Annabel Asher: Absolutely, I believe there is abundant life. Even as Walt Whitman early observed, "There are millions of suns."
More than that we cannot say.
NASA and astrophysics departments of great universities accelerate their studies of potential life.
The limitations on our knowledge are tremendous. The wavelengths we humans receive are quite limited -- sound, sight are on a narrow edge of much wider wavelength spectra.
Moreover, the immensity of the Cosmos we receive with our most advanced telescopes and instruments are often billions of light years away.
Which means, those phenomena have evolved billions of years farther.
Which means, I suppose, the answer, if we EVER get it within our own relatively narrow bandwidth, may be a long, long way in the future.
But with so many galaxies, each with so many suns, each with the possibility of so many solar-systems, I think it would be foolish to adopt a dogma that the only life is what we see.
Having said that, I do not know how much of the life has intelligence. Assuming the intelligence of the life, are they civilized? If civilized, are they BENIGN?
I don't know.
Having said that . . . There was the "Twilight Zone's" Episode: "To Serve Man":
Annabel Asher: Absolutely, I believe there is abundant life. Even as Walt Whitman early observed, "There are millions of suns."
More than that we cannot say.
NASA and astrophysics departments of great universities accelerate their studies of potential life.
The limitations on our knowledge are tremendous. The wavelengths we humans receive are quite limited -- sound, sight are on a narrow edge of much wider wavelength spectra.
Moreover, the immensity of the Cosmos we receive with our most advanced telescopes and instruments are often billions of light years away.
Which means, those phenomena have evolved billions of years farther.
Which means, I suppose, the answer, if we EVER get it within our own relatively narrow bandwidth, may be a long, long way in the future.
But with so many galaxies, each with so many suns, each with the possibility of so many solar-systems, I think it would be foolish to adopt a dogma that the only life is what we see.
Having said that, I do not know how much of the life has intelligence. Assuming the intelligence of the life, are they civilized? If civilized, are they BENIGN?
I don't know.
Having said that . . . There was the "Twilight Zone's" Episode: "To Serve Man":
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80j7it
When this was broadcast, Armando was 11. I only saw it within the past five years. It is still memorable to me!
HOPEFULLY, we won't have THAT kind of an encounter! LOL!