• Question: do you think there are any other living species out there in space?

    Asked by isshcorinne to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 27 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by bhavinamistry.
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      James Verdon answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hi isshcorrine,
      I think there is almost certainly life out there in space. But it would probably be simple, single celled bacteria-like organisms. Maybe complex life (proper animals running/swimming/flying around etc) will have evolved on other planets as well. But our planet is 4.5 billion years ago, and complex life only emerged 0.5 billion years ago. So it took 4 billion years for complex animals to evolve from simple single celled ones. This means we’re a lot more likely to find simple life, and very unlikely to find intelligent life.

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      Nuala Carson answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hey isshcorinne,

      I think there is a really good chance there is life out there somewhere in some form. It doesn’t seem plausible the earth is the only habital place in the whole universe. I don’t think there will be other life forms as advance as us, more along the line of bacteria or other simple organisms.

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      James Pope answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hi isshcorrinne,

      I believe that there is definitely life out there elsewhere in the universe and as hard as we are looking for them they are looking for us. I believe we will find each other one day and that will be so amazingly cool! I just don’t believe it will happen during my lifetime!

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      Gemma Purser answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      There has got to be! I cant imagine our planet is unique, so there must be other life out there its just that we have yet to discover them. Who knows what life forms there will be, it will all depend on what elements make up the planet and how the living things have adapted to use them.

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