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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.

That's the caveat that keeps me from rejecting extraterrestrial life altogether. We always find something new. On the other hand, I don't see any evidence suggesting we should be launching SETI-like efforts to find life. From what we can deduce though, life is not something that can spontaneously form or easily be created.

The sabers of light and silicon monsters is more of a joke, but its possible something like that could exist, something that defies our laws of physics/chemistry. It wasn't so long ago that it was common knowledge that sun revolved around the Earth, which was based upon what we could see and understand. Those laws are laws because we don't have anything to disprove them and everything that we know does prove them, but we really shouldn't say that these laws are definite as long as our only area in which to examine them is our own planet and a small area of space around it, aside from telescopes.

They have been saying this for years. They also said there is life on the dwarf planet Ceres. I hope there could be life but it is highly unlikely due to the conditions on the other planets.

Other than the weapons at the end there. Was that intentional?

[quote]actually, I'm pretty sure it's Europa, not Enceladus.[quote]

Europa is Jupiter's moon not saturn. and i dont kmow that enceladus can sustain life. the only saturn moon that can sustain life is titan (thats what i know)

I don't think that life outside Earth is very probable, but I don't consider it impossible

Life could probably exist on otheer planets, but probably not Enceladus. Most life on Earth can't live at much colder than about -30°C but Enceladus is â'198 °C.

I think that it might be life outside the earth, but I don't think that we will find it so near to our planet.

Thank you Gematria, for sharing your source.

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.

I hope there could be life but it is highly unlikely due to the conditions on the other planets.

Yes very true, just hope if life is found its not some kind of alien infestation or something..

the universe is so immense i think it would be very probable...just not very close...

its not Europa, that Jupiter moon. However there is probably a better chance that theres life on Europa because its warmer than Enceladus. Also its been proven that Europa is one vast ocean and scientists never allow probs to land on it because they are worried that it will contaminate the ocean will bacteria on the probe

Together with Mars, Callisto, and Titan, Europa is considered one of the most biologically interesting worlds in the solar system. There are two main reasons for this: 1) the possible presence of a sub-surface ocean of liquid water which could provide a medium and solvent for life (see Europa, ocean on), and 2) the possible presence of undersea volcanic vents.

On Earth, in recent years, a profusion of previously unsuspected life-forms has been found at great ocean depths, thriving, in the absence of both light and oxygen, on chemical nutrients upwelling through hydrothermal vents from the interior of the planet. Indeed, many scientists now speculate that terrestrial life may actually have evolved under such conditions (see life, origin). Europan life, too, may have arisen in this way.

A possible scenario for life on Europa

It's most likely microbic. Nothing to get to worked up about. Not like we can talk to it...

Do these moons have their own magnetic field? Or does Jupiter or Saturn's magnetic fields protect these moons?