"That's my line."
Posted on 05/10/2012 10:10:10 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Researchers say life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space between stars in the Milky Way
A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, UK. Their findings are published online in the Springer journal Astrophysics and Space Science.
The scientists have proposed that these life-bearing planets originated in the early Universe within a few million years of the Big Bang, and that they make up most of the so-called “missing mass” of galaxies. The scientists calculate that such a planetary body would cross the inner solar system every 25 million years on the average and during each transit, zodiacal dust, including a component of the solar system’s living cells, becomes implanted at its surface. The free-floating planets would then have the added property of mixing the products of local biological evolution on a galaxy-wide scale.
Since 1995, when the first extrasolar planet was reported, interest in searching for planets has reached a feverish pitch. The 750 or so detections of exoplanets are all of planets orbiting stars, and very few, if any, have been deemed potential candidates for life. The possibility of a much larger number of planets was first suggested in earlier studies where the effects of gravitational lensing of distant quasars by intervening planet-sized bodies were measured. Recently several groups of investigators have suggested that a few billion such objects could exist in the galaxy. Wickramasinghe and team have increased this grand total of planets to a few hundred thousand billion (a few thousand for every Milky Way star) - each one harbouring the legacy of cosmic primordial life.
Well, we are all morons as none of us understand. Perhaps because we are reaching 'too far'.
As another poster said, We don't really completely understand Gravity and Magnetism, yet we claim to be able to define the nature of the cosmos.
P.S. In support of your space/time rubber sheet comment, consider that the ‘description’ given of a ‘black hole’ is much like your ‘rubber sheet’ and very two-dimensional and highly improbable.
Anyway, all theories are just attempts to explain what we don’t yet understand. Most of the time, we are wrong. The few times we are right are what make up the body of our science.
Just the other day, scientists saw a supernova explosion as it happened. Well, except that it happened 2 billion years ago.
'When' it is, depends really on 'Where' you are, doesn't it?
Either that or 'when' is truly meaningless, and only 'where' and 'who' are important.
Bacteria are everywhere. Viruses too. They are a major and primary component for all life in the Universe. They are both really tough, and can survive anywhere. Viruses are dead anyway, until they find food.
We are circulating around the burning 'wick' of a candle, and we are in the 'flame envelope'. Is the 'behavior' of a planet different outside this 'flame' than one inside?
Is the effect they tested for altered by the Sun's 'aether' field ? Or is there an 'aether' permeating the entire Universe, and it's 'behavior' yet beyond our understanding?
"That's my line."
No?
Try this Martian volcano:
The largest of the volcanoes in the Tharsis Montes region, as well as all known volcanoes in the solar system, is Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 624 km (374 mi) in diameter (approximately the same size as the state of Arizona), 25 km (16 mi) high, and is rimmed by a 6 km (4 mi) high scarp. A caldera 80 km (50 mi) wide is located at the summit of Olympus Mons. To compare, the largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano 10 km (6.3 mi) high and 120 km (75 mi) across. The volume of Olympus Mons is about 100 times larger than that of Mauna Loa.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/atlas/olympus-mons.html
OK, you got me. Shouldn’t have said ‘dead’. And for all we know, Mount Olympus may be the result of a large electrical exchange between two planetary bodies and not a volcano at all. Notice how the ‘pits’ are clustered around the perimeter of the volcano ‘top’? Ever seen a spot weld through a microscope ?
Can you show me any live volcanoes?
OK I’ll bite. How “massive” an amount of energy are you hypothesizing?
If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?
Has this theory been published anywhere?
All the references I can find show earth’s core is heated by latent heat of planetary formation, friction from convection currents in the mantle, heat from phase change as the solid core expands, and the big one -radioactive decay of isotopes in the earth’s interior.
It’s a volcano.
Feel free to do some research, as there is a substantial amount.
OK I’ll bite. How “massive” an amount of energy are you hypothesizing?
If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?
Has this theory been published anywhere?
All the references I can find show earth’s core is heated by latent heat of planetary formation, friction from convection currents in the mantle, heat from phase change as the solid core expands, and the big one -radioactive decay of isotopes in the earth’s interior.
Enough to heat the core, create a magnetic field, and possibly make the planet rotate. A miniscule amount compared to what is available.
If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?
Because most of our energy 'capture' is based on an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny part of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum, and even that we are inefficient at converting.
Has this theory been published anywhere?
Probably. It seems obvious.
What do you think generates the ozone, and what creates the 'hole' in it ?
Which one?
Same is true for dark matter, I suspect.
As it turns out, they are seeing that there is just a lot more 'mass' lying around than they had ever imagined, or could see.
Well, no, we aren't "seeing" this matter. We are projecting its existence to explain anomalies between our observations and our theories.
Saying that we are "seeing" this matter is similar to claiming that anthropogenic global warming is out of control because that's what the computers project.
Theories are not facts, they're just theories. Dark matter/energy and AGW may turn out to be facts, but at the moment they're just theories.
I should also point out that we have yet to observe the existence of a single dark planet, yet these guys are proposing their total mass exceeds that of the stars in our galaxy. That’s a remarkable jump.
It’s saying not only that unicorns exist, but that they outnumber people.
The super volcanoes in the major uplift region are the result of the major impact event which reshaped all of Mars. The force of the impact produced enough hydrostatic forces in theplanet to uplift the surface of the planet opposite the impact region. The volcanoes went dormant as the interior of Mars re-solidified after the impact.
The Moon or Luna is similarly unbalanced because of what appears to have been the collision which produced the present form of the Earth and the Moon or Terra and Luna.
The super volcanoes in the major uplift region are the result of the major impact event which reshaped all of Mars. The force of the impact produced enough hydrostatic forces in theplanet to uplift the surface of the planet opposite the impact region. The volcanoes went dormant as the interior of Mars re-solidified after the impact.
The Moon or Luna is similarly unbalanced because of what appears to have been the collision which produced the present form of the Earth and the Moon or Terra and Luna.
No?
Try this Martian volcano:
for all we know, Mount Olympus may be the result of a large electrical exchange between two planetary bodies and not a volcano at all.
It’s a volcano.
Feel free to do some research, as there is a substantial amount of data, which clearly proves this is a volcano.
Which one?
Why are you playing stupid games?
Based on your own comments, you clearly have no a clue here, yet you run around here beating your drum like ya know what your talking about.
I suggest you do some research prior to posting comments.
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