Ken Ham: "Stop sciencing, astrophysicists! Aliens are hellbound!"

[Jaysyn]

Ham is an oxygen-thief, plain & simple.

[StealthySkeptic]

I have to repectfully disagree. The precentage of earth size planets is still unknown. Astronomers only recently were able to find these small planets.

Also, water is very common in the universe as it is a byproduct of the star formation.

BUt you need alot then just that. You need a large moon to skim atmosphere and slow rotation, you need a magnetosphere which means a spinning core. You also need active plate tectonics. And that is just for simple life too evolve.

As said earlier, there are certainly extremophiles who thrive in environments that are inhospitable. Heck, we know there's a giant ocean underneath the ice of Europa, which gets warmed and melts every so often to keep the ocean from freezing over due to the gravitation pull of Jupiter that literally warps the surface. If I had to guess, then perhaps tube worms of the type found on the Earth's ocean floor could be there.

[Cyberman]

Ham is an oxygen-thief, plain & simple.

He's the original 'oxymoron'.

[Minimalist]

Aussies told him to piss off cause he's "dreaming"

He would have certainly been laughed out of the country if he tried it in Oz.

Ain't that the truth!

[Cyberman]

As did that of America when he arrived...

What do you expect from a bunch of people originally from the British Isles?

Why do you think we got rid of them?

[Anomalocaris]

What do you expect from a bunch of people originally from the British Isles?

Why do you think we got rid of them?

Because they were neither servants nor inbred?

[Lemonvariable72]

BUt you need alot then just that. You need a large moon to skim atmosphere and slow rotation, you need a magnetosphere which means a spinning core. You also need active plate tectonics. And that is just for simple life too evolve.

As said earlier, there are certainly extremophiles who thrive in environments that are inhospitable. Heck, we know there's a giant ocean underneath the ice of Europa, which gets warmed and melts every so often to keep the ocean from freezing over due to the gravitation pull of Jupiter that literally warps the surface. If I had to guess, then perhaps tube worms of the type found on the Earth's ocean floor could be there.

My point was in regards to complex life. let me ask is there plate tectonics on europa? If there isnt whatever life was there is probably dead now.

[Cyberman]

Why do you think we got rid of them?

Because they were neither servants nor inbred?

We are talking about Ken Ham types here... I'd say inbred goes with the definition.

[Anomalocaris]

As said earlier, there are certainly extremophiles who thrive in environments that are inhospitable. Heck, we know there's a giant ocean underneath the ice of Europa, which gets warmed and melts every so often to keep the ocean from freezing over due to the gravitation pull of Jupiter that literally warps the surface. If I had to guess, then perhaps tube worms of the type found on the Earth's ocean floor could be there.

My point was in regards to complex life. let me ask is there plate tectonics on europa? If there isnt whatever life was there is probably dead now.

Tube worms are complex life. They are perhaps 90% of the way to humans on any scale with bacteria on one side and humans on the other.

The rocky parts of Europa is also tidally heated by gravity of Jupiter and the other three big Jovial moons just like its ocean, or like Io. So it is probably geologically active underneath the ocean. We don't know if there is plate tectonics, but we can imagine other forms of active geological activity, such as hot spot volcanism with extensive underwater equivalent of fumerals, which could drive hydrothermal cycles to support tube worm like creatures.

[Cyberman]

Sorry to nitpick, but I think you meant Jovian rather than Jovial. Jupiter's moons are not particularly known for their cheerfulness.