10th March 2003, 4:14 PM
DJ, I'd say finding microbes in a meterorite that came from Mars is some pretty good proof of life there at one point... also, there is proof that Mars has water ice and probably had flowing water at one point...
As for other planets, we have found some of those in other solar systems. Most are gas giants because those are a lot easier to detect... but a few smaller planets have been found too and it really raises hopes that planets are indeed very common... and all a solar system needs is a planet (or moon, or whatever) orbiting in the range of distance from the sun that is conductive to life... any (real) evidence I can think of about how life evolves says that it was hardly something so rare that we are alone in the universe or something...
However, it obviously is true that absolute proof one way or the other is almost entirely theory... it just seems based on how life evolved on earth that it wouldn't be that hard for it to evolve elsewhere too. I don't understand how its some super rare or hard to get thing or something... Earth is the only planet in this solar system in a good orbit for life, except maybe Mars -- which seems to have had it at one point... but it was just to far away and too cold there.
I don't blindly believe in things... they need proof. Science has proof (scientific laws)... and in the topic of he past and how the universe and life formed, there are laws. While we don't know all the details yet, people are working on that now and slowly revealing what happened as the universe developed... its really intresting stuff, if confusing.
Do I think there are other races out there? I see no possible way that there aren't... it is just so ridiculously improbable (and insanely self-centered) to say that we're the only life in the universe... and makes no sense when confronted with the realities of life as we know them... but will I say "They Do Exist. Period."? No... we don't have absolute proof. So its just a (very good) theory...
Oh, and can anyone tell me what alienspacemarine meant? He's impossible to understand...
As for other planets, we have found some of those in other solar systems. Most are gas giants because those are a lot easier to detect... but a few smaller planets have been found too and it really raises hopes that planets are indeed very common... and all a solar system needs is a planet (or moon, or whatever) orbiting in the range of distance from the sun that is conductive to life... any (real) evidence I can think of about how life evolves says that it was hardly something so rare that we are alone in the universe or something...
However, it obviously is true that absolute proof one way or the other is almost entirely theory... it just seems based on how life evolved on earth that it wouldn't be that hard for it to evolve elsewhere too. I don't understand how its some super rare or hard to get thing or something... Earth is the only planet in this solar system in a good orbit for life, except maybe Mars -- which seems to have had it at one point... but it was just to far away and too cold there.
I don't blindly believe in things... they need proof. Science has proof (scientific laws)... and in the topic of he past and how the universe and life formed, there are laws. While we don't know all the details yet, people are working on that now and slowly revealing what happened as the universe developed... its really intresting stuff, if confusing.
Do I think there are other races out there? I see no possible way that there aren't... it is just so ridiculously improbable (and insanely self-centered) to say that we're the only life in the universe... and makes no sense when confronted with the realities of life as we know them... but will I say "They Do Exist. Period."? No... we don't have absolute proof. So its just a (very good) theory...
Oh, and can anyone tell me what alienspacemarine meant? He's impossible to understand...