ESP Life.

[astromark]

:p No not extra sencory perception., but exare solar planet life.
It realy does look like we are on the brink of finding it. At first it will be found within this solar system, and only microbic, but its still life. Its what we are descended from. ( using descended all ways bothers me. cos it sounds like this is what we have descended to. as in down to... Why dont we say ascended to) Titan may yet be teaming with the building blocks of life, Io is another likely canditate, and lets not scrub mars of this list just yet.. These are exiteing times are they not?

[rumples riot]

The times are more tenuos than exciting. I think before we can really appreciate the possibility of life else where we have
to appreciate the life that we have right here. If there is life on a nearby planet and I think this is a real possibility, we need to start taking another approach to the way we handle this. Like the saying when I was a boy I thought of childish things and now that I am a man I must turn my thoughts to more serious pursuits.

From the looks of the early images of titan, there is a very real chance of life existing there. Mind you if intelligent life exists there, we are not likely to be told about it, for fear of mass panic being set upon us. Organised religions will not handle the shock very well. It is indeed a matter of time before we find life elsewhere. We cannot keep assuming that we are the only ones in this large universe!!.

Anyway that's what I think.

Paul

[astromark]

Yes Paul., but we cant fix everything... The political structures, the sconomyies, greed, power. All the religious zelots and fundamentalists dont inspire confidance in our ability to servive into the next millinioum. let alone explore space. but you cant wast your life worrying about all these things... My interest in astronomy is where I hide from all this distructive crapp. At least I can. I look up and wunder, hope. the Volcans are comming...:p

[iceman (Mike)]

Even though it was a series of flukes that led to life evolving on Earth, it's not out of the question to imaging another series of flukes happening elsewhere in the universe, on any earth-like planet orbiting any of the gazillion sun-like stars in our universe.

The problem is distance and time though... Life may exist elsewhere, but it could've existed at an earlier time, like 3 billion years ago on Mars.

Or it could exist now on some distant planet, but because of the immense distances, it's millions of light years away and we'll never know about it.

I think the best we could hope for in our life times, is to find microbacterial or other primitive forms of life on Titan or Mars. It'd be nice to find some form of plant life but I just can't see it happening at this stage.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally posted by astromark
. I look up and wunder, hope. the Volcans are comming...:p

I am convinced that "bugman thing" on the M42 photo in the other section is a duo of Klingon warbirds

[rumples riot]

No no I promise that it was just a bit of dust, nothing more, I saw the dust myslef. When they come we will all know about it.

Paul:p

[astromark]

:p lol... Paul. I'm with you on this Iceman. The word bug and man just dont do it for me. I am confident we will find other life formes in this solar system. they will be very basic (bugs) most likely microbic or alge types is all I suspect we will find. Or maybe just the evadance of there ever being there long ago.
As for the rest of the universe, Its simply to far away. And to long ago... unless...