Are we alone

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(07-15-2019, 10:02 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I don't think there's anything more advanced than bacteria in this solar system, but I want to believe there's something out there.

(07-15-2019, 11:40 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: It's egotistical to think that we're the only life that exists in the universe.

I'd say it's a near certainty that there is life of some form out there. Given that it has taken Just shy of 14 billion years to arrive where we are now, and "modern" civilization is only (depending on how you define it) 6  thousand years old, I'm a subscriber to the belief that whatever life is out there is either vastly more primitive than we are, or vastly more advanced than we are.

I believe that it is entirely possible that we've (as in Earth) been visited, and perhaps even influenced by extraterrestrials, but, kind of going back to the more advanced part, we might never actually know it. It's fun to speculate about, but unless there really are some real eye openers over at Area 51, that's about as far as it will go.

Thanks for keeping it solely on the OP and I too think there is intelligent life elsewhere; after all space is infinite. 

As to being visited: That's harder to answer IMO. But as you say It's fun to speculate.

Like many I was enthralled by space at an early age and wish I'd kept up the pursuit.