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Hawkey2100 OP t1_iva8y6j wrote

This is a photo I took with my telescope of M13.

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gravi-tea t1_iva9jlg wrote

Beautiful. And I agree there's surely some life there.

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Adeldor t1_ivad6j7 wrote

Globular clusters are apparently considered poorer locations for potential life, with a dearth of heavier elements and high star population densities making for less stable planetary orbits.

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Pyrhan t1_ivada0o wrote

I wonder what the sky would look like, inside a globular cluster...

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BazilBroketail t1_ivae085 wrote

The universe is an Olympic sized swimming pool of bleach.

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This-Winter-1866 t1_ivafd5i wrote

Yeah, this image is proof that aliens exist. That's how science works.

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invent_or_die t1_ivaia44 wrote

Life is everywhere. We just don't know what it looks like unless it's something we have encountered before. Humans need to be so much more humble.

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_ivaj6wa wrote

Well.. probably not in there, not terribly hospitable environment to life as we know it.

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nhalas t1_ivbaev5 wrote

We have all kinds of life in the world, don't look far away.

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Daroph t1_ivbge7t wrote

Replying to Adeldor (#456,609)

Also fun fact, extinction events have been tied with our solar systems breach of the galactic plane, as we follow a sine wave pattern in our orbit of the core.
It is thought that background radiation levels become less accommodating of life as we lose the protection of the bulk of the disc.

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Brusion t1_ivckd26 wrote

Literally one of the worst places to possibly have life, that you can see with your telescope.

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RogueRunnn5150 t1_ivdkwwc wrote

To be fair, I'd rather know what's in the ocean. We know far less of it. And what's exactly in the trenches

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Own_Interaction5121 t1_ivdmzlc wrote

Replying to Adeldor (#457,043)

We have no evidence yet, but we're living on this planet for so long and we still don't know everything about it yet. Think about our level of knowledge of our own solar system! And then the rest of our galaxy & the universe. Just because humans don't have an evidence, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We just haven't found it yet, considering the sheer infinite size of our universe (probably infinite) we'll never be able to know everything. It might even be possible that we never even find intelligent alien life forms. But the probability of them not existing is way lesser than the probability of their existence.

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Adeldor t1_ivdoz9d wrote

Replying to Own_Interaction5121 (#461,684)

To be clear, I do not in any way deny the possibility. Further, chemistry appears to be the same no matter how deep observations sensitive to such can be made. And that we exist means life is possible (statement of the obvious :-) ).

However, it might be exceedingly unlikely for reasons yet to be found. And again, we've no evidence at all that it exists beyond Earth. So saying "Life is everywhere" is a leaping statement of faith, not fact. Also, saying the "probability of them not existing is way less ..." is also a statement of faith. No probability can yet be determined beyond saying it isn't zero.

Caveat: Were the universe truly infinite, with matter and energy distributed much as we see it in our "corner," then yes, everything that's possible will happen. But as I read it, the universe is not infinite in that manner.

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mandu_xiii t1_ivdpxlv wrote

"Do you think there are aliens up there?" "We are alone in the universe." "So you don't think theres intelligent life on other planets?" "They are alone too. "

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