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life is definitely out there somewhere because the universe is too big. do you think we'll find any form of life in the next 20 years, and if we do, where do you think that might be?

2007-04-03 11:11:09 · 7 answers · asked by blah 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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I don't expect us to find life in our solar system, except on Planet Earth. There may be microbial life beneath Mars's surface, or on one of Jupiter's moons, but if there were any lifeforms bigger than that, I suspect we would have found signs now.

I do think it's possible that we'll find fossils on Mars, dating back to times when there was water flowing on Mars's surface. Fossils leave fewer signs than living lifeforms though, so even if Martian fossils exist, I don't see us finding them within 20 years unless we get extraordinarily lucky.

We could, of course, find evidence of intelligent life in the form of radio transmissions uncovered by SETI. However, given that we haven't found such transmissions yet, I'm not very optimistic about our chances in that area.

The biggest thrill would be finding evidence of an earthlike planet orbiting some other star. If we could detect oxygen in its atmosphere, that might well prove that the planet bears life, since the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was created by lifeforms. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we detect such a planet within the next 20 years.

2007-04-03 11:48:40 · answer #1 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 0 0

More than likely, we would find fossilised life on an asteroid or comet that passes nearby the Earth we decide to study, sinc ethat is now the general theory of how life emerged on Earth.

Planet-wise, Europe is the main candidate for where we will find life. I don't think we'll find it in the next twenty years, perhaps 100 or so seems the more likely bet.

2007-04-03 16:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by Lief Tanner 5 · 0 0

We may find find the fossils of microbal life (viruses, molds, etc.) on mars or the moon, or find the fossils or actual microbal life on comets.

Otherwise, it looks like the chances of finding anything alive in our solar system and beyond besides on earth is pretty slim unless it has the technology to find us instead.

HOWEVER, we find new forms of life almost weekly on this planet, especially in the depths of the oceans. It is still very important to continues exploring this planet, as we have yet to know what else is right here under our noses!!

2007-04-03 11:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by TopherM 3 · 0 0

merely and ultimately NO, non, nein, nyet, iie, etc., no longer in 20-30 years or 20-30 million years! it really is genuinely fantasy writers, no longer area scientists who say such ridiculous issues as we are going to locate extraterrestrial beings in 20-30 years. it extremely is so naive! vacation between planets of diverse stars isn't as undemanding as fantasy writers and alien craft hoaxers ought to have you ever have self assurance. There are tremendous distances isolating stars in our area of the galaxy, and those tremendous distances isolate any existence varieties to their own fashionable man or woman platforms. the idea of Relativity consistently features more advantageous evidence of its validity. I recommend you learn it and astronomy, extremely of untamed fantasy and alien craft hoaxes. It shows that inertial mass of count will improve exponentially with improve in speed, until eventually it turns into countless on the cost of light. The capacity in the properly-known universe is finite, so if lets use all of it, we nevertheless won't be able to boost up a spacecraft to everywhere close to the cost of light. length in the course of vacation is the reciprocal of mass, so it turns into 0 at gentle's speed. which will be deadly to existence varieties. Acceleration won't be able to be too quickly, or it kills the existence varieties in spaceships, and the braking of this way of quickly deliver takes time too, so the time centred on travelling to planets of alternative stars is prohibitive. some scientists calculate that problems with carrying gasoline, relativity's calls for, accelerating and braking, etc. educate us no spaceship of the most advanced civilization available can ever make the lengthy, lengthy vacation from even the nearest planet outdoors our own photo voltaic device in lower than one hundred and fifty years or so one way or three hundred years round vacation. it is merely the nearest more advantageous-photo voltaic planet it extremely is a gasoline everyday and would't have existence. to pass to any planets that would have existence takes a lot longer. Believers do not evaluate any evidence, so I recommend that you ought to grow to be a skeptic, no longer a blind believer in hoaxes and fantasy. Why do you want to have self assurance in this stuff so strongly, in any case?

2016-12-03 05:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by lathem 4 · 0 0

About the only two places we'll land on are the moon and Mars. If we don't find it there, we don't find it by then

2007-04-03 11:18:16 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0 0

The dark side of the moon, and under ground, on the Planet Mars

2007-04-03 11:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by ThomasL 6 · 0 2

Defiantly not at a fast food place

2007-04-03 11:15:51 · answer #7 · answered by Laurel A 2 · 0 1

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