Is there a possibility of new life if all the present life forms on earth end?
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If you address this question from a scientific perspective and not necessarily a theological perspective, you will realise that originally the earth was nothing more than a big lifeless rock.\nSome people believe that life was brought here on earth from extraterrestrial origins.\n\nIf this be the case, then even if all life on earth is destroyed, there is a definate possibility that the seeds of life that were brought to earth countless millenia ago may also restore life countless millenia in the future.\n\nShould you wish to disagree with this theory, then scientifically speaking, it is probable that the process which caused life to erupt on earth - a lifeless rock eons ago, might reoccur in the future.\n\nSo, is there a possibility that a new life may be created if all life on earth was to end? Yes, there is a possibility.
51857
There is a chance that there is life not on earth, but think about the perfect conditions for life that earth has: the perfect temperatures, the correct mixture of oxygen and other gases, and of course, water. If there were life not on earth, it would probally be 1-celled organisms, and not what we would expect.
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The Earth has probably already peaked as a haven for plants and animals and begun its long descent into oblivion, according to scientists at the University of Washington who have plotted out the future of our planet.\n\nThese are not prophets of doom who have mounted the podium to warn us that we are killing ourselves through bad stewardship. They are scientists who say all good things must come to an end sometime, and at best we've got no more than half a billion years left.\n\nAfter that, the planet will return to its ancient past, inhabited only by bacteria and single-celled organisms, just as it was in its earliest years. But in time even those will vanish as the Earth is reduced to a lifeless chunk of rock, or swallowed entirely by an expanding Sun. \n\n...
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Yes, we will discover other planets that also sustain life, and we will do so within our lifetime.  I do not mean that we will physically go to these planets but we will discover this by placing much more powerful telescopes in orbit around Earth.  There is a definite signature that we will be looking for and that will be the presence of Oxygen in another planet's atmosphere.  If a planet does not have any oxygen in its atmosphere then it would not be able to support life.  There was a time billions of years ago on Earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere and at that time there was no life on Earth.  We may not discover other intelligent life on other planet's during our lifetime but i am sure that we will discover other planets that are supporting at least plant life if not primordial single cell life as well.
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I once read a theory that the universe is so big, that there's a chance that not only is there another earth somewhere, but there's probably so many that there's bound to be one exactly like ours.  The universe is huge beyond our present ability to comprehend, and it would be highly ignorant to think that with all the building blocks of life floating around out there that life doesn't exist somewhere else.  Whether we ever find it or not is another question.
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We don't know for sure, but probably there is.  \n\nScientifically, think about it.  If there is a .001% (a random low number) chance of life living in a solar system, and .001% chance of life on a planet in the solar system, and a .001% chance of the life being intelligent, the chances are really good.\n\nIf the universe is unlimited in size, then then these figures will mount up and eventually the probably will get to 100% that intellegent life exists somewhere.  \n\nLet me clearify: you can say that if a galaxy has 10 planets and there is a .001% chance of life existing in that one galaxy, there's a .01% chance of life existing there.  However, the universe (as far as we know) is unlimited in size.  There is an unlimited amount of planets in the universe, therefore, you can speculate that there is a 100% chance of life existing in outer space (because there are unlimited number of planets).  I think that I clearified it, if not let me know.  ownager@sbcglobal.net
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Sure.\nBut the main thing to remember is that whether the world comes to an end in our lifetime or whether we just die of natural causes, then either way to us, there is no more world.\nThe end.
