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Chula Vista 03-11-2015 01:59 PM

Sorry to bump an old thread but this fits the question.

Hints of hydrothermal activity on floor of Enceladus

John Wilkes Booth 03-17-2015 11:29 PM

no.

The Batlord 03-17-2015 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1566507)
no.

lol

Key 03-18-2015 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1566507)
no.

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Frownland 03-18-2015 12:32 AM

Possible? Yes. Likely? No.

DwnWthVwls 03-18-2015 02:12 AM

How do you define something? I feel like a lot of things could only happen once, depending on what kind of answer your willing to accept.

-Do you really think there are humans anywhere else? or any of the living thing on this planet? How about diseases?

Guybrush 03-19-2015 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1566517)
How do you define something? I feel like a lot of things could only happen once, depending on what kind of answer your willing to accept.

-Do you really think there are humans anywhere else? or any of the living thing on this planet? How about diseases?

I would define humans as Homo sapiens which is a loosely defined branch from a certain lineage that we can trace back to the earliest life forms on planet earth. You could have something that looked like humans on other planets, but they wouldn't be humans, because they would have no biological ties to our particular lineage.

But natural selection tends to make similar things over and over again in similar environments. Take hair for example. You can find hair on the butt of a bumblebee, but its evolutionary origin is very different from the hair on your head. Still, hair-like structures can be useful in many different ways and so has evolved independently several times.

Similarly, if the traits and collections of traits that make us human would also be useful elsewhere, it seems reasonable to expect similar traits would evolve on different planets.


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