Topic: Apparently, aliens do exist.

Somebody call on the Monsters! We need to repel some aliens!

NASA says tha t's not true, http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110307/ts_alt_afp/usspacebiolog...

If I could find the picture of my friend dressed up as a unicorn, I would trump that.

Before we can argue wether or not there is life on other worlds, we need to have a clear definition of what "life" really is. Is something alive if it exchanges certain minerals or chemicals, like oxygen and carbon dioxide?

Scientists generaly say water and oxygen are amongst the most important conditions, but are they? At one point scientists were flabbergasted to find lots of organisms living in boiling water on top of an underwater volcano at the bottom of the sea. Life in such high-temperature conditions had been deemed impossible for decades by the scientific community, but they were proven wrong. And then there was the NASA report a while ago about that acid pond in the United States that surprisingly had micro-organisms in it, forcing scientists to reconsider their existing hypothesis about what life needs to survive. Perhaps evolution just finds its way.

If we can accurately define "life", only then can we say wether or not it would be logical that life could exists on other worlds. In a universe of an unimaginable amount of planets, stars, moons and other gaint rocks, it seems unlikely we're alone, though.

If these scientists want to impress me then they'll have to show me some sort of actual living creature. Not chunks of rock with Alien DNA or some other BS that's supposed to hint at the possibility of life. Unless they've got video evidence of a living breathing being I don't want to hear about everytime they find a space booger.

I have always believed that life has existed elsewhere in our own solar system. Titan, the methane-rich moon of Saturn, may be more hospitable for terrestrial organisms than any of the other objects of the outer solar system. Even there people have seen formidable barriers to the growth of an Earth organism in Titan's atmosphere.

The bible says something about this. i just don't remember what verse it was in.... D:

I KNEW IT!!!
Xkhaoz does the "I knew it" dance

Hopefully the debate will remain in the realm of logic, not the theological.

[AHEM]you realize we're talking about aliens right?

and another thing: it's not theological, it's faith. theres a difference.

okay, im done :3

Splitting hairs on that, but whatever.

And I'm well aware of what is being discussed. You are aware of what happens when people drag religion into things, right?

Finding DNA in a meteorite would be amazing! What that article tried to show was a fossil formed in the meteorite. A little optimistic as, judging from the scale, the life form would be about the size of a Eukaryote; that is extremely unlikely. If you want to see something other than microbial life, you will be waiting an impossibly long time.

I should mention that aliens are just living organisms from an alien world. I should also mention that the bible once fought against any idea of there even being other planets. Religion does not belong here (Christianity anyway, I do not know how other religions saw things years ago.).