Is Alien Real?

Written on February 2, 2018

The observable universe is about ninety billion light-years in diameter and at least one hundred billion galaxies. There are probably trillions of habitable planets in the universe. It means there should be lots of chances for life to develop and exist. From a tiny microorganism to enormous aliens that are dangerous could live outside the earth. But, where are they? This powerful argument became known as Fermi Paradox.

In my opinion, the lack of evidence doesn’t make us hard to believe extraterrestrial life because the probability is too high to be disbelieved. Also, being stubborn to consider we are alone in the entire universe means that we doubt about the vastness of the universe. Well, an Earth-like planet could be rare. But, it is improbable if there is not any civilization or at least “things” outside the earth because there are billions of galaxies.

There’s a hypothesis asserts that alien civilizations certainly exist, but they’re simply inactive, that’s called “aestivation hypothesis”. The theory states that aliens are “hibernating” until the environment conditions are good to develop their super society.

In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first to do a close flyby of Pluto and shows the icy surface of it. Then, they came out with the theory of where life might be lurking. Aliens could have been trapped in the deep oceans. We couldn’t reach out aliens because they live in the place where we cannot send a message to them.

More than that, I would like to tell 5 reasons why we haven’t met aliens.
1.        Space is big
Our galaxy – The Milky Way – alone is 100,000 light-years across. It is possible that they exist and living there but we can’t communicate with them because the distance is too far away.
2.        Aliens ignore us
There’s a potential that they have known our existence but they avoid us because they think we are some dangerous creatures that could harm them.
3.        Aliens are not intelligent
There could be a lot of aliens but they are limited in knowledge so they don’t want to know and don’t know how to contact us.
4.        Aliens are smarter
Instead of limited in knowledge, probably aliens have more advanced communication technology that humans don’t understand.
5.        Intelligent life self-destructs
They might have existed but only for a short time and kill themselves before showing us their existence.

We are not looking for aliens quite a long time. We’ve only been actively reaching out for alien life for about a century. We are just being impatient of finding extraterrestrial life. An astrophysicist and mathematician, Evan Solomonides suggests that it could take a while maybe 1,500 years from now before we hear anything outside there.
In the end, seeing alien is taking a lot of times than we think.  There is no way we’ll find the aliens quickly. Maybe we have to explore around half of the Milky Way galaxy to find life or anything in the space. I do believe that aliens exist. “We haven’t met aliens” doesn’t mean “There aren’t any aliens”.












REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Futurism: Where Is Alien Life? Six Of The Top Theories
SPACE: 12 Possible Reasons We Haven't Found Aliens
YouTube: The Fermi Paradox – Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)

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