Posted on 09/28/2011 4:05:11 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The Kepler orbiting observatory research team found more than 1,200 exoplanets in its first 136 days of operation. Using their data, other researchers are now calculating that there may be many, many more—so many, in fact, that we might find habitable worlds around one-third of all Sun-like stars.
The Kepler research team's findings, released earlier this year, revealed evidence of 1,235 exoplanets found after viewing some 150,000 target stars. That's a big haul for just a fraction of a year's work, but it's only a tiny portion of the universe.
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we have on beauty of a terraformable planet right here in the good ole solar system....
Mars is ripe for it....
and future humans might be able to de-gas venus so that the atmosphere wouldnt crush and/or cook us...
At my age (57) if I wasn’t married and I didn’t have to forrage hard to survive (We brought along enough food to last through all the seasons), I would probably go.
Why not?
Oops, missed that 50/50 chance of survival.
I’d have to think about it but would probably arm up and go for it.
[ Humans have spent millions of years living in this biosphere; where we share similarities with every fungus, bacteria and virus. Every 150 pound human is carrying 5 pounds of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Actually, that 150 pound human has more non-human cells than human cells because that 5 pounds of cells are so much smaller than human cells. Our highly evolved immune systems keep the alien growths in check and balanced.
Now, imagine we go to another world that has evolved totally different analogs of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Those aliens will be right at home in our wet, nutrient filled bodies. Our immune systems won’t recognize them and we’d shortly be sprouting growths like forest fungi inside our eyelids. We wouldn’t make it a month on this new world. ]
This is why aliens probe humans up the poop chute, not because they are kinky, but to collect the bacteria that live in our guts to study them so they can adapt themselves to our bacterial flora and fauna.
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