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Posted on 07/04/2013 4:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/04/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Though only about dozen potentially habitable exoplanets have been detected so far, scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support plant life. The Milky Way alone may host 60 billion such planets around faint red dwarf stars, a new estimate suggests.
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Wait, In this Universe or all the billions of others?
Wrong. The actual number is 58,345.671,443.
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I accept your number. But think about it. On how many of these are you actually going to find Snickers bars? Not very many I’m betting. Probably only a few thousand. It would be a classic needles in a haystack search. Probably not worth it.
Not to mention biscuits and sausage gravy.
Let somebody else go on THAT snipe hunt!
Old Watashi is staying right here until Jesus says it’s time.
That being the case, we are clearly gambling on the possibility that none of those 60 billion worlds have an advanced life form that would view us as a nuisance, a catastrophe or a good place to grow ^ZG)A&, yet we continue to advertise our presence here with TV shows etc, so bear in mind, those unfriendly aliens will first learn of us by watching televised coverage of the Cuban missile crisis.
I don’t like our odds.
That’s okay... It’ll only take another 30 something years for them to start getting the Jerry Springer show and a few years after that to get reality shows... On second thought, we’re screwed.
“scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support plant life. “
Let’s see if they can find one that actually does, instead of theoretically. The rest is wishful thinking.
Mormon gods are already on most of them, having celestial sex to create spirit children to populate those planets.
Reading the article, the scientists only theorized that a “habitable” planet, one that supports plant life, would have to be in a “cozy” zone around its sun. That zone is is where the temperature of the atmosphere doesn’t freeze or vaporize the water on the planet. OK, sounds like a good requirement for sustaining life, but they’re assuming that the planet has an atomosphere. And what about a mechanism to repel cosmic radiation? Seems to me that would be important too. That requirement may depend on the planet having an iron core with the planet rotating. IOW, these scientists aren’t drilling too far down into the requirements to sustain life.
I’m sure there are, and they are all millions of light years away, so it really doesn’t matter.
We may start discovering exoplanets with liquid water once the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational in 2018.
Will the Russians give us a ride?
How do you figure; if I didn’t know you, and those programs were my only insight into your society, I would be the one that was worried.
Hell; I would have your whole planet quarantined and put off limits to all intelligent beings in the whole universe.
I am sure the type of mental illness I see here is contagious.
Sure, they could support it, if life can spontaneously generate itself, which hasn’t ever been established. Or maybe if God has been a lot busier than He has let on.
I can see you’re a hoopy frood who always knows where his towel is!
What purpose would be served mentioning souls on other planets? Would it have served to illuminate or confuse?
The Book doesn’t mention Australia or the New World either.
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Loved Carl Sagan
The most clearly science fiction single line I've ever read was "Knotweed tasted like chocolate, only better."
On how many of these are you actually going to find Snickers bars?
It’s very believable considering the widely accepted theory that the entire universe expanded from something smaller than an atom.
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