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Author Topic:   Why Doesn't the Moon Have Life?
crashfrog
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Message 17 of 97 (116642)
06-19-2004 5:07 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by coffee_addict
06-19-2004 5:04 AM


But seriously, what if the rocks in the lunar pictures taken by the apollo missions were actually lifeforms on the moon?
If they look and act just like rocks, how would you come to believe they were alive?
How do you know your shoe isn't a living thing, by that standard?
There's got to be some minimal criteria for something to be considered "alive." If the rocks were alive, we'd notice.

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crashfrog
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Message 19 of 97 (116644)
06-19-2004 5:39 AM
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06-19-2004 5:36 AM


I am simply suggesting that it is still very possible that some kind of life exist on the moon that is so different than life as we know it on Earth for us to recognize it at first glance.
Point taken, but I'm fairly sure that our surveys of the moon go considerably farther than "first glance." I'd say we're way beyond first glance by now.
If there was life on the moon, which presumably would be anything with metabolism, we would have found it by now, from all our lunar soil analysis and observation.

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crashfrog
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Message 40 of 97 (394646)
04-12-2007 4:04 PM
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04-11-2007 5:05 PM


Re: Life on the Moon?
Life has never been observed elsewhere in the universe.
So far, no. (We've hardly looked.)
Another way to look at it, though, is that life has been found on 100% of all the Earth-like planets we've ever discovered.
Furthermore, potentially spooky evidence of life on other planets:
Wow! signal - Wikipedia
I'm just saying, there's hardly any reason to rule out life anywhere else in the universe, when we've hardly been anywhere in the universe to look.

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