Posted on 10/11/2010 12:56:43 PM PDT by TaraP
The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced – and been met with harsh skepticism among the science community.
Following the Sept. 29 announcement of the discovery of Gliese 581g, astronomer Ragbir Bhathal, a scientist at the University of Western Sydney, claimed to have detected a suspicious pulse of light nearly two years ago, that came from the same area of the galaxy as the location of Gliese 581g, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail online. [Alien Planet Gliese581g: FAQ]
Bhathal is a member of the Australian chapter of SETI, a non-profit scientific organization that is dedicated to research, exploration and education in the field of astrobiology.
"Whenever there's a clear night, I go up to the observatory and do a run on some of the celestial objects," Bhathal told the Daily Mail. "Looking at one of these objects, we found this signal. We found this very sharp signal, sort of a laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we're looking for – a very sharp spike. And that is what we found."
Still, there are some scientists who are skeptical of Bhathal's assertion.
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Intergalactic techno rap radio broadcasts. Great.
Why? Did he bilk them out of trillions of dollars with the globalist warming scare schtick too?!!!
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....
They be lookin’ for Ray Charles;)
The Alien From Planet X
What we need for this is more cowbell!
Vogons are calling! Where’s Zaphod Beeblebrox when you need him?
Oh, dear Lord, not the non-existent denizens of the flare-star planet again!
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.
Nonsense. Fairy-tale stories. 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.
He’s stayed out past his curfew. Time for the little monster to come home.
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.
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.
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