Bacteria, the most basic of life forms. You might think that this is a long way from being a Human being, but is it. OK, maybe a few billion years of evolution but it can happen, we are the living proof. So why is it such a far stretch of the imagination that life could exist on other planets. Even a planet that has acid for rain. A water covered planet that has a sheet f ice covering its entire surface What about a volcanic planet, surrounded by a superheated atmosphere. All of these and more could hold life. We now know this to be true because we have found such life here. All over our planet are life forms that we thought could not and should not exist.

With all the evidence that we have about this little planet, with all its numerous and amazing environs, we just know that there is life in space. For all we know, life could have developed more rapidly there, than here. If our planet had not been wiped clean five times before by an E.L.E, what state of evolution would we have been at. Certainly a far more advance state than we are. If we could of had those extra millions of years, what should we have become? Moreover what could we become? If the human race, as a species, could visit the future, then what would we find? Would we even recognize our own species if given a few extra million years in which to mature?

Life, in the form of soft shell creatures, happened here about 542 Ma (million years ago). Since that time we have had 5 major mass extinctions and something like 22 minor mass extinctions. Yet we, the Human race, are here. So life will find a way. It all has to start somewhere, bacteria is where it is at. From this all life grows. Grows with such variety and diversity of forms, that we have no way to predict the outcome. From ape to man took around 7 Million years of progression in very small stages. All life, in all its different forms, began with bacteria in less than 4.5 Billion years. Some planets have been out there for a lot more than 10 Billion years. You do the math. Life is out there.