Walter Lang Quotes

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.

Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well explained.

We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.

There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

There are millions of stars out there. It is difficult to think that life does not exist in any one of them.

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.

I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

As far as I'm concerned, Enceladus has become the go-to place in our solar system for issues bearing on extraterrestrial life. It's a great place to examine extraterrestrial organic chemistry that is water-based and, therefore, like biotic chemistry on Earth.

Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.

The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.

Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.