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Subject: Could it be possible that alien life exist in our solar system but


Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: UK Dark Wolf360
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Right now, with 1 out of 8 planets in the solar system known to harbor life, we only have a single point of data and cannot draw many conclusions or inferences from it.

If however, life that is definitively shown to be non-terran and/or completely unrelated to Terran life (based on genetics or even using something other than DNA to replicate and carry information) within our solar system? Then the data shows (at least with a very small sample) that life has occurred independently on more than 1 location in this system alone?

That DRAMATICALLY influences two factors in the Drake Equation, both Ne and Fl.


The Drake Equation is pretty much useless, except for science fiction writers. The variables themselves within the equation should give multiple reasons why it's uselessness is self-explanatory. It is for sensationalists (especially exaggerated by the media) not real scientists such as astrobiologists and the like.

It provides a logical outline of the various factors and lays them out in a way that demonstrates just how much is not known and how profoundly the possibility can swing due to the uncertainty and the huge numbers involved.


Yes - key word being "uncertainty" in that response. The Drake Equation has so much uncertainty involved with it that it is rendered fairly useless - real astrobiologists wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, unless if they were making a public appearance (where sensationalism gets attention, of course).

  • 11.30.2012 3:41 PM PDT

the dwarf planet of Ceres has potential.

  • 11.30.2012 3:59 PM PDT

I write poetry, I write short-stories, I listen to hip-hop (80s&90s), Reggae, Classic Rock n Roll, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Blues, and the 60s, 70s.

The most reasonable lifeform in the Solar System would either be on Europa, where they are sea creatures without any eyes, as they are in complete darkness. Very primitive, but the other moons/planets, can only be one's own guess.

  • 11.30.2012 4:03 PM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
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You gotta let time do the work. Who knows what mutations we'll cause.

  • 11.30.2012 4:07 PM PDT

It's like a retard riding a bicycle while eating hot wings.
Sometimes you have to take the bike seat off to really enjoy it.

Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: WinyPit82
It's a possibility, but pretty far-fetched.


I reckon it's an impossibility. Life needs nutrition and there is none on other planets inside this solar system.
Archaebacteria.

  • 11.30.2012 4:09 PM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

One of my scifi dreams is for a space-faring, but relatively current-level, faction to discover a planet owned by a culture at a medieval level.

  • 11.30.2012 4:10 PM PDT

(V)!_!(V) crab

Speaking of worlds of water we can chalk up Mercury as part of the club.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1295765--north-pole -of-mercury-harbours-ice-nasa-probe-confirms

  • 11.30.2012 4:12 PM PDT
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13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.

Posted by: Mitochondrion
I reckon it's an impossibility. Life needs nutrition and there is none on other planets inside this solar system.

...That's not confirmed whatsoever.

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Nope, they all died, as we will.

  • 11.30.2012 8:11 PM PDT

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