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We've Never Found Anything Like Our Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?
Science Alert ^ | 03 January 2024 | MICHELLE STARR

Posted on 01/03/2024 10:51:26 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: ought-six

I think it is not so easy to find another world similar to ours and perhaps we will never do it, but the universe is so vast that in some place that is not within our reach there may be a similar world, but for the good of that world it is it’s better that it’s not within our reach


61 posted on 01/03/2024 11:45:02 AM PST by californian by choice
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To: californian by choice

Yup.


62 posted on 01/03/2024 11:46:41 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: teeman8r

“just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s revolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour. It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second.”

And it is corkscrewing through The Galaxy at 828,000 km/hr as it orbits the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vQJez9iiS7Y?feature=share


63 posted on 01/03/2024 11:49:36 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: null and void

I am going to ask what I believe the right questions are—and then I will even take a stab at answering them given our obvious limited knowledge.

Q. How many alien races with human intelligence or above are there in the universe, including other dimensions etc.

A. Millions.

Q. What basis do you have for drawing that conclusion?

A. The fractal principle—as above, as below. We have an amazing variety of life here on this planet. I believe that the universe will be “Earth at scale” with an incredible variety of life.

Q. What basis do you have for accepting the fractal principle?

A. It is beautiful, brilliant, perfectly complex—it rings true—and it appears to operate on this planet at different scales.

Q. Why haven’t we found this variety of life already?

A. I believe a few races have contacted humans already—but the universe is so vast and our current technology is very limited. Imagine a thousand more years of technological advance, a million more years. Right now we are walking on our lawn looking for tigers and can’t find any tigers—and so conclude that tigers are a myth of mystics and crazy people.


64 posted on 01/03/2024 11:51:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Red Badger

We’re probably not alone, but how advanced is the life? Is it a microbe, a plant, a fish, a humanoid or something else?

https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/drake-equation


65 posted on 01/03/2024 11:54:29 AM PST by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: USAF1985

The Universe in it entirety was made exclusively for man to explore and colonize from the very beginning of the first picoseconds of the Big Bang.............


66 posted on 01/03/2024 11:56:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Somewhat on-topic: There was a very good program a few years ago: The Last Day of the Dinosaurs | FD Ancient History.

I know it can be found on YouTube.


67 posted on 01/03/2024 11:57:55 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: teeman8r

So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.


68 posted on 01/03/2024 12:02:13 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger

Well to be fair, our current telescopes can only detect planets withing 0.1% of our own galaxy let alone the entire universe. So, to say there are no solar systems like ours because we don’t see any, is like saying lions don’t exist because I looked out my window and didn’t see a lion.


69 posted on 01/03/2024 12:03:19 PM PST by apillar
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To: Red Badger

Space is big. No bigger than that. We actually don’t know much about the vast majority of it. And our view of a lot of it is rather old. If we’re looking at some star a million light years away then we’re actually looking at what was going on there a million years ago. Things might have changed. Basically it’s like we walked onto a beach, picked up one towel, didn’t find any crabs, and are declaring this beach crab free.


70 posted on 01/03/2024 12:07:31 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Red Badger

Question: If scientists and their tools were located somewhere else in our galaxy could they find earth?

Answer: No.

Everything else is speculation.


71 posted on 01/03/2024 12:08:59 PM PST by nagant
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To: Red Badger
Bore-ing!

We're humans!

We want to travel to exotic, distant lands.

Meet exciting, unusual people.

And kill them!

72 posted on 01/03/2024 12:14:17 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

ni


73 posted on 01/03/2024 12:15:29 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Red Badger

In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth…

🌎


74 posted on 01/03/2024 12:18:49 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: cgbg

People of Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlZCkRi05JQ


75 posted on 01/03/2024 12:19:00 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: null and void

When we become spirit beings like Jesus and the Angels, we will be able to travel the entire Universe in the blink of an eye.

Billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each.

It will be an exciting journey!.............


76 posted on 01/03/2024 12:20:05 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: lurk

The Arquillians are more fun...


77 posted on 01/03/2024 12:20:56 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cgbg
Q. How many alien races with human intelligence or above are there in the universe, including other dimensions etc.

To answer a question with a question:

A. What number is exactly between 0 and ?

I really, really, really don't like the possibility of it being that number...

78 posted on 01/03/2024 12:21:35 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Red Badger

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”


79 posted on 01/03/2024 12:22:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Our flavor of solar system - small rocky worlds close to the sun, gas giants a billion or more miles away - make detection of those planets harder. The lack of solar systems that look like ours may just be a reflection of the limits of our very new technology. It will improve.


80 posted on 01/03/2024 12:25:54 PM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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