14 Facts About Extraterrestrial life

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Extraterrestrial life theorized that all extraterrestrial bodies could be inhabited by men, plants, and animals, including the Sun.

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The writings of these thinkers show that interest in extraterrestrial life existed throughout history, but it is only recently that humans have had any means of investigating it.

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The disparitas conjecture states that unicellular Extraterrestrial life is common in the galaxy but that multicellular Extraterrestrial life is rare in comparision.

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Evolution requires Extraterrestrial life to be divided into individual organisms, and no alternative organization has been satisfactorily proposed either.

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Some bodies in the Solar System have the potential for an environment in which extraterrestrial life can exist, particularly those with possible subsurface oceans.

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Should Extraterrestrial life be discovered elsewhere in the Solar System, astrobiologists suggest that it will more likely be in the form of extremophile microorganisms, albeit the extremophile paradox, stating that while extremophiles live in extreme environments, they cannot emerge there, puts some restrictions on this view.

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Important insights on the limits of microbial Extraterrestrial life can be gleaned from studies of microbes on modern Earth, as well as their ubiquity and ancestral characteristics.

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Scientists found that ice shelves surrounding the lakes appear to be collapsing into them, thereby providing a mechanism through which Extraterrestrial life-forming chemicals created in sunlit areas on Europa's surface could be transferred to its interior.

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Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has some of the conditions for Extraterrestrial life, including geothermal activity and water vapor, as well as possible under-ice oceans heated by tidal effects.

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Gaia hypothesis stipulates that any planet with a robust population of Extraterrestrial life will have an atmosphere in chemical disequilibrium, which is relatively easy to determine from a distance by spectroscopy.

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One sign that a planet probably already contains Extraterrestrial life is the presence of an atmosphere with significant amounts of oxygen, since that gas is highly reactive and generally would not last long without constant replenishment.

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Once it became clear that Earth was merely one planet amongst countless bodies in the universe, the theory of extraterrestrial life started to become a topic in the scientific community.

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Extraterrestrial life warned that aliens might pillage Earth for resources.

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Extraterrestrial life acknowledged the possibility of existence of primitive life on other planets of the Solar System.

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