Odds on Alien life elsewhere just went through the roof!

[A51Watcher]

I posted not long ago -

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=10999.msg144159#msg144159

about some the evidence of organics on Mars.

Now we have evidence from even further away -

"Complex Organics Found on Saturn Moon Enceladus : What It Means for Life   

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which could potentially form the building blocks of life, have been discovered in the watery plumes spewing out from fissures in the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The discovery enhances Enceladus' growing reputation as the best place in the solar system to look for life.

Enceladus' plumes were discovered emanating from numerous fractures called "tiger stripes," located in the 313-mile-wide (504 kilometers) moon's southern hemisphere, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The source of these plumes is an alkaline and mildly salty subsurface ocean in which life could potentially be found. Although the ocean is currently beyond our reach, the plumes provide a way of sampling the ocean from orbit.

Consequently, Cassini flew through the plumes on several occasions, "tasting" them with its Cosmic Dust Analyzer and Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer instrument. In new results published in the June 28 issue of the journal Nature, scientists have revealed that, during those plume dives, Cassini detected large, complex organic molecules. Previously, only very simple organic molecules, such as methanol, had been identified in the plumes."

https://www.space.com/41072-saturn-moon-enceladus-organics-alien-life.html


So let's do the math - Organics have (so far), been found TWICE now outside of Earth, in our own solar system??

So what are the odds that there are more to be found in the bazillions of other solar systems? 

[zorgon]

Yes but...

Is that alien microbe landing saucers at Area 51? 


We did post this mterial years ago  about the planed NASA mission to burrow under the ice on Enceladus and Europe and explore those oceans

DEPTHX ~ Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer

NASA Plans Diving Mission to Europa



http://umlr.net/03files/DEPTHX.html

Potential for Extraterrestrial Life

http://umlr.net/03files/DEPTHX.html#Potential