Essay on The Existence of Intelligent Life

We live in a universe that is about 46 billion light years old. In a world, as massive as ours there must be some form of extraterrestrial life out in the galaxy. For thousands of years ancient peoples, such as the Greeks, have wondered the same question. Are we alone? As our technology advances, things such as videos and photographs are surfacing of people claiming to see such alien life. Whether it is an unidentified flying object, or if it’s from someone claiming to see an actual alien, there are thousands of people that believe they have seen proof. Some also claim that the government is hiding things behind our backs, like the Roswell UFO incident for example. Though many people refuse to believe in the existence of alien life forms until they see evidence, the fact that multitudes of people have eye-witness accounts, the improbability that we are alone, and the idea that we have thought of aliens so long, bring forth the evidence that proves something is out there.

To make sense of this world, you must possess your own viewpoints, perspectives, or beliefs because every individual is different. Some people ask,” why do we exist on Earth?” Others ask, ”Is there intelligent life in our solar system?” No matter what religion or belief you have, no one will really know the true answer to this question.

Humans tend to be narcissistic as a species believing that they are the only intelligent beings in the universe. The universe is so large that why shouldn’t there be other life forms somewhere in the great black space. There have been many instances in time that humans believe they have seen extraterrestrial beings such as Roswell, New Mexico. However one of the biggest theories about aliens is that they built the great Egyptian pyramids.

Exobiology is the science that is concerned with the search for life in outer space; it may be called as astrobiology as well. The search for life in outer space has consumed the imagination of the humankind for long time ago. Nowadays, humankind has made a progress and found major discoveries in the quest for life existence in the universe and outer space because of the advancement of the technology. However, in the past, exobiology was considered as a science without a subject, where the people and other scientists laughed at and ridiculed the famous scientist and biologist Joshua Lederberg when he originated the term exobiology. Some people argue that life exists elsewhere in the universe, however, others believe that life only exist on Earth. A new study reveals that our galaxy, the Milky Way, has 100 billion or so stars, where 17 billion of them are Earth-size alien planets, and probably many more. The huge size of the galaxy increases the probability of life existence in the outer space. Are we alone in the universe? This question has captured the imaginations of scientist, theologians, and astrobiologists. However, they don’t know the answer yet. Understanding the complete definition of life and how life originated, and determining the techniques used for searching for life existence in outer space and evidences found can help to answer the question of “Are we alone in the universe?”

A YouTube video published by MLordandGod discusses new research from Georgia Tech and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial

Is there life in the vast universe? Can they communicate with us? These questions have been around for decades. But, lately numerous articles have been appeared in the media at an explosive rate. As it can be expected, not all the articles are credible, moreover a portion of them uses fallacies to attract the reader’s attention and to create inadequate controversy. As an example, Joel Achenbach in his article of February, 28, 2015, published on the Washington Post with the title of “Do we really want to know if we’re not alone in the universe?” exposed logic fallacies as his writing denotes that aliens are aware of us because of the radio transmission that the humanity have been broadcasting since TV and radio existed (Par. 6), interstellar

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence(SETI) has been searching for life for more than fifty years and have yet to find anything (Waldrop 442). SETI has ran on $2.5 million annual costs from powerful telescopes to hundreds of dishes worldwide and have managed to find no signs of other life forms (Waldrop 444). The search of life outside of Earth remains to be unanswered and now many ask, where are they? Through SETI’s large budget and expensive equipment the possibility of life on other planets becomes very slim. However, the lack of evidence for any possible forms of life does not justify the possibility of life forming in other unobservable places. The possibilities of life formation in other solar systems can be countless. In “Where Are They?,” Nick Bostrom states that there are over 100 billion galaxies in what we can observe of the universe and our galaxy alone has 100 billion stars (Bostrom 2). This alone provides the reason to believe that somewhere in our observable universe there are many planets with similar conditions and probability of life forming. It took Earth approximately 3.5 billion years to allow life to form that started with single celled prokaryotes to humans (Bostrom 3). The prokaryotes only formed after earth provided an ideal state in which life could be formed. It is also known that many of the galaxies contain stars and planets much older than ours (Bostrom 2). This gives endless amounts of time frames in which life of began in galaxies far way or nearby. The points of evolution become countless within each galaxy, yet the visibility of technological life civilizations like ours is nowhere to be seen. This means there is something preventing these civilizations from passing our current level of civilization. This known as the Great Filter, a theory, in which specific steps are prevented in the timeline of the evolution of

