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 gotta agree.  Unless someone comes to see us anyway.  Unless there is some big "space fold" discovery.

Crap, even then, the odds of finding life are VERY unlikely.

I remember either on the Next Generation or a show about it, explaining how crazy and impossible it would be to explore all of the space near us if we did it unguided.