(January 13, 2016 at 11:48 pm)Beccs Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 11:35 pm)AAA Wrote: Fair enough. I'll predict that we don't find life on other planets. You might predict that we will. We'll have to wait and see.
And I'll predict we find some form of microbial life on at least one other planet or moon in our solar system before the turn of the century.
The data isn't fully in yet and the jury still out, but the methane detected by the Curiosity rover on Mars may just be microbially produced. Geophysicist Vladimir Krasnopolsky - who may have to change his field to Areophysics - has said that since the planet has been geologically inactive for the last few million years, biological processes may be the more plausible explanation. And he's from the Catholic University of America.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'