• Question: Do you believe there is any form of life out there? (Space) Or on Mars?

    Asked by anon-193400 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 11 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      I think so! I find it difficult to think that there wouldn’t be any of form of life in space, but I’m not sure what that life form would look like. I think it’s probably something really simple, like bacteria.
      Scientists have found evidence of a body of liquid water on Mars (before that, it was thought that all water on Mars was in the form of ice!), so maybe we’ll find some sort of bacteria or super small organisms in the future 🙂

    • Photo: Carl Heron

      Carl Heron answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      I used to think that we were alone in the universe. However, I have changed my mind. The laws of probability tend towards life on other planets. The life forms might not look like me (thank goodness) or you, but life forms nevertheless, such as microbes.

    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      I grew up watching the movie ET a lot as a kid. There could be….

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      I was listening to an expert on the radio the other day and he reckoned that we would discover signs of life on other planets within his lifetime. As technology improves telescopes we are discovering more and more exoplanets, that is ones that are outside of our solar system. Of these many will be within the habitable zone of other suns (where water would be in liquid form) and that are capable of supporting life (at least how we understand it).
      but this “life may be very simple like bacteria or similar”. But the issue for most people, and hollywood films, is does Intelligent life exist elsewhere and that is a much more difficult question.

      see:
      https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/the-search-for-life/life-signs/

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