New and old planets

Wondering if there's some way to correct a typo after it's been posted. Make that wondering and not womdering.

Raybar- Left out a word...that COULD have life similiar to ours.

What about within our own sphere of communication? Have all possibilites been explored?

I'm not sure what you mean by "own sphere of communication," but in realistic terms our "sphere" is this solar system. We're the only ones here.

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jem: "Because I've had some personal experience with it. Yes, I have!!!! Want to know more?"

Sure!

Monsanto, like all businesses, does what it does for money.

Almost to the point of certainty, the odds favor the existence of life on many worlds.

Thus far, earth is the only planet that we know for certain harbors life of any kind. We should expect life to be present on only a small percentage of all planets, but the universe is extremely large and contains a tremendous number of planets, so even a small percentage is still going to be a lot of planets with life. But life with the technology to broadcast signals over interstellar distances might be quite rare. We just don't know.

What has a dream about tall buildings getting the last touch of wiring got to do with the destruction of the World Trade Center which had been standing for 30 (?) years?

Jem - Like Raybar was saying, the problem with communication is the incredible distances. Our radio waves and such have only being leaving earth for a little over 100 years. So let's say that the next nearest intelligent life is 1 million light years away. They'll hear our stuff in a million years. If they want to reply, it will require another million years for us to get their message. We have listening posts set up on earth, but anything we hear will be at least thousands of years old. In other words, yeah, someday we might get a signal from anther species, but we'll likely never be able to enter into a dialogue.

Fred Askew

The short answer is, yes, there might be, but I am unaware of any evidence that there actually are any different dimensions. Lack of evidence doesn't mean they don't exist, but it gives me no reason to suppose that they do, either.

And the literature has a big “definition of terms” problem. What exactly are these “dimensions” supposed to be? I can’t remember ever seeing a clear description in anything I’ve read in mystical or occult or psychic or new age material. It’s all a little too vague to really know what they’re talking about. But that’s OK -- religious writers have yet to define anything clearly either, and they've had several thousand years to work on it.

Some physicists, such as Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krass, in their books for the public, discuss the concept of multiple universes. They say that the equations which describe how the universe works, while not yet in a "final" form, pretty clearly imply that "our" universe is only one of many. This interpretation of the mathematics is speculative, as there is no evidence that it is correct (or incorrect), and there is doubt that we could ever detect another universe even if there are any.

Science fiction plays with these ideas too, and explores ways that parallel universes might be contacted. But fiction writers don't have to build the technology they use in their stories. Just because someone wrote "Beam me up, Scotty" or "They stepped through the portal to Tralfamador" doesn't mean it will ever be possible to do so.

In the end I have to say I don't know.

Joan dear, Didn't mean "frightened and lonely" on a personal level...more like an experience for our whole planet. Athough on occasion I do feel a bit curious about this whole journey we're all on.

As for religion touching on this subject...how about in the form of angels, heaven and hell and,,,etc.