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While we have no idea what kinds of landscapes and terribly esoteric environments life in some form could endure (since our only basis for comparison is the flo
by southernplaces7 3y ago
While we have no idea what kinds of landscapes and terribly esoteric environments life in some form could endure (since our only basis for comparison is the flora and fauna of our own evolutionary tree), I always though it was absurd to assume life on Titan just because it has water. The conditions out by the orbit of Saturn are hellish, even for a body of water protected by a vast surface shield of hard material.
- hoseja 3y agoSays the guy made of hydric acid, currently submerged in vast pool of molecular oxygen.
- southernplaces7 3y agotouche! But more seriously, an interesting project would be to simulate the conditions of our solar system's "candidate" for life ecosystems in laboratory conditions as precisely as we can based on known information, and then subject some of the toughest microorganisms we have living on earth to them, to see if at least they could survive or even thrive. For example: recreate conditions of pressure, cold, radiation and chemical composition like those we think are the case in Titan's subterranean ocean, and then see how well a colony of water bears (tardigrades) endures. Seems a lot more practical then speculating. I'm curious if this has been done in a systematic way by any organization on Earth.