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Mystery 'noise' could be an Earth-like world...signals suggest habitable planet...22 light years...
dailymail.co.uk ^

Posted on 03/06/2015 5:22:32 PM PST by BenLurkin

Astronomers believe mysterious signals - previously dismissed as stellar bursts - are coming from an Earth-like planet.

The Gliese 581d planet has conditions that could support life, and is likely to be a rocky world, twice the size of Earth.

Signals from the planet were initially discovered in 2010, but last year dismissed as noise from distant stars.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Article says 22, but still a long way off. Plus when we we get there, we will all weigh three times as much. I think everybody who doesn’t commit suicide on the way there from “space despair”, won’t last long in such an environment.
I saw a sci fi short movie one time where some folks either landed or crashed onto a rainy planet. There was no life, just a maze of rocks and relentless pouring rain. They could find no shelter, and they all died one by one like the folks in “Open Water”. I could imagine that life on a heavy planet would be very dreary. All the girls would have HRC boobies and just getting up out of bed would be exhausting. 180 lbs becomes 540 lbs.


21 posted on 03/06/2015 6:01:57 PM PST by BRK
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To: MeshugeMikey

22 light years...


22 posted on 03/06/2015 6:03:25 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: BenLurkin

So the signals were sent about a million years ago...


23 posted on 03/06/2015 6:03:34 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Axenolith

at those distances...whats a few million years


24 posted on 03/06/2015 6:06:12 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: BenLurkin

They just decoded the Signal.

It said, “don’t Vote for Obama”.
The next signal said, “do you have Hillary’s Email address”?

Too little, too late.


25 posted on 03/06/2015 6:06:35 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Tagline under review by the United States Supreme Court.)
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To: Cementjungle

according to the evolutionist viewpoint..


26 posted on 03/06/2015 6:07:04 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Kickass Conservative
the planet is is under a special sort of mooselim rule

I give you thier Great Leader.




27 posted on 03/06/2015 6:08:39 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Looooooo Seeeeee Im Home....


28 posted on 03/06/2015 6:09:29 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: a fool in paradise

WARNING lower your speaker volume before playing the youtube clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_jKE_3lsAU


OK, So that was sooo bad I need to know why in the world is that link so readily accessible to YOU?


29 posted on 03/06/2015 6:10:50 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I sure hope their not Mooslimbs.


30 posted on 03/06/2015 6:15:14 PM PST by right way right
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To: MeshugeMikey

22 LY not 22 million...

In astronomical universal terms, that’s right on top of us...

Still a long way due to our lack of knowledge/technology, but all considered, extremely close.

My bet is there are literally billions of other planets which contain life in one form or another.


31 posted on 03/06/2015 6:19:46 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Cementjungle

“If our life came about due to chance mixing of available materials, then shouldn’t that happen anywhere with any available chemicals?”

No, because there must be certain chemical reactions to provide the pathways for utilizing sources of energy, chemical and light, to fuel growth, reproduction, motility, and so forth. Carbon and Silicon working in various combinations with compounds utilizing such elements as Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Iron, Phosphorus, Manganese, and others are required to produce organic molecules and polymers necessary to organize for feeding and reproduction. Exobiologists have identified some of these yet to be discovered alternative pathways for biochemical reactions. Most, however, require conditions of pressure and temperature more closely akin to Earth-like environments due to our current ignorance of more extreme environments and their highly exotic chemistries. Jovian class planets for example have enough pressure to form water compunds into a form stronger than steel.


32 posted on 03/06/2015 6:20:58 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: BenLurkin

It’s ONLY 22 light years away? No prob!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyx9vjH5310


33 posted on 03/06/2015 6:22:22 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BenLurkin

duh..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8


34 posted on 03/06/2015 6:23:24 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: dragnet2

Wouldn’t it be wild to pick up some alien TV broadcast equivalent to “Cheers”, “I Love Lucy”, or “Big Bang Theory”.

“Luzettabixbox! You got some splainin’ to do!”


35 posted on 03/06/2015 6:26:18 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Nowhere Man

I hear Kenneth knows the frequency. Go ask him.


36 posted on 03/06/2015 6:27:50 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: BenLurkin

22 light years is not that far. The next generation of space telescopes that are being designed will be able to photograph this planet in some detail, at least being able to see clouds, continents, oceans, etc.


37 posted on 03/06/2015 6:36:47 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: right way right

Imagien Rocky’ s surprise when Bullwinkle...came out as a Mooselim!!


38 posted on 03/06/2015 6:42:13 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It’s conceivable to get there in under 200 years with reasonably close to current technology.

Hollow out an asteroid, pack it full of humans and have a central fusion plant “star” in the center and trundle off at 8-10% C and let the descendants colonize!


39 posted on 03/06/2015 6:46:24 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Nowhere Man

Possibly X-Ray.

(Note: DX is really active right now on 20 and 40 meters, 73)


40 posted on 03/06/2015 6:48:24 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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