• Question: do you think humans are the only intelligent life or is there other life outside of earth?

    Asked by made127sun to Tonia, Sam, Emily, Ejay, Edgars, Charnett on 14 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by jump127sun.
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      Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 14 Jun 2019:

      I could not tell with any certainty! but I would like to find out.

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      Sam Gaughan answered on 14 Jun 2019:

      The universe is so big, and has been around for so long that in another place and/or time it is almost certain there is/was intelligent life outside of Earth. The chance of us ever finding out or interacting with them is slim to none however. There are a few interesting ideas surrounding this if you are interested. The Drake equation was a very rough way of estimating the number of advanced civilisations that are around, but when you take time into account it becomes pretty pessimistic:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

      The Fermi paradox, which I don’t think is a paradox at all when you look at it more closely:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

      and the idea of “Great filters” of life in the universe, which oddly means that if we find life that evolved separately from us within the solar system, it actually means our civilisation is more likely to destroy itself!!!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

      There are some nice Youtube videos explaining these concepts too if you search for them 🙂

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      Charnett Chau answered on 14 Jun 2019:

      There probably is since the universe is so huge. Are we intelligent though? Who knows! We have nothing at hand to compare ourselves with!

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      Edgars Kelmers answered on 14 Jun 2019:

      I hope not. I would be curious to meet intelligent life from other planes.
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      I also think that many animals are intelligent, Even though they cannot talk with us, we do not give them enough credit, because they can still analyse and adapt to many situations even better than humans.

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      Ejay Nsugbe answered on 16 Jun 2019:

      are humans only intelligent life form? Probably the most intelligent at the moment but not the only intelligent life-form, as animals,plants do have a degree of intelligence as well.
      are there other life outside earth? There’s been signs to suggest that there exists Extra Terrestrial life-form outside of earth-but to my knowledge, nothing concrete has been confirmed.

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      Emily McNee answered on 16 Jun 2019:

      I’d hope so otherwise its a lot of empty space

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