Life Out There? You've Gotta Be Kidding Me
These scientists are so desperate to find life out there.
This new "earth like planet" will be like just all the others. They will soon find that it will not be able to sustain life.
It's funny. Scientists have looked at millions, perhaps billions of celestial bodies, and not ONE has been proven to sustain any life. Hilarious.
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It's funny. Scientists have looked at millions, perhaps billions of celestial bodies, and not ONE has been proven to sustain any life. Hilarious.
You expect scientists just to fly into outerspace, get to a planet in no time, and test for life?
What a dumbass.
1 Scientists are not "desperate." They are doing what good scientists do and are studying the universe around them.
2 The planet is "earth like," it is not a gas giant like all the extrasolar planets found so far.
3 Astronomers have discovered a couple of hundred extrasolar planets not millions
4 Why are so so threatened by the idea of life existing elsewhere?
Scientists have looked at millions, perhaps billions of celestial bodies
Stars don't count, only planets or moons. They've looked at precious few of those.
and not ONE has been proven to sustain any life.
Gee, maybe because we can't prove it at this distance?
This new "earth like planet" will be like just all the others. They will soon find that it will not be able to sustain life.
That's potential observation #1.
2) It is capable of sustaining life.
3) We can not conclusively determine if it can.
But rest assured, a scientist will tell you only what he can prove. We love to be proven wrong.
Most of those bodies we've found are stars, commets, asteriods, and gas giants. You know Europa might have life.
@TDR
The joke is, Christians are extremely allergic to Extrasolar planets with life sustenance, and like to have their heads up their asses, content with a single planet.
Filiae perhaps that guy from Hitchhikers - the infinitely prolonged - he goes to all the planets and insults everyone...in alphabetical order ;) We could ask him!
I actually have not read about this earth-like planet, but Europa - the ice and water moon around Jupiter - might hold a lot of merit. Considering that life has been found wherever water has, devoid of sunlight, it just could be that Europa has some fishy things down there under the surface, deep in the water. If we're right about the water and so forth. I really hope it happens in my lifetime; even though it really makes little difference in the grand scheme of things if there are fishy creatures living way deep down in the Europa waters. :) (To find intelligent life might be REALLY awesome; however, most intelligent life would want little to do with us, I'd think.)
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211 planets known around other stars, not millions or billions. Precious few experiments to look for life have been conducted. In fact, the only serious ones that I can think of right now were done recently with the robots on Mars, and their results were mainly negative though not conclusive.
However, if they build a computer they´re right. If they walk in the moon, it´s ok too. Now, I hope that the planet doesn´t explode all in a sudden. You´d like somewhere to live in.
Scientists have looked at millions, perhaps billions of celestial bodies, and not ONE has been proven to sustain any life.
They've looked at the surface of three besides the earth: the Moon, Mars and Venus. And we're still not sure about Mars.
Millions and billions? Erm, sure, if you include stars. But planets, no way. We've only found a few hundred of those outside the solar system
Besides, there's potential for life right in our back yard. Mars, Europa, even some other random moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible candidates. Until we send probes there that look for the right stuff, we can't know for sure. Besides, life beyond our own could be so bizarre, it might be difficult to detect it at first. Life is so hardy, it could turn up in the most unlikely of places just like it does here on earth.
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