Life on other planets
 

I watched a BBC documentary on "The Planets" last night.

Mars was the focus of this particular film. It is quite clear now that there is no life on Mars. But in the past there may have been life on Mars, for the planet once had rivers, lakes, and perhaps even seas.

Therefore the scientists are now shifting their focus from soils and the search for living things today to the rocks and fossilized life forms from the past. It is a known fact that meteorites whose origin was Mars are sitting here on Earth.

When Apollo 12 went to the surface of the Moon, she brought back pieces of the Surveyor craft that had preceded her there. Among the items returned was the TV camera.

The guy who worked with that camera here on Earth, before the launch of the Surveyor, had a cold. When the camera was brought back to Earth it still contained some of the cold germs from one of his sneezes.

The germs had been on the Moon for something like 3 years. They had been exposed to intense solar radiation, including ultraviolet. They had undergone temperature extremes ranging from about 250 degrees below zero to 250 above zero, and were in the near-perfect vacuum of space.

When the germs were put in a petri dish....They came right back to life as if nothing had happened, flourished and multiplied.

Our ideas as to what is necessary to foster and sustain life have changed a lot in the past 35 years. Submarine thermal vents are one among several types of "alien" environments that support life here on Earth. Life can come into being in the absence of sunlight, with no oxygen; it can exist in conditions of extreme cold and extreme heat, even where liquid water is available for only a few hours each year.

That is the one requirement of all known life forms: water.

All planets have life on them and they support our own.

We don't see as they are of different frequencies to our own.


Can I prove this? No. It's been accessed through other non scientific ways :wink:

Blessings
Abikisses _/\_

The Universe is full of life.

We are actually part of all that there IS, we are part of the sun, the Universe that we live in, and we are also part of all other planets, can you dig it ?.:smile:

This is from my post on another current thread on this topic:


Greybeard: The universe holds an uncounted, and probably uncountable, number of galaxies. Each galaxy contains billions of stars.... the Milky Way galaxy... contains an estimated 200-400 billion stars.

Yes... the math alone indicates we would be naively earth-centric indeed to believe there is no life beyond our own planet.


Then there's this except from science news, 21 Feb 2011, in The Telegraph, a reputable international newspaper and news service:

"Nasa research indicating that half of the stars in the universe are orbited by planets much like Earth has reignited speculation about the existence of alien life.

"Experts examining results from the Kepler telescope have identified more than 1,200 planets in orbit around distant stars, 54 of which are a similar size to Earth and in habitable zones from their suns.

"The research follows several recent discoveries which point to the possibility of life on other planets."


for specifics... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8337518/Life-on-other-planets-latest-discovery-comes-after-string-of-recent-signs-of-extraterrestrials.html


Xan

I can dig it.

BBC is selling a bill of good IMHO. The universe is teeming with life.

Definition Of Life Expanding
 

The number of Goldilocks planets is huge. & this is just looking for life as we know it. We are constantly reassessing the parameters needed for Earth style life as they discover life in places on this planet where it was thought not to exist.

Really interesting tidbit about the cold germs.

I agree with what you say here. I can't remember where I've read about it, but I have read a study which claims both Mars and Venus contain life which cannot be seen with the human physical eye because they are of the ethereal body. (invisible to humans)