or are you so narow minded that you think its all about planet earth
2007-02-14 03:35:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
this includes there planets
2007-02-14 03:41:53 · update #1
Are you actually asking a question or making a point? You have already characterised anyone who answers in a certain manner as 'narrow minded' so you really only want one answer. That is not a question.
While yes, there are potentially trillions of possible planets, you have to consider the parameters required for life to form. And that depends on what you define as life. We are complex biological organisms and the necessary conditions for those to form are very limited. If we were any closer to the sun or any further away we would not have developed, at least as we are.
We ask about life. If we apply the weak anthropic principle we may be the only sentient beings or at least the only sentient beings that we would recognise as sentient beings. The weak anthropic principle comes down to the question, why are things the way they are? The answer is because if they were any different we would not be here to ask the question. If any of the initial parameters were any different, we would not be here.
Those trillions of planets are soon seriously reduced when you take into account atmospheric composition, atmosperic density, mean temperatures, radiation levels and all the other neccessary components for life to develop, like the rare elements we are made from. These were first created in super-novas, vast gas giants developing, going nova and spinning of the complex chemical chains that form these elements. Each condition added to the equation reduces the possibilities for the development of life. Does it reduce it to the level we are the only lifeform? That we do not know, the greatest minds of our age do not know. But obviously you do. You have made an assumption, unsupportable by any evidence and insult anyone who differs. The truth, that you do not want to know, is that we do not know and with current technology, we cannot know, It takes a bigot to take a stand one way or the other.
2007-02-14 04:09:08 · answer #1 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is any life on distant stars, but there might be life on planets orbiting some of them. The Drake equation provides a formula for determining how many planets might habor life in the Milky Way galaxy, but many of the parameters are not reliably known. In any event, I certainly believe that life of some type exists at many extraterrestrial locations in the galaxy, although foreign intelligent life may be so rare and so distant as to be unreachable in the lifetime of our civilization.
2007-02-14 03:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glad you clarified the question. Stars would be a bit hot to support any kind of life as we know it. I believe there is probably some form of life on other planets. The probabilities for that are to great to ignore. Will we ever discover it? Maybe not. How many needles have you found in a hay stack? If we can keep from annihilating ourselves we may eventually discover other forms of life in the universe but I don't see it happening in our life times.
2007-02-14 03:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by smilindave1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the STARS themselves??? No. Just on planets that orbit them!
No way could Earth be the only one with life out of everything that exists.
2007-02-14 03:40:29 · answer #4 · answered by bradxschuman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 10^24 stars in the Universe. If 1 in a trillion can support life, that leaves a trillion solar systems that could have life.
I think it's certain.
2007-02-14 03:38:51 · answer #5 · answered by gebobs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. Our sun is a star, and I'm pretty sure there is no life there. If you meant to ask if there is the possibility of life on other planets orbiting other stars, then I would have to say statistically, it is highly likely.
2007-02-14 03:40:59 · answer #6 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are probably billion of stars that support millions of planets that support life like ours.
2007-02-14 06:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm narrow minded enuff to know that life on stars isn't very likely. far too hot usually. now to think that there might be life on plantes within solar systems around said stars might be a different question altogether... quite possibly.
2007-02-14 04:33:27 · answer #8 · answered by johnjohnwuzhere 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sheer number of stars out there makes it easy to believe there must be, but we've no idea how likely life is.
2007-02-14 03:51:33 · answer #9 · answered by Iridflare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, probably even on the moon, like Hyginus N or Aristarchus.
2007-02-14 03:49:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