Others!

**DR.F33LG00D** · 09-12-11, 08:36 PM

Maybe. "One of these super-Earths orbits inside the habitable zone - the region around a star where conditions could be hospitable to life."

BBC News - Fifty new exoplanets discovered

**deathgodusmc** · 09-13-11, 09:56 AM

Yeah i read that article yesterday. I think this is one of those circumstances where science might just be a bit to full of itselfs. Just because we can live in a certain area doesn.t mean other life forms cant. Look for places for us to go but dont try to interject whether life can live within certain zones. We have no idea what life can live in other then our own.

**WickedTribe** · 09-13-11, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Yeah i read that article yesterday. I think this is one of those circumstances where science might just be a bit to full of itselfs. Just because we can live in a certain area doesn.t mean other life forms cant. Look for places for us to go but dont try to interject whether life can live within certain zones. We have no idea what life can live in other then our own.

I fully agree with Deathgod here. All that's necessary to constitute "life" is for some thing to self-replicate. There's no reason to think that this can only happen with nucleic acids like it does on earth. That said, this is very exciting. Whether or not life can exist elsewhere, we have proof (ourselves) that life can exist within our conditions, so finding planets like this is a great lead on finding life.