Question: is there other earths that are possible to live on and what are they called

Asked by usher to Blaire, Elizabeth, Jenny, Shona, Simon on 11 Mar 2013.

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  1. Photo: Simon AllenSimon Allen
    answered on 11 Mar 2013:

    Very Probably there is,was, and will be life on other planets.
    Their names? When you visit let me know what the locals call it…

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  2. Photo: Elizabeth StarkElizabeth Stark
    answered on 11 Mar 2013:

    We have found hundreds of planets orbiting other stars. Most of these are big (because they are easier to find) but there are quite a few ones that are like earth (rocky, small and a good distance from the Sun). There are lots more we haven’t found yet. Any one of them could have life – we don’t know (yet).

    In our solar system, I think the best chance of life is on one of Jupiter’s moons – Europa. It is covered in ice, but we think there is a big ocean underneath. Not very suitable for humans but there could be little bacteria and other critters under there.

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  3. Photo: Jennifer L. A. ShawJennifer L. A. Shaw
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    The problem is at the moment we don’t have the technology to reach other ‘earths’.
    The planet earth could be called the ‘Goldilocks planet’ really.
    As it is ‘just the right’ distance from the sun, not too close not too far (too close would be too hot, too far and it would be too cold), and it it ‘just the right’ size (too big and gravity would increase, too small and we would float off), and it has just the right elements in the atmosphere for life to exist.
    However, saying that, there is only one planet in the ENTIRE universe that could have life on it is plain silly because the universe is SO BIG that there MUST be other planets that are ‘just right’.
    There is a famous quote that I really like:
    “To say that there is no life on other planets (based on what we know about the universe) is like filling a cup up with seawater and saying there are no whales in the ocean”.

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  4. Photo: Shona MarksShona Marks
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    Yes the others are right, we have found many other plants, but we just can’t get there to check them out.

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  5. Photo: Blaire DobieckiBlaire Dobiecki
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    Yeah @Shona, we would need some seriously fast spaceships to even be able to reach the nearest ‘possibly suitable to live on’ planets!

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