will tell.

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May 23, 2016

It would depend on what you define as intelligent. If you mean life that we could one day hope to form an alliance with, then most likely no. There would be no linguistic basis of communication, but if you meant intelligent as in perhaps has progressed from a minuscule microbial forms then that seems possible.

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Jun 15, 2016

I think that the greatest proof of the existence of intelligent life in the universe is the fact that we have so far - no one has tried to contact.

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Aug 5, 2016

Why would we be the only life form in this entire universe? There must be something!

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