Is There Extra-Terrestrial Life in the Universe?

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Have you ever looked up to the sky at night, gazed at the stars or planets and wondered if they might be able to support life? This stirs up the question: Is there extra-terrestrial life in the universe? Primitive caveman 30,000 years ago might have been the earliest to wonder this timeworn question, since pictures and drawings of celestial bodies have been found and studied in their caves. Today, this question is still considered by many, especially astronomers and scientists. Through technology, they are able to study the question more efficiently and try to arrive at a conclusion. However, there are many theories and not all agree with the probable existence of E.T. life. The Seeds Of Life Some believe that billions of years ago, comets and asteroids hit the Earth, bringing the seeds of life. The seeds formed in space's interstellar reaches and became part of these comets and asteroids. According to Herman von Helmholtz, a scientist, this is how life began on Earth and how it must also have begun in other solar systems through random chemistry. Meanwhile, other scientists think that if comets and asteroids brought life to Earth, why has it not appeared in our vicinity? Still, many scientists are convinced that the seeds of life fell from space to our planet and the same must have occurred somewhere else in the cosmos. Life on Earth While it is life on Earth that has led us to think about the probable existence of alien life, astronomers (along with zoologists and microbiologists) have been paying close attention to the adaptability of some creatures in environments that would be regarded as too harsh for life to survive. In the abyss, for example, creatures, such as the anglerfish, have adapted to survive in total darkness and the incredible water pressure which is 100 thousand times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. Communities near

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