How Much Do We Know About Space?




Do you think we will find alien life? Is there another Earth or something similar out there? Do you feel studying space brings tangible benefits to us? 


I think we will definitely find alien life.  It might not be in my lifetime, and it might not be sentient life as we understand it, but there's enough water in the Universe that something else has to be out there.  NASA has been able to create amino acids in a deep-space-like environment.  Amino acids have been discovered in meteorites.  As Dr. Martin says, the frozen ocean worlds are promising.  We've only studied the tiniest fraction of the possibilities.  As our technology advances, it seems inevitable to me that we'll be able to expand our reach and broaden and deepen our scientific capabilities enough that we find life elsewhere in our galaxy/universe.  




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