Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists - 'it's human conceit to think we're alone'.

[ShahdagMountains]

Speaking to The Guardian, Dame Aderin-Pocock claimed that science's discoveries about the size of the universe make it impossible for humans to be alone.

When asked if she thinks we're alone, she said: 'My answer to that, based on the numbers, is no, we can't be.

'It's that human conceit again that we are so caught up in ourselves that we might think we're alone.'

However, exactly where and why aliens could be hiding remains a mystery.

Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human conceit' to think otherwise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Winco]

Yes, the Universe extends 1,000 or Billions of light years away from Earth.

Talk about a needle in a haystack.
There certainly has to be other Goldilocks Planets in the Universe.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Even NASA knows there is no life out there.

 

[Rambunctious]

But... what if we are alone and unique in the universe?... What if it's all rock and fire and darkness and nothing else?... The wonderment of what is... has to be on purpose...

 

[Winco]

Even NASA knows there is no life out there.

Awwww......Captain Buzzkill ^^^^^ has spoken.

Link to NASA saying such?

 

[my2¢]

Alien life doesn't seem to be that big of a debate as it once was.

 

[theHawk]

Speaking to The Guardian, Dame Aderin-Pocock claimed that science's discoveries about the size of the universe make it impossible for humans to be alone.

When asked if she thinks we're alone, she said: 'My answer to that, based on the numbers, is no, we can't be.

'It's that human conceit again that we are so caught up in ourselves that we might think we're alone.'

However, exactly where and why aliens could be hiding remains a mystery.

Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human conceit' to think otherwise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

He sounds like a crackpot moron.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Speaking to The Guardian, Dame Aderin-Pocock claimed that science's discoveries about the size of the universe make it impossible for humans to be alone.

When asked if she thinks we're alone, she said: 'My answer to that, based on the numbers, is no, we can't be.

'It's that human conceit again that we are so caught up in ourselves that we might think we're alone.'

However, exactly where and why aliens could be hiding remains a mystery.

Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human conceit' to think otherwise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Not "must", but "statistically likely"

 

[Mac-7]

Yes, the Universe extends 1,000 or Billions of light years away from Earth.

Talk about a needle in a haystack.
There certainly has to be other Goldilocks Planets in the Universe.

Yet in all that expanse, conceited libs claim that there cannot be a Creator

 

[1srelluc]

If not, then it would be a huge waste of space.

-Contact movie

 

[1srelluc]

Possible signature of life detected on planet K2-18b “strongest indication of extraterrestrial life”

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5364805/signs-life-alien-planet-biosignatures-exoplanet

 

[Harry Dresden]

Even NASA knows there is no life out there.

they said there is no proof but they might exist...

 

[Blaster]

 

[martybegan]

Even NASA knows there is no life out there.

 

[Mushroom]

Yes, the Universe extends 1,000 or Billions of light years away from Earth.

Myself, I believe that "life" is actually incredibly common across the Universe. We now know that the surface of our planet had barely solidified before life started to appear. Less than a billion years after the planet formed (3.6 gya).

However, it was almost 2 billion more years from the formation of that simple life to even advance to the first multicellular life (1.6 gya). And that is likely the farthest that most life ever advances. The first evidence of what we would start to actually recognize as "animal life" is about a billion years after that (600 mya).

On simply has to look at us and our two closest neighbors to see the odds of life making it that far. Venus became a permanent hot-house planet that likely nothing will ever live on (but might have before it got to that point). Mars could very well have had life, but at about the time life was forming on our planet, the molten core of Mars solidified so no life would have survived much beyond that (at least on the surface - I believe the existence of "extremophiles" below the surface is still likely).

It is so much more than being in the "Goldilocks Zone". The planet for life to survive and evolve needs to have a stable and active core so that it can have the magnetosphere to protect it from solar radiation. We are lucky where we live, because a lucky collision early on gave us a "super sized" core that will remain active and molten even when our sun gobbles up the planet in the Red Giant phase.

Then there is the fact that such life will have to survive multiple "Extinction Level Events". And once again, on our planet there have been many of them. Sometimes with the events actually caused by life itself. I often shake my head because the first large mass extinction we know of was actually caused by life. And if it had not evolved to deal with the conditions it created it all would have died.

And I am willing to bet that most planets in the right conditions formed life. However, most never evolved beyond what I call "pond scum" before things turned to where it could no longer survive. Because we are not talking million of years, or even hundreds of millions of years. It is billions of years of evolution for even higher level "life" like an amoeba to evolve from the lowest forms of bacteria.

 

[jwoodie]

A singular data point does not represent a probability.

 

[evenflow1969]

Speaking to The Guardian, Dame Aderin-Pocock claimed that science's discoveries about the size of the universe make it impossible for humans to be alone.

When asked if she thinks we're alone, she said: 'My answer to that, based on the numbers, is no, we can't be.

'It's that human conceit again that we are so caught up in ourselves that we might think we're alone.'

However, exactly where and why aliens could be hiding remains a mystery.

Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human conceit' to think otherwise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Well they probably do exist out there somewhere but unlikely they are making it here. It is a very long ride to get here.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Awwww......Captain Buzzkill ^^^^^ has spoken.

Link to NASA saying such?

Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection

When actor Richard Dreyfus gazed up into the heavens du…

www.goodreads.com

very good book with quotes, sources and footnotes.

Do Aliens Exist? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 5 - NASA

Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At NASA, astrobiologists like Lindsay Hays are

www.nasa.gov

They trot out the theory of et life ever so often...it's a fundraiser.

 

[Unkotare]

Speaking to The Guardian, Dame Aderin-Pocock claimed that science's discoveries about the size of the universe make it impossible for humans to be alone.

When asked if she thinks we're alone, she said: 'My answer to that, based on the numbers, is no, we can't be.

'It's that human conceit again that we are so caught up in ourselves that we might think we're alone.'

However, exactly where and why aliens could be hiding remains a mystery.

Aliens MUST exist beyond Earth, leading scientist insists

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human conceit' to think otherwise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Yeah? Show me one. Not wavelengths of light that might suggest that maybe some gas might maybe produced that could possibly under certain possible conditions potentially be produced by some imagined bacteria hundreds of light years away.

Show me one.

 

[ReinyDays]

Not "must", but "statistically likely"

Or better ... the odds of life only on Earth is vanishingly small ... the issue with "must" is that means "zero" odds, and that can only happen if the universe is infinitely large ... which it's not ... although it's fair to say the size of the universe is approaching infinity, thus the odds of no life out there approaches zero ...

Still plenty of numbers above a googolplex ... almost all of them have never been used ...