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Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System? It may be true
dailygalaxy.com — Jupiter's moon, Europa, may provide an environment suitable for evolution in the oceans beneath its icy surface. A future NASA mission will explore the moon's undersea world. Is it possible?
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- whadu4, on 04/30/2008, -2/+0I'm pretty sure it is, man. http://brokencontrollers.com
- WriterSD, on 04/30/2008, -0/+5It would be so exciting if this were true!
- Bukowsky, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Yea... it would be pretty cool if this developed into something, but could you imagine how cold it is there!
- slowmo, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1But God didn't mention anything about life on other planets in The Bible...
- zplot, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Several moons of Jupiter and Saturn are believed to have underwater lakes that could harbor living organisms. The most recent identification of water lakes came from a satellite flyby over Encladeus. However, among these objects Titan is the most likely to have life in these waters. It's also the most accessible for testing since water from the lakes seep to the surface pretty frequently.
- wonderchemist, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1The 'lakes' on titan are most likely lakes of liquid methane and ethane. If life exists in these lakes, it is very different from the water based life here on earth.
- ranksurge, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3I feel like I am trapped in some strange 2010 cut scene...
- wonderchemist, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Except NASA will attempt a landing on Europa someday.
- Jasper710, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1doubt anything can live in that enviornment
- wonderchemist, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1People said the same thing about boiling water 30-40 years ago. Today, life has been documented thriving (able to survive and reproduce) at temperatures as high as 121ยบ C. I'm suspect when we get out there, we will find bacterial level life forms anywhere there is a persistent energy source, a liquid solvent, and sufficient 'build block' materials.
- Orion1004, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Several leading astrobiologists have predicted that Titan has the best chance of all Solar System bodies to harbor life advanced beyond the microbial stage. How cool would that discovery be!
- jamesbrownlord, on 04/30/2008, -2/+1The only alien life to be found is in the mirror.
- IconoclastStill, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2Looking at rosie o'pig, mikey blimp, jimmuh pea-nuts, and obie-baby (among many), I'm rather convinced there are many non-humans active in present day society . . . .
But, somewhat more seriously, it certainly would be exciting actually to find some form of extraterrestrial life rather than merely the conditions hypothetically conducive to their existence. - OMNOMNOM, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0This morning when I woke up there was a life form in bed next to me.....it was terrible...
- Sc4v3ng3r, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1If pranspermia really does happen..it mind aswell be anywhere it crashes into, judging by some extremophiles. We just have to find it before it extincts. It could exist anywhere, but the can only exist for so long in stable/warm conditions like ours.
- angusm, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2My predictions: Simple replication - widespread. Single-celled organisms: surprisingly common. Macro-fauna: vanishingly rare. Intelligent life: nearly non-existent. I'd also expect 'failed attempts' - places where life started but then died out - to be common. It's possible, perhaps even likely, that Earth isn't the only place in the solar system that life has emerged, and it's just possible that some of it's still around and functioning. However, I wouldn't hold out hopes for anything amounting to much more than a thin layer of slime; for hot green-skinned alien space-babes we'll need to look further afield.
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