Chapter 24- Life in the Universe

What is life?

How did life arise on Earth?

How long ago?

What conditions are necessary?

Nutrients, energy, liquid water

Where should we look?

Search in the Solar System

Europa  Surface  Close up Interior   Search

 

Mars     had water blueberries

ALH84001  ‘The Face’

Extrasolar

What are the odds?

Drake equation calculator
 

N = Rstar fplanet nplanet fbio fintelligence fcommunication L


Optimists N = .01 L

Pessimists N = 1

 

Habitable Zones

 

 

SETI

Mostly in radio with bandwidth searchers
None found yet

Earthlike Planet search

      Terrestrial Planet Finder  what it hopes to find

 

Why can’t we go there?

 

Why haven’t we seen them?

We are alone.
Interstellar travel is too hard.
zoo hypothesis