Maybe, but there's basically only helium and hydrogen on Saturn. There needs to be some other elements there to make a thriving ecosystem.

It would be cool if multicellular life there evolved to float in the cloud layers and never even touch solid ground.
It would also be cool if we made a bathtub large enough to hold Saturn because it would float. The only problem is creating an artificial gravity field around the tub and the planet that would maintain earth's gravitational power.

>>106
I like that post, very innocent and imaginative. Good stuff.

We have plenty of real images of Saturn though, unless you consider composites or non-visible light spectrum shots as 'digitally created', in which case there's just some less. Most of the juicy stuff is from Voyager 1 and Cassini.

All of the "Gas Giants" in our system have rings. Saturn's rings are just the densest and most impressive.

Saturn has more than one ring, it was found I think a few years ago using infrared.

I'll try and find a picture later if I can.

http://eol.org/pages/975756/overview

Life can thrive on worlds without a solid or even liquid surface. The old idea of things living in the atmospheres of gas giants isn't particularly far fetched.

However, Saturn is an unlikely place to find life. There's just not enough organic chemistry going on. Life, at a bare minimum, requires organic chemicals, water or some other similar solvent, and some sort of available energy differentials.

I think Jupiter's moons are the most likely things to have life in the solar system.

>>121
In the wikipedia article for Enceladus, cite a NASA focus group as saying it is emerging as the most habitable place for "life as we know it". That and Europa (the ice-covered one with a possible subterranean ocean) are both in the Saturn system.

>>143
Firstly before we explore other moons and planets, we should start working on discovering our own oceans and planet a tad more which would not only benefit us in the discovery of new life forms, but advancement of technology that could well equip us for space travel and livability.

The thought of possible sentient life in our solar system makes my genitals tingle and hopefully it wouldn't enslave us all.

>>144
Why is it that people always think extraterrestrial life is always going to enslave us? To think that they'd be in our own solar system makes it even more of an invalid idea. As far as we know, there is no signs of life in our solar system whatsoever. This means most importantly that there's nothing even close to a Type I civilization, even less a species that could travel into space. If we even do find life on Saturn's moons, I would be very surprised to find anything more advanced than something resembling a very basic fish or crab.

And another thing, I'm not trying to sound as "innocent and imaginative" as the OP, but honestly it is difficult for me to comprehend why everyone must assume that all life must be carbon based. Even all life on earth is not bound to being carbon based, there has been arsenic based bacterium found, it's public knowledge. As humans we like to assume that any extraterrestrial life is going to be just like us, bipedal two-armed upright walking carbon-based beings that want to kill or harvest any resources they can. Obviously they have to be very similar to us because we're the most superior beings that exist. Yes, it's a nice little fairy tale, but to honestly believe it 100% is a mix of arrogance and ignorance.

Sorry for the rant, these things just get to me.

>>145
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-arsenic-life-20120709,0,1630436.story

The arsenic based life is still up in the air, fyi.

SAGE has been used.

>>144
There's 7 billion of us we don't have to all work on the same thing.

>>145

There was this one sci-fi book where mankind had encountered three extraterrestrial cosmic civilizations about a thousand years in the future. With two of them, mankind had no physiological similarities and coexisted peacefully. The one we were similar to stepped into conflict with us immediately, for resources and territory. That seems like an all-too-probable progression of affairs, to be honest.

Saturn has the most moons and the most awesome rings because the gravitational force of Jupiter kept some of the matter from fully conglomerating with baby saturn. All the gas giants have rings, though. I think at least one of Saturn's moons could definitely have liquid water under the surface because the tidal forces from Saturn and Jupiter could heat the interior of the moon, providing thermal energy.

There's no doubt in my mind there is life on Titan and Europa.