text: how many life forms are out there? im not one that believes in aliens or anything like that but come on everyone has to agree out of all of the planets there are and as many galaxies out there, there has to be thousands of different life forms, who knows how many? we can not! be the only ones, its a scary thought to know there are other worlds out there that we have no idea about. does anyone believe that when we leave this world we go to the next? anyone ever thought of it? or maybe this is it...its just our world. has anyone ever heard of any stories or theories of what else is out there? currently, there is absolutely no evidence to life beyond earth (that the general public knows about). after light signals, radio waves, telescopes scanning the heavens day and night, satellites taking details pictures of every planet in our solar system, probes digging through the sands of mars, and on and on, all have turned up with nothing. however, humans, overall, have not been alive but just a few blinks of an eye ago in cosmis senses, and our tries might all just have been ill-placed, not yet recieved, or completely ignored (considering the fact that to recieve radio transmissions or light transmissions, the other life forms would have had to create something almost entirely like the technology humans have created and that might be our stumbling point, and they also would have to be looking directly at our little spit of a mudball, which is also highly unlikely).  that is not to say that we are not alone. there could be, in theory, an infinite number of different life forms in the universe, but who knows if any of them have reached the amount of evolution as humans? or even if they are too advanced to be bothered with our pathetic "talk to us" demands. and then of course we really could be all alone, but that is a slim, slim chance.  recently though there have been reports from astronauts (neil armstrong included) working in the apollo missions (and apparently every space mission since) that there were sightings of alien spacecrafts/life seemingly following the rockets as they traversed space! there are recorded tapes and videos even of these events posted all about the internet, with reports by the astronauts themselves.  and then there are those who believe aliens are already among us and working with the government to keep it all a secret from the general public. with a lot of evidence to back up those theories as well.  as for heaven and hell, who knows? many religions on the earth believe in reincarnation until one has reached a high enough point to pass on to eternal happiness (or damnation). it is really one's own opinion that forms that belief as there is no true way to prove, or debunk for that matter, heaven, hell or the afterlife.