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New study of Solar System speculates on life on other planets
University of Bath ^
| 12 September 2006
| Staff (press release)
Posted on 09/13/2006 2:08:21 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:10:12 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils? Where are the moderate creationists?)
To: PatrickHenry
The operative word: "SPECULATES"
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:11:00 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: PatrickHenry
The question is whether life is the exception or the rule.
Either answer will have implications that are awe-inspiring, if you are inclined to awe.
I can't wait for them to start core-drilling; I want to see whats under Martian soil.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:15:32 PM PDT
by
marron
To: marron
IMHO, and yes it is only an
opinion, life will be the rule as apposed to the exception.
This is not unlike the argument over extra solar system planets a few years ago.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:23:52 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: PatrickHenry
For instance, the very hot and cloudy climate of Venus is likely to have developed after a runaway greenhouse effect, and the more we know about this the more we can understand some of the challenges caused by our climate change on Earth."
Interesting up until that point. I guess if the USSC can use foreign law, we can use interplanetary evidence to support global warming.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:24:03 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: beethovenfan
The operative word: "SPECULATES"Speculation by "19 physicists, astronomers, and climatologists" who are expressing opinions about their fields of expertise is worthy of consideration. But if you feel otherwise, that's up to you.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:24:32 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils? Where are the moderate creationists?)
To: marron
I suspect there are interesting things to see in the Martian canyons as well.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:26:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: marron
You are correct, is life the rule or the exception. Since life has been found on the earth almost everywhere a person looks, including some very hostile environments, I want to believe it is the rule, not the exception. One of my hopes is, before I die, we find some form of life on another planet. Even if it is just a microbe on Mars I would love to see that.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:27:12 PM PDT
by
ops33
(Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
To: Buck W.
"Interesting up until that point. I guess if the USSC can use foreign law, we can use interplanetary evidence to support global warming." If I remember correctly, the atmosphere of Venus was considered a result of runaway greenhouse effect long before global warming on Earth was an issue. That it is mentioned here is hardly an attempt to link to global warming.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:33:27 PM PDT
by
b_sharp
(Objectivity? Objectivity? We don't need no stinkin' objectivity.)
To: ops33
Not only is God more powerful than we imagine, he's more powerful than we
can imagine.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:35:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: cripplecreek
Gullermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:39:27 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: PatrickHenry
It seems increasingly apparent that habitable environments very likely exist on Mars today, and may have been considerably more diverse and abundant in the past, he writes.I'm no sure how we get to "very likely" from "30 years of exploratory spacecraft missions without finding anything." I'd go with "possibly."
If you landed a spacecraft anywhere on earth, you'd find life almost instantly.
To: ops33
Since life has been found on the earth almost everywhere a person looks, including some very hostile environments, I want to believe it is the rule, not the exception. This shows that once life starts on a planet then it becomes pervasive.
Since life is not readily detectable on other planets with supposedly habitable environments it is more likely that no life exists there and that the beginning of life is the exception.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:47:28 PM PDT
by
etlib
(No creature without tentacles has ever developed true intelligence)
To: b_sharp
I believe the quoted individual is saying that the more we know about Venus's runaway greenhouse effect, the more we will know about the effects of terrestrial climate change. By climate change, I submit that he means global warming.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: cripplecreek
If you are going to misquote JBS Haldane, it might be polite to at least credit him, IMHO
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:56:17 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: muir_redwoods
I would have misquoted Sagan because I was that's who I thought I was misquoting. LOL
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:58:13 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
Is this a prayer thread? I need to know before posting science.
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posted on
09/13/2006 3:00:29 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: PatrickHenry
To: PatrickHenry
There is a first for everything and as time goes by, I'm beginning to think that we are the first intelligent lifeforms........(but there are many, many days in which I question "Intelligent")
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posted on
09/13/2006 3:02:27 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Vote for me as your state representative, I need a high paying job with no accountability.....)
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