The Allen telescope array is coming online this year, which will vastly increase our capacity to search the skies for evidence of other civilizations. At the same time, there are now about 200 known extra solar planets (I think that's a round number anyway) and more are being found all the time. I can remember when I was a boy, there weren't ANY known extra solar planets (of course they were there, we just hadn't found them). Check out SETI on the web for more info about this quest if you are curious.
2007-03-28 09:48:16 · 4 answers · asked by doubt_is_freedom 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, Europa is very exciting. I wish they had not cut the NASA budget for JIMO and rolled back the schedule. I'd like to live to see that mission.
2007-03-28 10:10:02 · update #1
Well, there are at most maybe 4 places where we could find microbial life, that is Europa, Mars, Ganymede, and Callisto. All other bodies in our system are inhospitable (too cold, too hot, lack of water). But non-microbial life that has surpassed our level of technology may be all over the place in our galaxy, and they might have left the lights on too.
2007-03-29 11:08:47 · update #2
Intelligent, no...not yet...but microbial life...more likely...on Mars or Europa.
2007-03-28 10:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by star2_watch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think there's a very very small chance that we will find intelligent life forms but a big chance hat we will find primitive forms of life like bacteria.
2007-03-28 17:36:34 · answer #2 · answered by neutron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to that is NO.
Bob
2007-03-28 17:42:56 · answer #3 · answered by bob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe
2007-03-29 10:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Sonderval 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