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So, short answer, I don't know for certain. I might look up if someone did find a suitable planet. And if someone did find life, it would probably be a simple life form, like bacteria.
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The long answer is, we do not know. No, seriously, our knowledge of how abiogenesis works, of what types of it can happen, of what environmental restrictions can be posed on it (if any), what elements must be involved in it and so on - is extremely poor at the moment. Maybe life can only exist within a very narrow range of parameters, all of which are very close to our Earth's environment. Or maybe it can exist everywhere, from cold space to cores of the hottest stars. Some life forms we might not even be able to recognize as life forms, should we encounter them, as they will not resemble anything our intuition says about what a living being must look like.
I would expect there to be a very large diversity of life forms inhabiting a large variety of environments - but that is an intuitive guess, and not something that can be logically justified. It would be strange if in the observable universe with hundreds billions of galaxies, each harboring hundreds billions star systems, each potentially harboring multiple planets and planet satellites, with an unimaginable number of smaller objects such as asteroids or comets - life was confined only to one or a few planets. At the same time, the Universe tends to surprise us as we learn more and more about it, so I would not draw any conclusions just yet.
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"Yes, there is alien life out there. They cross our borders illegally each day"- Brandon (Not his real name)
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Taxation is always theft
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If you Globe-earthers believe in planets like these:
Then for the life of me I don't understand why you would question the existence of aliens like these?
In the context of the O.P. of course aliens exist, .. what a question?
Sci-fi movie going on the moon, right after man lands on the moon.
Sci-fi movie of man on a planet called Mars, .. man sends a Rover on Mars, and is planning to send man on mars, .. it takes eggs to make scrambled eggs. It takes planets to have aliens, .. what's the big deal?
It's almost like asking: "Can Peter Pan fly?" Well duh, .. everyone knows Peter Pan can fly, .. all he needs is faith and a little Pixy dust.
My question is, why is this post in the "science Forum"??
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First you'll have to find evidence for this so called: "Universe with a solar system with planets named after pagan gods, ruled by; Helios",
.. the Christian sun-god
whose flesh and blood they eat regularly.
OR, .. get real and come join us Truthers on this God created Flat Earth.
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