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<\/div>Playing The Odds<\/h2>
The cosmos are filled with roughly Earth-sized exoplanets. Various moons<\/a>, comets, and planets have stores of water, organic molecules, and amino acids like those that make up life on Earth.<\/p> Cathal O’Donnell, a 3D bioprinting researcher at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, likes those odds — he argues in<\/a> The Conversation<\/em> that the abundance of potentially habitable worlds out there makes the discovery of extraterrestrial life “inevitable and possibly imminent.”<\/p> O’Donnell argues that the sheer vastness of space<\/a> and quantity of exoplanets orbiting in habitable zones — the sweet spots where they’re not too close nor too far from their star — makes the discovery of extraterrestrial life overwhelmingly likely, citing research<\/a> that calculated that billions of such planets may exist.<\/p> And just because a planet doesn’t have a temperate climate doesn’t mean life couldn’t exist there — O’Donnell argues that terrestrial life can be found in Antarctica, in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and other seemingly inhospitable settings.<\/p> The fact remains that we’ve only encountered life in one place: Earth. But O’Donnell predicts that we’ll be able to probe for life in the near future.<\/p> “The ancient question ‘Are we alone?’ has graduated from being a philosophical musing to a testable hypothesis,” O’Donnell writes. “We should be prepared for an answer.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent<\/a> [The Conversation<\/em>]<\/p> More on extraterrestrial life: <\/strong>The Scientist Who Reevaluated The Drake Equation Still Thinks Alien Life is Out There<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Scientist: “Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable and Possibly Imminent”<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the original post: Playing The Odds The cosmos are filled with roughly Earth-sized exoplanets. Continue reading One In 40 Billion<\/h2>
Numbers Game<\/h2>
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