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The possibility that life may exist on other planets is something which has long fascinated the world and managed to bring together groups of individuals that would otherwise never even think of intermingling. From scientific researchers to crackpot conspiracy theorists there are so many theories out there that center on the possibility of life on Earth that many people devote their lives to proving or disproving the theory. There seems to be one common thread for all of these diverse groups of people; however, where some may believe that life on other planets consists of little green men and others believe that life on other planets consists of human like beings, the common thread for each of these groups is the presence of intelligent life forms on a planet other than Earth.
Is There Life On Other Planets?
Ask most people across the world and they will tell you that they believe in the possibility of life on another planet and they will generally clarify themselves so as not to appear as a “crackpot” that the life on other planets does not have to be “aliens.” There are others who will openly admit to a belief in alien life forms and they will even share with you stories of alien abduction. While everyone’s understanding of life outside Earth varies nine out of every ten people will admit to believing in some other life force outside of our planet. For many people this belief tends to stem from science fiction but for others this belief in alien life forms comes from a desperate hope that humans cannot possibly be the most intelligent life form in the universe. Pointing to the signs of destruction all over the planet and pointing out how quickly the human race is destroying the one and only planet they can survive on to date, people tend to panic. How can the most intelligent life force in the universe be destroying the one planet which is able to sustain it? For this reason many people believe that there must be a more intelligent life force across the universe somewhere. So what do you think? Is there life on other planets?
Finding Proof of Extraterrestrial Life
Despite NASA missions in to space, landing on the moon and sending satellites and vehicles up to other planets scientists have yet to be able to offer any proof of life on other planets. The point of contention; however, comes when the basis of life on other planets is based around the basic human needs for life to be sustained. Who is to say that oxygen levels are what it takes to allow survival of alien life forms? Who is to say that alien life forms thrive in similar temperatures to Earth? Who is to say that what is inhospitable to us is also inhospitable to alien life forms. After all isn’t the very definition of something “alien”, something that is different from our own? Still scientists, astronomers, physicists and even geologists scan the planets looking for traces of life based on what we know as a race, based on our basic needs and our requirements for survival.
What Types of Conditions Would Extraterrestrial Life Require?
Assuming that alien life forms do require similar conditions to humans to exist and sustain life on a planet there is no chance that they would be able to live on any of the planets within the Milky Way Galaxy. Within the Milky Way Galaxy are the planets that most children learn while they are in school, although the actual planets seem to be expendable, at least in the case of Pluto. The planets within our solar system as most of the current generation learned them include: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (now recognized not as a planet but as a dwarf planet.) Life forms that have the same requirements as the human race are unable to sustain themselves on any of the above listed planets with the exception of Earth.
We will begin with Earth as we know it to be the only planet that has the ability to sustain life. Located as the third planet from the sun – some 93 million miles or one Astronomical Unit away, the Earth is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and has just one moon. The mass of the planet Earth is 5.98 x 1024 kg and has an average density of 5520 kg/m3. As such the Earth is known to be the densest of all the planets contained within the Milky Way galaxy. While temperatures on the Earth’s surface vary considerably most of the face of the planet is hospitable to life with temperatures ranging between -127 degrees Fahrenheit and 136 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmosphere of the planet Earth is made up of a variety of gasses which are primarily made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .9% argon and .03% carbon dioxide. In combination with the availability of water and the abundance of oxygen these conditions make Earth a suitable planet for life.
Comparing Earth to Other Milky Way Planets
So if the conditions listed above make Earth so hospitable to life why are other planets within the solar system considered so inhospitable to life? It is the combination of the factors listed above that make Earth hospitable to life, the balance of the gasses and chemicals needed to sustain cell life and generation is optimal within the Earth’s atmosphere, the temperature is comfortable enough for the most part to be able to sustain life, water is readily available to maintain appropriate levels of hydration (we are composed of mostly water you know) and all of these elements come together to allow life to flourish. So what is it about the other planets that make them inhospitable to life that resembles the human and animal races that thrive on Earth?
