• Question: what sort of aliens do you think is in space

    Asked by chantalle to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I think there will be simple organisms like bacteria. I don’t think there are little green men flying space ships aound!

    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      If there are any organisms on other planets they are likely to just be single-celled organisms, but we don’t really know because the universe is such a huge place. A friend of mine studies astrobiology and he says that it is possible that there are single-celled organisms on Mars but that they would have to be buried deep under the ice at the north and south pole of that planet.

    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Who knows?! There could be any kind of life form in the universe! It would all depend on where they evolved, how they evolved, and what kind of pressures there was on the life to make it different. I think that complex life we see around us is a consequence of evolution in the end, and I think there are lots of planets with large animal life, but I truly have no idea what it would be like.

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      The others are right – it is very hard to tell what is out there, and in most cases (if there are several) it will be something like bacteria.

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