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[jaredGalen]

Thought this article title was a little over the top, the kind of one you would
expect to see followed by lots of exclamation marks.

Interesting article though.

"IF LIFE exists on Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, we could soon know about it - as long as it's the methane-spewing variety. The chemical signature of microbial life could be hidden in readings taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe when it landed on Titan in January."

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7716

[Guest_Myran_*]

hendric said:
Also, primitive life, one would assume, was PRIMITIVE

Absolutely! And judging from our own Earth, primitive life is what we are most likely to find if and when we eventually find any.
With the lack of fossils we dont know much at all of what life was like and what it was like for the first 3 billion years on our own planet.
But there are reason to think primitive cells spent the first billions of years weeding out less favourable or even unworkable combinations of various amino acids and proteins until it hit a jackpot and we got the Cambrian revolution around 550 millions years ago.
That it took such a long time is a hint that it might have been a rare random event perhaps even one of extremely low probability. When it had happened the cells have the opportunity to grow, combine with other cells and we ended up with complex organisms.
With this in mind, its far more likely that any another world with life we might discover (in our solar system or elsewhere) would be same as what Earth have been like during most of its history, a world populated with nothing else but primitive monera organisms.