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Please tell me there is a very good chance that we may discover life on the dwarf-planet of Pluto?

This world seems too alive for there not to be any such life whatsoever. I do not mean extraterrestrials, of course, I mean some advanced form of extremophiles and microrbs.

Ever since NASA made the announcement that this little dwarf has it's own mountain ranges, lakes, ice caps, craters, it's own weather system, and blue skies, I've been intrigued on rather or not life could exist on it.

It seems like all of the conditions could be there.

>> No.7735003

>>7734992
to cold.

>> No.7735006

it doesn't have the conditions for any kind of life to survive or even begin

>> No.7735013

>>7735006
>>7735003
Is there really such a thing as "too cold" or "too hot" for extremophiles?

>> No.7735015

I just want to know what causes the blue skies.
Clearly there has to be some oxygen on the planet.

>> No.7735020

>>7735013
Yes.

>> No.7735022

>>7735020
How do we know that? I agree OP maybe looking too much into that, but God's creation is a massive place that we've yet to fully comprehend.

>> No.7735023

>>7735013
the kind of chemical processes that is necessary for life to exist cannot operate under or above certain temperatures.

>> No.7735025

>>7735015
97% Nitrogen
2.5% Methane
0.5% Carbon monoxide

No oxygen.

>> No.7735031

>>7735022
The coldest temperature we've seen life survive at is about -20 C.
Pluto's temperature is about -230 C.

It's near impossible to consider life existing there.

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>>7734992
>I do not mean extraterrestrials,
But that's exactly what it would be. Alien life is extraterrestrial life. It's life not from tera. It exists outside of our world, hence the word extraterrestrial. Even if we did find "extremophiles and microrbs" there, they would still be extraterrestrial. Other planets are by definition extraterrestrial.

That being said, there's probably not a very good chance of finding life as we know it there. Our best bets for finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system are on, or rather in, Europa and Enceladus.

>>7735006
life as we know it*

>> No.7735049

>>7735015
what is rayleigh scattering?

>> No.7735196

>>7735031
Maybe life can survive at an even lower temperature. Sometimes science requires a little faith.

>> No.7735197

>>7735025
That is actually impossible as these chemicals will provide a more reddish brownish sky, you mora.

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>>7735196
>Sometimes science requires a little faith.


Well done, oh Baitmaster.

>> No.7735289

>>7734992
>It seems like all of the conditions could be there.

The ingredients might be there...but there is very little activation energy to spark complex amino acid formation, or to sustain life on a regular basis. Unless the Pluto's core is active (which signs suggest it could be), the chances we might find single celled life is extremely remote....

>> No.7735291

>>7735289
>The ingredients might be there.

It's like finding all the ingredients to make dinner in your home....but they are all in the deep freezer.

And your stove is out.

The only thing providing anything resembling heat for your ingredients is the faint glow of the freezer door light.

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7735299

>>7735196
>Sometimes science requires a little faith.

>Faith meets Science....ends up having a red headed boy named Pseudoscience

>> No.7737329

>>7735197
This isn't debatable.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=atmospheric+composition+of+pluto