New Study Suggests That 60 Billion(!) Alien Planets Could Support Life

So what, how the fuck are you (or anybody) going to get there? Save the wasted money and repair this one as best we can.

What was another loser idea of the space industry, oh yeah, mine methane on a moon of Jupiter. Anybody do the math on how much fuel you would use in braking from Jupiter's pull just to land on the moon and then take off and trying to escape from Jupiter's pull (rather than the tiny moon we were supposed to 'visit'?

BTW it took 4B years to terraform earth, nobody can wait that wrong, if we head for one in a 'finished state' it will have 'died and gone cold' before we could even get there at full burn.

Last Edited by MHz on 07/02/2013 06:26 PM

They may still be here :)


Frater

Well, just look at the math. Google the drake equation and you can see clearly that the possibility for life outside our solar system is not only possible, but likely. I have no doubt there is life out there, but, whether they are actively visiting earth, that's a whole other can of worms.

If the universe is infinite, I would think there would be an infinite amount of planets that would support life.

Worry about THIS planet, sheep-apes.

I want my own damn planet.
That would be paradise.

The researchers' paper goes on to say '...so now we need loads more dosh to definitively identify these planets...'

New study says "Look how fucking big the universe is... there are billions of planets with life, each of them looking out into the expanse of space and feeling lonely. News at 11:00."

and that's just the milky way... imagine andromeda...

There's no such thing as "conditions" for generating life. That is complete sci-fi fantasy.

All science confirms the law of biogenesis. Life only follows from life. That leaves the atheist/evolutionist in a sticky situation because his religion tells him life must have magically manifested itself by some nature-defying string of accidents.

And sorry, getting atheist High Priest Lawrency Krauss up on stage preaching anti-science sermons about everything coming from nothing, does not quite cut it.

Nor does generating some individual part of a cell in a lab or, even better, a computer simulation.

You can't fight the science. The origin of life defies any known natural causes, emphatically so.

This pseudo-science spontaneous generation across the universe is nothing, NOTHING, but creative sci-fi writing.

We will never get tot those other planets. And thank God they're safe from us!

Oh no, Christians everywhere deny this and declare it heresy!!!

Burnings at the stake will commence shortly.

Right... Whatever you got to say to run away from God. I get it.

They are LIARS. They don't even know, show and tell what is at the bottom of our own planet's oceans, yet they can tell which planets harbor life and which don't and tell us a number in a supposed infinite of potential unknowns. BULLSHIT. How about some detailed pictures of the face and pyramids on Mars before you tell us how some galaxy far, far away might harbor life. Please, more mumbo jumbo from FOOLS who know nothing, wouldn't know a truth if it slapped them in the face. Trying to impress the mindless and clueless sheeple into believing and trusting that they know what they are doing, WHEN CLEARLY THEY DO NOT.

Cure the common cold before you worry about a planet light years away. What's the point if the majority will never go there anyways? Fix your own house first.



Last Edited by Knowbody Special on 07/02/2013 08:43 PM

anyone can make up bullshit, fool

I guess 60,000,000,000 is as good a number to poll out of your ass as any.

At some point, it would be great if humans built an enormous ship (maybe several of them to increase chances of survival) and try to get to the most compatible planet possible. The ships would probably have to be as big as large cities with many redundant systems to help ensure success. Many generations of people would live and die on these ships before getting to the destination planet and there’s no guarantee of success.

Currently, we “have all our eggs in one basket” here on Earth. Humans are natural explorers. Maybe it’s time to see if we can make a go of it in space. Maybe our technology is not ready today, but I hope this can be done sooner than later.

All it would take is one of those big asteroids that narrowly misses us (all too often) to wipe out all (or most) life on Earth.

If not humans, I believe some sort of life from this planet should live on elsewhere in the universe. Like a previous poster said, it (panspermia) could be how life came to be on Earth in the first place, who knows?

Pfttt.
Another one dimensional thinker.

So pompous....yet so clueless.

Yes we “have all our eggs in one basket”. So why would we want to soil another basket? If we can't get to a certain level here on Earth we don't deserve to spread our disfunction elsewhere.

Study. ......looooooooooooooooool

If they were using tech the same as ours, or very much similar, we most likely could recognize it... We have no proof or evidence that they do (at least not available to the public). However, it would be very "convenient" if they did.

It is naive to believe that what we use is what they would use. What if they have mastered Organic tech... Or Crystal tech... Or (UNKNOWN) tech...

You're an absolute ignorant fool. You don't have the mental capacity to understand science and how it works. God is cop out for lack of knowledge. Can't explain it? God must have done it!

That is until there is nothing left that science can't explain and people like you are left grasping at nothing. Yes, the very nothing that could spark the beginning of a universe.

In 10,000 years God will be forgotten thanks to advancements in science. You can think what'd you like; BUT IT'S WRONG.

It's a shame you can't understand how wrong and stupid you are. It's because of people like you the world is so fucked up.

I don't consider science a barrier to knowing a Creator.

I believe in God..

Man and organized religion.. not so much.
Too many different stories.

"Science without Religion Is Lame, Religion without Science Is Blind"
-Einstein

At what speed earth moves thru space.......why would not this be a space ship....you in your physical state is a seed........at death you ether fall in good soil or bad soil........yes.....galaxy is a seed spreader.

quoting "Knowbody Special":

"They are LIARS. They don't even know, show and tell what is at the bottom of our own planet's oceans, yet they can tell which planets harbor life and which don't and tell us a number in a supposed infinite of potential unknowns. BULLSHIT. How about some detailed pictures of the face and pyramids on Mars before you tell us how some galaxy far, far away might harbor life. Please, more mumbo jumbo from FOOLS who know nothing, wouldn't know a truth if it slapped them in the face. Trying to impress the mindless and clueless sheeple into believing and trusting that they know what they are doing, WHEN CLEARLY THEY DO NOT.

Cure the common cold before you worry about a planet light years away. What's the point if the majority will never go there anyways? Fix your own house first."

:end quote

Correction:

They don't know about EVERYTHING at the bottom of the oceans. They DO know quite a bit about what's down there. For instance, the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Marianas Trench (the deepest spot we've been) houses a number of Xenophyophores, which are ancient prokaryotic, chemosynthetic microorganisms that survive by converting chemicals spewed from the vents into energy. Other more advanced organisms live down there and contribute to this chain by eating such xenophyophores. There is actually another area in the Gulf of Mexico where scientists have observed a whole new layer of super sense saline water below the normal ocean water (a lake under the ocean, if you will). This data goes to show that not only is photosynthesis completely unnecessary for life to exist on earth, it most certainly spawned 2 chains of evolution on just this one planet!

Last Edited by Kai D Kravit (VALIS) on 07/03/2013 11:39 AM

How dare you use things such as logic or evidence in a theological debate!!! You sir should be ashamed of yourself!

There is yet a third theory which suggests that both of the first two theories were concocted by a wily editor of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the levels of universal uncertainty and paranoia and so boost the sales of the guide. This last theory is, of course, the most convincing because The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the only book in the whole of the known universe to have the words "Don't Panic" inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover.