Mars? Or perhaps Pluto? Pluto is really more of a comet than anything else--It's just a big block of ice. Where there's ice, though, there's water.There is another body in this solar system that has liquid water in abundance, and may contain life. We haven't truly explored this solar system enough to make sweeping statements what is and isn't out there. Care to guess what it is?
I really matters to some. I'll just leave it at that.If what you will say is scientific so the discussion will remain. Its current content is in the middle of science and offtopic anyway. Does it matter really?
We've barely gotten probes outside our own solar system, until a better propulsion system is used (Orion), or a new energy source is found, or FTL is possible, we wouldn't know results for a few hundred years.I want to know how many of those planets are close enough that we could observe or send probes...
I think we have something to agree on.I think it's incredibly foolish to assume there's not life on other planets, and other galxies.
Since there is life in the giant lakes under Antarctica, I wonder if life would be under that frozen moon as well.Europa is a moon of Jupiter coated with ice, and there is a strong argument there are oceans of liquid water underneath that ice. It is big enough to be classed a planet if it weren't orbiting Jupiter. It is definitely worth looking at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
You wouldn't be the first.Since there is life in the giant lakes under Antarctica, I wonder if life would be under that frozen moon as well.
Well relying on lightspeed comms as a galaxy wide communications system is like the ancient Romans relying on hilltop fire signals as a worldwide communications system....
The only issue I see in the verification of this is the lack of a decent transportation system. Even communication is not likely in our lives. Let's say there were 1000 other species as advanced or more advanced than us in our galaxy. assuming a uniform distribution, that would put the density of such species at a level such that our closest neighbors would be on average more than a 1000 light years away. So, even if they ever do receive a transmission from us and respond to us, we wouldn't hear from them for another 2000 years or so.
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