It is a very extremely high probability that other life that has our level of thinking and cognition exists elsewhere knowing there is an estimated 200 billion galaxies known so far. Having said that, I still do not like any little green men Area 51 conspiracy bullshit.
I think even that life even if more advanced, might have better communication and further space travel distance, but would still be stuck with the same problems of QM physics and distance problems we do. I am no fan of blindly assuming because QM points to possibilities that everything will pan out just because it looks good on paper.
I do not see the "Transporter" of Star Trek ever being a possibility. I do not see the Warp Drive either. In fact, a few years ago si fi nutters jumped the gun on the NASA article calling it "plausible", failing to read the entire article which also called it impractical because of the energy and resources needed to make it happen. I think even as much as QM will garner new information and technology in the future, science is science and si fi is still si fi.
We should expect to find microbial life, at some point, even within our solar system. All the atoms in the universe stem from the same big bang so yes, in theory, knowing the number of galaxies thus the googles of planets it should not surprise anyone that life like us exists elsewhere. But, I would also highly suspect it would be stuck locally like we are even if it were to have a longer range of communication and travel.
I think what is more important for humans right now if we want to expand our ride, is to reduce pollution, climate change, war, poverty, and create a meteor defense system. It would do humans no good to look for other life if at the same time we are running to jump off our own cliff and destroy ourselves.
Even if in theory we could go to every single earth like planet in the universe, it would still constitute maybe 1%, and that would still be 10s of billions. I think our best bet, would be communication at some point, but that would require not only lots of work, but tons of luck.
I think even that life even if more advanced, might have better communication and further space travel distance, but would still be stuck with the same problems of QM physics and distance problems we do. I am no fan of blindly assuming because QM points to possibilities that everything will pan out just because it looks good on paper.
I do not see the "Transporter" of Star Trek ever being a possibility. I do not see the Warp Drive either. In fact, a few years ago si fi nutters jumped the gun on the NASA article calling it "plausible", failing to read the entire article which also called it impractical because of the energy and resources needed to make it happen. I think even as much as QM will garner new information and technology in the future, science is science and si fi is still si fi.
We should expect to find microbial life, at some point, even within our solar system. All the atoms in the universe stem from the same big bang so yes, in theory, knowing the number of galaxies thus the googles of planets it should not surprise anyone that life like us exists elsewhere. But, I would also highly suspect it would be stuck locally like we are even if it were to have a longer range of communication and travel.
I think what is more important for humans right now if we want to expand our ride, is to reduce pollution, climate change, war, poverty, and create a meteor defense system. It would do humans no good to look for other life if at the same time we are running to jump off our own cliff and destroy ourselves.
Even if in theory we could go to every single earth like planet in the universe, it would still constitute maybe 1%, and that would still be 10s of billions. I think our best bet, would be communication at some point, but that would require not only lots of work, but tons of luck.
