• Question: do you thin there is live outside this world?

    Asked by anon-197475 to Sonal, Rosanna, Matthew, Marleen, Dan, Atreya on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Matthew Selwood

      Matthew Selwood answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Yes, I do, although I am not sure it is the super intelligent beings in Sci-Fi novels. I have no idea why I think this, but my gut thinks there are probably microbes or *something* somewhere else out there.

    • Photo: Rosanna Tilbrook

      Rosanna Tilbrook answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Yep, I do. I think a lot of scientists actually agree on this too. There’s 10 billion stars in our galaxy, and billions of galaxies in the Universe- why should only we exist out here? We’ve found that the building blocks of life (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen) are extremely common throughout the Universe- and we’ve found amino acids, which make up all of the proteins which are essential for life, on comets. If we found life on another planet or moon in our Solar System, that would lead us to believe life is very common in the Universe, as we would have two separate examples around one of the trillions of stars. We’re not sure what this life would look like however- it could just be a microbe, or plants, or something else small- we don’t know whether intelligence will always emerge from evolution, or something random that happened to life on Earth led to it.

    • Photo: Marleen Wilde

      Marleen Wilde answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      Yes, why not? If you think of it, why should be the Earth the only planet in the whole wide universe with life on it? If forms of life could develop here, I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t develop on other planets or in other galaxies

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