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where do you believe extraterrestrial life will first be found?
astrobiologists have been saying for a long long time that it is likely that we will encounter life on other worlds, albeit mostly mircroscopic. what planet (or moon) do you think is the most likely candidate for harboring life? why?
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- ChrisLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
There's several places in the solar system I would actually expect to find life, given the bizarre places life can be found here on earth (in tar pits, hot springs, the bottom of the ocean, etc). Some candidates IMO:
Venus. Yeah. It's literally hot as hell, and the atmosphere is crushing pressure. BUT, the pressure at the bottom of our ocean is even heavier, and there's life (some of it fairly complex) there. Venus, chemically isn't much different than Earth-- it's just all of Venus's C02 is released into the atmosphere while the water is locked up in rocks and below the surface.. our planet is much the opposite (huge CO2 reserves are locked up in the seas). So I would be unsurprised if at least simple microbial life exists and even thrives under the surface of Venus in caves/tunnels/etc.
Mars. Yup. Again, once upon a time, Mars was probably not unlike Earth, but those days are very long gone. However, the fact that much of the water is still there, in the soil, in the polar caps, and most likely in underground cisterns tells me that there is probably simple life still underground as well there.
Titan. One of Saturn's moons, it has rich methane hydrocarbon seas. It's cold, but the chemical environment for life is there. You could get simple life in this enviroment.
But the number 1 candidate for complex life? Europa. One of Jupiter's moons, Europa has more water than the Earth. And it's under a very thick thick crust of ice which will protect it from the cosmics much the same as an atmosphere. But the deep ocean below is most likely liquid due to Jupiter's immense gravitational pull. If there's a massive liquid water ocean, I firmly believe there will be life there. I see no reason why in those conditions it couldn't become fairly complex. Maybe not intelligent, but complex, such as fish/shark/whale/etc analogs.
- 1 decade ago
External life is out there. on mars, a bacteria was found, but it was dead. I do believe that we are the only life in our form. God chose earth for his son didn't he? Put, if we do find another form, I don't believe they can exist in our atmosphere or us in theirs. Did anyone ever think there could be life on jupiter under all the storms? Just a theroy.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Peeking in your bedroom window.