Is there life on other planets?

Sometimes I wonder about the "life" on this site! Nevermind the Universe 🤷‍♀️

On the other hand the fact that life first appeared on Earth only a few million years after it's formation would suggest that life either readily forms and thus may be fairly common, or that life here originated elsewhere and that panspermia may have spread life to any and all planets capable of supporting it.

The Creator can certainly put life anywhere He decides. However we may never know about it this side of the grave.

Think of all the species on this planet before us. Millions of years of evolution then we pop up. Maybe many are populated but sentient beings like us are very rare maybe.

The Fermi Paradox

It´s entirely posible or it seems so.
Quite probable indeed.
May be there are "local" factors (local at the scale of the Universe) involved in the details of how life emerged in a certain planet.
Details that may not inhibit the occurence of life given the main causal factors. But may introduce variations in a path dependent chain of physical events.
Includding, among others, the "local" probability of an origin in abiogenesis.

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I would like to think so. It seemed to happen fairly quickly here. Possibly on multiple occasions. Since our planets' chemistry is pretty similar to most others it seems likely that it would be quite common.

I think given the number of stars in the universe as 100 octillion. We know, as we exist, that the probability of life starting is greater then zero. I think that even if the actual probability is between zero and a stupidly small number, with 100 octillion stars around, then I cannot help feeling that life, it could be assumed, is likely to have started round at least other one star.

I think there is.always have.

Well it depends, most people envision alien races as highly intelligent when in reality alien life could range from many different sources like plants, non self aware entities, all the way to self aware beings but who says their smart just because their self aware, though they could be intelligent.

So aliens most likely exist but may not be what we envision them as, and I think that's more possible than how we evolved.

I take two views:

One, that we can't predict the probability of life based on our own existence, because we already exist.

Two, I think it's highly likely that life has and will evolve elsewhere, that it will take billions of years to reach an advanced state (where it has the tools to destroy itself and its planet) and then just centuries to bring about the destruction. In that sense, 99.99999% of alien life is microbial or otherwise primitive and 0.000001% of alien life has technology akin to our own.

Billions of planets in the goldilocks zones so the chances are fairly high that there is other life

Statistically one would think that there is life on other planets. But the distances between inhabited planets is probably so great that they can never know of the other's existence

That's very profound. I agree; it would be extremely unlikely Earth would be the only planet supporting life. I believe life is abundant in the universe. I also think abiogenesis doesn't exist at a quantum level. Even the amino acids which were the building blocks of life on Earth, had a foundation of which science may not yet be aware.

There's the Fermi Paradox for you. And why the human race can be so frustrating at times we just all bicker and squabble when we could be the highest intelligence in the universe and what are we really doing with it?

Statistically... pretty much has to be out there somewhere.

We’ll probably never run into them though.

The verdict is still out if there was ever life on Mars since liquid water and buried organic matter was discovered. And there's some other spots in our solar system that seem to have some of the prerequisites for life.

With 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and 170 billion Galaxies in the observable universe there will be life out there.
Scientist estimate there could be 1 to 2 trillion Galaxies

Considerring the concept of infinity, there could be a parallel universe almost identical to ours.

Nope because God left us here. And we're his only chillun

At this point in time no one knows for sure.

I think it is pretty certain that there is life in abundance in the universe and not rare at all. It just seems rare because it is so unfathomably far way because the universe is so incomprehensibly big.

So likewise, abiogenesis would not be rare either. I don't know how evolving from a single ancestor changes that. That single ancestor could have come to be via abiogenesis.