In your opinion, what is the essence of life in the context of the Universe, i.e. in the context of other life forms potentially occurring on many distant exoplanets relative to the known life occurring on planet Earth?
How do you think very different forms of life might exist on distant exoplanets relative to the life forms we know?
Given what we know and what we don't know about the cosmos, how different do you think life forms might be on distant exoplanets relative to the known life forms found on planet Earth?
Considering how different environmental, climatic, geological conditions, the composition of elements and inorganic and possibly also organic compounds, etc. on distant exoplanets may be under many or even all of the categories known to us, how different life forms may exist on these other planets located many millions of light years from our solar system?
According to some astrophysicists, what we do not know about the cosmos is estimated to be 96 per cent. Included in this is, for example, the essence of dark matter beyond the Universe as we know it and dark matter causing the expansion of the Universe as we know it. Life in its essence is defined in an ambiguous way. Depending on whether the definition refers only to life forms found on planet Earth or to possible other life forms that may exist on distant exoplanets, the definition of life is not necessarily the same.
Depending on what role the billions-of-years-long process of evolution of life forms on planet Earth has played in the development of life forms and the resolution of the question of the randomness of the emergence of life on different exoplanets or the intentionality of the evolutionary process aimed, for example, at the to the creation of more and more complex forms of life, forms of life increasingly adaptable to specific, changing environmental conditions of a specific exoplanet, increasingly better adapted to different environments, and to the possibly intentional or accidental bringing about of intelligent beings, including beings forming organised civilisations, changing the environment of the planet and aiming at space exploration, colonisation of other exoplanets similar to their home planet. These eventualities to be resolved that have not been resolved are many. Consequently, defining the essence of life in the context of possibly other extraterrestrial life forms on many exoplanets is not uniform. In the context of potential completely other, unknown forms of extraterrestrial life that probably occur on many distant exoplanets, life can be defined as a process of spontaneous, self-contained, independent, organised processing of matter based on energy acquired from the environment and forming, through this process, more complex structures of specific chemical compounds, elements of matter available on a specific planet and adapting to the more or less variable environment of the planet, etc. It is likely that many questions will be answered when the first evidence of the existence of other forms of extraterrestrial life occurring on many distant exoplanets emerges. There are already more than 5 500 confirmed existing exoplanets, and there is already fragmentary information about another 9 000, also suggesting their existence. This knowledge has been building up very rapidly over the past decade or so. On some of Jupiter's moons, there are deep water oceans many kilometres deep beneath the icy crust, in which specific but as yet unknown chemical compounds and perhaps certain other forms of life exist. For example, there are planets in our Solar System with largely different environments to planet Earth. For example, the atmosphere of Venus contains mainly sulphuric acid. But does this rule out the existence of some firm, less organised, procariot-type life forms. Not necessarily.
In view of the above, I address the following questions to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Given what we know and what we do not know about the cosmos, how much different environmental, climatic, geological conditions, composition of elements and inorganic and possibly also organic compounds etc. on distant exoplanets can be, how much different life forms can exist on these other planets located many millions of light years from our solar system?
Given what we know and what we don't know about the cosmos, how very different life forms might exist on distant exoplanets to the known life forms found on our planet Earth?
How do you think very different life forms might exist on distant exoplanets to the life forms we know?
What do you think is the essence of life in the context of the Universe, i.e. in the context of other life forms potentially occurring on many distant exoplanets in relation to the known life occurring on planet Earth?
In your opinion, what is the essence of life in the context of the millions of planet Earth-like exoplanets found in the Universe?
What is the essence of life in the context of the Universe?
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What is your opinion on this subject?
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I don't know the best answer for it. But good answer is Earth-like exoplanets are our colonial target to sustain by terraforming with the help of asteroid impact to create magnetosphere -air-aqua-atmosphere like our Earth. Simply,Earth is the prototype to examine and validate this feasibility.
My complete view can not be written In a small paragraph but here are some of my observations.
In my opinion, life definitely exists in the exoplanets. As far I have read, life may exist not in the hot Jupiters, nor in the Neptune-like objects, but in the super-Earths inside the Goldilocks zones. But most of them will be simple life forms having simple life cycles. The formation of complicated life forms is most probably rare and intelligent beings like us are most probably even rarer. I am not a religious person, but I do not understand how the chemical elements that are the basic building blocks of life came to Earth. I wonder, How many supernova explosions might have occurred or they had to explode when our solar system started to form, and the supernova remnants somehow managed to be deposited here on Earth that made possible complex lifeforms. Our moon is also one of the players here. Comets also might have brought some heavy elements and water. The possibility of making a machine inside the natural laboratory that can replicate itself (DNA), is very very small according to my knowledge. But there is no discount on the possibility that life will not grow on other planets. Life in the exoplanets can be silicon-based, not carbon-based. The evolution process must be very different than ours. But in my lifetime, I am worried that we won't be able to step on any exoplanet that may host life. To sum up, I think finding out simple life forms on every Earth-like planet is probable, but intelligent beings are extremely rare. Maybe we are alone in the whole milky way galaxy, which is depressing.
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