and that answer covers everything from a prion to Mr. Spock!
Short and to the point, like a Spartan sword.
Long enough to get to the heart of the matter...
“Life” “outside of earth”
Is a loooong way from little green men in flying saucers doing anal probes and cattle cutting.
Makes perfect sense... it's not like the guy never heard of an astronaut.
My kids ask me this all the time and I say “yes”. At a bacteria, virus, multi-cell microbe, fungi level, I cannot imagine there not being such simple life out there. Beyond that is the real question.
Is he the one who was on “The Brady Bunch”? They asked him the same question.
Reminds me of Jack Kilby, who was said to have two thank you speeches: “Thank you.” and “Thank you vey much.”
There was a hilarious episode of Frasier where John Glenn was a guest star. He was supposed to do a special guest show on Frasier’s radio show. Something happened and Glenn was left alone in the booth during taping and he launched into a monologue about the aliens he had seen in space. He did it all in deadpan. Really funny.
I don’t mean to put down an astronaut, but they are just super-trained pilots. They have no more knowledge of biology than anyone else, unless they were specially trained for a biology mission. He is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but that’s all it is.
So he believes, many do. Does not mean any of them are right. Nor does it prove them wrong. So far though we have absolutely zero evidence of other life other than life here on earth. But the universe is a big place, and the number of universes are unknown. Given the magnitude of territory would seem to increase the odds of other life. But that could also stem from us being unable to comprehend that there would be that much space devoid of other life. To many that is an even scarier proposition then to believe that other life exists in the cosmos somewhere.
Ever wonder why we just up and quit going to the moon? Uh huh.
Throw science out the window. People don’t need evidence any longer as long as one sounds convincing.
I highly recommend Collins’ “Carrying the Fire.” I’ve read many books on the space program and his was by far the most entertaining. He’s a superb writer.
And if you catch any of his video interviews, the guy is a hoot. Very smart and very funny. A cool, cool guy.
The bus driver has spoken.
I think he’s right. But there is no way it will ever get here or we will ever get there. Best we can hope for is that we may be able to communicate with radio waves.
I don't believe we've been visited by an alien intelligence and I don't believe we ever will. The time and distances are too great to overcome.
A civilization blips into existence lasts a few million years and blips out again. Never knowing about the civilizations that did the same in their own galaxy a billion years ago, let alone the rest of the universe a billion years from now.
Perhaps we'll get radio signals that took 3 billion years to arrive and let us know that a civilization lived 3 billion light years away, 3 billion years ago. But they will have likely been extinguished for 2.9 billion years.
Way back when, my dad was one of the guys who trained the guys who walked on the moon.
Pete Conrad (Apollo 12) was a test pilot prior to going to the space program. As they were sitting around a camp fire late one night over a few adult beverages, Pete, related the time when the base he was flying a new plane out of was shut down when something no one had ever seen the likes of landed on the end of the runway before leaving at very high speed.
Everyone has their own opinion about the Beatles but I wouldn't go so far as to call them Dung.
And if a planet had dung beetles there would have be some larger critters providing the dung.
Some really insightful answers to a simple question and simple answer. Statistically when one considers the number of stars in just our Milky Way galaxy there has to be many, many planets that are in the ‘goldilocks zone’. These are planets that have similar location relative to their sun as is Earth. If you start throwing out candidates that are too large (crushing gravity), no atmosphere or at least not NI/O2 in a close combination to Earth, and a large group of other deal breakers, there are still millions of candidates (statistically). The possibility of basic life (fungus, algae, etc) is likely IMHO.
Will we meet the Vulcans? Probably not but I would relish meeting T’Pol.