Posted on 09/28/2011 4:05:11 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The Kepler orbiting observatory research team found more than 1,200 exoplanets in its first 136 days of operation. Using their data, other researchers are now calculating that there may be many, many more—so many, in fact, that we might find habitable worlds around one-third of all Sun-like stars.
The Kepler research team's findings, released earlier this year, revealed evidence of 1,235 exoplanets found after viewing some 150,000 target stars. That's a big haul for just a fraction of a year's work, but it's only a tiny portion of the universe.
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Yeah, but how many are already ‘occuped’, and don’t want newbies?
But ya kant git thar frum heah.
9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
They can keep the planet.
We’ll just take everything of value off the planet.
Can we send the wicked and the progressives there, to start their own thing?
Naw, I would like to go.. They can stay..
Personally I think red dwarfs may be good places for life. A planet would need to be in a fairly tight orbit but red dwarfs are long lived stars.
Seems like quite a few Class M planets.
But if it is 5,000 light years away, what difference does it make?
But if it is 5,000 light years away, what difference does it make?
Well there is the Stargate, Warp Speed, and Hyperspace technology..
And "Ludicrous Speed."
aaannnnd? NASA is shut down. And folks round here dont want it started back up. To quote some memorable slams from this forum.... “Its a Waste of money”..... “It produces nothing of value”.... “Space doesn’t need to be explored we need to fix earth first” and so on and so forth.... The problem is that he who holds the high ground or orbital position WINS!!!!
Now there are planets out there.... getting to them is a problem but people wont support what needs to happen because of shortsightedness or just plain old ignorance. I don’t like NASA... I never have but its what we got and private industry isn’t making a whole lot of progress nor is there a whole lot of incentive.
On top of which, we could send the dims to a planet of their very own, and they can run it according to the latest Liberal theory. We can go back in fifty years and find out who won the pool for when they started cannibalism...
“Seems like quite a few Class M planets.”
Humans have spent millions of years living in this biosphere; where we share similarities with every fungus, bacteria and virus. Every 150 pound human is carrying 5 pounds of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Actually, that 150 pound human has more non-human cells than human cells because that 5 pounds of cells are so much smaller than human cells. Our highly evolved immune systems keep the alien growths in check and balanced.
Now, imagine we go to another world that has evolved totally different analogs of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Those aliens will be right at home in our wet, nutrient filled bodies. Our immune systems won’t recognize them and we’d shortly be sprouting growths like forest fungi inside our eyelids. We wouldn’t make it a month on this new world.
Mankind will NEVER walk freely and unprotected on a life containing alien world. Science fiction whips up wonderful worlds and aliens. But if we ever meet them for real, no matter how “nice” they are; their bacteria will kill us; and vice versa.
YAWN!!!!!! The human race can adapt to any environment..
Now, imagine we go to another world that has evolved totally different analogs of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Those aliens will be right at home in our wet, nutrient filled bodies. Our immune systems won’t recognize them and we’d shortly be sprouting growths like forest fungi inside our eyelids. We wouldn’t make it a month on this new world.
Mankind will NEVER walk freely and unprotected on a life containing alien world. Science fiction whips up wonderful worlds and aliens. But if we ever meet them for real, no matter how “nice” they are; their bacteria will kill us; and vice versa.
You're making major assumptions. First of all, you might ponder what "terraformer alert" refers to in the title of this post.
Secondly, you should consider that some fluke of our biology might be poisonous to every organism on said planet. Problem solved in that case.
Third, the biology there might not be based on DNA or any significant portion of our makeup (silicon based life?). Then we'd be of no particular interest.
A exoplanet "Garden of Eden" would most likely be massively terraformed and then an ecology of Earth organisms would be introduced, I'll grant you that much.
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