[QUOTE="jrhawk42"][QUOTE="MrGeezer"][QUOTE="jrhawk42"][QUOTE="wemhim"][QUOTE="jrhawk42"]MrGeezer
No, like I said, you're making assumptions out of ignorance.
1) You said that life if rare. Which I guess would technically be correct if you're counting EMPTY ****ING SPACE, but that would be pretty ridiculous, wouldn't it?
2) We haven't examined any extra-solar planets in any real depth. And even though most of the ones we've discovered are gas giants which would not be able to suport life, that's largely because we have a hard time even FINDING rocky worlds (which tend to be a hell of a lot smaller).
3) Not to mention the fact that even gas giants can have moons which may or may not be suitable for life (and are too small to be thoroughly studied through a telescope).
4) Life CAN'T survive on Europa? Umm...excuse me, but isn't it thought that there's a good chance that Europa has an ocean of liquid WATER beneath its frozen surface? Granted, the surface is probably cold and dead, but isn't Europa very geologically active due to tidal forces exerted by Jupiter? Haven't we found life HERE ON EARTH that is very similar in that it is isolated from the sun's energy and is based entirely on geothermal processes which release chemical energy into the ocean?
Last point in particular is of interest to me. I am very interested in this, and would like to see a peer-reviewed scientific article proving that life does not exist on Europa.
Right on. I'm with Mr Geezer on this one.
Plus, not only that, but what makes you think that everyform of life has to be just like humans? What if they need different enviroments to survive then us? Just because it cant support our life, does not mean that there might be some small chance that it can support one that is completely different from ours? There are billions of other planets and stars out there, thousands of gallaxies, we have not discovered very many....
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