Personally, I do. Maybe not Mars, and maybe not within our galaxy, but there has to be something, just something out there that is living along with us. Actually, I do recall reading an article about a certain life form on one of our planets. (Maybe it was Mars...) But anyway, the article said that they found water or something inside the planet, and they also found that that meant the existence of a bacteria or something. I might be screwing the whole story up, but I do know that they have found some microscopic bacteria on a different planet. It's a start, huh? So yeah, I do think that there could be some other life living on the planets of our galaxy. But I strongly believe that there is life within this universe. The quetion is though, who should find the "others" first? Will it be "them" or us?
2006-08-16 04:27:07
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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A meteorite found in Antartica, called AH0004 (AH - stands for Allan Hills, where it was found) is believed to be from Mars. In this rock they found what looks like fossilized bacteria. However it's 10 times smaller than the smallest life found on Earth. So it's debated whether or not it is actually evidence of life or not.
I do believe there is life (even if only bacteria) in our solar system that is not of an Earth origin. But I do not believe we are being visited by aliens. UFO's are merely what they are: Unidentified Flying Objects. Most of them are man made, some of them are natural effects.
2006-08-16 04:38:13
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answered by Doob_age 3
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I can't believe that we are the only intelligent, living beings here in this glaxy or universe. I heard there was some form of bacteria or microbe found on Mars (see link below leading to the article), so even though it is a small step, we have found life!
One day we will eventually spread out further and further, finding larger and larger forms of life... hopefully the intelligent ones we come across don't become victims in a war with humanity (we are prone to starting those... sigh).
2006-08-16 04:43:46
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answered by Krynne 4
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Most likely, there is life elsewhere.
The chemistry of life is very powerful. We have found amino acids, the foundation chains of proteins, floating in interstellar space in nebulae. (We detect these by looking at the light from stars behind the nebulae. Stuff in the nebulae absorbs light, and amino acids have characteristic absorbtion bands.)
In 1953, in the classic Miller-Urey experiment, two University of Chicago researches filled a glass tube with what is believed to be the elements of the primordial atmosphere of Earth (nitrogen, water vapor, methane, and ammonia) and ran electricity through it to simulate lightning. They heated and cooled the tube to simulate daily heating, which forced the water to evaporate and condense. After a week, about 10% of the carbon had formed into organic molecules, and about 2% had formed into amino acids. Of the 21 proteins necessary for life, thirteen were formed in the tube.
If something that is two or three steps down from DNA can form where there is no liquid water and nothing solid, what can happen on a planet with water? If it can form in a week in a tube, what can happen in millions of years in an ocean? Chances are that anywhere that that exists, there will be life of some sort.
What sort of life? We can't know. Much of our development happened after life left the oceans. Most paleobiologists believe that we would not have done so without a moon that caused tides. On a moonless world, there might be simple life in the oceans only.
On a violent world, with lots of volcanoes and meteoritic impaces, with wildly fluctuating weather, life might never evolve past simple things that can reproduce in a few hours. Complicated life requires a long embryonic development and a long childhood before it can reproduce.
On a world where intelligent life develops, how long before it discovers atomic fission? Does it use small bombs once as we did, or does it develop a full scale nuclear war and permanently remove itself from the list of intelligent species?
A famous astronomer named Francis Drake developed the Drake equation. It is based on the percentages of many different variables, like what percentage of stars have planets and what percentage of stars of type G, like our Sun, and what percentage of planets can develop life because of things like temperature and water and a good axial tilt. It calculates the number of civilizations capable of communicating with radio messages at this time.
Drake made intelligent guesses as to the values of the variables and came up with a maximum of 10,000 in 1963. This has been changed to 50,000, as the evidence for abiogenesis (those amino acids) is better now than it was then. Using what he called "good" values, Drake thought it would be more like 10-50 cultures.
The minimum, of course, is 1--us.
Of course, that's only the ability to talk to each other via radio waves, as in the movie Contact. It doesn't say anything about travel to other star systems, which is so far outside of our ability to engineer that we cannot even seriously conceive that it could happen.
2006-08-16 05:00:34
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answered by TychaBrahe 7
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The quaint old idea that there is intelligent life on Mars comes from from the 1800s when people imagined they saw canals on Mars through their telescopes. It has been disproved conclusively by space craft. Any intelligent life would have to come from another star system, millions of times as far away as Mars.
2006-08-16 04:38:39
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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I think there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is infinitly huge, even if life was a total one in a billion chace fluke, that one in a billion had to happen somwhre else to. As for Mars, possibly, they found landforms that look to be ancient riverbeds ao water could have been there at some point.
2006-08-16 04:29:30
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answered by Ares 2
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supposedly they have found bacteria and single-cell organisms in water on Mars (i think it was Mars, anyway). But no large animals or aliens have been discovered so far. I think there probably is intellegent life out there and if they have the ability to contact humans and don't, it's probably a good choice (agreeing w/ Calvin!).
2006-08-16 04:30:54
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answered by Anonymous
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enable's take it evidently, God had created planets for some causes. the excuses that we are going to verify out in destiny. merely imagine, you've been in the previous wearing leaves all you may discover grow to be timber round u. If we were save going to seek animals and devour end result u wouldnt be there on the prompt, because a large inhabitants grow to be going to devour and end this such issues as we are doing those days with fossil fuels. God despatched some wise men who made cloths, agriculture, and stuff. So we are making use of pcs + nevertheless alive on the prompt merely because of them. We dont truly recognize a lot about different planets. all of us recognize that they had a existence trillion of years in the past even as human beings in the international didnt even recognize what technological information is. likely Earth began because someone got here from another planet in search for of sources and they got here across a planet complete of water and sources referred to as earth. likely human beings in Mars died as a results of three international variations. no you'll instruct that there is not any existence on Mars, likely there's a existence, yet we dont recognize that ( ITS is a possibility that human beings OVER THERE seem way diverse THAN US). God can do something. on the prompt if there grow to be a existence on Mars, with the expertise of technological information and stuff, lets have found out such an rather good type of issues about area. If god needs to he can nevertheless create a existence on different planet, they could have something which will enable them live on which includes Ozone and human sources. that's ALL adversarial to technological information! i grow to be merely IMAGINING each thing I WROTE. FOR those OF YOU WHO reported imagine about sources AND STUFF, IF i'm no longer incorrect he takes IT evidently no longer SCIENTIFICALLY :: SORRY 4 undesirable GRAMER ::
2016-11-25 20:50:42
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answered by ? 4
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No None Never in mars. Outside may be
2006-08-16 04:29:17
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answered by Dr M 5
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There are maybe some microbes in Mars since they found methane,but UFOs do not exist in earth.Aliens exist but they are very very far.We will never see them they will never see us.
2006-08-17 07:38:51
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answered by qwine2000 5
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