• Question: Sorry, do you believe in aliens?

    Asked by Andrea to Eoin, Ester, Ildiko, Natasha, Paul, Tom on 7 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Elicabanas.
    • Photo: Natasha Myhill

      Natasha Myhill answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I believe that there is likely to be primitive life forms on other planets somewhere out there, but these ‘aliens’ are likely to be completely different to the sort of alien that people imagine (big green bald head, E.T, scary creatures etc). I reckon they are more likely to be like our bacteria!

    • Photo: Paul McKeegan

      Paul McKeegan answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I’m with Natasha again – It would be weird if we were on the only planet with life in the whole universe, with billions and billions of other planets out there we know almost nothing about. But surely we are more likely to find single-celled organisms than Ewoks and Klingons.

    • Photo: Ester Gil Vazquez

      Ester Gil Vazquez answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      it must be really disappointing, but I agree with them. However, I wouldn’t deny their existence either. I just find it extremely unlikely but, hey!, our existence was extremely unlikely as well and here we are.

    • Photo: Ildiko Somorjai

      Ildiko Somorjai answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      It would be really interesting if there were aliens similar enough to us that we could communicate with them, but I expect that anything out there would probably be quite different-we might not even recognise an alien if we saw one! Anyway, we know so little about the organisms we have here already on Earth-especially in weird places like deep sea craters, which might as well be alien planets-that I think we already have our work cut out for us with what we have here! That said…if you find an alien…let me know!

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