Question

How do you feel knowing that in the ever expanding universe you may or may not be alone? Why? What are your beliefs about the existence of extraterrestrial life?

Answer 1

I feel we're not alone in this so called infinite universe because in the past years, not to mention the present, there had been several abnormal things in the space which we do not yet understand. Say, the unusual flashing lights seen. It was denied by the space organizations by claiming that it was nothing, but a mistake of ours who'd understood the light coming from a star, sometimes reflecting into a dust cloud that made the lights flicker, as an ongoing alien construction site. But because of the strangeness of the incident, some people consider it as a development of a planetary civilization to its stellar civilization.

There was a project started years ago called the 'Blue Book' which was eventually shunned, and the reason lies undiscovered. It was said to start some connection with extraterrestrial beings, but after some time, it failed. Fake or not, I don't know, there are videos posted on YouTube too about an alien being interviewed (and tortured) as a part of the project. Many truths lay buried about crop circles, appearance of red soil (that means soil with oxygen) on the moon, the 'WOW!' signal, and about Earth itself. Some claim we're just trapped in a barrack, so as to be part of multi-galactic war. Some say were being pampered, because it wants to keep us safe from something.

I believe it might be true. NASA's too good at lies. It is impossible to be the only one in the whole universe. That doesn't even make sense! Life on Earth couldn't appear by 'chance' and just like that! Where did it get the amino acids to start building life? They're impossible to form on a barren planet. And one question still confuses me, why is the moon so cratered while Earth barely has more than a few. Is someone really trying to protect us? The theory about Thea is unacceptable by me because, ya know, it could've pushed Earth out of its orbit, either making it a barren hot planet, or as cold as pluto. Alien on Mars isn't acceptable either. It failed creating any life because it has no magnetism that could hold its atmosphere inside.

Theories also say strange facts about Saturn. They say, it could be a large fuel station because of its composition, and there's also something weird about the sign of pentagon or hexagon, I don't know, on its poles. The moon Europa is also under several doubts of people.

What if we're really just a mere species? What if we actually were here by some chance? I couldn't explain everything y'know.

Answer 2

peculation on this topic abounds, but empirical research is practically non-existent. We report the results of three empirical studies assessing psychological reactions to the discovery of extraterrestrial life using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis software. We examined language use in media coverage of past discovery announcements of this nature, with a focus on extraterrestrial microbial life (Pilot Study). A large online sample (N = 501) was asked to write about their own and humanity’s reaction to a hypothetical announcement of such a discovery (Study 1), and an independent, large online sample (N = 256) was asked to read and respond to a newspaper story about the claim that fossilized extraterrestrial microbial life had been found in a meteorite of Martian origin (Study 2). Across these studies, we found that reactions were significantly more positive than negative, and more reward vs. risk oriented. A mini-meta-analysis revealed large overall effect sizes (positive vs. negative affect language: g = 0.98; reward vs. risk language: g = 0.81). We also found that people’s forecasts of their own reactions showed a greater positivity bias than their forecasts of humanity’s reactions (Study 1), and that responses to reading an actual announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life showed a greater positivity bias than responses to reading an actual announcement of the creation of man-made synthetic life (Study 2). Taken together, this work suggests that our reactions to a future confirmed discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life are likely to be fairly positive.