Originally posted by: shimy
I believe you shouldnt ask questions which honestly given our current knowledge is impossible to solve one way or the other sean.
as for the moon near Jupiter it doesn't have liquid water, it has liquid methane, its THAT cold. i doubt we'll find anything living there because of how cold it is, it just seems to me that a place that is that cold the atoms aren't moving fast enough for them do do anything. as for that other volcanic planet your talking about the whole planet is molten, so unlikely anything there. bacteria don't tend to grow on lava flows, though there are some that can withstand alot of heat but lava flows i think thats just a little be too much for them.
as for the argument that the universe is too big, well that may be the case but the universe is also VERY harsh. look into the amount of radiation that is given off my super novas and things of that ilk. ill tell you this much if one were to happen in a near by system our solar system would not be a very nice place to live.
i should point out that i am not saying life doesnt exist out there only that really people we cant know.
Oh and a cookie for whoever can tell me the answer this paradox.
If the universe is so big so infinitely huge, estimates suggest numbers to be around 10^22 and if light always travels in a strait line and since space is empty literally mass has a density of around 10 or 15 atoms per square meter. why is the night sky black and doted with pin points of light?
I believe you shouldnt ask questions which honestly given our current knowledge is impossible to solve one way or the other sean.
as for the moon near Jupiter it doesn't have liquid water, it has liquid methane, its THAT cold. i doubt we'll find anything living there because of how cold it is, it just seems to me that a place that is that cold the atoms aren't moving fast enough for them do do anything. as for that other volcanic planet your talking about the whole planet is molten, so unlikely anything there. bacteria don't tend to grow on lava flows, though there are some that can withstand alot of heat but lava flows i think thats just a little be too much for them.
as for the argument that the universe is too big, well that may be the case but the universe is also VERY harsh. look into the amount of radiation that is given off my super novas and things of that ilk. ill tell you this much if one were to happen in a near by system our solar system would not be a very nice place to live.
i should point out that i am not saying life doesnt exist out there only that really people we cant know.
Oh and a cookie for whoever can tell me the answer this paradox.
If the universe is so big so infinitely huge, estimates suggest numbers to be around 10^22 and if light always travels in a strait line and since space is empty literally mass has a density of around 10 or 15 atoms per square meter. why is the night sky black and doted with pin points of light?
It was on the History Channel where I heard about the water on Europa and Titan is not a volcanic moon. From what I heard on the show was that it's atmosphere is similar to an earlier Earth and by life I'm not talking like fish I'm talking about microbes which are so damn stubborn and live pretty much everywhere on the earth. I also heard they are looking for something like tube worms which live under extreme conditions near vents that release sulfur! On Space.com they say from what they say about some thermal models show that it might be possible that liquid water may exist under the surface. They are going to launch a probe there around 2016 I believe which is the target date.
My source on Europa: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_phillips_europa_030315.html
You can watch that video about Jupiter and its moons here: http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=12584
And do you know a site where I could watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos?
I don't think that we would be the ONE and only planet with life in the universe. I just can't see us being that special. If the Universe is infinite there is infinite chances.
There is a quote I like from Hitchhikers Guide:
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.