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If you look hard enough, you'll find evidence of what you want. Life on Europa or Enceladus seems like a far shot but relatively possible. Pluto feels like an e
by 8jy89hui 6y ago
If you look hard enough, you'll find evidence of what you want. Life on Europa or Enceladus seems like a far shot but relatively possible. Pluto feels like an entirely different league.
This article seems to point more at our obsession with finding life than anything else.
- dfischer 6y agoThere’s more truth to your first statement than anything else that exists.
- behnamoh 6y agoHonestly, even if we find microbial life on other planets/moons, it wouldn't make the news that much as we already know some forms of life actually came to Earth by meteors.
- beamatronic 6y agoI think it would expose 2 camps of people. Like masks have. Some would react with anger and disbelief. And for others, it would be Tuesday.
- AngryData 6y agoBiologists might lose their shit over seeing new forms of life. Of course it would be decades at a minimum before anything useful came out of it.
- garmaine 6y ago> it wouldn't make the news that much as we already know some forms of life actually came to Earth by meteors. No, we don’t know that.
- shadowprofile77 6y agoUh, source for that? Because it's complete news to me as something "we know", and I think to pretty much most of the world's biologists and mainstream scientists of all kinds.
- bregma 6y agoAnd we called it Covid-19. War Of The Worlds in reverse. It begins. Ooola.
- FranOntanaya 6y agoThe surface layer is mostly irrelevant for life conditions when considering oceans enclosed in ice. Even a few meters under a water ice surface you already have plenty insulation from surface temperatures, whatever exothermic process you get going is going to stay warm for a long while. Europa surface is actually more hostile for life due to the heavy radiation from Jupiter. If we find life in icy moons, then we have to consider that the number of icy dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and the orbits beyond are likely in the thousands. As long as they kept some heat from impacts, nuclear decay or binary tides they may have oceans suitable for life. Impacts carrying life may be rarer up there but they are probably lower speed being in higher orbits, so they'd be more survivable for organisms.
- rjayatilleka 6y agoWhy would Jupiter give off radiation?
- kkylin 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter
- jacobolus 6y agoYou could find the answer to this question with a 20 second web search. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter
- ehnto 6y agoIt's more fun to have a conversation with someone though, you can have a more nuanced discussion. You shouldn't assume people are just being lazy, sometimes they just want to engage with the community.
- echelon 6y agoThis is a community of learners. No question is stupid. Don't assume laziness. By taking this attitude as a default, you stifle the curiosity of others. Healthy discussion shouldn't be discouraged.
- nprateem 6y agoWell it's got a warm centre for a start and the elements required for RNA according to a documentary I watched the other night, so perhaps not so far-fetched.
- koheripbal 6y agoIMO, the first non-human intelligence we find will probably be the AI we create. Might also be the last intelligence we find.