So I was watching the news today and they were talking about one of saturns moons may be sustainable for some kind of life, Because they found salt water, So they think there might have been or is an ocean underneath all that Ice..
What do you guys think?
I happen to feel that there is possibly other life, Because in this huge universe we cant be the only ones.
I would really like to know which news source this came from. I'll probably end up looking it up myself anyway but it would be good to know just for the record.
I would really like to know which news source this came from. I'll probably end up looking it up myself anyway but it would be good to know just for the record.
Lol edmonton alberta Global news, It was on this morning, and they were talking about how this moon is most sustainable for life.
I think the moon he is talking about is Enceladus (I think) which has these geysers on it that are like the ones at yellow stone but ALOT bigger but I thought those werent liquid but a solid ice/dust or something im not really sure though (I saw it on History a while ago). Anyway scientist think there might be water or some liquid under the surface.
But now that i think of it there are alot Saturn's of moons are frozen/ice so i dont know which one your talking about.
I don't think that life outside Earth is very probable, but I don't consider it impossible. Life can only be sustainable under certain conditions, and Saturn's moons don't have them.
I don't think that life outside Earth is very probable, but I don't consider it impossible. Life can only be sustainable under certain conditions, and Saturn's moons don't have them.
. . .not necessarily. Since the only data we have is from life on Earth, we don't know if there are other conditions or life forms which would be different than ours and still work. There could be other life forms that could survive different conditions, but we don't know because we've never come in contact with other weapons.
. . .not necessarily. Since the only data we have is from life on Earth, we don't know if there are other conditions or life forms which would be different than ours and still work. There could be other life forms that could survive different conditions, but we don't know because we've never come in contact with other weapons.
Scary...I was just thinking like word for word what you said when I came into this topic... Other than the weapons at the end there. Was that intentional?
Even if there is life, its probably not going to be what we're hoping for. Most likely it will be microscopic organisms, not intelligent life or even large forms of semi-intelligent (at least what we call semi-intelligent)
There could be other life forms that could survive different conditions, but we don't know because we've never come in contact with other weapons.
Let's hope we don't come into contact with other weapons.
As for other life forms, who knows what will surprise us? My point is simply that the laws of chemistry and physics are constant through the universe. This puts a limitation on what forms life can take and how life can arise.
My point is simply that the laws of chemistry and physics are constant through the universe. This puts a limitation on what forms life can take and how life can arise.
Our laws are based upon our own perception of our sphere of existence. They are constant based upon what we can see in our own lives, and what we can study in space. Who's to say that in a galaxy somewhere far, far away those laws still apply? Maybe there really are sabers of light and aliens made of silicon, or a completely different, new material which life is based off of? Anythings possible, quite literally, when it comes to the universe, because of its sheer immensity, because we can never be certain exactly whats out there
Sigh...please don't bring up silicon monsters or lightsabers. Spheres of existence work as an argument in philosophy, but in empirical studies the idea doesn't fit. Either physics and chemistry work everywhere, or we pack up our labs and ship them off to a galaxy far far away where things are repulsed by objects of larger mass and lifeforms are made of silicon. Even a knowledge of how silicon and carbon bonds are formed will get you somewhere in the argument.
