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I find it really annoying about the way the media talks up the the discovery of possible Earth-like habitable planets as if they were a few hours space trip away. First is the breathless way they discuss it as if there might be a thriving civilization in which to exchange email or an instagram or two. Secondly, as a possible refuge from Earth when Global Warming drowns the planet in melted icebergs, then boils off the water leaving a globe of dust behind. The distance to any Earth like world boggles the mind in having to ovrcome the technological hindrances required even for the simplest decades or longer exchange of greetings. It's just a fantasy to ever think we could manage to seek out new life, new civilizations when you can hardly get there at least in less than a century or two with present technology.
1 posted on 01/05/2014 7:42:47 PM PST by lbryce
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To: SunkenCiv

Your planet is waiting for you.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 7:43:22 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce

Every time we find out something new about our own earth, I reflect on how much they seem to know about planets 1200 light years away.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 7:46:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero!)
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To: lbryce
a) Luminosity of this star is 0.21 of the Sun. Ice world, not waterworld.

b) We will NEVER know if the Creator made life there or not. Not in this life.

4 posted on 01/05/2014 7:47:03 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: lbryce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgoumMA8kHE


5 posted on 01/05/2014 7:49:36 PM PST by struggle
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To: lbryce

Maybe you think that it is a fantasy, but I believe there are others out there. Yes, I do believe in UFOs.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 7:59:08 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014 the year of dead RINOs)
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To: lbryce

you get it right? the godless leftists need nothing so much as the discovery of life on another planet to buttress their evolutionary, psuedo “scientific” claims about the “origin of species or life (really the mis-application of one method of inferring history by historical consensus, and absolutely not true, replicable popperian science). discovering life on another planet is the only way they can achieve any similitude to the replication of result required by true science.

they believe it would simultaneously “prove” their claims about evolution while refuting the Bible. it is one of the leftists’ “holy” grails and at the foundation of their belief system.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 8:02:14 PM PST by dadfly
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To: lbryce

Even if astronomers can confirm water on another planet outside of our solar system what’ll we do then? It’s not like we can just jump in our Millenium Winnebagos and check it out.

Why don’t we dedicate more of our time and resources finding water and possible life here in the Sol system?


9 posted on 01/05/2014 8:03:47 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: lbryce

>> It’s just a fantasy ... with present technology.

The inevitable precursor to innovation.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 8:06:12 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: lbryce

11 posted on 01/05/2014 8:07:46 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: lbryce

Oh, I don’t know. If islam does not drag us back into the Stone Age or some other (most likely self-inflicted) calamity does not shut down the progress of our (Western) culture, in a few hundred years I bet we crack the “warp drive” problem. There actually is some serious science laying the groundwork now. The energy requirements are WAY beyond anything we can generate, but eventually we’ll get out there.

Alternatives include hibernation and automated exploration.

Bottom line: The human race just may make it to these exo-planets. Of course, if humans do, it will be well after we personally are all gone and dust...


12 posted on 01/05/2014 8:08:56 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: lbryce

Don’t despair - NASA to the rescue...

http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive


14 posted on 01/05/2014 8:16:16 PM PST by aquila48
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To: lbryce

You were wise to add ‘at least with present technology’.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 8:54:49 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: lbryce

It’s just a fantasy to ever think we could manage to seek out new life, new civilizations when you can hardly get there at least in less than a century or two with present technology.


With a decent sized snow storm it’s can be hard to get to Walmart..

And these guys to want to travel a zillion miles to get to who knows what?..
Probably run out of toilet paper first..
Next!..


22 posted on 01/05/2014 9:05:08 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: lbryce
It's just a fantasy to ever think we could manage to seek out new life, new civilizations when you can hardly get there at least in less than a century or two with present technology.

Century or two?

If only it were that short....

25 posted on 01/05/2014 9:17:06 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: lbryce

More commie, godless, sodomite scientists lying and stealing our money and guns. Down with science!!!


31 posted on 01/05/2014 11:50:59 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: lbryce

I have a question. Our “space craft” lift off from Florida and go “up” but really they’re going “out”. What would they find if they lifted off from the North Pole and truly went “up”?


32 posted on 01/06/2014 12:15:06 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: lbryce

Rather than technology based life, I would expect a simpler form of say a hive based civilizations such as those that exist on earth. The insects are able to use their bodies and locally available materials to expand their capabilities.

That is, high degrees of social existence can be established using very primitive adaptations evolving over eons to create very complex habitats and societies. The complexity is such that we humans have not yet learned to break the codes and communicate directly with the complex earthly insect societies.


35 posted on 01/06/2014 4:56:51 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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"There may be life there, but could it be technology-based like ours? Life on these worlds would be under water with no easy access to metals, to electricity, or fire for metallurgy," modeling lead author Lisa Kaltenegger, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement in 2013.

1200 light years away and it can be determined that the entire planet is covered in water so there may not be fire?

C'mon!

38 posted on 01/06/2014 7:20:31 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: lbryce
-62f

I thought this was about the temperature in my back yard this morning.

And to your point, I'm sure the Zero Regime will get oright n that just as soon as they tell NASA to stop making Muslims feel better.

41 posted on 01/06/2014 9:30:55 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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