Within the article Will We Ever Discover a Twin Earth? 20 Big Questions About the Future of Humanity, I found many of answers to the questions asked very interesting and thought provoking. With my unscientific opinion about there being other life forms in space already formed, I was glad to read Aki Roberge state that she believes that we will discover a twin Earth and that scientists have “found that planets around other stars are far more abundant and diverse than scientists imagined just a couple of decades ago.” The universe being as big as it is, I wouldn’t be able to believe that we are the only form of intelligent life.

Aliens have fascinated and enthralled many generations of people. The subject has plagued popular media and the scientific world since we found out about the other planets in our solar system. As Stephen Hawking once said, “From the aliens’ point of view, what’s the point of crossing vast tracts of the universe in a hi-tech ship just to abduct some lone earthling? … And if governments are involved in a cover-up, they’re doing a much better job at it than they seem to do at anything else”(“Into the universe”)! While the possibility of alien life is a matter of controversy, scholars and scientists alike have brought their own facts and opinions out. All while searching for the answers somewhere in the cosmos. However hard it may be to believe,

I don't know why you guys are so obsessed with finding aliens. It's not like we are going to make contact with Extraterrestrials, at least in our lifetime. Over 500 Exo-Planets discover and not a single of them contains alien life.

The Universe is huge, so how are humans the only intelligent life? This is one of the greatest scientific mysteries, but who knows? Theorist claim that the government is hiding aliens from us such as NASA, and Area 51. Why is the government hiding this from us?

The thought of humans not being alone in the universe has been a fixture in the scientific community for a long time. However, it hasn’t been truly considered as a viable possibility until recently. Although it is easy to dismiss as science fiction fantasy, the belief in other intelligent beings in the universe has become a mainstream opinion in the scientific community.

“Alone” Is defined as “separate, apart, or isolated from others” (“Alone”). Individuals can be alone, but the Earth is a little less clear. Whether the Earth is alone in having the ability to sustain life or if there is more out there in the vast darkness of space is a huge mystery. The possibility of life beyond the green planet is highly debated. The debate is held within scientific communities as well as the public. However mathematically, existence on Earth being the only source of life in the universe is incredibly slim. Organizations such as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) use math to try to figure out the amount of potential life in the universe with the Drake Equation (Drake).

There are many mysteries of the vast fascination of the existence of extraterrestrial beings. Numerous people all around the world believe that the human race has been visited by life forms not from this earth. For many years now scientist from all around the globe have been studying and researching crash sites, crop circles, alien abduction victims, etc. Countless people are very naïve or blind to the fact of extraterrestrial life forms and do not want to believe that we aren’t the only ones, but in this paper there is backed up facts and amazing discoveries that will make those people believe otherwise.

Edward Wollack 2012 article “How Old Is the Universe” that explain how the age of the universe could be related to life. Then for my second point of the exoplanet, we may find that supports our alien hypothesis, Article “NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star” from 2017 is the best one to explain the life are possible in space. Next, I moved to my point three of Government’s secret about Aliens, at this point I read Edgar, Mitchell email “Email for John Podesta C/o Eryn Re Space Treaty (attached)” to understand how the government had a role in the Aliens relation. Next, I have my fourth point about history evident that could lead us to Aliens, for this point, I read a Daily Mail reporter’s article “Are aliens hidden in ancient religious artwork? The bizarre theory claims that signs of early visits from ET can be found in old paintings” about how artwork back in time can be the prove of the Aliens existence. At last, for my fifth point Alien “exist,” I read the article from National Geographic, 2012 “Life Beyond Earth” and Dr. Stephen Hawking’s post in 1996 “Life in the Universe” to understand how life is formed and the meaning of the life itself. Still, there are people who believed searching for Aliens is a total waste of time. Therefore, I have brought up the argument source " How the search for aliens can help sustain