Mercury
Mercury is the planet closest to the sun in the Milky Way Galaxy meaning that the temperature makes the planet inhospitable by itself with blazing hot temperatures in the day and freezing cold temperatures at night. The lack of atmosphere around Mercury means that there is no ability for the planet to maintain heat and temperatures would move from one extreme to the other very quickly. Mercury lack of atmosphere also means that the essential elements needed to support life in any form are missing. Mercury is also a particularly small planet measuring in at around one-third the size of the planet Earth meaning that even if it were able to support life it would likely never approach the populations that we see on the planet Earth. The gravity on Mercury is also considerably less than the gravity on Earth meaning that living conditions would be altered dramatically for any life forms that were able to sustain life in Mercury’s atmosphere. As for the moon that controls so much on the planet Earth? Well, Mercury has no moon.
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the sun in the Milky Way Galaxy and is known to be the single hottest planet within the solar system making it completely inhospitable to life. As far as life on other planets goes, Venus is one of the most inhospitable planets in the solar system. With an atmosphere that is mostly composed of carbon dioxide and huge clouds of sulfuric acid soaking up the heat from the blazing hot sun there is absolutely nothing about Venus that suggests that life in any form is possible. There is not even a remote possibility that life would be able to survive on Venus due to the thick toxic atmosphere as well as the immense heat. Unlike Mercury Venus is similar in size to the planet Earth measuring around 95% of the diameter of Earth and in addition to this the gravity on Venus is also similar to that of Earth coming in at some 91% of Earth’s gravity. Venus, similar to Mercury has no moons and it also has extremely high atmospheric pressure which further ensures that life on Venus is simply impossible.
Mars
Mars was once believed to have been capable of supporting life because it is the planet that most resembles the planet Earth. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun in our solar system and while it resembles the Earth in some ways it is only about half of the size. The surface of Mars is dusty but the ground is frozen. Mars features north and south poles much like Earth and each of these are characterized by ice caps made from water and carbon dioxide. It is the possibility of water on Mars that leads many people to believe that life on Mars is sustainable. Recent missions to Mars sent back photographs which suggest that at once time Mars had rivers and other large bodies of water which give hope that life would have been, at least at one time, sustainable on the planet. Most of this water now forms the permafrost which coats the planet’s surface. The crust on Mars is thin, much like the crust on the planet Earth; however, the mass of Mars in comparison to Earth is a mere 1/9th of the mass of the planet Earth. Mars is located further from the sun than the Earth and it also has an atmosphere which lacks oxygen (Mars’ atmosphere is comprised primarily of 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen and 1.6% argon) and is significantly lower pressure than the atmosphere found on Earth. These factors are some of the few which would greatly impact any life which attempted to survive on the planet Mars. Mars does have two moons but they are significantly smaller than the Earth’s moon.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest of all of the planets in the Milky Way Galaxy and is the fifth planet from the sun. The atmosphere on Jupiter is particularly thick and the planet itself is made of gas for the most part. One of the most inhospitable aspects about the planet Jupiter in terms of supporting life is that Jupiter absorbs heat from the sun but then outputs twice as much heat making it an extremely hot and uncomfortable planet. As far as size, Jupiter is somewhere around 11 times the size of the planet Earth and in comparison to the gravity pull on Earth the gravity pull on Jupiter is considerably less in comparison to the sheer mass of the planet itself. Jupiter does have moons, four large moons to be exact and some thirty-five smaller ones all of which would wreak havoc on life forms living on the planet. As if the idea that Jupiter is made mostly of gasses wasn’t enough to discourage concepts of life on Jupiter it should be mentioned that the average temperature of the clouds on Jupiter comes in at around -244 degrees Fahrenheit.
Saturn
Saturn comes in second after Jupiter in terms of the sheer size of planets, and it is located as the sixth planet from the sun in the Milky Way Galaxy. The rings that Saturn is most recognized for are made from large chunks of both rock and ice and the planet itself is made up mostly of helium and hydrogen gasses. In size Saturn is about nine and a half times the size of planet Earth and is around 95 times the mass of the planet Earth although the pull of gravity on Saturn is approximately the same as that on the planet Earth. One of the unique factors about Saturn is that it is the only planet to be less dense than water although there are trace amounts of water to be found on Saturn, the majority of the water that would be available to inhabitants is found in the ice chunks within the rings of Saturn. The average temperature on Saturn is around -290 degrees Fahrenheit, simply impossible for life to be sustained. Saturn does have a variety of moons, over thirty to be exact; however, in comparison to the requirements needed for human type life forms to sustain life, Saturn is simply inhabitable.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and due to its rotation on its axis; the seasons on Uranus alone are so extreme that they are inhospitable to life. In terms of size Uranus is about four times the size of the planet Earth and is about 14 times the mass of planet Earth; however, the pull of gravity on Uranus is only 91% of the pull of gravity on Earth. Uranus is 19 times further from the sun than the planet Earth and the mean temperature of the planet is around -350 degrees Fahrenheit which makes Uranus even more inhospitable than Saturn in terms of temperature. Saturn is considered to be a frozen planet and the atmosphere is made up of some 83% hydrogen, 15% helium and 2% methane, which is equally as inhabitable as the extreme temperature. Saturn has five moons; however, this planet is simply not suited to sustaining life similar to that of humans as a result of all of the other factors listed above.
