Are you interested in extraterrestrial lifeforms and/or outer space?

I am. I love reading about the unknown. Things that I will never get to experience. I sit with my laptop in front of me, reading every bit of information about outer space, thinking to myself "Are there extraterrestrial lifeforms?". Of course, if we humans exist, surely there has to be other lifeforms out there. Supposedly, there's a type of fish or something that can swim in water that's almost turned into ice or something. I saw a documentary a while back, forgot name.

Links:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/howfar/howbig.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36769422/?GT1=43001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

Don't know about you, but it makes me wonder all the time. If aliens ever invade (lol), will be like "Mars Attacks!"? Hahaha!

Depends on what you mean by "lifeforms".

If you saw something like a parrot on another planet, would that be considered a lifeform? Do you mean a sentient being that's capable of reason and logic? What is a lifeform?

Something that is alive and or living, and co-existing with us in this universe. Could be intelligent, but doesn't have to be. I guess everyone has their different definition of the word, haha.

Totally. Im interested in anything thats out of this planet.

I'm more interested in cosmology. How our universe began, and how it will end.

I do have an interest in space, I love the idea that we're not alone. However, I'm far more interested in the things we haven't even discovered on earth, like the things living in the depths of the jungles or oceans. So exciting!

I would be surprised if we were the only life anywhere, and it might be interesting to see intelligent life from elsewhere, but I don't think we ever will.

I'm interested in it, but I kinda feel like we shouldn't spend that much money on it. There's a lot more useful things to spend that much money on.

I'm interested in it, but I kinda feel like we shouldn't spend that much money on it. There's a lot more useful things to spend that much money on.

The US is hardly spending any money on the space program as is. According to the 2010 budget, NASA only recieved $18.7 billion. $18.7 billion out of the $1.3 trillion budget (~1.4%.

Anyways, I've always loved studying about the physics and composition of space.

$18.7 billion dollars is still a hell of a lot of money.

The US is hardly spending any money on the space program as is. According to the 2010 budget, NASA only recieved $18.7 billion. $18.7 billion out of the $1.3 trillion budget.

maybe they got more.

maybe they got more.

Maybe because NASA's research actually has an impact on life here on Earth?

I am interested in extraterrestrial life and the Universe, simply because I am interested in how things work; How life would have evolved, developed, or came to be at another place would be a great topic of discovery, not only for newly discovered life but also for ourselves. The idea that we are not "alone" would also have a profound and irrevocable effect on modern society. Outer space, or, the Universe, is... amazing. While we can hardly comprehend this tiny planet of ours in the infinite expanse of the universe, we try to understand as much as we can about the universe around us. This shows just how curious Humans are, and this curiosity is a positive trait in Humans that should not be put down. (Now, this subject matter isn't for everyone, and frankly, a lot of people just don't care. But that doesn't mean the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is wrong or useless.) We also reach into orbit around Earth with space shuttles and the ISS, which some people see as a waste of money; but referring to my first statement, we can see this endeavor has churned out some extremely useful and positive inventions. So, even if I did not have the drive to learn as much as I could about the universe and how things work, I would still find it logical to be interested in space if only due to the positive effects it has had on society as a whole. And... frankly, space is just awesome.

Irregardless of extraterrestrial life, I am of the notion that colonizing space is a huge priority for the truly long time survival of the human race. Putting all of our eggs on one planet is a terrible idea. Between super-volcanoes, cosmic radiation, and the chance for asteroid collision, our luck will only last so long. Not to mention resources. No matter how well we get our recycling capacity built up and perfected, so things simply will not last, and we must master at least the ability to gather various resources from other locations in the solar system, if not colonization (and dare I hope terraforming) by the time these things run out.

Irregardless of extraterrestrial life, I am of the notion that colonizing space is a huge priority for the truly long time survival of the human race. Putting all of our eggs on one planet is a terrible idea. Between super-volcanoes, cosmic radiation, and the chance for asteroid collision, our luck will only last so long. Not to mention resources. No matter how well we get our recycling capacity built up and perfected, so things simply will not last, and we must master at least the ability to gather various resources from other locations in the solar system, if not colonization (and dare I hope terraforming) by the time these things run out.

S'alright. We'll have nuked ourselves out of existence long before nature or space has a chance to.

Considering the hundreds of thousands of billions of trillions of gazillions of octillions of galaxies there are in our universe and then you look at the individual galaxies and each have at least a few million solar systems in them with countless planets, I'm 100% sure there is life out there. There is no possible way our universe exists the way it does only for us Earthlings to exist. Will any other civilization make contact with Earth? I highly doubt it. The closest galaxy is (I don't know the REAL answer to this, so I'm taking a guess based on memory) a few tens or a few hundred thousand LIGHTYEARS away, so since going at the speed of light is theoretically not ever going to happen (except in science fiction, but you never know... going to the moon used the only be science fiction), the ability for one civilization to reach another within even a few life times is never going to happen. What we see in space from Earth can be hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of years older than what they currently are, due to the fact that we're seeing light from those galaxies from those hundreds of thousands and hundreds of billions of years ago.

Honestly, it scares me.

Not space, but the thought of other life forms.

Outer space is magnificently fantastic. Astronomy is my 2nd favorite science

Considering the hundreds of thousands of billions of trillions of gazillions of octillions of galaxies there are in our universe and then you look at the individual galaxies and each have at least a few million solar systems in them with countless planets, I'm 100% sure there is life out there. There is no possible way our universe exists the way it does only for us Earthlings to exist. Will any other civilization make contact with Earth? I highly doubt it. The closest galaxy is (I don't know the REAL answer to this, so I'm taking a guess based on memory) a few tens or a few hundred thousand LIGHTYEARS away, so since going at the speed of light is theoretically not ever going to happen (except in science fiction, but you never know... going to the moon used the only be science fiction), the ability for one civilization to reach another within even a few life times is never going to happen. What we see in space from Earth can be hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of years older than what they currently are, due to the fact that we're seeing light from those galaxies from those hundreds of thousands and hundreds of billions of years ago.

You never know, FTL engines might exist someday.

Or if not FTL engines, instantaneous travel in the form of object teleportation. (don't say atomic teleportation, do you really want to be taken apart into trillions of tiny atoms and then reassembled, 0 ns later, in a remote area?)

S'alright. We'll have nuked ourselves out of existence long before nature or space has a chance to.

Yeah, nukes keep me up at night more than asteroids. (Not that either has ever kept me up at night) But that's also a perfectly good deadline for getting off the planet- before we kill each other with nukes.

Define life form, we've found bacteria from ither places...