I don’t know right now is I’m very into
it today
the universe the universe has literally
trillions of galaxies and if the Milky
Way is any indication they may each have
billions of planets in them there’s got
to be life somewhere right but where
should we look
solar system is so humongous big right
welcome to watchmojo.com it you’ll have
to give us a little leeway on what
constitutes a fact since humanity is yet
to discover life on other planets
there aren’t a whole lot of interesting
facts on the subject
so in today’s installment we’re counting
down our picks for the five most
interesting ideas and theories about
finding life on other planets sir one
number five our best chances for
discovering alien life are on Mars let’s
just hope they’re friendly on Mars
there’s methane and water albeit in the
form of ice and vapour which are big
flags when it comes to the possibility
of life many organisms produce methane
and water is needed for the survival of
every organism we know of while the
presence of these chemicals does not
necessarily mean that there is life on
the planet they do hint at it even if
that life is microscopic in size also
the planet is riddled with caverns many
of which contain pockets of lava if life
were to exist on Mars it would probably
be found under the planet’s surface and
near one of these nice warm lava pockets
the planet’s crust would work to protect
against most solar radiation and lava
would provide heat and energy in much
the same way that volcanic vents create
ecosystems at the bottom of Earth’s
oceans
if life isn’t on Mars then there’s a
good chance we’ll never find it the
nearest solar system that has earth-like
planets is almost 5 light years away and
it would take about 40 thousand light
years for us to travel there with our
current technology get there faster
number four if we want to contact alien
life we should assume they act like us
we detect the existence of many planets
not by seeing them but by studying the
dimming of light as they transit in
front of their host stars we can
calculate many things about a planet by
examining this light absorption we can
learn things ranging from the planet’s
surface temperature to its size and
density using this information has
helped us to detect dozens of planets
that have the potential for life a paper
recently published in the journal
astrobiology claims that the best way to
make contact with intelligent life would
be to assume that other planets are
watching us in this same way and to
point our radio receivers and
transmitters towards our transit zone
which is the thin slice of space where
we would be most detectable through this
method the paper’s authors say this
would be lightyears better than our
current system of pointing radios and
random directions and crossing our
fingers number three we might find ETS
by spotting their city lights radios
might not even be the best way to find
aliens we’ve been using radio signals
less and less over the past few decades
and if aliens exist they might also be
using methods to communicate that don’t
involve radio one new idea to look for
ETS is by searching for the lights from
alien cities we know that cities like
Tokyo can be seen as far away as the
Kuiper belt using only telescopes and we
can calculate the amount of light that
should be on the dark side of planets
that are much farther away than that
unfortunately with our current
technology an alien city would have to
put out about ten times more light than
Tokyo for us to see it
but hey maybe our technology will
improve soon or maybe aliens will come
and give us better technology and then
we can use that to find the number to
our assumptions about life may lead us
to look in the wrong places speculation
could it be alive it’d be alive it’s an
organic when we think about which
planets might have life
we mostly look at planets that are
similar to earth these are planets that
are close to their Sun but not too close
and have plenty of hydrocarbons but what
if the extraterrestrials are not built
out of the same things as us at a
molecular level maybe life can develop
with a silicon base or maybe it can
develop without water but unlike life on
Earth and elsewhere it appears to be
completely inorganic this is where
bodies like Titan come in Titan is one
of Saturn’s moons and is nothing like
Earth the average temperature of the
planet is about 17 degrees below
freezing and the water that exists there
is obviously frozen as hard as stone and
unusable by any life what Titan does
have is an abundance of methane which
while it would be gaseous here on earth
is liquid at the cold temperatures on
Titan these liquids could be the
building blocks of strange alien life
that would be unimaginably weird from
our perspective like really weird like
the ending of 2001 a Space Odyssey weird
number one alien life might not even
need a planet it’s possible that the
background radiation of the cosmos can
cause life to spontaneously develop in
the vacuum of space
I mean if cosmic rays can make Jessica
Alba and kate mara invisible who knows
what else it could do laboratory tests
have shown that one water methanol and
ammonia react with ultraviolet radiation
they can develop into a variety of
different sugars including some parts of
RNA all of these elements commonly float
around in clouds out there in space and
experiments have even shown that these
reactions can occur at temperatures as
low as those in outer space granted if
these organisms can exist they must be
very simple because the radiation of
space is just as likely to destroy DNA
as it is to create it but it does mean
that the building blocks for complex
life could be an abundance throughout
the universe moreover some
astrobiologists believe that these
rudimentary life-forms could further
evolve on volcanic planets that don’t
even have access to Suns and these rogue
planets could very well be all over the
place so room entery life-forms might
just exist in trillions and trillions of
surprising places so what do you think
I’ve got access to mother now and I’ll
get my own answers thank you will we
ever find the most basic forms of alien
life for trillions and trillions of top
tens and silicon-based top fives
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com excuse me where are
your new play imposing couplers
you
it today
