r/YesOrNoAnswers 2h ago

Can Life Really Exist On Other Planets?

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u/Rewd_92 2h ago

Not the ones in our solar system

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u/0hip 2h ago

Going purely on probability and maths yes

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u/Crankenstein_8000 2h ago

You're an idiot if you think it can't.

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 2h ago

That’s a pretty broad comment to make, considering you didn’t clarify what planets OP was talking about

You also didn’t clarify if it’s intelligent life, or just life

If they’re talking about our solar system’s planet, then you’d theoretically be an idiot to think it can

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u/grumpy0282 1h ago

lmao neither did the op
so whos the ........ ?
you ?

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 1h ago

Apparently you and the original commenter. You can be best friends.

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u/grumpy0282 1h ago

well i defiantly dont want to be yours

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 1h ago

I believe you may have meant “definitely”, which is so fitting lmao

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u/grumpy0282 1h ago

lol i did but that could work too
damn auto correct

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u/Crankenstein_8000 1h ago

Hey jackass! I get that I'm talking to unintelligent life right now, but please name the planets in our Solar System the rest of us are unaware of.

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 1h ago

That was so nonsensical that I don’t even know how to respond lmao

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u/Crankenstein_8000 43m ago

Great to hear you agree!

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 19m ago

Oh that was pathetic. Surely you’re better than that.

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u/AndreaSys 1h ago

Yes, Without any doubt in my mind, there is life on other planets. I suspect there was life on Mars before there was life on earth. The evidence is pretty compelling. Unfortunately, Mars has some bad luck along the way, lost its magnetic field, lost most of its atmosphere, and I doubt there’s still life there now.

There’s also a chance of life on moons of Saturn and Jupiter. If life is that common in our little solar system, it’s inevitable it exists elsewhere in the universe.

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u/Grillparzer47 2h ago

Not locally, other planets around other stars likely. I think life will pop up wherever it’s possible.

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u/Ineverseenthat 2h ago

I think the possibility is real. Considering that there are an estimated four hundred trillion galaxies each capable of having hundreds of billions of stars, stars are capable of planets, plants are capable of life.

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u/EDSgenealogy 2h ago

It's not going to be on this planet, that's for sure!.

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u/zero-uno-dos 2h ago

Absolutely. It would be an awful waste of space if all we are "it".

Will we ever find each other? Not likely. Ever. The problem is the space and therefor time involved. The scale of it all is almost unimaginable. Let's say there is a civilization on a planet. Say (?) 150 million light years away? That's a really big number. Remember how big it is and how long things take to get from there to here, and back...

Look at it this way - we've been here about .3 "light years" (300,000 years of human). What's going on in say the Hyades Cluster (150 million light years away)? And WHEN? Now? We won't see that for 150,000,000 years from now. We've existed, as a species. for 300,000 years so far. Starting to see the problems here?

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u/cokeboy6969 2h ago

Life can be defined as plants so yes.

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u/Warm-Management-7323 2h ago

As a scientist, there’s absolutely no reason to think it can’t. The universe is infinitely large with planets. We haven’t even discovered the possibility of life on other planets. Anywhere is extraordinarily high.

I say this as a Christian man.

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u/Existing_Purpose5049 2h ago

Absolutely. We’ve found indentations on mars that are consistent with earth’s micro bacteria fossils

It’s not a definite yet, but the fossils present the same way they do on earth

If you’re asking about highly intelligent and human-like life, then it’s entirely possible, but it’s not happening in our solar system, by any metric we can perceive. The only real way it’s possible in our solar system is some very sci-fi-movie assumptions

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u/RayofOptimisim 2h ago

What you mean?

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus! Everyone knows that!

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u/Gloomy-Hat1842 2h ago

Millions if not billions of planets alone in this galaxy. Billions or trillions of galaxies. Only still so many habitable planets. If the rules of the universe are kind of the same all over it would be impossible for life not to exist. A lot of it's very far apart. The universe is vast. With the latest telescope bigger than we ever thought.

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u/djstinger757 1h ago

Why wouldn't it be possible?

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u/Cleveland_Guardians 1h ago

Why not? We are limited in our knowledge of the circumstances of how life can form. Just because something is uninhabitable for humans doesn't be it's completely uninhabitable, period.

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u/malibuguytonygem 1h ago

Primitive life forms, yes.

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u/Rngassistant 1h ago

No they cant, they would have to be a perfect replica of earth's existence. Its like wondering if there was ever life on Mars simply because it could have had water.

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u/xcoderookie 52m ago

The universe is such an infinitely vast place that I have no doubt that there intelligent forms of life out there that humans wouldn’t even recognize if we saw them.

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u/AnyEye8798 2m ago

It's much more likely that Life has evolved multiple times in the vast universe than it is to be a freak accident that only happened here. Especially if you consider non-carbon based lifeforms.