Alien deites

[Birc0014]

Agreed, but for what its worth I hope the sun can support life, if thats possible within our reach imagine whats going on in the rest of the universe?

I dont know about you but I like the idea of giant flying terradactyl whale blobs floating through zero gravity eating cosmic plankton in some far off place

 

[Xorkoth]

The conditions in which life can exsist are infinite. Look at the recent discoveries of sulphuric acid eating hyper pressurized volcano dwelling crustacions on the ocean floor, or micro organisms that exist in mercury, this suggests the possibility that similar organisms could live on the face of the sun! If this is possible just within our little speck of space shit imagine the possibilities that exist in the infinity of the universe.

It is guaranteed that species far more 'advanced' than our own exist, there is a strong possibility they are already in contact. We dont meddle in the affairs of gorillas other than to kidnap one every so often and put it in a zoo or kill it for resources why should 'they'?

I agree with this. I have believed for some time that life does not require Earth-like conditions specifically to exist. It's just that our form of life is all we know about and all we have observed. Limiting the possibility of life to what we have observed seems awfully shortsighted and anthropocentric, considering how difficult it is for us to directly observe anything outside of our own planet (we've landed on Mars and the Moon and only flown by the other planets in our solar system at great distances, and all we know about ANY other star system is remote observations of the subtly changing light from those stars, in which we can simply determine it's a planet transiting and gather some properties of the makeup of said planet). Who's to say all life must be carbon-based and must require water? Who's to say there aren't forms of life existing as gasses floating through interstellar clouds, or silicon-based lifeforms running on hydrocarbons on some planet we know nothing about or even whether it exists? We can only currently detect transiting planets that lie on an orbital plane that takes it directly parallel between our vantage point and the star we're observing.

And, as you say, there are lifeforms here on Earth that defy our expectations about life. I do think it's entirely possible that the universe is much more full of life than it would seem. However, my opinions on the likelihood of said forms of life visiting Earth or even being able to visit Earth still stand. I think the most likely scenario for other life visiting Earth is if they exist in a more spiritual sense, rather than a physical one. Like I said before, I do HOPE that aliens have physically visited us because that would mean it's possible for physical life forms to travel in some manner faster than the speed of light, and I hope such a thing is possible, I really do.

 

[Foreigner]

Physical life is just the most dense representation of the non-material life that fills the universe. Over periods of time they used their consciousness to arrange matter and achieve solid form. Those forms became long-term lineages which evolved into what we have today. That's pretty much of the sinch of it, though it must have been a pretty colossal undertaking.

If they could do it here, they could do it anywhere. Consciousness directs the activities of DNA, not the other way around. I do think physical life on a sentient level is a lot more rare than non-material sentient life, and for this reason we are unlikely to find our sentient counterparts anytime soon. There are major distance limitations to finding other sentient life like us, and if they're out there they're probably so rare that they're extremely far away.

Sentient non-physical life though? It's all around us, if we would just cultivate ourselves like we used to do before the age of the machine.