On which moon, or planet, do you think we will find alien life?

reply to post by Wirral Bagpuss


I agree. I also believe planet Earth is like an indoor miniature garden in a glass house and we are being observed constantly from the outside looking in. They are watching us and they are everywhere, but we cant all see them or their would be mass hysteria.
Sometimes when you see Politian's speak, especially after an event, they look terrified. It must be like a game of chess and that there is more goingon than they possibly can tell us. I don't need any convincing, I have seen them myself. hx

reply to post by data5091


I think it will be one out of our solar system and NASA of course will hide this information until they devise a way to use it for personal gain

DLensman
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I think it will be one out of our solar system and NASA of course will hide this information until they devise a way to use it for personal gain

Well, it's not hard for NASA to devise a way to use that information for personal gain.

It would be as simple as:
"Hey -- we just found life. Now you [congress] give us billions of more dollars in our budget to further explore that life."

reply to post by Soylent Green Is People

Exactly. If NASA got the merest sniff of extraterrestrial life they'd be yelling it from the rooftops. The surest way for them to see their budget increased tenfold would be to find evidence of life on Mars.

We already have found life on a moon ... ours ... the dark side. That's why we haven't been back. The alien critters didn't want us there. That being said, I think life is probably on Europa (Jupiter) and Titan (Saturn). Although with Titan I think it'll be different than what we would expect.

Just my guess. As good as any one elses at this point. Who knows.

What a disappointing day on ATS,

already up to page 3 and no one has mentioned it yet.


Its obvious its going to Uranus.

reply to post by FlyersFan

There is no "dark side" of the moon.

Zanti Misfit
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Why , Mars Moon Europa . It has been Fortold......

i agree with europa. btw there's an interesting movie called Europa from 2013 that deals with this possibility. nice avatar mate eheh

No life anywhere in this galactic neighborhood except us. I suspect that life is a very rare thing. It could even be a singular thing. And the universe is unfathomably big. So if there is any other life out there, it could be on the other side of the galaxy, or maybe in a galaxy millions of light years away, and we'll never, ever find it, or it us.

And in that case, it's really no different than something fictional, or non-existent.

Such a huge universe.

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and keep in mind, there are some that think there may be more than one universe too.

Blue Shift
No life anywhere in this galactic neighborhood except us. I suspect that life is a very rare thing. It could even be a singular thing. And the universe is unfathomably big. So if there is any other life out there, it could be on the other side of the galaxy, or maybe in a galaxy millions of light years away, and we'll never, ever find it, or it us...

Maybe. But we don't really know enough about how Earth life started to be speculating that it is rare. Life may end up being something that simply inevitably happens, given time and the right mix of common materials.

I realize (and you may say) that the universe dislikes high entropy and order, and the universe generally and naturally moves towards low entropy. However, there are some people who believe that life processes may actually be consistent with moving toward a low entropy state. Life itself seems want to always move toward a low entropy state -- but, of course, that may just be the universe's way of trying to eradicate life to try to reach a low-order/lower entropy state.


...but anyway, I still think Enceladus or Titan are (relatively) promising candidates. Enceladus due to its warm (above freezing) salt-water ocean that seems to be present, and Titan because of its soup of hydrocarbons. Maybe Europa, too, but Enceladus seems to be the new "favorite" or "darling" among astrobiologists when it comes to life, mostly because of the organic molecules found in the water from Enceladus.

Rob48
There is no "dark side" of the moon.

You know what I mean. The side facing away from Earth. We always see the lunar nearside.
The backside is where the critters are.

FlyersFan

Rob48
There is no "dark side" of the moon.

You know what I mean. The side facing away from Earth. We always see the lunar nearside.
The backside is where the critters are.

Indeed. If by "critters" you mean possible aliens, and/or bases, you could very possibly be correct.

data5091

FlyersFan

Rob48
There is no "dark side" of the moon.

You know what I mean. The side facing away from Earth. We always see the lunar nearside.
The backside is where the critters are.

Indeed. If by "critters" you mean possible aliens, and/or bases, you could very possibly be correct.

Sure, but several countries have already sent probes the other side of the Moon. I suppose there could be a multi-national conspiracy involving people who work for multiple space agencies to hide that information, but it seems unlikely.