Posted on 05/02/2016 10:19:44 AM PDT by Phlap
An international team of scientists said Monday they had discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system.
The three orbit an ultracool dwarf star a mere 39 light years away, and are likely comparable in size and temperature to Earth and Venus, they reported in a study, published in Nature.
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And that is only 234 trillion miles. Given our current best propulsion system, we will never get there.
And by being tidal locked in a very close orbit to flaring red dwarf stars means no, they’re not inhabitable.
We will as soon as they finish reverse engineering those alien ships Bob Lazar was working on at Groom Lake near Area 51
(I really do believe this)
But they will fly there at night, silly
Only a couple of challenges to overcome, and we’ll go check them out.
Like, radio signals would take 40 yrs to go back and forth between earth and any space machines sent there.
Why would we want to go there? We’re in the 21st Century, having seen around 100 million die in the 20th Century due to Communism/Socialism, and yet humanity is still pushing for it.
The United States, the only real defense against it, is itself in total disarray, and China is growing to be a global threat and linked to Russia, also a global threat.
So why go and F up another planet? If we’re going to wink out, lets do it without infecting other places.
Those apocalyptic movies from the 50s 60 and 70s, any one of those loom on our horizon in case anyone didn’t know it.
We’re hanging by a thread here, with a snake-charmer doing his best to screw up our only real chance to turn this all around.
Oui...
Exactly. And they'll need some SPF 50000 sunscreen for after dawn. These things can be solved.
The variables for life on our plant such as temperature, radiation level, oxygen levels, water supply, gravitational force, etc. etc. are so finely tuned and narrow it’s pretty silly to claim that any planet this far away is “earth like”. I know a scientist researched this and found 20 such variables. He tried to calculate the probability of even ten of these variable existing all within the extremely narrow range necessary for life as we know it and came up with an astronomical number. Something like 10 to the 33rd power against.
Only 39 light years away?
That’s a hop, skip and a jump.
Yeah, I was thinking that a slow spin or tidal locked planet would not generate much of a magnetic belt to shield the planet.
We just have to go really, really fast.
j/k
[in size and temperature to Earth and Venus]
Well, which is it? Give some of the temps I’ve heard about Venus. Hot, no?
+1.
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Inconceivable!
Temperatures like Venus don’t make for good habitat for man. Average temperatures of 400+ degrees Celsius are bit warm for me.
[ ... An ultra cool dwarf... ]
George: Can’t they just use another midget?
Micky: It’s LITTLE PEOPLE! Got it?!??!!!
Average of 752F+ ... if my math is good today.
Haven’t had my soda caffeine yet. Sorry, Bloomberg.
Comparable to Earth and Venus...
That is a pretty big range!
Scientists act like life is everywhere.
What if we are unique?
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