The problem is despite the plethora of planets orbiting the billions of stars that comprise our galaxy, most discoveries have been planets up to five, six times Jupiter-sized, conditions of which could not support life as we know it.
Up to very recently, we were unable to discover smaller sized more Earth-like planets than the gargantuan worlds already made known to us, due to technological limitations. But recent events have confirmed the discovery of Earth-like planets that were in, as they call it,'the Goldilocks Zone', conditions of which were not too cold or too hot around stars similar to our own sun.
I get very much annoyed, angry by the manner in which scientists, media, all play up the discovery of any Goldilocks planet in a wholly celebratory, child-like tone, their talk of contact, communication, setting up the alien landing platform on Devil's Tower, getting Holder to work out some gun-running deal, egregiously belies their otherwise objective empirical approach, unethically abandoned when discussing exo-planets harboring life.
To read scientists regale over a newly discovered Goldilocks planet has them in naive ebullience, their basic scientific knowledge out the window to fantasize about a world seen only as a microscopic dot, talk of communication, exchanging societal background, histories makes for for a lot of but is hardly realistic to occur for a myriad of reasons, such as, the unimaginably far distances, the technology to make it all happen, the little problem with the pathetically inadequate speed in which to merely communicate in a timely manner has any notion of making the greatest discovery in human history of an alien civilization, useless in practical terms. Man's most romantic fantasy, space travel, alien contact, is the result of brains incessantly skewed by watching, reading too much Star Trek, Star Wars,the entire genre of the subject.
In a way, this fierce dedication to the belief of a universe teeming with intelligent life on exo-planets spread across the galaxy is eerily, ironically reminiscent of religion, belief in a higher power,a spiritual being
Both groups believe in what they do are motivated by what seems nearly identical.
Life being as daunting s it can be, has the religious person worship the Supreme Being of their preference as means for salvation, protection, in the hopes of being saved from the ravages of living by virtue of the blessings bestowed by a savior God.
Scientists, other might not share the same needs but suffer from the same insecurities, fears, the planet's survival. Their dedication to,hopefulness for the discovery of aliens,life on other worlds the rationale for which is nearly identical to those who believe in God in that with overpopulation, disease, power generation, the planet under duress, stress,(no,I refuse to include events of meteorological phenomena) are concerned about the future of our planet (said in jest) and look to discover advanced alien civilizations as secular savior to provide us with salvation for all of Earth's daunting problems we ourselves used in getting here to this point, the inspiration, implementation of technology, have them provide us with the means they used to conquer their own problems
Something there is sure farting a lot.
Only 63 million light years away. Lets send them a howdy message. If they respond promptly, we should hear back from them in less than 125,000,000 years.
Come on! 63 million miles from earth and they can tell there is methane there. Nonsense! At 63 million miles away, I would not trust a spectrometer to tell me anything unless I had an agenda. I believe these people do. At 63 million miles away, you can’t even see the planet. How could you tell if it had methane upon it? Be reasonable people. Let’s get real. 63 millions miles away?
I’m sick of them saying “the basic building blocks of organisms”
because building blocks means that you can put them together to build something.
The low-information reader is supposed to think that this means that there is life when there are amino acids.
What a crock! ‘Science’ has turned into funny-paper producing idiocy.
Isn't it just!
"...and look to discover advanced alien civilizations as secular savior to provide us with salvation for all of Earth's daunting problems we ourselves used in getting here..."
Sounds very similar to something a few of us were discussing a week or so ago.
From one of my posts...."Well,I wouldn't insist that they (ETs) don't exist but I don't find anything scriptural that compels me to think they do and the universe being really really big doesn't either.When I see so much 'new age' thinking that swirls around other-worldy life out there coming to save us and see so many who reject God insisting there's other life out there I can't help being suspicious.The Bible tells us there most certainly is other intelligent life in the universe.Some of it being malevolent and maybe trying to hitch a ride on man's desire to believe in some sort of physical saviour."
You might want to read up on super luminal travel and energy from the zero point field.
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while I would agree anyone showing up here would be highly intelligent (and motivated to get here)... I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t see us the same.
let’s say we sailed for many months... lots of open water.. provisions doing ok, but very repetitive. then we stumbled onto an island we had never visited before. this island is jammed packed full of cows and chickens.
are we going to sit down and have a conversation with the cows?
will we look to experience the cultural diversity of the chickens?
hardly.
There is life out there in the universe, nearly undoubtedly so, but what kind of life? Blue-Green algae, or something mostly like it, is probably very common. It’s when you move up from that you start running into problems. The more complex the life, the more likely it is that the universe snuffed it out at some point.
If we’re looking for a species that uses tools to build more tools, then that is likely a very rare thing indeed. Rare enough that we know that no such species that wants to talk is within 40 or so light years, and very likely no intelligent species in that range.
We have the technological ability to build long range ships now if we needed to, in another fifty years our capability will only grow, as will our need to do exactly that. I can’t prove it, but I think we might be the first species in the galaxy to escape our planet if we make it.
When you find free oxygen on an exoplanet get back to me.
They said, in between Facebook posts.