Water exists in comets and bits and pieces all over the solar system, without life. Or so it seems thus far.
As far as I still remember with my Chemistry...organic matter consists of life. Being organic means it consists of Cabon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, or Nitrogen. Compounds with these elements present makes the existence of life possible. Water can support life...but I cannot equate it to life.
I asked this question constantly awhile ago, but does life require water? I thought that life had developed so nicely on Earth because of not only the abundance of water but its versatility on the chemical scale, it's just in the right place in the solar system to allow it to convert to both types of fluids as well as into a solid. Also, does life require oxygen? I believe that I read somewhere that the nebula or supernova that our sun was wrought of was extremely abundant in oxygen itself and that this uniqueness has to the best of our knowledge not been duplicated anywhere else in the universe. Titan is a large moon about the size of Earth (I believe) that is covered in a cloud of vapor, I believe that astronomers just refer to it arbitrarily as "natural gas," but they say that it snows natural gas and that it flows in rivers there as well. So is Titan a good candidate for future life a few billion years down the line? So many questions...and in free thoughts...croicky.
isn't their some weird organism which is found living next to or even inside of volcanoes? there is NO water there, i'm pretty sure they do exist.
certainly not, nor did i imply that they could! they are cool though, similar organisms could exist in Mars. What about the moons of Saturn one of which is an entire moon of ocean similar to ours on earth. what aliens could exist their?
It's really friggin simple: 1) Life may or may not be able to exist without water. 2) Water can exist without life, as per the examples I gave earlier. Therefore: water != life.
I don't know about one around Saturn, but there is Europa around Jupiter, a world covered by thick shield of ice. It's freezing out there, literally, but below the ice there's an entire ocean, and below that there should be very active volcanoes and plate movement caused by Jupiter's gravity as well as the gravity of the other enormous moons in that area. It is my belief that there are somewhat complex organisms thriving there as we speak.
very interesting about Saturn i think i have read about that before somewhere. I assure that there is a possibility(stress the possibility) of life on one of Saturn's moons. Take a look at this weblink if you are at all interested it's nothing huge but's it's multi interesting me thinks... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2290005.stm
