If our own solar system is a good indication of what might be out there in the cosmos, liquid water is most likely to occur on moons of gas giants underneath crusts of ice that could be up to miles thick.
Liquid water is required for the development of life. We’re still learning about these icy worlds in our own solar system like Europa, a moon of Jupiter, or Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
A big part of what makes our planet habitable, and what made the conditions necessary for surface life to develop, was the inner dynamo of our liquid core, driven in large part by the constant gravitational churning between our own moon, the earth, and the sun. It is the interplay between these gravitational forces that keeps our planet hot enough for surface life to persist. Importantly, the turning of our iron core creates enough of a magnetic field to protect life from most dangerous incoming radiation.
The way that conditions remain hot enough on these icy moons is a little different. For them, it is a constant push and pull between the large gas giant that they orbit and the larger moons that orbit the same gas giant, generally at a further distance from the gas giant than the icy moon, itself. This sort of gravitational interplay could theoretically churn a molten iron core in the same way that our own core is churned by our own moon and the sun.
Also, a miles deep ice crust could effectively eliminate most or all of the need for any other shield from radiation. Life on such worlds would develop in darkness or only existing in the light that is created by other life in the environment.
It would likely look very different from life on earth, genetically and chemically. But it would likely be able to survive comfortably in some places on earth, particularly the colder aquatic areas near the poles and due to the pressure requirements, in the very deepest parts of the ocean.
Since the occurrence of such worlds is vastly more common than the occurrence of worlds like ours, it is therefore possible that even most life happens on worlds such as Europa or Enceladus.
If an intelligent life form were to arise on such a world, perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of years prior to our own species existence, it might have had a colony in our deep oceans since long before we ever existed. In fact, it could be that a comet from such a world is what first seeded our planet with life if the “panspermia” theory of life’s dissemination is correct.
They really wouldn’t be interested in existing in an atmosphere, at all. They wouldn’t be a threat to us. With advanced enough nanotech and AI they would be able to easily design meat-suits that were basically based on us, looking kind of like us but grown in a lab, capable of surviving in atmosphere or space or other low-pressure environments, maybe for the purposes of piloting craft or something? This is where it gets weird.
Because it seems the UFO community is really buying this idea that they have human-like DNA like as reported in the Nazca mummy situation or as what Bob Lazar seems to imply. This seems to me to at least raise my eyebrows. Are we really buying that, without consensus?
If it is true, maybe they are at a technological point where they are very different from us, with nanotech and integration with technology and hive mind and all that, and so they had an AI design a piece of hardware using our DNA. That they then grew in a lab and sent out into various low-pressure environments like atmospheres and space. Because they would be incapable of surviving in low-pressure places.
Thoughts? Discussion? Am I crazy here? I think this could potentially explain why we can’t go to Antarctica as well, also the weird stuff reported by guys in the navy and over areas of deep ocean.
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