[Fungi]

Really? An idiotic or intuitive premise?

[Fungi]

Nice pictures though—try some sourdough.

[wildcard_redneck]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Currently our level of sensing technology is only capable of detecting very large planets and can see earth size planets only under perfect circumstances and close distances.

[ocrp1982]

No. Really? The people who think this is not the case use the sheer volume of the galaxies and the number of galaxies in the universe to make the case that there are innumerable Earth-like planets. This is pure speculation. There is not one such other planet that has ever been identified.
In fact, of all the supposed Earth-like planets they thought they identified, upon closer examination, not one is even close.
Not claiming another does not exist anywhere. Just stating not one to date has been identified despite claims that there are a very great many based upon the sheer volume of stars, planets, galaxies, etc.. in the known universe.

[Nateman]

Oxygen is a reactive element. So is Fluorine. In only a very rare case has elemental Fluorine been found anywhere. Elemental Oxygen, however , is all over the place. It takes energy to split the water molecule and yet plants throw that energy away by releasing oxygen. We take it for granted but wasting energy is not something evolution would normally favor. Fortunately for animals burning that oxygen gives them enough energy to move around. It also makes fire possible. I figure oxygen filled atmospheres must be quite rare.

[The Right Edge]

... AND that’s why we have to act on “climate change”! Blah, Blah, Blah...

[a fool in paradise]

Aliens are not on Earth just to do butt stuff.

They want our planet.

[wardaddy]

We’ve always known this actually at least since radio telescopes came bout and we could see ...

Woke science lives to denigrate God and believers

This notion is not new

Out existence is indeed unique

All the galaxy and solar system variables in place

[DannyTN]

If we get rid of all the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we can stop the oxygen photosynthesis and be like all the other planets.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

We now how to retitle an old 50’s book by science writer Walter Sullivan entitled “We Are Not Alone” to “We Are Alone”. Sullivan was an honest science writer and did think far ahead into what could lie in outer space.

If he was alive today, and saw the Democrats in Congress, he would definitely write a follow-up book entitled: “We Are Not Alone:Just Look at the Alien Life-Forms in Congress Today”.

[Wuli]

What I reject is the “science” publishers flagrant denial or ignorance on the vastly misrepresented term “earth like”. In 99.99% of the cases where it is used what qualifies as “earth like” is so insufficiently possible to be truly earth like that it is ridiculous.

True earth-like conditions have dozens of necessary scientific attributes yet “science” publishers allow the bastardization of the term to be tossed about on the speculative assumptions on just a few of them.

[drSteve78]

Yaaaaah, we’re already here. Some of us are sane and live in a world of reality, then there’s others ……not so much.

[Deplorable American1776]

I’m still trying to find intelligent life in Washington DC, Hartford, Albany, Springfield and other blue states’ capitals... 🤓

[DouglasKC]

The odds of their being another planet like earth are the same odds as winning the lotto a trillion times. This isnt Star Trek. God created one universe for man and one planet to live on.

[rdcbn1]

A habitable planet like ours would probably need to contain living organisms.

The Earths ecosystem was shaped by living creatures.

[jpsb]

I could have told them that. A long time ago I wrote an article about just how rare the Earth really is and why it is that rare. I don’t know if I posted it here and I no longer have it (it on a dead computer in some landfill some where). But just think about the moon, it’s because of the moon that we are here and it only took 4.49 billion years.

How many planets can go 4.5 billion years with something really bad happening? Certainly not those closer to the center of the galaxy. To much action there. And not on the edge of or galaxy either we needed more then a few super novas to make the stuff were made up of. Happily we are a just the right distance from the center of the Milky Way for all that to happen. Lucky us.

Life got going fairly quickly once a solid crust was formed and comets delivered the necessary H2O. Kinda make one think that comets contain all the ingredients of life? Hmmm.

I also find it curious that the comets arrived a the perfect time, almost like someone had a plan. Hmmmm.

I’m pretty sure there are not a lot of Earths out there.

[minnesota_bound]

Here is a star map of known alien planets.
985 billion pop from the 2370 census.
https://i.imgur.com/UEkrPh7.jpg