if they exist at all, right.
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if they exist at all, right.
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Two more possibilities:
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[*]They are so advanced that we can no more recognise their existence than an ant can differentiate between a natural hill and a tall building.
"Our vertical leap is beyond all measurement."
Once again.. Seti fails.
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Once again.. Seti fails.
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LOL LOL LOL.. oh, and did I mention LOL??
Great PIC you have there Rapid!
That's a keeper! Thank you!
The bald truth is that we still havent found a single shred of extraterrestrial life. But its remarkable, and heartening in a perverse kind of way, that the places worth searching now greatly exceed our abilities to do so. Theres plenty of frontier left, even nearby.
Europa. Theres good evidence, mostly from its changing magnetic field, that this ice-covered world orbiting Jupiter has an ocean lying 10 miles or so beneath its crusty exterior. At the bottom of this vast, cryptic sea, volcanic vents might be spewing nutrients and hot water into a cold, dark abyss, providing both the food and energy for simple life.
Ganymede and Callisto. Both of these jovian moons show magnetic field variations similar to those of Europa, suggesting that they, too, might be hiding large, watery oceans. Given their thicker ice skins, finding that life , if it exists , would be even more daunting than for Europa.
Enceladus. In the news recently, this Saturnian satellite seems to be a giant Slurpee an icy moon that, thanks to tidal heating, is spouting geysers of water into space. An unexpected entry in the horse race of habitability, Enceladus is the first other world for which we have convincing evidence of liquid water. And where theres liquid water......
This is not quite as plentiful as the ancient Greeks believed after all, they assumed that everything they could see in the sky was populated, including the stars. But our knowledge of both the requirements for life and the conditions of the solar system far exceeds that of Aristotle and his buddies. And in fact, our count of habitable worlds may still be low. For example, theres Neptunes moon Triton, on whose surface the Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered geysers. Perhaps Triton is also a candidate for life. Then there are the short-period comets, which are routinely warmed by passage close to the Sun. They, too, might surprise us with habitable environments.
I realy hope they discover life out there...soon.
Europa. Theres good evidence, mostly from its changing magnetic field, that this ice-covered world orbiting Jupiter has an ocean lying 10 miles or so beneath its crusty exterior. At the bottom of this vast, cryptic sea, volcanic vents might be spewing nutrients and hot water into a cold, dark abyss, providing both the food and energy for simple life.
Ganymede and Callisto. Both of these jovian moons show magnetic field variations similar to those of Europa, suggesting that they, too, might be hiding large, watery oceans. Given their thicker ice skins, finding that life , if it exists , would be even more daunting than for Europa.
Enceladus. In the news recently, this Saturnian satellite seems to be a giant Slurpee an icy moon that, thanks to tidal heating, is spouting geysers of water into space. An unexpected entry in the horse race of habitability, Enceladus is the first other world for which we have convincing evidence of liquid water. And where theres liquid water......
This is not quite as plentiful as the ancient Greeks believed after all, they assumed that everything they could see in the sky was populated, including the stars. But our knowledge of both the requirements for life and the conditions of the solar system far exceeds that of Aristotle and his buddies. And in fact, our count of habitable worlds may still be low. For example, theres Neptunes moon Triton, on whose surface the Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered geysers. Perhaps Triton is also a candidate for life. Then there are the short-period comets, which are routinely warmed by passage close to the Sun. They, too, might surprise us with habitable environments.
I realy hope they discover life out there...soon.
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