Life is an oddity that runs rampant on Planet Earth but has yet to be confirmed on other planets. Life needs specific chemistry to get started, but once it’s up and running, it thrives until the environment no longer tolerates its prolific expansion, and then death takes over. Water is 1 of the essential ingredients that must be present, and scientists are pretty sure that water is spread throughout the universe in 1 of 3 states: solid, gas, or liquid. Most of life’s processes take place in the liquid state because it transports elements and compounds to intermix readily. Single cell life thrives in water because it is the perfect medium to gain mobility and seek food or have food transported to it. Ice and steam are harder to sustain life but bacteria and Fungi are found in steaming surroundings, while ice acts as a suspended animation medium to carry a lifeform to another location over vast periods of time and distance. Comets are a classic example. So, what is the real purpose of life? Many philosophies and religions have attempted to answer this question with incredibly complex physics theories along with non-scientific stories of interwoven mythology. There is a 3rd possibility that does not have any money generating businesses attached to it like the other 2 explainations do. It’s very simple. Life is a mechanism to convert energy to mass, and that’s it. As our sun pours out energy-laden photons from it’s core like a massive flashlight, photoautotrophs in 3 different forms (plants, algae, and cyanobacteria) convert that form of energy into a mass known as cells. These organic cells become the base of the food chain that goes higher up with more complex lifeforms. Humans are nothing more than a collection of specialized cells that seeks out food, then extracts energy and excretes waste. The waste product is then converted into measurable, accountable mass that remains behind. Sorry to disappoint kiddies, but that’s all, folks.
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