Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DouglasKC
.I hate to be a spoilsport but Pluto isn’t going to have life. The conditions required for life as we know it aren’t even close to possible on Pluto.

Maybe not life "as we know it" in your basement or somewhere. But stuff has been growing on the outside of the ISS - why not in liquid water (from compression warming) deep inside a tectonic crack on Pluto?

22 posted on 10/08/2015 11:44:21 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: steve86
Maybe not life "as we know it" in your basement or somewhere. But stuff has been growing on the outside of the ISS - why not in liquid water (from compression warming) deep inside a tectonic crack on Pluto?

Because there thousands of other factors that have to be satisfied that just aren't there. If stuff is growing on the ISS it's only because it came from earth. Any kind of life is incredibly complex and requires specific processes to survive...let alone come into being.

25 posted on 10/08/2015 11:50:38 AM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: steve86

“But stuff has been growing on the outside of the ISS...”

No, I don’t think so. A few microorganisms were able to survive for a while outside the capsule, but only in a state of hibernation, so they weren’t growing.


38 posted on 10/08/2015 12:12:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson