As I watched the Jill Tarter interview, she discussed the Kepler mission and the discovery of exoplanets, which the transcript says over 4,000 of have been found. I thought this was a very surprising fact since surely the goldilocks zone can't be THAT rare, right? I would imagine that enough of these planets might be capable of hosting life that we have a good chance of finding some, unless life itself is such a rare phenomena that even if the conditions are there it still may not have spontaneously occurred.
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I find this a very interesting take on extraterrestrial life. It is true that maybe on some exoplanet, since we have already found many and there are certainly more out there, that there could be life. However, we also have to take into consideration the conditions in which they would be able to survive. For example, on Earth we wouldn't be able to survive without the sun, etc. Unless, perhaps life is so different that they have a completely different set of standards to be able to survive. Would that mean we would never be able to come in contact with them?