I have read the posts on this topic and have found them ranging from inspiriring to down right hilarious. As to my own therioies I do believe that there is intelligent life out there but we as a race will most likely never see because of the vast distances involved. even in our own galaxy there mayvery well be 7 Intellighent races out there (a calculation useing the drake equasion, albeit with a very pessimistic view of 33%, and 33%of that , and then 33% of that result, as you can see the number gets really small really fast ;) ) but one thing that I have not seen in detail but lossely discused is the fact that life may also be baced on other elements other then carbon (us). Silicon has been theorized as being as good a building block as carbon as well as some others. And as to those that say that the world has to be around a G2 type star (ours), I have to say that EVERY star has what is called a "life belt" were water can exist as a liquid. And agine that is for just carbon life, or "life as we know it", a silocon baced lifeform could not live in a enviornment as ours it would be deadly to them as theirs would be to us, so there is a very brief statement on my view. If you would like I can direct you to some excelent books on life out there ( including one were "alien" life may very well be just microbes) just Pm me and I will tell you. this subject has been of particular intrest to me since I was a child and as a result I have done extensive reasurch on the subject, and went as far as developing a SF Univerice were the advanced races in it are as sientificly accoret as possible and were the star travel is also very much within the relme of not only posibbiity but also science. But I have rambled on long enough and I hope others will continue to post on this subject.