8 Awesome Ways Life Could Be Forming In The Universe

8. Bacterial

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Right, let's get the boring one out of the way for starters.

There's a good chance that if we do find alien life, particularly in our own solar system, then it's going to be in the form of single celled organisms. It seems pretty dull, but given the distinct lack of spaceships flying around, we can be relatively sure that there aren't any super-advanced alien races in our direct vicinity (unless, of course, they're so advanced that they're actually studying us as though we're the primitive bacterial life forms, we just haven't noticed yet).

Although it's hard to hold a conversation with the primordial soup, the discovery of a single, solitary bacteria originating from somewhere other than Earth, would be of supreme importance.

At the moment, we only know for sure that life can exist on one planet. That means that, say there were a quadrillion potentially habitable world out there, the odds for happening it are one in a quadrillion. If, however, we find that any kind of life had emerged somewhere else, that effectively halves those odds, making it more likely that life in the universe is common rather than rare.

So, whether it knows it or not, there's a lot riding on that little alien bacterium.

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