Infact the possibilities of searching life in space is just become a great minace for our searching system, there is no ultimate system to find out in a quick time. The time span is fastly going in vain but life is just looking impossible to find out beyond our earth or beyond our solar system.

Do you think that another 1000 years we have to wait to search out the life thereon.

Or we are restricted with a limited search which is uptill found fruitless.

Are we finding the possibilities of a atmosphere filled with oxygen beyond our solar system, we are capable to find it. The satelite fixed on the comet is capable to send information about life possibilities from the remote zone in the universe. Comets will found helpful to find out the life ?

It wouldn't astonish me to find signs of life on Mars, Europa, or Titan. We might not have that long to wait, and a thousand years is a very long time. If nothing else, within the next hundred years odds are we will have spectroscopy from a planet that shows an unstable composition (oxygen, methane, etc.) that could only be produced by life.

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In much less than a thousand years we should either be able to confirm ET life, or put some very tight constraints on its existence.

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I'd say a hundred years at the outside.

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I'll say 50 years. With a grand unifying theory and a theory of everything that explaines gravity we might find that some sort of gravity propulsion is possible and be starting to explore the nearby stars. I think a GUT-TOE might come along within 50 years.

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That would be so cool. But I understand that we could construct telescopes now that could have the ability to detect oxygen/methane on extrasolar planets as ToSeek mentioned. Say 30 years to get one up and running? (If it weren't for the big U.S. deficits I'd say much sooner.)

Thanks for the replies, I found this reply very nice, but the deficit budget is somewhat different topic, but as you are saying to detect the oxygen and methane on extrasolar planets from a special telescopes that's an intelligent idea, in short our available machinary is not capable to handle this task of searching life beyond earth ? and is there anyone who can say the next 10 years are sufficient to make this task happened!

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If we could get the money restored to design and build the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) we might be able to know something in 10-20 years. However this project has been "deferred indefinitely" by NASA and is probably dead.

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I'd add Enceladus to that list too!

I think there's too much interest in the project for it to stay dead long.

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when that interest will resume with acting onto it.!

I'd say on or about February 2009, but that's just my purely cynical guesstimate.

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I think the probability of other life being out there is very good - darn near guaranteed. I also think that with the pace of change and base of technology (and all knowledge) continuing to grow at an ever-increasing rate, 1,000 years is a very long time (in terms of how extrememly different the world will be). Think of how much the human experience fundamentally changed between say 100 and 150 a.d., or even 1800 and 1850. Now think of 1950 to 2000. I'd bet there will be more knowledge accumulated in the 10 years between 2090 and 2100 than their was in the 2,000 years from 1 a.d. to 2000.

That being said, the Universe is a big place; really, really big. So big that life could be relatively common yet separated by such large average distances as to never connect. I hope that is not the case. It would be so cool to be around when contact is made.

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