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I just got my first telescope yesterday, how many attempts would you say it took for you to get the alignment right to snap a photo?

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Nothing wrong with that. There is beauty in nature. Some people are overwhelmed when they see the ocean in person for the first time.

Soon im gonna get a neximage camera for better results and maybe next year a new phone.

life is a thermodynamic process, it exists at that gradient between "hot" and "cold". life takes Energy, organizes itself at the cost of disorganizing the universe slightly more, and expends waste heat into the cold of the universe. the "habitable zone" is where this process works best, the chemistry works best, it is where it is most likely to occur. it is not "random" as you put it, but rather on a bell curve of probability. , too hot, low chance.. too cold.. low chance..

now life may very well exist on titan, and when more probes are sent, they will either confirm it or deny it. however the probability of life existing there is not so great, simply because it's too cold, and the chemistry and thermodynamics don't support it

For all you know, your auntie has bollocks and is actually your uncle..

I always hate it when people exclude planets that are not near identical twins to Earth. Such a limited scope to view the universe in my opinion. We theorize that silicon based life is a possibility and who knows what that would need to develop. But even just within carbon based life, to quote the legendary Jeff Goldblum, "Life... uh... finds a way."

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I’d challenge you to do some deeper research on the subject. It sounds like your idea of what “scientists” in this field do is misguided and naive

Ah yes. We are all tubes when you get right down to the core of the matter.

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I also expect we'd find tubes.

Ferrets, snakes, worms, eels, caterpillars. Tubes are a good shape.

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Liquid water is almost a prerequisite due to how chemistry works.

This thought messes with me. A human is made of multiple types of life that act on its own what if all of this is part of something else that’s more complex than we can ever imagine just like we have cut bacteria and blood cells that could never comprehend our existence.

Science has found other ways to create life. Instead of carbon based life forms I think it was phosphorus (can't find the article from nearly a decade so I'm prob incorrect about the element). So I think they are interested in those conditions as well but as many posters have already stated, we know life exists under these conditions so let's see where else these conditions exist. But you don't hear from the other end of that very often because not a lot of progress has been made there. Keep in mind they work off grants primarily for funding. No results usually=no more $$. So it's gotta be difficult to research things that seem far fetched.

I like that thought - that how can we even be sure we're capable of DETECTING creatures that live off of vastly different means of sustenance. Never even crossed the front of my mind

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Also, for exo-planets, in particular, we have a decent idea of what to look for for earth-like life. Claiming some other observation is a sign of non-earth-like life is a much more difficult conclusion to make.

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