• Question: how close to earth do you think aliens are, when will we discover them (or be discovered), and do you think they'll be friendly?

    Asked by superkingtom to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by , .
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      Aled Roberts answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Hi again superkingtom!

      I’ve no idea to be honest! There is definitely life out there based on orders of probability however it is not known wether it will be intelligent life, let alone be able to travel between planets and discover us! As for wether they will be friendly it all depends! If they are bacteria and we become infected with them… because we won’t have seen this alien bacteria we might end up with horrible diseases which wouldn’t be good!

      I’m sure we can be nice to them though! I smile and a handshake never hurt anyone!

      Hope that helps! 🙂 Don’t forget to vote 🙂

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      Kevin Arbuckle answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      There are lots of places in the universe that we think life could exist on, but most of them are a VERY long way away (millions of light years, a light year being the distance that light can travel in a year) and we wouldn’t really know where actually has life because of this distance. So it’s unlikely that we will ever really discover them or that they would discover us. Also, just because aliens exists (if we assume they do for now) doesn’t mean they will look like us or even be very intelligent. They might be more like the mould you get on bread, or maybe even a slimy goo like ‘slime-moulds’ (these are really cool creatures, google them or search on YouTube for some videos). Or they may be like nothing we know or think of as life – we might not even recognise it as life if we saw it!

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