Makes sense. I doubt humans are the only beings capable of slaughtering each other with powerful weapons in this universe.

I remember one Star Trek episode where they didn't want to contact a planet's native civilization on the basis that it was quite undeveloped in every aspect, and contacting them would´ve caused those natives to see them as gods.

Guess what we are to those who may be able to hyperjump from the other side of the galaxy ; P

With all the "water on Mars" talking... Maybe it was an inhabited planet a few billion years ago and they launched weapons that killed the atmosphere of the planet? I think it's out of question that there are other lifeforms out there, so this is very well possible. But I think it's very unlikely that we ever find them (or that they find us). It's a stupid idea to point your ship into a random direction and to push the "fly at ridiculous speed and crash into one tiny piece of gravel" button.

Randomly, yes. But if you have even as much information as, "Earth-sized body at an Earth-like distance from a Sol-like star (or otherwise in its Goldilocks zone*) then give us two or three more quantum advances in space technology and it starts being worth a closer look.


*That's really what it's called. Welcome to the Brothers Grimm... INNNN SPAAAAACE!

Not sure why, but this reminded me of the book, "The Mote in God's Eye"

Four.

Maybe.

Insects.

in short to answer honestly, yes.

*wanders off to find MIB DVD*

One word my friend. Necromorphs.

who knows. Sometimes i think maybe the life we have here, got here on debris from some dead planet. But then again, i read recently about how suns have been observed to shoot giant streams of water. Maybe its some kind of reaction takes place in a sun that we have no way of observing or simulating, and that creates water and makes non-living particles become living.

With hundreds of habitable planets out there there's bound to be a few planets that decimated their own planet

I've wondered if something like could have created the Kuiper Belt

A documentary I saw said there was enough material to make at least one very large planet...or maybe two smaller ones. [url=http://memegenerator.net/instance/45568373 ]Maybe a few survived and they are trying to tell us their history ;)[/url]

You guys amaze me. Here I am thinking *you have seen everything* and than comes something like this.....
A high philosophical theme about the ethic of maybe existing lifeforms in outer space .
This Hippo can only hope that this madness is a human singularity otherwise....run to the hills my fellow hippos.



still not completely crazy, but on the right track