(24-09-2016, 05:02)Oceansoul Wrote:CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:space exploration etc interests me also....
I just hat ethe way how closed minded the so called experts are when they say..."water/oxygen are the basis for life, so no life could exist either without it or anywhere else",
theres creatures that live five miles under the ocean in sulphur plumes with pressures exceeding 100tonnes per square inch, that shouldn't be possible but it is...
and whos to say ALL life in the universe can only occur on an earth like planet...pure ignorance IMO,
im sorry, but as Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park "life will find a way"
sorry, off on a rant then, but yes, Space/Astronomy is a fascinating subject, and those photo's Hubble takes are breathtaking and wonderous.
Personally, I doubt we are the only living beings in the Universe, it is so vast that surely there are planets out there where some life forms exist, maybe there are beings who evolved in a different way, etc. Where there is water, there is potential for life and our planet isn't the only one out there that has that. Water is often a vital building block of life for many organisms though and our planet has the right conditions to produce life and be habitable.
There are organisms that manage to survive in hostile environments. How? I don't know, maybe they are quick to adapt or there is something else sustaining them. -shrug-
Correct CH. The fish at the bottom of the ocean do not require oxygen. The pressures down there will simply squeeze any air out of their systems. So if lifeforms do not require oxygen maybe they don't require water either! I wonder if we will ever come across another lifeform. The nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is over 4 light years away - about 37 trillion kilometres away. Imagine how long that is going to take to reach on your bicycle...
And to give people an idea of the pressure at the Titanic - compressed air in an industrial plant is at about 6 bar (just taking a typical factory installation) - the pressure at the Titanic is about 400bar!
When the crew of the Trieste got to the bottom of the Mariana Trench they were amazed to find lifeforms down there - almost 10km straight down. The pressure down there must be ridiculous. We have not even scratched the surface when it comes to understanding our own planet let alone distant stars and galaxies. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Co. should be concentrating their efforts on trying to fix this planet instead of wasting time investigating other heavenly bodies however interesting they might be. I was watching a very interesting interview with Neil Armstrong in Australia on YT, filmed a couple of years before he died. He was saying that the 'lit' side of the moon's surface temperature is significantly higher than the boiling point of water. The dark side is way below zero! The moon has no atmosphere so it has no protection against the sun's rays and no way of holding onto the heat on the other, dark side. You learn something every day...
I think I need to put DSOTM in the CD player now!
Somewhere between right and wrong there is a garden. I will meet you there - Rumi
