given the debate is there life in space?

Answer 1

Didn't they find some kind of spores on Mars?

If you are talking about intelligent life, then yes I do believe there is something out there. Surely the universe doesn't rest in our hands *gulp*

Answer 2

A new wrinkle was added to this debate with the publication of an article in "Discover" magazine that travel by man to other planets like Mars may not be as possible as sometimes thought due to the cosmic radiation in space. Short stays in space within the protection of earth's magnetic field on the Orbiting Space Station are OK but Mars, for example, has no magnetic field. The energy of some cosmic ray particles has been found to be as high as 1x10^20 electron volts, which converts to energies on the order of foot-pounds!! If such rays (actually ions traveling at about the speed of light) exist everywhere in space, they further limit life forms anywhere but in the unusual circumstances of planets very like our earth.

Answer 3

An emerging idea is that life did not originate on earth but rather emerged else where in the Solar System and was then transported to our Planet.
In 1996 a team of NASA scientist announced tentative evidence of primitive life forms preserved in a 4.5 billion years old meteorite from Mars.

Answer 4

It would be very weird if Earth would be the only planet with life on it. The universe is big, it's huge and it keeps expanding, so there is a large chance that there's other life in space.

Answer 5

The night sky is filled with many stars like our own Sun. For every star that you see there is the possibility that it's part of some galaxy. Each galaxy having planets means that maybe one of those planets holds life. Of those that bare life, there exists that chance that some of it is intelligent. The possibilities go on and on until those planets with intelligent life have evolved technology that is either, less, equal, or even, far exceeds that of our own here on Earth......by hundreds, thousands, or millions of years.

I believe that life is has been spread throughout much of the Universe, as even the stars are themselves. :)

Answer 6

Yes there is definitely life beyond Earth. There are 200 billion stars in our our Milky Way galaxy and over 200 billion galaxies in the visible universe. The odds are immensely in favor of there being life in many other places in our universe.

Answer 7

I like your question :-)

# I believe there are many different forms of life in the Whole Universe, even though I haven't got any clue about any of them so far :-)

This is my personal faith.


# The science exploring life forms of non-earthian origin is called "exobiology" and is nowadays considered as a reliable science in itself (see link below, for instance). I feel very glad & proud that many pragmatic scientists seem broad-minded about such a concept :-)

Answer 8

Seeing that they are constantly finding more planets in different solar systems, and they haven't even come close to knowing how many more systems are out there, I have to say it's a big possibility there would be life out there. Since any of our radio signals wouldn't reach them until we are all long and gone, it's unfortunate we probably wouldn't hear back from them in our life time.

Answer 9

The chances of no life in space so small it can't be measured. This is why the Seti project is constantly looking.

Answer 10

Yes. The possibilities are infinite, like space itself.