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun in the Milky Way Galaxy and it is the first planet that was predicted mathematically. Neptune is around 3.9 times the size of the planet Earth and is around 17 times the mass of Earth with just 1.19 times the gravity found on Earth. Neptune is some thirty times further from the sun than the Earth and as such the temperature averages at around -373.27 degrees Fahrenheit. Such frigid temperatures alone make Neptune inhospitable to life forms similar to those of the human race. Additionally on the planet Neptune seasons last for some forty years at a time which means that the north and south poles are in complete darkness or complete sunlight for 40 years at a time meaning that in the average lifetime of one person living close to these poles they would see the sunrise only once. The atmosphere of Neptune is believed to be thick and hazy and consist of 74% hydrogen, 25% helium and 1% methane which also make it inhospitable to human life. It should also be noted that Neptune is a particularly stormy planet with the fastest winds known to be found on any planet in the solar system which would not only make human life impossible even if the atmosphere were hospitable, but it would also make plant life impossible to sustain as well.
Pluto
Note: we realize that Pluto was recently “decommissioned” as a planet, but being fans of Pluto, we are treating it as one for the purposes of this discussion.
Lastly is Pluto, the pseudo-planet or “dwarf planet” as it is now known. When it was known as a planet Pluto was the smallest of the planets in the solar system and it is about 1/5 the size of the planet Earth. Pluto is believed to be around 1/500th of the mass of the planet Earth and gravity is only around 8% which means that a person weighing 100 pounds would weigh just 8 pounds on Pluto. Pluto is 39 times further from the sun than the planet Earth and as such temperatures tend to average at around -393 degrees Fahrenheit which means that it is absolutely impossible for any human like life form to survive on Pluto. Pluto has never been visited to date and so scientists are unsure as to the makeup of Pluto’s atmosphere but it is believed to be made up of mostly nitrogen with some carbon monoxide and methane meaning that it would be impossible for any human like life form to even breathe. Pluto has one large moon and two smaller moons.
Finding Life Far, Far Away…
While the concept of life resembling human life on other planets may be possible as far as other planets in the universe it is certainly not a possibility on the planets that we have recognized so far in our own solar system. From temperature extremes to inhospitable atmospheres the planets within our own solar system are simply not able to sustain life with the same demands as humans. Now, were these other life forms to be so drastically different from humans that they were created from some new element all together and not carbon based life forms then perhaps the question of life on other planets within our solar system can be raised again. However, until there is proof of life forms other than those based on carbon, the possibility of life on other planets will have to depend on planets outside of our own solar system.
Detecting Life in the Cosmos [VIDEO]
This video, courtesy of PBS, addresses how we might find life on Earth-like planets. Harvard astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger shows us that the planet’s atmosphere provides the key to finding life on other planets. Learn more on the PBS NOVA website.
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Please believe what our Creator has revealed to us……in the Bible book of Genesis it says the creator made the animals after their own kind….he made the plants after their own kind and he made man in his image…..
To think that life will be found on a planet with the same temperature and atmosphere is idiotic. If all the parts are there do you really think they will put themselves together in the right ratio to make a functioning human body. Just like if all the parts were there for a computer or a swiss watch. The human body is 100 X 10,000 Quadrillion times more complex than any of these gadgets. The brain allows us to create, our instincts lead us in the right direction. Our blood keeps us alive. If we get punctured the blood coagulates and heals. Even small animals like terriers that many years ago were trained to hunt and kill rodents. New born terriers still have that instinct.
No, my friends it takes more than some oxygen and the right temperatures to make, life. It takes the higher power that so many seem to deny exists. Believe what you will, I don’t think they will find life anywhere else.
I’ve been to all of the other planets, and I can report that there is in fact, no intelligent life, on Earth or elsewhere. Thank you.
