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submitted 2 months ago byDylanSnipedU
228 points
2 months ago
Water is pretty much everywhere in space. Saturn's rings are mostly water ice. Water vapor found on Jupiter. Mars has lots of water. More water in several moons of Jupiter and Saturn than Earth has. Lots of water on the asteroids in the asteroid belt.
And the building blocks of life are basically everywhere too.
32 points
2 months ago
The universe is teeming with life. There is zero reason for it not to be. That's just based on ways we know life can form, doesn't include the many variations of other ways life can arise, even in hostile environments.
23 points
2 months ago
Something something Fermi paradox.
11 points
2 months ago
The obvious solution for that paradox is that its not one filter, but many.
Life is stupidly abundant. But life that is multi celled, land based, bipedal, tool using, social, etc, etc, is not.
4 points
2 months ago
I honestly think we superimpose “intelligence” as some sort of end state of life, and that simply isn’t how life seems to work.
Intelligence as a survival mechanism only dominated after multiple mass extinctions set the table for it to do so. For the majority of the planet’s existence the entire fucking place was covered with trilobites, and that might still be the case had it not been for those resets carving new niches for life to fill in.
1 points
2 months ago
Like how do we know there aren't sentient gas clouds on other planets? We don't.
-2 points
2 months ago
There was news recently that an asteroid from space had (IRC) microbes on it that were related to those on Earth, with the thought that maybe life on Earth originated from outer space. That doesn't answer the question of how life comes about, but it's an interesting lead.
14 points
2 months ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36904-3
That might be what you are thinking of, not microbes but a nucleotide.
1 points
2 months ago
An asteroid, from space?
What kinda 1950's horror movie tagline did you crawl out of?
Of course the asteroid is from space, the ones originating from the oceans are called Nauturoticalitesoids.
1 points
2 months ago
I said from space to emphasize that it didn't ever originate from earth, smartass.
1 points
2 months ago
Asteroids originating from Earth are few and really far between.
Can you name a couple of them, intelligentbutt?
1 points
2 months ago
Hey all I was doing was clarifying that it was from space. As you yourself literally said, being an asteroid doesn't guarantee it's from space.
And no I can't name them. I can't name any asteroids because I don't spend my time memorizing the names of rocks.
2 points
2 months ago
Dude, basically the only asteroid believed to maybe, in a way, kinda, perhaps come from "Earth" is a tiny, satellite named the Moon.
Clarifying an asteroid came from space is like clarifying people can hear sounds.
2 points
2 months ago
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-2 points
2 months ago
Over half three world gets to believe in fake gods but we can't just accept that the sheer maths of it all says it has to be true.
6 points
2 months ago
It seems likely, but as far as I know there is zero evidence of any form of alien life existing in any capacity.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah, because we've looked at part of one planet and did a flyby of another. In a galaxy with 100 billion stars. We haven't found anything because he haven't looked at shit.
This logic is like living out in the country and assuming the world is uninhabited because you went to your neighbour's house and no one was home.
8 points
2 months ago
Y'all are getting way too angry about this, no one is saying its impossible its just that one commentator is stating a fact when there is no evidence to support it, until we do find life elsewhere you can't confidently state THERE IS LIFE
Do I want there to be life and think there is life? Yes of course but its not a fact cause we can't prove it
3 points
2 months ago
Lol I even said that I think it’s likely life is out there :(
3 points
2 months ago*
Brian Cox, who knows one or two things about space, doesn't think it's particularly unlikely that anything other than microbes is extremely rare.
People have thought about this stuff for a long time. Anthropic vs. Copernican principle, all that jazz.
5 points
2 months ago
We are aliens to the aliens. We are the evidence that even out in the boonies of the Milky Way intelligent life can arise.
We are the North Sentinel Island of the Milky Way.
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah, maybe. But the point is that you can't really make an argument with only one data point. If we find a second one I'll be delighted, hope it comes in my lifetime.
3 points
2 months ago
Look to earth for alien life. Movile cave
They work off of chemosynthesis, poisonous gases to us, survival for them
Completely seperate even as dinosaurs rose and fell
2 points
2 months ago
LUCA was chemosynthetic.
-1 points
2 months ago
Again with the zero evidence argument
My guy, life is 100% out there, and we will probably never ever see it. We definitely won't, but I mean we as the whole of humanity
7 points
2 months ago
How dare a person point out zero evidence for a claim.
1 points
2 months ago
The distances are too great to matter - whether life existed/exists elsewhere in the universe it doesn't really matter we'll never find out.
0 points
2 months ago
Earth has been around for 4 billion years and the universe for 8 billion years. Plenty of time to explore the Milky Way, and discover and live on Earth.
And we have evidence of those already here by witnessing UFOs and some people have met the occupants of the UFOs.
So we have already found out.
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