(December 27, 2015 at 9:07 am)Brian37 Wrote:(December 27, 2015 at 8:52 am)Easy Guns Wrote: Everything is made up of atoms, life or not. The existence of atoms isn't conducive to the existence of life.
That being said, the idea you intended to portray is accurate as far as I'm concerned. The likelihood that life exists at least once somewhere else in the universe is almost a certainty.
Huh, no sorry, but individual atoms that make up all forms of carbon are plentiful. I didn't say we had a smoking gun yet, I said we should expect to at a minimum prove life can exist off of this earth, for example, putting a water bear in a pool of water on the Martian ice cap, or a moon of Jupiter or Saturn.
I am playing the odds of the size of the universe. I think we are not on different pages here. I think you are arguing semantics.
Pollination theory has lots of merit. If you could DVR the history of our solar system's bombardment from asteroids and comets and gas clouds in it's revolving around the center of the galaxy in our solar system's 4 billion year history, it is easy to see the materials constantly moving around either as atoms or molecules.
Play a game of billiards long enough you will pocket a ball eventually.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe. That still doesn't have much to do with the abundance of atoms in general. Although I'm assuming now you were talking about carbon atoms in particular and not atoms in general. I missed that part, my bad.
And yes, I agree given the abundance of carbon and potential carbon based compounds range in the millions, it's nearly impossible for life to not have formed elsewhere.
