• Question: Are we alone in the universe?

    Asked by naimasultana123 to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Middleton

      Anna Middleton answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Hi @naimasultana123
      Wow tricky question! I am so not qualified to answer this question, but I’ll have a go……Given the extra-ordinarily large size of the universe and the fact that the vast majority of it is undiscovered, I’d hazard a guess that we are not alone. However, the others might have something much more insightful to say!

    • Photo: Jane Charlesworth

      Jane Charlesworth answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I’d put money on us not being alone in the universe, because the universe is simply so huge that it seems likely that some kind of life exists elsewhere. But nobody knows the answer to this for sure yet.

      Here’s a video I really like showing what Earth might look like to an alien-it really makes one think, doesn’t it?

    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I don’t think we are, but I can’t be sure. As the others have said, the universe is just so massive that the chance of life developing on this world and this world alone would seems small to me. However, if aliens do exists, they probably live on a world that is so far away that we will never become aware of their existance. So, I think we are not alone, but may always be on our own.

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