Aug 25, 9:57am: Where will the first extraterrestrial life be found? → Where will the first-known extraterrestrial life come from?
Answers must identify a specific astronomical body; e.g. “an asteroid” is invalid.
@ShadowyZephyr The upper cloud banks of Venus could be quite friendly to microbial life. Reasonable temperatures and pressures, abundant organic elements ..
@LivInTheLookingGlass As the description says, answers should identify a specific astronomical body. Pluto and Charon are distinct, so I'm afraid this isn't a valid answer.
@Duncan You're right to be annoyed; I know I find it annoying when someone says something different to what they mean. I'll try to word my questions & descriptions more carefully in the future. My apologies again.
To answer your question: if that happened, then the first-known alien life would be whatever sent the transmission, not the reproduced entity, so I'd resolve to wherever they came from.
@NcyRocks So, first, the question was originally where will it be found; I am annoyed that this has changed, since Earthlings have a long tradition of assuming that we will find extraterrestrial life when it lands its spaceship in our back yard.
BUT ANYWAY, if we receive a transmission describing how to reproduce an alien entity, and reproduce it on Earth, would this count?
@ian I've updated the question to be clearer - my apologies that it didn't mean exactly what I intended. By the new wording, this isn't a valid answer. (Also, I'm assuming "they're already here" was a joke, right?)