Posted on 02/15/2009 11:03:43 AM PST by KevinDavis
Trillions of planets that are capable of harbouring life are probably orbiting Sun-like stars, making it almost certain that humanity is not alone in the Universe, a leading astronomer said yesterday.
The discovery of hundreds of planets around distant stars in our galaxy suggests that most solar systems have a world like ours that is capable of supporting life, and many of them are likely to have evolved it, according to Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC.
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As Enrico Fermi famously asked many years ago, “where is everybody?”
Trillions?? Then it should be no problem to prove out just one, eh?
Green chicks are hot.
The universe is a very large place.
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.
Did you body paint her against her will, you prevert?
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.”
Cool! Hope they are conservatives.
Obama will just surrender without a fight..
I wish. That totally would've been worth 2-5 years.
Moses 1:33 And worlds without number have I created.
“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 don’t last very long. Maybe we’ve 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...
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.
I think it’s incredibly stupid to assume there is no other forms of life in other universes and galaxies.
I agree..
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