Very funny! Ha ha ha!
The universe is big has billions of planets but NASA needs an interstellar ship to travel real far, light years away, going north south east…living in another planet would save us from earth!
Life on other planets, how can you question that? How big is the Universe? I think we, human race, is maybe the only race that has differences in looks, from each other? Parrell Universes is a definite possibility. When did “time” start? Infanet.
Well, as per my opinion I think, everything out there has some reason, no matter what it is but it certainly is because of some reason.
Now, the question is why are there so many stars, galaxies and planets and whatnot are there, if human beings stays on planet Earth?
Looking for an answer, WHAT’S OUT THERE AND WHY?
I thought this was a good overview/synopsis of conditions on planets within our solar system. It is a definite curiosity of mine which leads me to wonder what conditions lead to us evolving as humans on this planet. Now I understand it was merely chance. Who is to say or not say that other types of beings would coincidentally evolve and live somewhere else.
You keep saying Milky Way. I believe you mean, “our Solar System”. We know less than 1 billionth of 1 percent about the planets in our own galaxy.
This was embarrassing to read. Apparently we live in the only solar system in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. Wow it’s no wonder 95% of people are so clueless, when there are articles out there like this one that people read and think this stuff is credible. The author seriously said Mercury was the closest planet to its sun in the Milky Way Galaxy. Wow.
Assuming that alien life forms do require similar conditions to humans to exist and sustain life on a planet there is no chance that they would be able to live on any of the planets within the Milky Way Galaxy.
You are so sure every planet in milky way doesnt near to earth and assume every alien is same like human ?
Stop reading right there right away .
That’s an oxymoron to suggest -operative word- being “alien” may require similar conditions to humans for a common factor to exist. An alien would mean different, therefore conditions are far from what humans require. What we need to survive would be or could be the opposite for something so different than our own genetic make up. It’s preposterous for humans to conjure the idea we are the only living things in the entirety of the universe.
God has made many planets but why would he want to let human live on earth and leave other planets empty?
Why does an artist have a bunch of empty canvases?
To fill them with pictures, or in this case to fill the planets with life.
Whoever wrote this has no knowledge about the milky way galaxy which contains billions of planets and no knowledge that were just a small spec of a solar system.
stop being mean to the author, she was obviously trying her best and this article really helped me a lot on my assignment in science
Even though they say god only made us on earth, it never mentions aliens in the bible so what makes them god creations too? There are soooooo many planets and all we look at are 9 (Team Pluto) , I one believe that aliens exist, two this Illuminati confirmed (lol look at the logo), three I’m happy with extraterrestrials what I’m afraid of is own race and the atrocities they would commit.
PS I’m a protestant Christian, not catholic nor Jewish.
I agree with you. I also am a Christian. I stumbled on this website for a school website, and I was bored so that is why I am reading the comments right now.
Life? To answer the question about life on other planets, we have to determine what life, here on Earth is. Life as we know it is breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, as well as drinking water (H2O). We have to ask the question of “what if?”. What if sustaining life on another planet meant breathing in methane and exhaling helium, as well as drinking H2O2? Life for us here on Earth maybe totally different then Life on another planet. Even on Earth; a human can’t live underwater, because our lungs can’t take oxygen out of the water to for us to breath. It may sound far-fetched, but I’m (almost) certain there’s a group on another planet wondering the same thing we are. We just have to realize that the characteristics for Life here on Earth is different then characteristics for Life on another planet. *just thinking out loud*
I didn’t see your comment and I just posted pretty much the same thing kinda lol. But seriously you’re right Aliens aren’t going to be the same as us or look like us or need what humans need if they do this is for nothing but we can’t be sure as we haven’t found any clues as to what they need for survival.
Lamont, it is quite possible that there could be life on other planets. It’s difficult to prove it at this point but perhaps there will be evidence soon enough to show that some sort of people or living creatures do exist in other places? Kind of exciting to think about! We appreciate you reading and stopping by ExploringLifesMysteries.com!
Really there is life sustaining far from earth. Some clues that giving an idea about the extraterrestrial life may be microbes something that shown in the red rain cells , we found some under volcanic bacterias all these assumptions hard make believe that organisms are really have a various type of habit and sustaining in those high degree habitats really differ from earth.
We have a dispute about the origin of life is not from the earth. May be we all are coming from any exogalatic planet. These meteoroids and asteroids comets are giving some valuable information . Now I am closely watching Tosetta’s finding of comet p67.
