Are there intelligent beings on other planetsAre there intelligent beings on other planetsAre there intelligent beings on other planets. We excluded the existence of intelligent beings on other planets. Each other! That is too anthropocentric and egocentric to believe that in a universe as we understand the many billions of planets life has only developed on Earth. It is completely fossilized and be self-centered to think so. The form of communication is a big problem here because we have communication problems between us, between people. We are unable to communicate with advanced forms of living such different animals, and practically no opportunity to communicate with plants, trees, and smaller insects. Therefore, always a sense of communication are limited by the models in our culture. That is when we "tom-tom" trying to communicate with aliens with "tom-tom." I remember last century method was to open large ravines in the Sahara and put oil on fire there to see us. Now we develop radio nature. We deal with radio communication. I guess the last time we will wait to send any e-mail, or to take or give signs from our mobile. Always the model that we have for communication is limited by current reality that will overcome the de facto by the next generation of discoveries. Nothing is excluded. Efforts are being made to certain scientific calculations with the so-called the Drake equation, which takes into account the possibilities under which there will be, for example, planets like Earth, if you have a cultural level, etc., and has draw some conclusions. Of course it depends on what one puts numbers in the equation. But if we say now about a radius of fifty light years, which as we said is one of 470 trillion kilometers, according to the equation Treik count on a culture for example. A culture under the best conditions and as we said earlier is enormous distances. It also said to communicate. Certainly today COMMUNICATIONS by radio and started and laser communications. But these are destined for the speed of light. That should certainly not expect a human life in order to send a message and then wait to receive a response. If there is a culture at a radius of fifty years of light when you send a message to wait for an answer fifty years to go and fifty years to repay. One hundred years ago. A human life. There is at least in our current knowledge quickest way to communicate than the speed of light. That limited us looking at leaflets in our neighborhood, that is somewhere nearby. The closest star to us is the Alpha Centauri and is just five light years. There is a possibility if there is no culture to get a message relatively quickly. But it has been shown that there is a planet and not necessarily obvious and culture at a level that we can communicate. In our solar system I think that there are rationally beings, as least we perceive. There may be bacteria, lichens, such forms of life, which may say with some hidden contempt, as will be noticed. I do not think there are other civilizations in our solar system. LEGA nobody would believe this from scientists. In other solar systems, however, perhaps to nearby stars, there are some agencies, perhaps rationally beings, developed more or less. if we consider that the Earth, the planet is 4.6 billion years age and that the universe is 13.7 billion years age, there will be planets that are older than the Earth. Planets, however, who would have the same physical history and the same conditions. So if there arose life, then they are more likely to be more sophisticated than what is life to our planet. Because our species is not the last of the evolutionary chain. After a few thousand or a million or two million years, there may be other species, the homo universals say, will have other ways of perceiving and other communication. Therefore, if such planets are unlikely to have set up there lives and be sophisticated. How to communicate or not, that's another story, which falls within the limits of science fiction, but was approached several times and most practical ways. I remember since I was a student wrote for newspapers for a long time that the then Soviet Union captured signals from space that came from intelligent beings. At the end were found to be a natural phenomenon magazine. But man tries to show signs of communication, eg using music signals from Earth, or graphic symbols that are more satellites, so if they meet or see or hear others there to be some communication. |