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Evidence of farming on exoplanets should be visible to James Webb Space Telescope
The Physics arXiv Blog ^ | 4/20/2022 | Astronomy.com

Posted on 07/04/2022 2:52:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

Jupiter has plenty of ammonia and methane in its atmosphere. Wonder what they farm there?


21 posted on 07/04/2022 6:20:49 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: LibWhacker

Maybe they look like Cows and farm Humans ,LOL


22 posted on 07/04/2022 6:22:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RoosterRedux

Indeed.... :0)....... why do I get the feeling some government/academician astrophysicist is looking at his funding for the next few years and thinking, “I need to gin up some money until retirement?”


23 posted on 07/04/2022 6:26:34 AM PDT by Gaffer (i )
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To: ealgeone

I don’t think they would need food.

I’d envision an advanced planet as:

- an outer layer that is black in the visible spectrum and radiating in the infrared that collects solar energy and radiates waste heat,

- a middle layer consisting of the information processing that does the “thinking” for the planet and is the planetary intelligence.

- a lower layer consisting of robotics and other mobile and material/energy processing systems that maintain the upper layers.

Such planets probably send probes or photon bursts to each other to communicate across interstellar distances. Since the AI systems are essentially immortal, the lengthy wait for return probes and messages is not a problem.


24 posted on 07/04/2022 6:28:07 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: LibWhacker

bump


25 posted on 07/04/2022 6:46:31 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; LibWhacker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; null and void
HartleyMBaldwin :" Jupiter has plenty of ammonia and methane in its atmosphere. "

Jupiter, with all that ammonia and methane in it's atmosphere could explode if a research vessels exhaust could ignite it into an explosion.
Perhaps we should ignore further exploration there, before exploration sets off an explosion, which threatens our planet (?)
and our planet is killed off by shrapnel from Jupiter's gasses and further exploration ?
Hey, .. it could happen

26 posted on 07/04/2022 7:15:54 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: LibWhacker

This is wonderful news and will confirm there is only one planet with life, ours.


27 posted on 07/04/2022 7:19:29 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: ealgeone
How would they get their food?

Why, from grocery stores. Ask any shitlib.

28 posted on 07/04/2022 7:35:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: LibWhacker

Yes, it is true.. I just got a new fruit that I never before and the package had unique writing on it. ‘Grown on Vulcan’ it also said on the package, too. 馃


29 posted on 07/04/2022 7:43:50 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: ealgeone

Why would aliens need to grow their own food when they could visit here and bring the stuff home—humans make such great hors d’oeuvres.

;-)


30 posted on 07/04/2022 7:44:46 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: FarCenter

Good post.

True high tech would make the planet itself intelligent.

Such an intelligence would consider humans as irrelevant as we consider ants—nothing to communicate about....

Meanwhile humans would say “see, we are the only intelligent species in the universe”....

The lesson learned—you can’t fix stupid.


31 posted on 07/04/2022 7:48:12 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: LibWhacker

Exoplanets are inhabited by non-farming Bigfoots who always appear out of focus when viewed thru the Web telescope.


32 posted on 07/04/2022 7:51:07 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (t)
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To: cgbg
Why would aliens need to grow their own food when they could visit here and bring the stuff home鈥攈umans make such great hors d鈥檕euvres.

"It's A Cookbook!"

33 posted on 07/04/2022 9:25:12 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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Thanks LibWhacker. More generally, that kind of resolution should aid in better mapping of exoplanet surfaces.
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34 posted on 07/04/2022 10:49:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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