I find the extent of life on this planet just fascinating. Life is absolutely everywhere you care to look. As long as there's raw resources, energy, and not too

I find the extent of life on this planet just fascinating. Life is absolutely everywhere you care to look. As long as there's raw resources, energy, and not too hot to destroy organic molecules, you'll find life. Even those basic requirements are not as clear-cut as you'd expect. Ancient microbes can wake up after being exhumed from glaciers. Closed cave ecosystems that have been self-sustaining with minimal input for thousands of years. Goddamn tardigrades in the vacuum and radiation of space. Even the very air is absolutely inundated with life. Mostly with fungal spores, but we all choose to not think about that. Probably the only places we won't find life is where it's too hot for organic molecules to exist. Even then, I wouldn't be that surprised if we find some type of non-carbon self-replicating molecules in magma or something. I guess that's the beauty of evolution. If an opportunity exists, there will (eventually) be a creature evolved specifically to take advantage of it. My secret dream for extraterrestrial life is something living in the gas giants. Ben Bova's stories about vast Jovian whales really struck a chord with me.