• Question: do you think there are other life forms in outerspace ?

    Asked by georgia to Donna, Jo, Mark, timcraggs on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by abigail9742, fi97.
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      No evidence for other life yet – but I do hope so!

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hiya georgia and abigail! 🙂

      Yeah, I think there must be. The observable universe has a diameter of 93 million light years. How can we be the only ones floating on a big rock?!

      I don’t think they’ll be like us. In their world they might be very primitive or totally advanced but it’d be brill to meet them.

      There are bacteria which can survive extremes – like hundreds of atmospheres or hundreds of degrees so life’s really possible anywhere.

      Do you think we’ll meet another life form in our lifetime?

    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Yes – the number of stars that have planets like the earth at the right distance from the star is huge – billions of billions – so the likelihood of life elsewhere is high

    • Photo: Tim Craggs

      Tim Craggs answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hi Georgia and Abigail,

      I really don’t know. I am skeptical at best. Some people say that the probability of finding life on 1 of the many billion billion planets out there is very high. I am not so sure.

      Maybe one day we will find out!

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