Alien life found?

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highwaystar101 said:

darthdevidem01 said:

highwaystar101 said:

I'm afraid I'll find it hard to get excited. It'll probably just be some discussion on an organic molecule that they found on some other body in the solar system, or a discussion on new evidence that could point to liquid water on a moon somewhere. I don't think it'll be anything big.

I would love it to be life, but I think it's a discovery that we're not expecting to make at any time in the near future.

How long do you think will it be till we can contact other life? Meet them!

I really can't say, one thing I can say though is that we're certainly not on the trail of life.

Sure we can hypothesise about finding life in the oceans of Europa (or something similar), but we have no concrete evidence to point us to where we should be searching. There could be life there, but then again there may not. Right now astrobiologists have a "follow the water" policy, and whilst that may be good indicator it is little more than an educated guess.

In short, it could be within our lifetimes if life exists in our solar system, but I wouldn't count on it Intelligent life on the other hand, I think there's no chance within our lifetime I'm afraid.

Yeah, i agree with you highwaystar, its most definitly not intelligent life. but some type of cells they've found that could indicate a link to cells in the human body or organic matter.

a popular theory is that life on earth actully came from a comet that colloided into the earth and introduced foreign molecules into chemistry of our world. thus life evolved from molecules that came from the comet. i think it could be big if they've found evidence of this comet 'theory' happening somewhere else. therefore it could indicate the source of life in this world.

the part of physics to do with large celestial masses is based on Eienstien's work, and based on his theory nothing travel faster than light. and the closest star to us 'Alpha Centuri' is 4 and half years away travelling at the speed of light, thus even if that were possible, based on the laws of physics as we know them, its impossible for a human being within their lifetime to travel to other solar systems and meet the 'aliens' there. suggesting of course that intelligent life does exist in another solar system in our galaxy.

i think it could be an important discovery, if we have some pictures, etc. of some interesting celestial mass, perhaps they've found another planet like ours in another solar system. my rational behind this is the Voyager project. i dont know the details highwaystar, but perhaps you could clarify. i presume that the 2 spacecraft are still travelling away from us and still transmitting data, for the 20 years i think, maybe they've got some new data from those??