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We are not alone: 'trillions' of planets could be supporting life
Times Online ^
| 02/15/09
| Mark Henderson
Posted on 02/15/2009 11:03:43 AM PST by KevinDavis
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I think so.. In all fairness who would want to visit this frakin pile of crap..
To: markman46; AntiKev; wastedyears; ALOHA RONNIE; RightWhale; anymouse; Brett66; SunkenCiv; ...
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:04:15 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
To: KevinDavis
As Enrico Fermi famously asked many years ago, “where is everybody?”
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:06:26 AM PST
by
jpl
(Help us Obambi Wan Kenobi, you're our only dope.)
To: KevinDavis
Hmmm do any of them look like this?
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:07:36 AM PST
by
exist
To: jpl; All
It could be the following:
1. Very advance civilization, don't care to visit us
2. At our technological level
3. Just starting out..
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:08:01 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
To: KevinDavis
Trillions?? Then it should be no problem to prove out just one, eh?
To: exist
To: Phillipian
Trillions might work out to 40-50 in each galaxy. Ours is average sized and would take hundreds of thousands of years to cross at light speed.
The universe is a very large place.
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:14:35 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(I finally agree; the President is an Ass)
To: exist
I don't know but I'd sure go to that planet.
It's hard for me to believe there is not life out there somewhere else in the infinite universe. If there is life that has evolved into intelligent beings they probably don't look a whole lot like us. Even if they were humanoid looking if temperatures and gravity were different there they'd look a lot different. In a cold place with high gravity they'd probably be short and squat and hairy. If we were stuck on an alien planet we'd probably be on one with the ugly women.
To: exist
Did you body paint her against her will, you prevert?
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:16:10 AM PST
by
353FMG
(Trust in Glock.)
To: KevinDavis
They would visit earth just to laugh at us. Probably look at obama and say : “ see? they select their leaders based on stupidity. Time for invasion.”
To: KevinDavis
Cool! Hope they are conservatives.
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:19:45 AM PST
by
mom.mom
To: max americana; All
Obama will just surrender without a fight..
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:20:18 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
To: 353FMG
Did you body paint her against her will, you prevert?I wish. That totally would've been worth 2-5 years.
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02/15/2009 11:21:08 AM PST
by
exist
To: SmallGovRepub
Moses 1:33 And worlds without number have I created.
To: KevinDavis
“Some planets are even likely to have produced intelligent organisms and civilisations, though our chances of locating one of these are remote, Dr Boss said. Enrico Fermi, the University of Chicago physicist back in the Fifties, said: Where are they?. The answers at that time ranged from the practical to the suicidal. The suicidal point of view was that maybe it just means that civilisations that are capable of sending us radio signals just dont last very long. Maybe weve only got 1,000 years to go, maybe 10,000. Maybe stars like ours produced life a billion years ago, or will do so a billion years from now.”
This is the most creative argument for Global Warming I’ve read yet, just imagine, a trillion planets, a trillion Al Gores, a trillion...
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:27:28 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: KevinDavis
This is an optimist versus pessimists game and I tend more towards the '
Rare Earth Hypothesis' than this concept that the Earth and life are common. The relatively new concept of Galaxies having a 'life zone' where hard radiation is within acceptable limits reduces the 'Drake Equation' greatly. Add to it that there may be some life forms so outre as to be unidentifiable and thus non-communicative, and we might be a solitary natural accident OR a Deity event. Right now I am waiting for further study because there is insufficient proof in either direction.
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:31:27 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: SES1066
I agree with you about Rare Earth. In my opinion, that sums up the situation. Not only do you have to be far enough from the center of a galaxy to escape the worst of the radiation, but you have to be close enough in to get plenty of metals in your planetary makeup. It’s a thin band around the galactic core that meets those two qualifications.
To: KevinDavis
I think it’s incredibly stupid to assume there is no other forms of life in other universes and galaxies.
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:43:58 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristopherson)
To: autumnraine; All
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posted on
02/15/2009 11:45:46 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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