• Question: Do any of you believe there is life on a different planet?

    Asked by SD1901 to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 13 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Olivia Lynes

      Olivia Lynes answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I think life on a different planet is definitely probably, but I don’t think it would have developed in a similar way to life on earth, we are more likely to find something like bacteria which survives in a different way to bacteria on this planet.

    • Photo: Joe Spencer

      Joe Spencer answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I beleive there’s life on others planets, and i think intelligent life, somewhere very far away, there may be life in our solar system (bacteria and other such things) I reckon the best place to search for it is Europa.
      There’s something called the Drake equation, which tells us about how many civilisations like ours could exist, based on probability of planets being similar etc, and the answer it’s likely there are, but in terms of talking to other aliens, we have to use radio waves (like SETI) which travel at the speed of light, so any message we send to space will take 1000’s of years to reach even the closest potential planets with life

    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Hey 635dusb48

      There are so many stars and so many planets, it is statistically impossible for some of them to not contain life, and for some of this life to be complicated life, with hard parts and brains, and for some of that life to have intelligence like ours.

      However, I don’t expect we’ll ever meet this life, as we’ll be too far away from each other.

    • Photo: Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes

      Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      If there is life out there, I hope I’ll never get to meet them. If they ever manage to come to the earth I’d be scared!

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