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Originally posted by andersensrm
I think that most solar systems have planets, and most planets harbor life. Why this is so hard for people to grasp, or accept, I will never understand, it seems obvious to me. I wouldn't travel to Australia, a place I've never been to, and be surprised to find life. Its the same for anywhere else in the universe.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by andersensrm
I think that most solar systems have planets, and most planets harbor life. Why this is so hard for people to grasp, or accept, I will never understand, it seems obvious to me. I wouldn't travel to Australia, a place I've never been to, and be surprised to find life. Its the same for anywhere else in the universe.
You can't compare finding life in odd places on Earth, which already has life on it, to finding life elsewhere. You just can't. Finding life in extreme environments proves that life is pernicious and adaptable. But maybe only on a planet where it already exists. In fact, life is so good at adapting that if you land somewhere, Mars for instance, or look out into space and get a spectrograph of some other planet's atmosphere, if you don't immediately find life, chances are pretty good that it doesn't exist there at all. Which has been the case every place we've looked so far.
post by Blue Shift
Which has been the case every place we've looked so far
Originally posted by andersensrm
reply to post by gortex
And the fact that there is so much space. We haven't explored enough to say that theres this % of life or whatever. We've studied and analyzed the equivelant of one glass of water compared to the entire ocean, of our universe, if not less. We really don't have the information to say a lot about the universe, because we know so little about it.
Originally posted by gortex
Originally posted by andersensrm
reply to post by gortex
And the fact that there is so much space. We haven't explored enough to say that theres this % of life or whatever. We've studied and analyzed the equivelant of one glass of water compared to the entire ocean, of our universe, if not less. We really don't have the information to say a lot about the universe, because we know so little about it.
We are learning more and more almost on a daily basis , new missions and telescopes expand our knowledge like never before .
We have only just started planet hunting and already we know that there are more planets in our Galaxy than Suns , drop the negativity man we are living in an exiting time of discovery