the universe the universe has literally
trillions of galaxies and if the Milky
Way is any indication they may each have
billions of planets in them there’s got
to be life somewhere right but where
should we look
solar system is so humongous big right
welcome to watchmojo.com it you’ll have
to give us a little leeway on what
constitutes a fact since humanity is yet
to discover life on other planets
there aren’t a whole lot of interesting
facts on the subject
so in today’s installment we’re counting
down our picks for the five most
interesting ideas and theories about
finding life on other planets sir one
number five our best chances for
discovering alien life are on Mars let’s
just hope they’re friendly on Mars
there’s methane and water albeit in the
form of ice and vapour which are big
flags when it comes to the possibility
of life many organisms produce methane
and water is needed for the survival of
every organism we know of while the
presence of these chemicals does not
necessarily mean that there is life on
the planet they do hint at it even if
that life is microscopic in size also
the planet is riddled with caverns many
of which contain pockets of lava if life
were to exist on Mars it would probably
be found under the planet’s surface and
near one of these nice warm lava pockets
the planet’s crust would work to protect
against most solar radiation and lava
would provide heat and energy in much
the same way that volcanic vents create
ecosystems at the bottom of Earth’s
oceans
if life isn’t on Mars then there’s a
good chance we’ll never find it the
nearest solar system that has earth-like
planets is almost 5 light years away and
it would take about 40 thousand light
years for us to travel there with our
current technology get there faster
number four if we want to contact alien
life we should assume they act like us
we detect the existence of many planets
not by seeing them but by studying the
dimming of light as they transit in
front of their host stars we can
calculate many things about a planet by
examining this light absorption we can
learn things ranging from the planet’s
surface temperature to its size and
density using this information has
helped us to detect dozens of planets
that have the potential for life a paper
recently published in the journal
astrobiology claims that the best way to
make contact with intelligent life would
be to assume that other planets are
watching us in this same way and to
point our radio receivers and
transmitters towards our transit zone
which is the thin slice of space where
we would be most detectable through this
method the paper’s authors say this
would be lightyears better than our
current system of pointing radios and
random directions and crossing our
fingers number three we might find ETS
by spotting their city lights radios
might not even be the best way to find
aliens we’ve been using radio signals
less and less over the past few decades
and if aliens exist they might also be
using methods to communicate that don’t
involve radio one new idea to look for
ETS is by searching for the lights from
alien cities we know that cities like
Tokyo can be seen as far away as the
Kuiper belt using only telescopes and we
can calculate the amount of light that
should be on the dark side of planets
that are much farther away than that
unfortunately with our current
technology an alien city would have to
put out about ten times more light than
Tokyo for us to see it
but hey maybe our technology will
improve soon or maybe aliens will come
and give us better technology and then
we can use that to find the number to
our assumptions about life may lead us
to look in the wrong places speculation
could it be alive it’d be alive it’s an
organic when we think about which
planets might have life
we mostly look at planets that are
similar to earth these are planets that
are close to their Sun but not too close
and have plenty of hydrocarbons but what
if the extraterrestrials are not built
out of the same things as us at a
molecular level maybe life can develop
with a silicon base or maybe it can
develop without water but unlike life on
Earth and elsewhere it appears to be
completely inorganic this is where
bodies like Titan come in Titan is one
of Saturn’s moons and is nothing like
Earth the average temperature of the
planet is about 17 degrees below
freezing and the water that exists there
is obviously frozen as hard as stone and
unusable by any life what Titan does
have is an abundance of methane which
while it would be gaseous here on earth
is liquid at the cold temperatures on
Titan these liquids could be the
building blocks of strange alien life
that would be unimaginably weird from
our perspective like really weird like
the ending of 2001 a Space Odyssey weird
number one alien life might not even
need a planet it’s possible that the
background radiation of the cosmos can
cause life to spontaneously develop in
the vacuum of space
I mean if cosmic rays can make Jessica
Alba and kate mara invisible who knows
what else it could do laboratory tests
have shown that one water methanol and
ammonia react with ultraviolet radiation
they can develop into a variety of
different sugars including some parts of
RNA all of these elements commonly float
around in clouds out there in space and
experiments have even shown that these
reactions can occur at temperatures as
low as those in outer space granted if
these organisms can exist they must be
very simple because the radiation of
space is just as likely to destroy DNA
as it is to create it but it does mean
that the building blocks for complex
life could be an abundance throughout
the universe moreover some
astrobiologists believe that these
rudimentary life-forms could further
evolve on volcanic planets that don’t
even have access to Suns and these rogue
planets could very well be all over the
place so room entery life-forms might
just exist in trillions and trillions of
surprising places so what do you think
I’ve got access to mother now and I’ll
get my own answers thank you will we
ever find the most basic forms of alien
life for trillions and trillions of top
tens and silicon-based top fives
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com excuse me where are
your new play imposing couplers
you
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