Most Earth-like worlds have yet to be born

http://www.sciencedaily.com ^ | October 20, 2015 | Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

[samtheman]

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed. And, the party won't be over when the sun burns out in another 6 billion years. The bulk of those planets - 92 percent - have yet to be born.

[samtheman]

Makes sense to me. Explains the Fermi Paradox.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

So...

Science Daily says that Earth is ground zero, center of the universe, all time/universe expansion emminates from our terra-firma.

I can go with that...circa 10,000 years ago...or so.

[pepsionice]

Even if they exist...the dinosaur environment will halt human development until some meteor wipes them out and allows their mankind to establish a foothold.

[McGruff]

Sounds like a good place to settle. This planet is toast. Can we colonize one with just conservatives? No RINOs?

[Netz]

...so, we ARE alone afterall...

[BlueDragon]

"......the dinosaur environment will halt human development until some meteor wipes them out and allows their mankind to establish a foothold."

Dang dinosaurs.

[JEDI4S]

And The Planned Planethood Empire will attempt to abort a large portion of those planets......

[samtheman]

Exactly. And other happenstance.

[pepsionice]

The question will eventually come up....as we visit such a planet and here 50,000 dinosaurs hindering development of their mankind...should we go and do them a favor by killing off the dinosaurs? Just go in and start blasting away and do these poor folks a favor.

[Frapster]

Until we show up. ;)

[WhiskeyX]

“Science Daily says that Earth is ground zero, center of the universe, all time/universe expansion emminates from our terra-firma.”

No, Science Daily is not saying that at all. Quite the contrary. The Sun is a little bit less than half the currently calculated age of the Universe. We already know most of the 92 elements which are present in the Sun were forged in the centers of earlier supergiant stars which had to have time to coalesce and form before their too great mass caused them to supernovae and redistribute the elements greater in mass than Helium and Carbon back into interstellar space where they could form into yet one or more additional supergiant stars before their supernovae remnants were coalesced into this Solar System, Sun, planets, and the Earth.

Since the same forging of higher elements is required to produce the Silicon, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese, and so forth to be considered a planet as habitable as the Earth; and the limited cooling of the visible white dwarf stars sets a relatively young age for the present Universe and a far greater age for the projected future of the Universe; it stands to reason the vast majority of planets that can be created will not occur until the passage of many tens of billions of years to come.

[IMR 4350]

Just turn loose a couple of coonasses with their cooking pots and 2 weeks later you would have 28 different recipes for T Rex alone.

[onedoug]

So far....

[jpsb]

New theory, sounds very plauable to me.

The origin of gold

Money Quote

They saw something glowing where they’d earlier seen the GRB. After comparing their observations with theoretical models, the astronomers concluded that they were seeing the radioactive afterglow from a huge quantity of heavy metals formed by a neutron-star smashup.

[backwoods-engineer]

This is a tacit admission that, contrary to the blatherings of the likes of Carl Marx Sagan, Earth is unique in our galaxy, maybe the universe. Read “Privileged Planet” by Guillermo Gonzales (who is a Christian) and “Rare Earth” by Ward and Brownlee (who are athesists) for more.

[BlueDragon]

If it could be made easy enough to get to wherever these other planets full of 'dinosaurs' may be, instead of attempting to artificially accelerate what is thought to be 'evolutionary processes', why not make the place useful and beneficial to mankind, in other ways, instead?

Drop off the kind of humans who just_can_not_behave themselves.

Want to be a predator of those around oneself, like as shown in these recent threads;

Attack on elderly Fresno veteran caught on camera

Metairie woman beaten, robbed during home invasion(mug shots),

and this report from just a few hours ago:

http://abc30.com/news/sword-attack-leaves-teacher-dead-students-injured-/1045567/ (Sweden)

then go hang out with large predatory meat-eating dinosaurs, along with giant lions, tigers and bears.

Good luck, and no you cannot have a pocketknife. No metals. You'll have to mine and smelt/form your own. Oh, and no books, either. So sorry, those are products of civilization, and those items are not to be shared with violent, predatory criminals who commit crimes against humans.

T-shirt, jeans (one pair, no belt) shoes (no laces) and nothing else, then off you go--- you must drop the last 25 feet (adjusted for comparable Earth gravity) from the penal colony delivery wagon.

Why expend effort to make another location in the galaxy yet for more humans, when the ones which are presently already around seem to be slip-sliding towards massive self-annihilation?

Besides, those poor dumb dinosaurs are always hungry. Some asteroid impact is sure to wipe them out eventually anyway (according to the know-it-all speculators who think they are scientists, maybe...)

The doomed dinosaurs may as well enjoy some of their last meals, eh?

Thrwo in a few visits for parties of trophy hunters that could check up on whatever the fate of those who committed crime enough to be completely shunned by the rest of humanity, and maybe the hunting permit fees could help offset the cost of transporting our own worst to Planet Get Eaten Alive (if you don't die first from something else).

Meanwhile, if we were to ever be able to have reliable and cost effective launch vehicles, not only might we be able to send our nuclear wastes to our own nearest star for incineration, we could ship violent felons off to there also. GoodBYE, you (--- ----)!!!

Not yourself, I mean.

pepsionice is a-ok, I don't care who you are. Even those who prefer shouldn't have too big of problems with pepsionice.

[WhiskeyX]

“Earth is unique in our galaxy”

The Earth is most definitely not unique in the Milky Way Galaxy, if you exclude the presence of Humans. If you include the existence of sentient lifeforms who have developed civilizations, there are likely to be hundreds of thousands at the very least to millions of them in good probability in the Milky Way Galaxy at the present time.

[samtheman]

Thanks. I will read them.

[minnesota_bound]

If we stop using up the planets resources then more planets can be born once our sun goes nova in 5 billion years.

We need massive taxes to stop us from using oil and trees and water and cars etc or you are dooming the future aliens on other worlds to come!

[backwoods-engineer]

The Earth is most definitely not unique in the Milky Way Galaxy

Good to know it. So, please give us a URL of photographs of a planet (even remotely like) Earth, and what is the primary star's designation?

Oh, you don't actually have any data, do you?