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TOPIC: We Are Not Alone
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We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
To mark my very very last post of the year

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16268950

I'm convinced that Planet King is out there somewhere!! They'll all have big blue and white hair and laugh at our non curvey smiles.

Terrifying.
 
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#78403
veritas

Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
the odds are....there are billions and billions of similar solar systems...all with billions of earth like planets.
 
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#78420
Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
"they may have been able to support life and one of them may have had conditions similar to our own planet"

I love the way scientists try to get us worked up about nothing. When they find something "real", I'll be interested but, for now, they just keep spewing out the usual waffle.
 
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#78422
andrew

Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
Also misleading remember at school when they said Pluto was the 9th planet ? Now we now they tell us it's not even a planet but a minor planet.
 
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#78509
veritas

Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
The Fat Controller wrote:
To mark my very very last post of the year

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16268950

I'm convinced that Planet King is out there somewhere!! They'll all have big blue and white hair and laugh at our non curvey smiles.

Terrifying.


I had dinner with a vsiting NASA scientist last night and he told me extraordinary stories about our universe including that the recent discovery of an earth like planet revolving around a sun...was incorrect. They have actually found 20 such similar ones to date....and the USA along with Russia expect to have base on Mars within 20 years
 
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#78525
Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
veritas wrote:
The Fat Controller wrote:
To mark my very very last post of the year

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16268950

I'm convinced that Planet King is out there somewhere!! They'll all have big blue and white hair and laugh at our non curvey smiles.

Terrifying.


I had dinner with a vsiting NASA scientist last night and he told me extraordinary stories about our universe including that the recent discovery of an earth like planet revolving around a sun...was incorrect. They have actually found 20 such similar ones to date....and the USA along with Russia expect to have base on Mars within 20 years


Of course there are conspiracy theories to suggest that they have them already (as well as on the Moon).
 
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#78747
TED

Re:We Are Not Alone 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
It also shows that the Kepler Space Telescope is capable of detecting relatively small planets around stars that are thousands of light-years away.

Do you know how long it would take us to reach one of these planets going the speed of light? Thousands of years. And nothing known to man is faster than the speed of light, so a couple thousand years is the very soonest something could get there. The fastest spacecraft today moves in about 1/10000 the speed of light.

Interesting also is when you look at something a light year away, you are actually looking into the past a year. So when we look at these planets thousands of light years away, we are actually seeing them how they looked thousands of years ago, not how they look today.
 
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