Do you think there could be life in our solar system. I mean besides us. Do you think that aliens are hiding on planets we haven't explored yet?
Life in our solar system
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Not in our solar system. In other galaxies, quite likely considering the universe is freaking huge.
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**If there never have been and never will be life somewhere else out there, that would be such a waste of space.
Also I think Warp is an alien.
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_ Originally Posted by mr.allsunday
Nice job jumping on the bandwagon there Aethos, I can only wish I was as cool as you_
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lol what a coincidence I had no idea you posted ahead on me. lmao
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@Don:
Do you think there could be life in our solar system. I mean besides us.
If it's anywhere in this solar system besides Earth, it's on Europa.
Do you think that aliens are hiding on planets we haven't explored yet?
Do you mean intelligent life or just life period? If the latter… I don't know that I think there is life out there so much as I consider it highly likely. If nothing else, you'd think that at least one other planet would have bacteria or other simple lifeforms.
To date, we've only found one planet outside of this solar system that is the right size and distance from its primary to have life, but statistically speaking, there ought to be untold millions of them out there.
Complicating things since 2009.
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Silicon based life-forms are slightly likely.
Slightly.
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Thinking about life elsewhere gives me the creeps. I feel like someone is watching me lightyears away…or that could be the scary goth kids outside my window pretending to be the children of the corn. damn SOBs
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The one thing I've always found rather strange about determining which planets could conceivably sustain life is that scientists seem to assume that life must exist by the standards we have encountered so far. Is it not entirely possible for an entire new set of "life" to be on some other planet, with its cheif elements being something other than hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon, yet still possessing some sort of sentient thought or even just the ability (and, for lack of a better word, "desire") to replicate itself? On top of this, even on our own planet there are species of archaebacteria that can exist in habitats that seem to shatter the rules of life. Who is to say extremes even upon those extremes might not exist on planets we never dreamed possible?
To answer the question, I believe that life either has existed, currently exists, or will eventually exist in our solar system on some planet other than Earth, even if it is only the simplest precell and it fizzles out after just a couple of seconds of existance. As for whether or not it exists in the entire universe, there is very, very little doubt in my mind. The saying about monkeys and typewriters writing Shakespeare comes to mind; with that many hundreds of thousands or even millions of planets and with so much time, the odds of there never being life anywhere else but on our planet seems impossibly miniscule.
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The one thing I've always found rather strange about determining which planets could conceivably sustain life is that scientists seem to assume that life must exist by the standards we have encountered so far. Is it not entirely possible for an entire new set of "life" to be on some other planet, with its cheif elements being something other than hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon, yet still possessing some sort of sentient thought or even just the ability (and, for lack of a better word, "desire") to replicate itself? On top of this, even on our own planet there are species of archaebacteria that can exist in habitats that seem to shatter the rules of life. Who is to say extremes even upon those extremes might not exist on planets we never dreamed possible?
To answer the question, I believe that life either has existed, currently exists, or will eventually exist in our solar system on some planet other than Earth, even if it is only the simplest precell and it fizzles out after just a couple of seconds of existance. As for whether or not it exists in the entire universe, there is very, very little doubt in my mind. The saying about monkeys and typewriters writing Shakespeare comes to mind; with that many hundreds of thousands or even millions of planets and with so much time, the odds of there never being life anywhere else but on our planet seems impossibly miniscule.
**I agree. I always wondered why people always though water (or whatever) was needed to sustain life when we know so little about the universe.
There are shitloads of planets, trillions of stars, billions of solar systems, millions of galaxies and yet everything has to be according to how it is to us.**
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well the only reason scientists use those methods is because it's all they have available to base their studies on. I mean its possible that life could exist by other standards, but i don't think scientists/astronomers are wrong in using the formula that lets life live on earth to apply to other planets. I doubt it's a matter of 'we're right, it has to work this way because we have glasses and test tubes,' but more of a 'well this seems to work now, lets go with this'
at the same time, though, i do consider that there are probably other factors that can lead to life, but right now water = life is the best chance we have until scientists go "holy shit" and discover something else
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Well, we know that Mars doesn't have life. But what about the other planets? We didn't explore the surface of the other planets.
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wait what, i thought scientists were shitting their pants all over the place because they found evidence recently (silicon deposits or something, i forget) of life (past life/microbial/whatev) on mars
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i think i heard they are sending a space probe out to one of (was it jupiter)'s moons. Aperently there is a frozen ocean on it or something, and they wanna see if there is any life below the surface of the ice. gonna take a while though.
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This one guy had a theory that life on earth evolved because another species came here and left their bacteria on earth a long time ago.
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No, it's because Gene Shalot warped back into time and jacked off in the primordial ooze.
Anyway, there's life elsewhere in the universe, but as for in our solar system, that's debatable. Europa, Io, Mars, Ganymede, Phobos or Deimos would be the most likely places to find it if it exists. Mars and its moons are close enough to the "Green-Zone" for life to exist normally (In fact, during the day, Mars is only about -20 F below zero, an actually manageable temperature for organic life), and the Titan moons have been shown to have traces of water in some form.
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There may very well be life forms outside our system, though it is near impossible for us to get to them before our own extinction. In fact, it is near impossible for there not to be other life forms apart from us. So, it's good to find out to satisfy our own curiosity, but really… there's nothing you can do about it. If I were aliens, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with these petty, self-destructive "humans" anyway. Pfffft. Humans.:getlost:
The one thing I've always found rather strange about determining which planets could conceivably sustain life is that scientists seem to assume that life must exist by the standards we have encountered so far. Is it not entirely possible for an entire new set of "life" to be on some other planet, with its cheif elements being something other than hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon, yet still possessing some sort of sentient thought or even just the ability (and, for lack of a better word, "desire") to replicate itself? On top of this, even on our own planet there are species of archaebacteria that can exist in habitats that seem to shatter the rules of life. Who is to say extremes even upon those extremes might not exist on planets we never dreamed possible?
Yeah, I often wonder about that. I totally agree with you though.
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This one guy had a theory that life on earth evolved because another species came here and left their bacteria on earth a long time ago.
Wasn't that Vanilla Ice? :wassat:
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Although I do support life on other planets, I don't see them being anymore than blobs or something, you do have to remember, intellegant life DOES not mean that they'll be smart, more like the average Post Office worker.
Although Cybers….oooo...now thats another story, I do believe that they have (sorta) started here anyways.
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they are already amongst us… do you really think the ones from 4kids are humans?! HA!
They change brilliant series in senseless shit in order to decrease our IQ... and then they are going to conquer the world! Believe it! :ninja: -
life on our solar system is hard to imagine. maybe on a bacteria level. if there is actually ice under the surface of mars, like a lot of scientists think, maybe could we find fossile bacteria.
as for life in the universe, of course it's highly possible, but it's important to see the difference between life and intelligent beings like humans. humans came out of one hell of a lucky lot of circumstances.
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This one guy had a theory that life on earth evolved because another species came here and left their bacteria on earth a long time ago.
I wouldn't dout that theory. it's totally plausable
Although I do support life on other planets, I don't see them being anymore than blobs or something, you do have to remember, intellegant life DOES not mean that they'll be smart, more like the average Post Office worker.
postman pat? :3
