Posted on 06/13/2012 4:50:57 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early and often throughout our Milky Way galaxy's history, a new study reveals.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Our world will turn out to
Be The most ALIEN of them all
Our world will turn out to
Be The most ALIEN of them all
The most recent estimate is that 80% of the stars in the universe are red dwarfs we can’t even see.
Its cold outside
There’s no kind of atmosphere
I’m all alone
More or less
Let me fly
Far away from here
Fun Fun Fun
In the Sun Sun Sun
I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comotose
Sipping fresh
Mango Juice
Goldfish shoals
Nipping at my toes
Fun Fun Fun
In the Sun Sun Sun
...obscure 90s era British Television Series...
Nothing obscure about Red Dwarf. LOL
Awesome show and I was sad when it ended.
And yes, I hummed the theme song as I read the lyrics.
You can find “Back to Earth” on Youtube.
The whole series is on netflix.
I’m ready. When can we leave this doomed planet?
They’ll say or “discover” anything if they can convince themselves and/or others that life exist elsewhere than on earth. They have remarkably little comprehension about how impossible, apart from a miracle, life really is.
I think that the notion that Earth is the only planet in the galaxy that harbors life is much more incredible than the notion that it is widespread. By the nature of the universe there is never only one of any kind of thing.
Great work, cc. Desktop!
Large version here if you want to grab it.
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x449/JohnNorvell/Lookingbacksc.jpg
But on Star Trek, there are Class M planets all over the galaxy.
Reminds me of a Star Trek episode on which they discovered silicon based life, rather than carbon based life. Life as we know it is carbon based. Maybe there are types of life we can’t even conceive of.
And if the James Webb Space Telescope gets launched we'll have a good idea which ones are Class M, and hence which ones to target with our robotic AI arks, complete with seed vaults and DNA banks for terraforming in case the planet isn't already inhabited.
http://www.astrobio.net/interview/4296/the-james-webb-telescope-will-see-earth-like-worlds
somebody at space.com has been paid off by the producers of the new alien prequel.
Exactly; this article tells me nothing I haven’t already thought of.
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