Do You Believe in Life Outside of Earth?
deBrice
2012/07/03 20:00:00
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Pictures of our solar system never gets old to me. I'm always amazed by the beauty of other planets and moons that used to be out of reach. But sometimes, something more profound appears. Once in a while, similarities with home are discovered.
Here is one, for example: After Europa -- one of Jupiter's moons discovered by Galileo Galilei -- NASA is almost certain that there is water under the surface of Titan.
The discovery was made after observing tides around 30 feet high on the surface of the moon, suggesting that Titan isn't entirely made of solid rock, but instead the surface would lie on a sub-ocean.
You might argue that there will be no light from the sun, therefore life cannot emerge, but studies on earth showed that water and heat is all life needs. And for the heat, it would come from the strong gravity from Saturn, intensely squeezing the planet during its 16-day orbit. Do you believe in life on the Saturn Moon?
NASA.GOV reports:
Here is one, for example: After Europa -- one of Jupiter's moons discovered by Galileo Galilei -- NASA is almost certain that there is water under the surface of Titan.
The discovery was made after observing tides around 30 feet high on the surface of the moon, suggesting that Titan isn't entirely made of solid rock, but instead the surface would lie on a sub-ocean.
You might argue that there will be no light from the sun, therefore life cannot emerge, but studies on earth showed that water and heat is all life needs. And for the heat, it would come from the strong gravity from Saturn, intensely squeezing the planet during its 16-day orbit. Do you believe in life on the Saturn Moon?
NASA.GOV reports:
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.
Read More: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassi...
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Kyle 2012/07/03 23:42:48
PS: Awkward Penguin is part of your nickname, "dick" isn't part of mine.
It would not change anything with religion either, the Bible only calls animals that breathe true "life," so as a devout Christian that's my stance.
Before you jump down my throat and tell me plants die and therefore are "alive" define what life is, My car "dies" but it's not alive, my computer dies, but it's not alive.
Plants and bacteria are just complex chemical reactions.
But it would have similar rights.
Just like plants, bacteria also fits in the definition of life because bacteria consumes matter for energy, creates waste, reproduces, and has DNA. Bactria may be single-cell organisms, but they are still cells.
If plants and bacteria are just complex chemical reactions, so are we.
And while we are made up complex chemical reactions, it's only a component, there is still self awareness and intelligence.
I am using a different definition from you.
Noah did not have to take 2 of every species that ever existed onto the ark, just two of every "kind" and only those in whose nostrils was the "breath of life."
The rest had the tenacity to survive the harsh environment on it's own.
What you believe is out there, is only your belief, nothing more nothing less.
No radio signals have been found, none of the ufo sightings have been substantiated, and as hard as we have looked on mars we still haven't found so much as a mold spore.
You call call it "science" if you want, but if you do, I can call my definition science as well.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for more details