• Question: Do you think that intelligent aliens exist

    Asked by Scott to Angus, Catherine, Jenni, Melissa, Waqar on 21 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by Albert Einstein's son, 888merf49, momo.
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      Catherine Ross answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      Im not sure that aliens exist in the way we see them in films but more perhaps like a life form such as cells for example. And pretty much every life form is intelligent in its on way and can adapt and live to suit itself!

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      Melissa Ladyman answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      I have no idea! The universe is absolutely huge, and really old. So huge and old that we can’t even imagine it. And what if there are other universes out there, completely separate to our own? The possibilities might be infinite.

      However, you also have to think about how amazing it is that intelligent life evolved at all. Think of all the things that had to happen for us to be here- our planet had to form at exactly the right time, at exactly the right distance from the sun, to create the conditions that could form life. And then, that simple life had to combine and start to work together to create complex life forms, like animals. And even then, what was it that made our brains grow big enough to start asking these big, important questions?

      So, the Universe is massively huge, but intelligent life is sublimely complex. I suppose the question is: Is the universe large enough for the sequence of events that led to complex life to happen more than once?

      In my personal opinion, I think there must be other life out there, but whether or not there are other question-asking animals out there somewhere, right now? I really don’t know! What do you think?

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