Could life evolve in the vacuum of outer space?

People are generally skeptical of everything, so I would say that the first natural thought is to be skeptical. Not simply to assign one particular possibility the credit. Well first, there is gravity. Furthermore, chemical elements aren't abundant because they are usually "picked up" by the mass objects in space.So I would think, for life to sustain in the vacuum of space, it would still have to evolve on a mass object where the available elements would be, and a stable environment that could facilitate a long process like evolution. I was able to watch the video, since my "job" places no restrictions on what I view , and it appears to be, which is funny because he didn't even watch the video, exactly what Perdition described.- Oni

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Hi TristanMC, and I didn't say it before, but welcome to EvC. Fair enough. Anything that "forms in space" will consist of energy. To include, things that form on things that formed in space. But it must take a form, it can't just be energy. Rahvin's post explains why perfectly. Consciousness is nothing more than this bodies interaction with it's environment through it's sensory system. It's awareness to a high degree.So, for consciousness to exist it must have developed a sensory function, but a consciousness as complex as ours will not emerge from a basic sensory system. Therefore, a complex sensory system is required for complex consciousness. Without a host, there are no means to acheive this complex sensory system, and thus no way of a complex consciousness to emerge.Energy is not a thing that has emergent properties, therefore the "emergence of consciousness" is not even possible.- Oni

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Yea most of the videos of UFO's turn out to be fake. My point was that it was easy for you to figure it out even without having to watch the video, since it has been covered many times before as to what the anomalies are. Taking things too seriously place restrictions on what gets deemed funny...- OniEdited by onifre, : No reason given.Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

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There is a huge problem with this, any "ideal" way would have already taken place given the billions of years that the universe has had.Our imagination is limited by our knowledge, as well as the possiblity of what we imagine being possible, is also limited by our knowledge. It seems like, given billions of years to acheive "life", the only possible way is on a stable enough, and large enough, object in space with sufficient gravity.I can "imagine" a microscopic quantum universe where life exists and the energy beings communicate through quantum fields. - I can imagine this. But, because I have a limited understanding of quantum mechanics, I have no idea what is even possible at a quantum level. (even though I'm sure that my imagined scenario is complete nonsense). My point however is that it doesn't matter much what I can "imagine", if it violates the laws of physics, or is contradicted by known facts, I'll just be imagining nonsense. The point is to know and be educated on the facts and laws before our imagination runs wild.Either way, how wild would it be, not knowing how anything forms, to imagine that a force like gravity can create a star, that, with it's gravitational force, creates planets, that through the process of chemical reactions simple organic life emerges on 1 of those planets, and after billions of years 1 out of a billion or so species developed a highly complex consciousness! I believe that is pretty fuck'n incredible on it's own to imagine.- OniEdited by onifre, : No reason given.

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Actually, this forum is a very educational forum, once you get into actual science. This is what I meant by a "complex sensory system." They were probably aware of some things, but certainly not to the degree that humans, with such a highly complex sensory system, are.- OniEdited by onifre, : No reason given.

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