Strange Signal Comes From Alien Planet, Scientist Says

Fox News ^ | October 11th, 2010

[a fool in paradise]

Intergalactic techno rap radio broadcasts. Great.

[JPG]

Didn't read the book, just saw the movie. I've been an astronomy buff since I was a little tyke. They ARE out there, probably in uncounted numbers, and all wondering and anticipating ‘contact’ just like we do.

[a fool in paradise]

Besides, it's far more likely that it's Al Gore they're looking for.

Why? Did he bilk them out of trillions of dollars with the globalist warming scare schtick too?!!!

[JoeProBono]

[Red Badger]

The movie was a waste of time. The book was completely different. There were 5, IIRC, scientists who took a trip to the other side of the universe, came back and only an hour or so had passed. They met “people” there who took the form of someone they each highly respected.

The message was: We know you are here. We are busy trying to save the Universe from collapsing. The Quasars are us doing experiments. We will check back with you periodically.

There was no water involved, it was more like a subway car or airport tram. It was much more intriguing in the book because it was written by a scientist, not a Hollywood director with a budget to adhere to....

[OB1kNOb]

[JPG]

Thanks, now on my ‘to read’ list.

[mmichaels1970]

"We are planning the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system."

DON'T PANIC!

[sodpoodle]

They be lookin’ for Ray Charles;)

[Slyfox]

Astronomer Ragbir Bhathal, claimed to have detected a suspicious pulse of light nearly two years ago

The Alien From Planet X

[Jack Hydrazine]

What we need for this is more cowbell!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Vogons are calling! Where’s Zaphod Beeblebrox when you need him?

[backwoods-engineer]

Oh, dear Lord, not the non-existent denizens of the flare-star planet again!

[backwoods-engineer]

Make that 490 planets found with zero earthlike planets

And if the Rare Earth hypothesis is correct, we won't find a single one in our galaxy. The only thing close will be a planet capable of supporting bacteria or algae.

I support the Rare Earth hypothesis, regardless of how much flak I get from FReepers.

[backwoods-engineer]

They ARE out there, probably in uncounted numbers, and all wondering and anticipating ‘contact’ just like we do.

Nonsense. Fairy-tale stories. Mathematically, there probably isn't another Earth in our galaxy, and maybe even the whole universe.

[Windflier]

Mathematically, there probably isn't another Earth in our galaxy, and maybe even the whole universe.

Flat earth thinking. Do have any faintest concept of the unimaginably huge number of galaxies there are in just the "known" universe? It's a bigger number than most people can mentally picture.

Do you realize how many billions of stars are in each and every one of those countless galaxies?

And further, most, if not ALL of those stars likely have planetary systems, which increases the number of worlds to a truly incomprehensible number.

"Mathematically"? My friend, the mathematical odds of life existing elsewhere in the universe are staggeringly huge.

[JPG]

Interesting take you have on life in the universe. If we're it it sure seems like a whole lot of wasted space. In any event, to you be your way of thinking and to me be mine.

[WAW]

He’s stayed out past his curfew. Time for the little monster to come home.

[Kevmo]

The Drake equation put the chance at developing life as 1 in 100. The chances of a single protein molecule forming into a polypeptide is 1 in 100 trillion trillion, and since the simplest life would require hundreds of thousands of these, the chance for life to arrive through abiogenesis would be several THOUSAND orders of magnitude smaller than what the Drake equation postulates.

[Windflier]

...the chance for life to arrive through abiogenesis would be several THOUSAND orders of magnitude smaller than what the Drake equation postulates.

Pardon if I don't quite track with you. It's late, and I'm getting a bit fuzzy.

Are you suggesting that the chances of life arising elsewhere in the universe are less likely, or more likely?

For the record, I believe that life doesn't arise anywhere all on its own. I also believe that it is ubiquitous throughout the universe. Those are my beliefs.