2nd August 2010, 7:07 PM
So because life evolved in what you consider good conditions, it was then able to evolve in to bad conditions? I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way. The bacterias and insects in bat caves evolved there specifically, they cant live anywhere else except to travel and migrate from one fecal farm to the next. Hundreds of millions of years ago life faced nothing but extremes one after the other and had no set standards to go by, even the atmosphere was poisonous by today's life-form's standards.
I dont subscribe to seeding either, but that's what I was getting at. That a planet has to be 'earth-like' in order to have life. Its very well possible that gas giants have life, we just lack the tools to examine it remotely. Based on what I understand a planet with zero oxygen has as much chance of harboring life-forms than a planet with oxygen.
I dont subscribe to seeding either, but that's what I was getting at. That a planet has to be 'earth-like' in order to have life. Its very well possible that gas giants have life, we just lack the tools to examine it remotely. Based on what I understand a planet with zero oxygen has as much chance of harboring life-forms than a planet with oxygen.