I do, with billions of galaxies each containing billions of stars like the sun with the potential for billions of solar systems there must be life like our own somewhere

I do. E.T. visited me as a small boy (not him, me).

has he phoned home since ;)

Yes I do, I believe there is lots of life out there :)

I think if it was just us in the universe it would be quite a boring place.

I hope they play tennis mind! :D

Surely even they don't have anybody that could compete with Fed!

No it must have been a one shot deal to him. He said he would phone me. I trusted him and his big fat bright finger too the stupid monkey looking bug eyed git.

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You should have nicked his bike :D

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Perhaps he is extra-terrestrial ;)

*Pictures a green version of Fed*

Actually it'd be quite authentic roflmao

I think Predator would have taken down Fed. Mork would be bagelled though.

hmm where is this going roflmao

Absolutely. Have you never seen X Files :o

you say it like it's scientific fact Mo roflmao

I agree with Sam, but i dont believe in UFOs, or that we have ever been visited by aliens, but they must exist in galaxies far, far away

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Oh I don't believe in UFO's either - we must be just about the most technologically advanced life forms anyway

Sam! roflmao roflmao roflmao You crack me up you really do. :D

Well to answer your pertiinent question :D, of course there must be other life forms in the universe. I say this becasue I really hope there is cos if this race is it, then there really is no hope at all. roflmao I tell you seriously, sometimes I do wish that I coudl go and live on another planet rather than in this insane place.

The big question is who's fault is it? Who created us? Was it God? Was it another force or being, aliens, or just pure Darwinian evolution? I personally think we are decended form aliens in another universe and they dumped all their rejects on earth so that they coudl blow the crap out of each other with wars. If it was God, I bet he wished damned well he hadnt; bothered, and he certainyl has made some cock ups (without wanting to balsphem of course). Mind you some christains woudl say that everythign that goes wrong with things that God alledegy created is all down to the Devil, so it coudl be ol' Nick's fault :D

;)

I do. I saw an alien spacecraft years ago in a deserted country valley. I thought they were going to abduct me, but they said that they could learnt little examining such a flawed and idiotic subspecies as myself! roflmao I was quite dissappointed, but we had a great chat and a few drinks whilst discussing the song Lif eon Mars by David Bowie - they were huge fans of his apparently. ;)

It's been eating away at me that question all my life roflmao

you mean life outside the boards?

:blink:

No I know that exists thank god roflmao

thats a bit harsh on Nick :blink:

wash your mouth out Lexy, you know there is no such thing ;)

You think?

I would've thought that there would be a mix of evolutionary states of different specices within this galaxy and in others.

Some far more advanced than us in a Star Trek-esque manner and some still stuck behind us in the middle ages not even realising that there are other planets much less other life on them.

Do you mean life outside of this message board?
No I dont think so :blink:

Oops just seen you message Lex.
Great minds and all that ;)

To go back to the original question, it depends what you define as 'life'.
It could be argued that a star is a life form, it has a birth and death doesnt it. Not sure if it can reproduce though...

Well technically you could say, it does reproduce as all the matter in the universe is made from star material.

But does it?

Move? No
Reproduce? Possibly, depends how you define it.
Sensitivity? No

Grow? Yes
Respire? Possibly, depends how you define this.
Excrete? Yes
Nutrition? No

So by how we define life a star isn't alive. But this is only designed for Carbon based oxygen inhabiting life forms.

There may be all sorts of life forms that we haven't identified (silicon based ones), or ones that we can't even imagine. That's whats so interesting about it all :)

:o but X Files said it was :o








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simple answer: yes I do

I don't think you can define a star as 'life' - it is merely a process, it doesn't think for itself after all, otherwise why would it waste all that energy just for the benefit of others?

by the way i'm doubtful many beings could be a whole lot more technologically advanced than us - I suppose one thing we haven't got near working out yet is how to get a spaceship that travels at near the speed of light, because if we could create that then it would be possible to travel anywhere, as time slows down considerably the faster you travel. Theoretically if you travel at the speed of light you can travel an infinite distance in zero seconds. Mind boggling, what a man that Einstein was :D

You also become infinitley heavy, so its unlikely you would survive.
Plus speed is relative anyway, but light always travels at the same speed
At least, thats what I remember about relativity,no expert :bs:

Ye this is all theoretical though. We won't know until we actually do it.

Einstein was probably in error about half of, just as Newton got half of it wrong it turns out roflmao

Have you never watch star trek? Faster than light travel is easy roflmao

Yes, I love Star Trek.
'Its life Jim, but not as we know it'.

I think that is a good sentiment for some of the creatures on the BBC roflmao

Well they sort of managed to prove it with Apollo astronauts.

They had two identical super-accurate clocks, one on board and one back at earth, and apparently when the astronauts returned they were actually a couple of seconds younger than they would have been had they stayed on earth.

If we could work out a spaceship which could go at a near-light speed that would be amazing, you could do a return journey to a star 15 light years away in a matter of minutes, but when you returned to earth everybody else would be 30 years older! I you were 26 and had just had a kid, you kid would be older than you when you returned!

:o :o

How could they tell they were a couple of seconds younger?

That's amazing if they did.

I still am waiting for them to build their first faster than light space ship though :D

I still must admit to not fully understanding some of Einstein's theories though. Space and mass etc. im ok with; it's the time aspect I don't get :rolleyes:

Einstein had soem strange habits. I read that he slept in a yoga position and never wore socks. roflmao

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CLASS!!!!!

Trivia quiestion: who was the first animal in space?