living things moving around in space & born in space.kind of like the crystal entity in star trek.
2006-11-02 08:15:34 · 8 answers · asked by forest lover 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi. I do not think so. It may be possible that life forms unimagined may exist (I'd be surprised if they didn't) but they would still need to be based on something other than vacuum.
2006-11-02 08:21:08 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's just change "space creature" to "spaceship". How would such a spaceship work? Lets examine... Something that arose on a planet is in that planet's gravitational well. How does it leave the planet? Anything bigger than an asteroid and you can't leave it by "jumping" even if you're very large. You have to have some sort of propulsion. Rockets need mass to expel backward. Where does the creature get the mass to expel backward? Doesn't matter if it's organic or inorganic, it must be subject to the rocket equation. How does it navigate? It would waste a huge amount of energy/fuel just flying around if the destination is unknown. What's the point of developing these abilities? Creatures tend to evolve to exploit their environment. It's unlikely that it would find a hospitable environment at another planet. It has all the difficulty at arriving on another planet as spaceships do returning to earth. You have to dump orbital energy to get into orbit. How does it do that? I think the only way such creatures could exist would be somewhere in the universe that doesn't look much like our neighborhood.
2016-05-23 19:39:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it was on the Discovery Channel, that a astronomy expert, and he along with several others said that actually, it is a miracle that we are here, considering the fact that oxygen is highly toxic. It took adaptation for the living things to start using it.
So, if any kind of creature exists out there, it is a possibility that they don't use oxygen in their world, we got loads of it, maybe they can't survive in an oxygen rich atmosphere?
I think in order to believe something else exists out there, we have to rethink all we know about life, because there isn't anything for us to compare to except what we know about here.
A lifeform out there might use foul smelling liquids and gases hazardous to us, but something they have to just live.
2006-11-02 11:39:30 · answer #3 · answered by Gnome 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing would surprise me. Space is not really a vacuum. There are places in space that is filled with all kinds of material that could lead to life. The biggest problem with that is they are near black holes and the heat & gravity forces would make life diffecult if not impossible.
2006-11-02 08:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by stilg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well this answer is mostly for people who believe in God. I am thinking why would god make only one planet that had supporting life on it. I mean astronauts have already found traces of life forms on Mars and have discovered over 200 planets outside our solar system, so if you ask me I would say "Absolutely YES"!
2006-11-02 13:01:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to assume were the only one living in a virtual sea of planets in space to me seems incredibly myopic
2006-11-02 08:29:32 · answer #6 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amolst anything is possible in space...life forms..explosion...implosions..(but not sound cause sound cant travel in space)
2006-11-02 08:43:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is out there
2006-11-02 08:22:42 · answer #8 · answered by Mae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