Is There Life on Mars?

[Queequeg]

This is not about educated opinions, just what you think most likely.

I voted #5. 

Title misleading so I could reference Bowie. 

[Tonitrus]

[Eddie Teach]

#2 and #8

[Tonitrus]

It seems to me (and I may be full of crap), that having everything in the right place for life to get set up is pretty damned rare.  And even then, the odds of evolving into higher-order creatures like is is probably not too great either.

If there is even life, it's probably very few and far between, and not much more likely than us to be muddling through crappy levels of technological progress.

[jimmy olsen]

Voted #4.

As for the question you actually asked in the thread title, I would say that it is likely there are Archaea, and perhaps even bacteria living under the surface on Mars. I also think it likely that there is multicellular life living in the oceans of Europa.

[Zanza]

The universe is pretty much infinite in size and there must be gazillions of Earth-like planets. As life developed on Earth pretty much at the earliest possible point of time and then quickly filled every ecological niche, it would be surprising if that that's not the case on those other gazillions of Earth-like planets. Sentient life has certainly formed elsewhere, but the question is if it is possible to bridge space and time. Space is obviously hard unless there is some way to travel faster than light that we have not yet found. Time is even harder as humanity has only been around for the tiniest fraction of the lifetime of the universe and for most of that time we were just dexterous apes, so to have another alien species nearby and able/willing to communicate etc. would be extremely coincidental.

[Admiral Yi]

There's a reasonable chance there is intelligent life out there, but too far to make contact before we go extinct or the sun goes supernova.

[Tonitrus]

And they're probably not blue-skinned, elf-like hotties who want to mate with us. 

[Razgovory]

Nothing.  Just us.

[Monoriu]

The universe is absolutely gigantic, and it is likely that there is life somewhere.  Having said that, the distances invovled are too great, and I think it is doubtful that other lifeforms have developed the ability to reach us, if they are ever able to. 

As to the title question, I think there isn't life on Mars, but there might have been simple lifeforms there in the past.

[Martinus]

If there is, it's a god-awful small affair.

[Martinus]

Btw, I now always hear this song as if sung by Jessica Lange with a fake German accent.

[Eddie Teach]

If there is, it's a god-awful small affair.

Does that make you the girl with the mousy hair? 

[Razgovory]

Finding life on Mars would probably the worst news Humanity has ever heard.

[The Brain]

Voted #3.