The Milky Way Galaxy contains about 100 billion planets. Our solar system contains 8.
Thanks for reading and letting us know!
A scientific answer to this question is: we don’t know. We have no scientific proof or disproof of extraterrestrial life yet.
People who say there is alien life out there in the universe argue by the fact that our universe is so vast with a huge amount of stars and planets orbiting them and that some of those planets certainly have the necessary ingredients of life on them. But this is not proof!
People who say life exists only on earth argue that life came to existence only as a result of a very complex series of random conditions and events. Those conditions and events are very unlikely to happen the same way elsewhere in the universe. (In
other words, it was a mere luck that life appeared on earth). This is not proof either!
The beautiful thing is: Until science gives us the right answer, we are free to believe what we want.
Actually we do know. If the government would declassify Area 51 (which will never happen).
so so agreed
The heart is one of the most important organs in the entire human body. It is really nothing more than a pump, composed of muscle which pumps blood throughout the body, beating approximately 72 times per minute of our lives. The heart pumps the blood, which carries all the vital materials which help our bodies function and removes the waste products that we do not need.
“Assuming that alien life forms do require similar conditions to humans to exist and sustain life on a planet there is no chance that they would be able to live on any of the planets within the Milky Way Galaxy. Within the Milky Way Galaxy are the planets that most children learn while they are in school, although the actual planets seem to be expendable, at least in the case of Pluto.”
I got to this point and stopped reading.
For the love of humanity please do not post (seemingly) scientific articles that sound as though they are written by a religious idiot who claims to know how things work because they believe it to be.
I don’t know who you are and I don’t care but it actually sounds like you think that the planets in our solar system are the only planets in the entire Milky Way galaxy. If this is correct please refrain from sharing your opinions with anybody.
It is people like you that spread bullshit information to stupid people who lap it up, which creates mass stupidity, ignorance and will ultimately be the downfall of humankind.
Enough said.
Goodbye
Okay back to that first paragraph maybe the assumptions are wrong and actually they have different “needs” for a habitable planet because they aren’t going to be the same as humans and might not require water, but maybe a different form of liquid or different form of gas to breathe.
Humans need the basics to survive food,water and most important Oxygen…Do aliens need that? Scientists and Astronomers all those people looking for habitable planets but what’s habitable about it? Is it the food, water or air which is exactly what humans need, (emphasis on humans). That’s what we need but do aliens need it if they don’t then we are looking at the wrong planets, think about it aliens can’t be that similar to us we need to have second thoughts on habitable planets like two consciousness, (good and bad), in this case humans and aliens? Well that is it. I’ve said what I need to say hopefully it’s going to help find E.T. out there.
P.S. I’m 11 years old.
What if oxygen is harmful to us and only allows us to live up to 80 to hundred years ?
Did you just say religious nut that stupid big bang theory was based of the bible ninny, let there be light, giant explosions, water rain from the sky and filled the land, meteors bring water, he filled the oceans with fish, first life was aquatic life, so never say everything is based solely so science if the basics of science contain the bible in them. You may come from monkeys and chimps but I believe otherwise, so you respect me and I respect you!!!
Ok so this is actually scientific enough that i can use it for my school project, and Pluto is and always will be a planet.
Not a planet, at least not a normal planet. It’s a dwarf planet so its still a “planet.”
Thank you for your opinion. Unfortunately, at least for you, there are no immediate plans of my execution.
On a serious note, however, this article was initially intended to address the planets within the Milky Way (admittedly the title is too broad for this limited scope) – but at no point was the assumption made that there are no planets outside of our own galaxy.
You bring up a good point though and in the near future you should expect to see an addendum to this article addressing recent research by Sara Seager which includes the observation of galaxies other than our own.
No, what he is saying is that there are more planets outside our solar system, within our galaxy, and that the author (and obviously you) has repeatedly mistaken the solar system for the entire milky way galaxy.
Sheesh!
Agree!
I agree with you Tommy.
Enough Said,
Goodbye!
When I watch that Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan, and copy all the skills to manage my four dogs, I did catch an old phrase nearly forgotten, which was: “it takes a village to raise a child, and so it also takes a village to raise a dog.”
