I think there’s a – of course a chance that there are aliens out there in space.
I mean no one knows the answer to that and no one has any particular expertise of anyone
who answers a question on alien life.
They’re just talking from their hunch, from their gut.
So here’s my hunch, my gut.
Well like most people I look out on a dark night and I see all of the stars out there
and then I know about all the galaxies out there, you know.
Hundreds of billions of stars per galaxy.
Hundreds of billions of galaxies.
Now we know that many of those stars have planetary systems and it can’t help but
just have a sense of – with all of that out there there’s got to be other life that
somehow is populating some of those planets.
But the big question to me is not so much whether there’s other life out there.
Is there intelligent life out there?
Now look, some will say that we don’t have a single examples of intelligent life in the
universe, right.
But putting that to the side what I mean is – and what many scientists mean is is there
life out there that can build radio telescopes that could possibly communicate with us.
Because if there is life out there and we can’t ever communicate it’s hard to see
how that’s going to have much of an impact on us, on life as we know it.
I mean the big, the radical break from the past will be when we can actually communicate
with life out there.
And I don’t think we know enough about what it takes for alien life to become intelligent
in the sense of building radio telescopes to have any sense if it’s likely or unlikely,
you know.
Is it some strange coincidence of having, you know, big planets nearby like Jupiter
that helped deflect asteroids that allow enough time for life on this planet to have gotten
to the point are there other contingencies that we don’t know about that are so rare
that maybe intelligent life happens only here.
We don’t know.
But shooting from the hip, speaking from the gut, yeah I think there’s probably alien
life out there, probably intelligent life too.