855925
Depends on some of your beliefs as to what you should believe on this one.  If you believe in evolution, we won't be humans more than likely.  We will have evolved into some other species, maybe more than one species.  That is assuming that human life did last long enough to evolve.  It is impossible to destroy all life on earth, but a nuclear war would more than likely destroy all human existence on earth.  So in essence, people would be eradicated.  But life would continue somewhere, maybe frozen in Antarctic ice or underground or at the bottom of the ocean.  And when the earth becomes livable again, that life will evolve again.  It will take different forms than what is here today, but it will continue.\n\nIf on the other hand you believe in creation, then God has promised that humans will be around forever, and the earth as well.  And it doesn't matter which religious book you go to (the Bible, the Qu'ran, the Talmud/Torah, even the Amida Buddha or any other book you'd like), they all say that God promised life to humans for eternity.  The bad ones are supposed to be removed in most of them, the exception being the Amida Buddha, which says all souls will learn to be good sooner or later in their travels through various lives.  They will do so so they can attain that which they strive for, Nirvana (or lack of want).  But humans as a species will survive.
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read this.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060522/sc_space/towardimmortalitythesocialburdenoflongerlives  i think it WILL happen. and for me i WANT to live longer. I want to see our species travel beyond our solar system and find new life. Then i will be happier.
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Absolutely not and I think it would be incredibly arrogant of us to think we are the only life in the entire universe, considering how many billions of planets, if not galaxies, there are.  There are more that can sustain life.
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Very little chance, considering most life will not exist outside our solar system from the huge heat of the planets.\n\nOHANDPOSTINGINCAPSLOCKSWITHNOSPACESMAKESYOUREALLYMATUREIMSUREYOUHAVEAHOTGFANDARETOSEXYFOREVERYONEHERE!!!
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Well, the Earth can create life, and life grows on the Earth, so therefore it must be living in order for this to happen. Nothing dead that I've ever seen has created life. If so, I would love to know how, what, when, and where.
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I don't know for sure but the universe is just too freaking huge for humans to be the only life form in it.  So I believe that alien life forms have to exist out there somewhere, since the density of life through the universe has to be greater than null.
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There are theoretically countless planets, because there are countless stars, and a countless number of those will have a planet the same distance as ours. So there has to be countless other life forms out there.. the problem is, is that space is so bloody huge that the distance and time it takes to get anywhere far outways the task of actually doing it ( for other advanced lifeforms ).. And the chances that anything would choose to come our way is pretty bloody remote. But don't let religions lead you into believing we are the only lifeforms, that would be naive
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There is no evidence right now of life on other planets therefore the answer is no.
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All life is supposed to end soon.  What is happening right now is in preparation for that.  There is a new planet somewhere in our galaxy that is much more stable than our own planet, and this is where Heaven will be.\n\nYou see, not everyone can be allowed to go there.  There are many sick and twisted people in the world, and even more people with messed up genetics and all sorts of deformities.  It's sad, but in order to preserve the integrity of life in the Universe only the strongest, purest souls can be allowed to go to the new Heaven.\n\nWhat is happening to our planet and solar system is that the conditions that are optimal for supporting life are no longer present, and the Gods had to find a new planet with energy fields suitable for their souls.  Soon our solar system will collapse, and we'll be swept into the cosmic wind some time around 2012.  Until then, our planet will get hotter and our weather more extreme.\n\nIt will suck very much, and I'm pretty sure our souls will survive for a short time after our bodies have passed away.  But our souls, mangled by all the heavy metals and pollutants we drank and ate and breathed everyday, will not know how to escape Earth or it's not-very-suitable-for-souls environment.  Eventually, they will get toasted.\n\nThere are definitely some people working behind the scenes here on Earth that know about all this.  There will either be people who start breaking out their Bibles and start trying to say the Muslims are the Antichrist.  They will try to keep all the people of Earth separated, and try to keep them from thinking about the real scientific stuff that is happening to their planet.  And then there may be the group who is really trying to save Earth, because they know what's going on and they know they're not going to Heaven.
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Definitely.  In only a few billion years our sun will expand and make our planet uninhabitable.  Long before that things will get very difficult for life on this planet.  Evolution of communities of organisms that can travel interstellarly is essentially impossible without intelligence.  The only real way for this experiment in complex life to persist in this universe will be through the actions taken by humans and posthuman intelligent life.  Without the evolution of intelligence, life is doomed to live out a fairly short span of time relative to the duration of the universe in its current life-friendly status.