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When will we find microbial life on other planets, if ever? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thursday, June 8th

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Beat me to my joke.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Possibly. Methinks in the next millennium, optimistically; would be most interesting, perhaps a glimpse into our distant past if we encounter some place that is host to microbes only. But first we have to avoid civilizational collapse and Kessler Syndrome, which IMO are more likely than interstellar travel in the next couple of centuries.

[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 8 points 3 weeks ago

(technically not a planet but) I'm putting my money on Europa, we just have to wait until JUICE does its flyby on '31-'34 and we get to lick those plumes

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

what if we leave microbioma there? Like Ridley Scott's Alien saga

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who answers anything other than 'I don't know' is likely not telling the truth.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not sure about that... @Assassassin@lemmy.world sounds rather confident.

[–] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Soon as we reach Phoebe

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

But what about Rachel and Monica?

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

2287 they will find them on Titan, a moon of some remote planet. Later they find they transported it from earth to the planet with some exploration robot that landed there in the year 2123. It found suitable habitat and began to replicate, colonizing the planet by human contamination accident.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

A little while after we happen to contaminate said planet with extremophiles accidentally brought aboard our probe/lander

[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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