Originally posted by skeetontheconspiracy...
I cant imagine it would be intelligent life, but any form of life somewhere else in the system would be a remarkable find.
It would be incredible...however we must first find out if it is truly life that formed independently from life on Earth, or is it possibly seeded
from the same source that seeded life on Earth -- or, even, is Earth itself the source?
I'm not saying that the
Panspermia Hypothesis is likely to have
occurred -- all I'm saying is that it is possible that life that originated on Earth, Mars, or a Jovian/Saturnian Moon, then was carried to from one
world to another on a meteor fragment blown off of that world where life originated (we already found meteors that came from Mars, so perhaps
life-carrying Meteors were blown off of the Earth and seeded other worlds in our solar system.)
It would be infinitely MORE incredible if life found, for example, on Enceladus was 100% different than and independent from life found on the Earth,
because that would mean that life could be absolutely abundant in the Universe -- seeing that it arose spontaneously and independently in two places
in the same solar system.
So when we do find life elsewhere, the first thing we must ask ourselves is
"is its origin completely independent from life on
Earth"
[edit on 6/28/2009 by Soylent Green Is People]
