Journal 13 Nov 22

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18183-icy-moons-lakes-brim-with-hearty-soup-for-life.html

This is an article about the possibility of life developing on other masses in space, specifically Titan, a moon orbiting Saturn. There is no life currently there, but there are many liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Titan that contain a lot of acetylene, which could react with hydrogen in these lakes for added energy, and be food for cold-resistant organisms that could life in these lakes. It is -180 degrees Celsius on Titan, but life could evolve there regardless. It would definitely be interesting to witness evolution in action from our perspective, since life would start out with microorganisms. It would take millions of years for evolution to create any complex organisms, but if any type of life formed on another planet/moon and we found it, it would be an astonishingly huge discovery. So many people contemplate life in space and connecting with other forms of life that we haven't found yet, and an actual discovery of life would be huge. It would be very interesting to see how these life forms would live in such a vastly different environment, especially with temperatures being as low as they are. That would essentially change every part of an organism's physical structure, and the nutrients available to it in this environment. There probably isn't much else on Titan, since it is so cold there, but everything on Titan has to be made of some kind of elements/chemicals, all of which will interact in different ways than the stuff we're made out of does, so no one really can know how life would turn out on such a planet. The point is, though, that life could potentially develop there, and so there is direction for further space exploration in this field.