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Life. Life in outer space. Will we find it?
Russian astronauts recently took a space walk from the ISS. The windows were getting dirty and they went to clean them and find out what was fogging them up. Turns out it’s life! What they found was plankton growing on the windows of the space station.
Immediately I thought of my theory that the Universe is filled with a cosmic bacteria and that when ever an environment suitable for life, any kind of life, arrises the primal bacteria will settle there and begin evolving.
In this case it is more likely that the plankton comes from Earthly sources. Scientists believe the plankton comes from supply missions from Earth and from the suits of the space walkers on and around the ISS.
But, what does this say? If life can survive in the vacuum of space on the shell of our space station it most likely can survive most anywhere.
Scientists are intrigued by recent discoveries of liquid water and methane found on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. There was the hope that life would be found in these bodies of water and methane. Now it certainly looks like that is a possibility.
For fun (I know it sounds crazy) I occasionally debate Creationists on you tube. Abiogenesis is one point we scientists have to concede we don’t yet understand. I believe we will soon discover the origins of life but we’re not quite there. Finding life on other worlds will go a long way to understand where life came from.
With life living in almost every extreme environment on Earth why would we suppose it isn’t living in extreme environment elsewhere. There is the possibility that Earth and life here is some sort of cosmic joke. That life started here as a fluke and is happening nowhere else, but as Carl Sagan said, “That would be a huge waste of space.”
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Earth Year 2014
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