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It's hard to express how sad it makes me that I'll never see photos of the surface of another inhabited world.
by methodover 10y ago
It's hard to express how sad it makes me that I'll never see photos of the surface of another inhabited world.
- manachar 10y agoProbabilistically, this is true, but think how amazing it is we have photos take from the surface of such far away places like Mars, Titan, comets, etc. Heck, the latest photos of Pluto are some of the most amazing things I've ever seen. It's conceivable that we will be able to send a probe to Europa that can drill through the ice to sample an alien ocean and maybe even find life! You can talk to people today who remember life before flight was really around, and for whom the universe was mostly just a background to evening activities. Every time we look out with more modern equipment we find the universe is more and more vibrant. Alien worlds inhabited by other intelligences than ours would be amazing though.
- paavokoya 10y agoOne could consider our Mars rovers as life on other planets.. They don't have "organic" (as in water based) cells but they are self-sustaining and active to this day.. They communicate back to Earth and do what we tell them, which is what most isolated lifeforms do in regards to their parents.