Ping!...................
Just a clump of cells (typed in my best Dim voice)
This is very exciting news.
I hope it pans out.
Can I move there ? No, Seriouly. Get me the hell off this crazy planet.
The space probe has been traveling for most of 50 yrs, and has not reached one light DAY. So it will need to travel more than 700 yrs to reach a light year.
If there are 2 planets with life in the space of 120 light years, there is life everywhere in the universe.
I see a huge difference between atmospheric oxygen and methane. Our own solar system has dead planets whose atmospheres contain methane.
Oxygen as a free gas is completely different, I believe. If there is free oxygen, then there is life, I would think.
Send the ladies to check it out.
Is there video of porpoises frolicking in the water?
Are there SHARKS!
SHARK WEEK! Sharks discovered on K2-18b. Women and children hardest hit.
These morons (”scientists”) can’t predict tomorrows weather, yet they can “claim” from 120 light-years away, that “the best explanation for their findings is that K2-18b is covered with a warm ocean, brimming with life.”
Is it “leap” year? Right, these “scientists” LIVE in “leap year”. They LEAP from one conclusion to a diametrically opposed conclusion faster than you can say “global “warming”” ugh wait... “climate change” (up or down).
I remember one renowned astronomer (scientist) BRAGGING how he modified his computer model until it exactly confirmed his hypothesis. WOW! Hello Nobel.
These scientist types are waaayyyy to enthusiastic about “potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”
I get that it’s how they make a living, but expecting everyone else to think it’s important is asking too much.
Everywhere we look on earth, we find life. I assume God created a universe with life. Whether any other planet has intelligent life is questionable.
Who cares? Don’t these people have better things to do with their time?
“Only” 120 light years away.
be careful!
the ET’s may not wish to be discovered by a race of savage primitives
BUILD THAT WALL!
Beacuse we are as yet too ignorant to know that the suspect molecules can under the right conditions be produced by causes other than bilogical life processes.
Last year news. Dimethyl sulfide already detected on lifeless comets. Both dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide can be synthesized abiotically.
NY Times and Gateway Pundit late to the info.
If one can assume the abiotic origin of life, one can certainly assume the existence of the abiotic formation of other chemicals.
The Internet is becoming a posting ground for pure speculation. With repeating units masquerading as news sources. Engarde.
120 LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
At Voyager 1 speeds (38,000 mph), that’s 17,000 years to travel 1 light year.
120 x 17,000 = 2,040,000 YEARS to travel there.
The only benefit to any of this is the arithmetic to show how pointless these exercises are to “find life” elsewhere.
Except perhaps keeping some super-smart people from doing some other field, like creating gain-of-function viruses.
That works, carry on all.
I think there is a high probability of other life in the universe.
But the huge distances involved create such huge costs and such huge physical risks, I think it is very rare that unique life forms ever encounter each other.