Far beyond Earth, a new type of alien water planet could be speckling our galaxy by the billions, like cosmic dew drops.These “Hycean Planets” range up to te...
Id wager theres a decent chance, maybe not necessarily on these types of planets, but in general for life outside of Earth. Well, I should clarify that I think it’s enough of a chance to not have a definite “no” answer.
Wouldn’t be able to give you a percentage of course, but mostly because “it happened here”, space is really huge, and also that environmental pressures already select for certain configurations of molecules and atoms (albeit whose combinations aren’t life forms). I think there just needs to be a state of environment where the configuration of molecules that we call life becomes possible, or becomes a more likely/favorable state to have than whatever other states are possible.
I think lots of people make the mistake of thinking that life has to evolve in Earth-like conditions or to our standards.
I agree that is more likely, but we are our only frame of reference and the sample size is quite large. I’m more or less confident that life is out there, but I’m not sure if we’ll discover it in time before capitalism is overthrown or leads to planetary extinction.
If it puts your mind at ease, multiple scientists think its only a matter of time before we discover alien life on other planets, decades or even years from now.
Id wager theres a decent chance, maybe not necessarily on these types of planets, but in general for life outside of Earth. Well, I should clarify that I think it’s enough of a chance to not have a definite “no” answer.
Wouldn’t be able to give you a percentage of course, but mostly because “it happened here”, space is really huge, and also that environmental pressures already select for certain configurations of molecules and atoms (albeit whose combinations aren’t life forms). I think there just needs to be a state of environment where the configuration of molecules that we call life becomes possible, or becomes a more likely/favorable state to have than whatever other states are possible.
Yeah, there’s a good chance, but I don’t think we’ll hit a discovery until decades later from now.
I’m… reserved, is my position.
I think lots of people make the mistake of thinking that life has to evolve in Earth-like conditions or to our standards.
I agree that is more likely, but we are our only frame of reference and the sample size is quite large. I’m more or less confident that life is out there, but I’m not sure if we’ll discover it in time before capitalism is overthrown or leads to planetary extinction.
If it puts your mind at ease, multiple scientists think its only a matter of time before we discover alien life on other planets, decades or even years from now.