Extraterrestrial contact in our lifetime?

[flobadob]

I'm not taking the pee here, I'm just asking whether or not you believe that humans will have contact with extraterrestrials in your lifetime?

[Anngel123]

They're already here...didn't you know? LOL

[thejudderman]

Yes I think we will........ Some are convinced we already have....... which I dont think is that unbelievable!

[boxtops]

If there are any, why not?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I'd love it if we did.

[bibblebub]

no

[Arksided]

I'm quite convinced a few come on here.

[pdq1]

No! We have searched extensively in our galaxy without results. Also we know that galaxies are speeding away from each other so to connect with those is extremely remote.

[pdq1]

However the Andromeda galaxy is heading our way and is said to merge with ours in 4500bn years from now but our sun will have burnt out by then.

[atalanta]

By definition, any extra-terrestrials who might contact us must be more intelligent than we are. Do we really want to meet such creatures, who would be able to make us look really stupid ?
Think about it - we have no hope of reaching them, we can never travel fast enough, and if we do spend years in space we shall kill ourselves with cancer from space radiation and loss of bone density from having no gravity. So if they contact us it is because they do not suffer from such problems.
They must be a lot cleverer than us if they can get through to us. It seems most unwise for us to advertise how dim we are, compared to them

[MoonRocker]

I don't think we will ever have contact.

[naomi24]

They may visit us - but we won't be visiting them in my lifetime. I’m actually one of those that Judderman mentions. I think extra-terrestrials visited earth thousands of years ago.

Naomi sits back and waits for the cries of derision.

[MoonRocker]

The distances are just too vast even for travel/communication at C. All Sci Fi I'm afraid.

[naomi24]

^^Big assumption.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Contact could be as simple as finding bacterial life. I still hope to see it.

[RATTER15]

I also suspect they have visited before, however I am not totally convinced.

[wildwood]

I firmly believe that the 'intelligent' Homo sapiens is a evolutionary glitch. There has been life on this planet for billions of years and we have only been around for 2 million or so, increasingly destroying our own habitat to the point of no return.

While I concede that there may be life on other planets, we may not even recognise that as life. It is pretty conceited that life outside of the Sun's planets would remotely resemble us.

[Jeza]

I think they are here already. It's called the benefit system.

[flobadob]

So naomi does that make you a scientologist?

[starone]

We have no way of reaching them because there is a limit to how fast we can travel (at the moment) and I doubt very much if we could increase it to the extent it would require to reach the stars. So (in my opinion only, and I could well be wrong), the same thing applies the other way around - there is no way aliens could travel fast enough to reach us within even a couple of years. It follows then, that the answer to your question must be no, although it would be very interesting if it did happen - and perhaps dangerous.

[joko]

they found bacteria on mars didnt they?