Is there other life out there?That’s a question that’s been asked for centuries and a question addressed Thursday by Dr. Gary Flandro during a McMinnville Noon Rotary Club meeting.“The chance we will ever detect other life is very slim, although the movies say otherwise,” said Dr. Flandro, a professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. “Could we do anything about it if we found another habitable planet 20 light years away? If we could go the speed of light, it would take 20 years to get there.”Dr. Flandro said the search for other life has been ongoing for over 500 years since man began the study of the stars.