Well, i think it takes a humongous mega saga universe huge village to raise a planet with people like us on it…This is why that planet that is similar to ours may be in a humongous mega saga universe huge village out there, a few blocks away from this humongous mega saga universe huge village that raise our earth…And the reason why we keep searching, it is like a hunch that we know it must be there, just like a hunch a salmon must swim up stream…
Anyway, thank you for letting me have my say, other times I keep things to my self due to, well, the strange labels I have lately already… hmmmm, I might as well order that pizza cutter, the Startrek Enterprise pizza cutter….
To say that planet earth is the only planet like ours is not unknown. You speak as though our galaxy is small, but there are millions of stars in the milky way with countless planetary systems. Not that planets would have to be (like) our planet just to have life but the sheer number of planets in this galaxy besides our own would very strongly suggest that there are probably several planets like ours. If a person can just slightly understand the stunning size of our universe, how many millions of galaxies, and how many millions of stars and planets are in each galaxy, then you can very easily believe in other life forms.
Billions of stars in billions of galaxies! To think that NONE of them, not EVEN ONE contains some type of life on it in my opinion is thick headed! We use to think in order for life to thrive it had to be in this super delicate, PERFECT environment, but even this we now know to be wrong! They have found life that THRIVES in places like at the bottom of the sea on and all around thermal vents that are incredibly hot, not to mention in places of extreme cold, and receives NO sun light, all conditions would kill us in moments. So our earlier belief that in order for a planet to sustain life had to be RIDICULOUSLY PERFECT to have life, we now know that the conditions don’t actual have to be nearly as perfect as we once thought, even though the conditions still have to be extremely favorable, we think. With that being said, there is almost certainly life on not just 1 or 10 exoplanets, but there is bound to be life, not all intelligent, but I’m sure there is SOME intelligent life out there. Especially considering how much older many planets are out there, time that would have given them a million and even a BILLION year head start compared to us.
There is life in some other planets, but far from the 8 planets…interstellar is only solution to explore far from the solar system of doom.
I agree with you! UFO hunters spot ‘evidence of life’ (Fossilized human finger, ancient sandal and Martian animal) on Red Planet in Curiosity Rover’s footage. And an Earthlike Planet was found: Kepler-22b is first planet confirmed “smack in the middle of the habitable zone.”
I do not know why, but I just do not care about this. It is like the same way that I feel about elaborate weddings. It is like everybody is freaking out and going crazy over something and it just seems somewhat irrelevant and expensive to me. Though I believe marriage is a gift from GOD if you are with the person that GOD wants you to be with, I think the actual ceremony is about standing before GOD, your loved ones, and your government and making a public and binding commitment, not about miniature hats, perfect floral arrangements or getting drunk and obscene.
As far as aliens go, I have always thought that the whole idea of them could have something to do with the Heavens, like maybe people are seeing angels sometimes and mistaking them for aliens, but I think aliens identify themselves though when they appear to people so I do not think that this is the right explanation. It could possibly be that there are other worlds that GOD has created for HIS own purposes besides this one, and that they have their own life and existence under HIM that Is separate from ours.
Whatever the real answer is, I just cannot get worked up about the whole thing. I mean, it almost seems like if we were meant to find aliens, we would have found them long ago. We would have found something and not have been grasping at straws for so long, hoping and spending millions of dollars in several countries in the world to go into the sky and find nothing. I think some of the inventions that came out of space exploration are pretty cool, like the Tempur-Pedic mattress is really comfortable and I plan to get one some day. I am sure there are other things that I do not remember too. When I was little I liked space ice cream, which is really just sweet powder, or freeze dried ice cream, but when you are a kid, it is cool.
One thing that I really like about this article though, is that the author went through all of the different planets, and discussed whether or not life could be sustained in its atmosphere. I mean, the author’s point about whether or not human standards are a valid measuring tool for whether extra-terrestrial life on other planets can live, is a really good point. We cannot say whether aliens need oxygen or water or even food like we do. We are really just taking shots in the dark with that. But I do think going through and looking at the things that every planet offers is a really good way to explore the topic of extra-terrestrial beings.
Like you say, I’m fairly convinced the odds are in favor of there being life elsewhere in the Universe. Look at it this way – if there weren’t, and Earth were to come to a quick end, the Universe would be an awfully empty and lonely place, wouldn’t it? …
I agree!!! It totally would sound like a lonely and empty place!!!
Well said!! I am in the same corner as you are in regards to there almost certainly being life in the universe.
please include more pros on the planet next time.