Do you think it's kinda stupid....?

Question

that we immediately assume life cannot exist on a planet or other cosmic body without water and an atompshere?

we adapted to life on earth.... because this is our planet... what's to say that some other beings have adapted to -300 degree nights, or a planet filled with what to us are deadly gasses?

i just think it's kinda ridiculous to assume ANY life outside earth would be ANYTHING like us....

and yes, i know that scientist look for places that mimic our own, because our enviroment is the only known life supporting enviroment and to increase your chances of finding life you look for places that are simliar...

i fully understand that concept... but if you ask almost any scientist, they will pretty much tell you life in these extremites are impossible.... and i just think that's ridiculous...

almost as ridiculous as assuming the entire universe was created just for us....

Answer 1

lol exactly,

i asked my teacher this once and she was like, thats immpossible

i was like, wtf how can u say that- nothign is impossbile for evolution and sher jsut shut up lol

Answer 2

it's not stupid at all. it's sound scince.

we know what water/oxygen/carbon based life looks like, what sort of biochemstry it has, and so on. we are in a good position to detect it and recognize it when we see it.

we have to start somewhere. and that's exactly what we are doing.

Answer 3

When we talk of life, we generally mean "life as we know it."  Carbon-based, utilizing water to survive.

It it possible that some other kind of life exists?  Perhaps, but so far it exists only in science-fiction.

It's been guessed that maybe life could be based on silicon, or the liquid medium could be some other liquid like supercool helium... but we keep running into the problem that none of the other proposed bases for life react with other elements as as well as water and carbon do.  

Water is pretty much unlike any other liquid medium, and it exists even in the extremest of the extremophiles.

Life might be able to ADAPT to very very strange and extreme conditions... but what adapts usually does so from less extreme conditions.   That's why we still hold out hope for some form of life on Mars.  Life almost certainly could not arise on Mars now, but it may have back when Mars was more like early Earth, and then adapted to the changing conditions.  Differently with the moons Enceladus and Europa, we think that there might be conditions under the ice where the conditions are close enough to be like the places life arose on Earth for life to take hold there... and maybe adapt to the rest of the cold

Unfortunately, since we have no real idea what non-water, or non-carbon kind of life would be like, we have no idea what to look for.  So we focus on our only sample, for entirely sensible reasons.

But don't assume that everyone assumes that.  in his book Cosmos, Carl Sagan imagined a possible form of life that might exist on a world like Jupiter.

Answer 4

I agree.  Something as simple as fish -- we could definitely not survive [unassisted] underwater, but fish can't survive out of water.

The earth was created, and we were created after.  Obviously He created us to be able to live here, not on Mars or wherever.

Answer 5

yea your right.

Answer 6

yeah ur right ! science is a mind game ! eaither u get it or u dont lol

Answer 7

I agree and think that it's ridiculous to think that life can only exist on a planet similar to ours in a specific zone of a solar system. Even here on earth, new life forms are being discovered in extreme underwater environments with thousands of pounds of pressure in dark and extremely cold waters. If life can exist in those extremes here on earth, why not on other planets where similar extremes of the type can be found?

Answer 8

ya i think of that to but like they dont allways say that they say its unlikely.

Answer 9

I agree completely.

Answer 10

GOOD POINT!

especially as we are seeing a dearth of Earth-type planets out there, let's widen the parameters a bit, shall we?

how can we claim that Hollywood is right and the Universe is chock-full of three-headed green Martians... if Mars is sterile?

Let's just claim that life can be ANYWHERE!

Works for me.

(just show me an example, first.)