/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12132377
>if there ends up being life on another body in our solar system, it means the universe is teeming with life to an almost infinitely high probability right?
It depends. You're assuming that life on venus came from venus or that life on earth came from earth. More specifically, you're assuming that life on venus didn't come from earth or that life on earth didn't come from venus.
In a worst case scenario of finding life, we discover that not only is life on Venus DNA based, but that the polymerases it uses are genetically similar to our extremophiles. At that point, it starts to look REALLY fishy and would suggest that our planets infected each other.

The only thing it might really answer is if earth-life can survive on other planets, not if other planets can generate life of their own.

>>10734206
He didn't do math in the 20th century