Re:Old News (Score 1)

Oh good. So I'm not just some crazy psychic... I was certain that I'd heard this one before. I don't think that anyone should be the least bit surpised about any of this. We live in a universe that, as far as we can tell, is infinite. To assume that this planet is the only one that is able to support life or that our definition of life is the only one, is just evidence of humnkind's pompus attitude about our importance in the big picture. Just look at Earth itself and the amazing diversity of life here. We have animals living beneath the ocean that neevr see the light of day, and survive in te super-heated waters around volcanic heat vents. No one had any idea that this was even possible. We really don't know what is possible and what isn't. There probably is life on other planets, prehaps even on Mars, the fact that we haven't found it is probably due to the fact that we don't really know what we're looking for. I have a feeling that if we find life on Europa, it'll probably rewrite the very definition of life as we see it, but that's just as well because to define life in the first place is futile