• Question: Do you believe in aliens?

    Asked by WebsA1 to Dave, Ed, Guido, Hugh, Stef on 16 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by 362ghtb32.
    • Photo: Ed Rial

      Ed Rial answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Hi Webs

      Yes, I believe in aliens, but I don’t think we’ll ever meet them 🙁

      Ed

    • Photo: Dave Bond

      Dave Bond answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      They might already be here ………

      But probably not. The universe is so big the chance is that we are not the only life out there.

      After travelling for longer than 36 years and covering a distance of nearly 12 billion miles, the space probe Voyager 1 has finally entered interstellar space. This is nothing compared to the size of the universe or the distance between galaxies. Unless there is a big jump in technology we are unlikely to talk or even know about them. All radio waves that have been broadcast on earth have been moving through space. If you go fast enough (ignoring physics here) you could listen to on a radio the first BBC broadcast. But these have hardly traveled any distance really. Even though they are moving at the speed of light.

    • Photo: Guido Bolognesi

      Guido Bolognesi answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      It is highly probable that aliens exist or existed somewhere. I can’t imagine such a huge universe only for us. What a waste of space!

      That said, the fact the universe is so big makes it highly probable other living beings have existed. On the other hand, the fact the universe is so big makes also very difficult (unfortunately) to bump into them.

      Maybe one day we will meet aliens, who knows.

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      Hugh Harvey answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      Yup! But not creepy humanoid ones – probably if we do find alien life it will be tiny bacteria somewhere

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