• Question: Do you think there could be over life in the universe

    Asked by anon-208679 to Hannah, Tori, Titus, Stuart, Gill, Alessandro on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-208360, anon-208946, anon-208348.
    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Yes, definitely. The universe is so so so so big, I think that surely there must be other life out there.

      The only catch is that the further away we look, the further back in time we are looking. Therefore we are stuck in this strange situation that while life probably exists in some distant part of the universe, we may not be able to actually detect it yet.

      Putting it in a different way, if there was life on a planet around the star, Bellatrix (the third brightest star in Orion), and they were able to look at Earth they would see the dinosaurs. This is because Bellatrix is 243 million light years away – and the dinosaurs roamed the Earth 243 million years ago.

    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      This is just my opinion, but definitely! The universe is so big, so there’s plenty of places for life to have formed…

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