Life beyond Earth? Nasa finds water in five distant planets

Firstpost.com ^ | 12/04/13

[Red Badger]

When they learn how to ‘bend’ space-time, travel from here to there will be possible...............

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Yes it's a validated scientific process called spectroscopy. I agree we won't ever be going there, but understanding the composition of far away bodies by studying their reflected light is quite reliable. It may be difficult to understand, but trust me when I say that part of the argument has been proven and tested many times over”

I am well aware of that principle however this is pretty irrelevant as it leads no-where in this case.

BTW : You cant really validate those conclusions because they cant get that far even with a probe. They validate the technique for short distances then use that to make conclusions about millions of miles away.

TCM replayed 1950s '20 Million miles from earth ' again this part weekend. Fun movie especally when I was a kid. Stop frame animation.

[sickoflibs]

OK, it just had to LOL

[MrB]

And... if you get right down to it,
what they are REALLY trying to prove is -

if it happened by accident somewhere else,
that’s what happened here - sans Creator.

[PIF]

I recall when Al Jolson could send women into orbit ...

[sickoflibs]

RE :”When they learn how to ‘bend’ space-time, travel from here to there will be possible”

Yes, thats like Obamacare ‘bending the cost curve’

Maybe we will find a wormhole portal here like they did on ‘Stargate’

Then just need to crack the identification code to make it work. How tough can that be? Maybe they use simple passwords.

[MarineBrat]

>>Yeah, sure. Next time they drop by your house for dinner, take a polaroid.

Now that would be crazy... ... ... ... nobody around here still has a Polaroid!

[sickoflibs]

RE :”And... if you get right down to it,
what they are REALLY trying to prove is - if it happened by accident somewhere else,
that’s what happened here - sans Creator.”

yes, I can see it now
“We proved there cant be a God because we identified certain wavelengths of refected light from space that indicate water.”

I dont think NASA will be claiming something that silly.

Thats like Creationionists saying evolution is impossible because some bones are missing.

[MrB]

“You’re kidding me - it was ‘1,2,3,4’?”

[cripplecreek]

I was under the impression that God created the whole universe.

[dead]

My guess is that there is indeed life all over the universe, trapped by the laws of physics in little space/time bubbles that pop in and out of existence with regularity.

Even if two bubbles happen to exist at the same time, there is no way for the occupants of one bubble to reach across the vast distances and actively communicate with another.

Our radio waves are our artifacts.

[sickoflibs]

Amazing that advanced aliens could build those portals and make them work, we cant get a man in orbit anymore, yet they never thought of stong passwords.

[Red Badger]

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/12/03/spooky-action-builds-a-wormhole-between-entangled-particles/

[I want the USA back]

Doesn’t mean there’s water on the surface.

[sickoflibs]

RE :’I was under the impression that God created the whole universe.

Is that possible now that NASA detected water from that reflected light?

I heard that disproves your theory.

How about those space aliens on TV?

[MarineBrat]

If the soil of Mars is indeed sterile, and has always been sterile, then so far that adds up to 50/50 life over uncountable googolplexes of worlds.

[sickoflibs]

LOL

[cripplecreek]

There are so many things that we really don’t understand about the universe. Heck, we don’t even really understand gravity.

It’s why I can easily disregard the “We can’t cause its impossible” crowd as ignorant fools. We’re all pretty ignorant of the universe but only the real morons are so ignorant as to know all there is to know.

[spincaster]

Good place for all Socialist and Liberals !

[haywoodwebb]

"From looking at reflected light they decide there must be water on planets that are millions or billions of miles away. Yes it's a validated scientific process called spectroscopy. I agree we won't ever be going there, but understanding the composition of far away bodies by studying their reflected light is quite reliable. It may be difficult to understand, but trust me when I say that part of the argument has been proven and tested many times over. "

Yes, like all of the methane they detected on Mars...^{(***Only 34 million miles away...)}

Oh wait...