NASA: locating extraterrestrial life within 20 years
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I'm very curious to see how people would react. It's kind of a big deal.
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If it is simply organisms I bet most people wont even notice or care.
Personally, I am fascinated by it and think its obvious there is life out there, just not the life we perceive necessarily.
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Saw that too. It won't be some alien species, it'll be simple organisms like you say. Probably even single cell stuff.
If we're the only ones, it's an awful was of space - Carl Sagan
There's definitely other advanced life out there, but we only have what 4 or 5 billion years before the sun goes supernova to a) survive that long, b) develop some technology to travel the vast distances or c) hope(or not) they find us first.
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it could be intelligent life, why not? As long as there is water its very possible. Hell, its possible without water.
To me it's a big deal if you find any kind of live microorganism. It's 100% proof that some sort of life exists beyond our planet. However, with all the talk the last decade or so about this being the likely thing we find I am not sure it would be earth shattering like it might have been 25 years ago.
I tend to agree that outside much of the scientific community, most people won't care unless we find intelligent life.
I tend to agree that outside much of the scientific community, most people won't care unless we find intelligent life.
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This is actually a great point. I think we're very biased as to what life is (or isn't).
For example, is a star alive? It's born and then eventually dies. Two characteristics we associate with life.
Well if it is, I am going to punch it in the nose for constantly winking at my wife.
Don't blame the player if she is the one who is attracted to it.
Who wouldn't be attracted to a budding star right?
They are undoubtedly hot, inside and out.
