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Angela D say: ???
please review the yahoo answers terms of service, particularly the part where it says you must ask questions that make sense.
wherever we look in the universe we see common elements combining in ways that are reminiscent of life. in a universe as large and old as ours it's hard to imagine life not occurring elsewhere. we haven't detected such life yet. such detection will be a definitive event in history. it just hasn't happened yet.
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Yushchyshyn say: I doubt that there are that many people who are convinced that there is no life on other planets. We just don't yet have strong evidence of life on other planets.
But, if someone does claim that there is no life on other planets, no, they can't prove it. The idea that there could be life somewhere is unfalsifiable. If we can travel to other solar systems and find no life, all that would be proven is that life is rare.
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Dump the liberals into Jupiter say: What would we say if we were to talk about life on other planets? It seems to me that we don't have anything to discuss, except ideas about what the odds are. We've been though that enough, already.
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Mutt say: First, this is not a discussion forum. It's a Q/A forum. You ask a question, and people answer it. It's not a back and forth discussion like other forums may be.
And second, I don't see the same thing you see. I see people responding that there is no evidence, and that's completely true. But no evidence does not mean there is no life out there. It only means that none has been found yet. The galaxy is a very, very big place. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we are only ankle deep in the ocean that is the cosmos. There is still very, very much we have not discovered yet.
And if wee do discover a planet that we are 100%, absolutely sure can support human life, how do we get there? At our current technology, it would take tens or hundreds of thousands of years to reach it. And while we develop the technology to get there faster (which is still many, many generations away), we could all die from an asteroid. So what would it matter if we find a planet that can support life? We're dead anyway.
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