Posted on 05/29/2013 4:30:15 PM PDT by lbryce
Please note that this article was originally published on March 20, 2008.
The possible detection of methane in the atmosphere of a distant planet could be the next big step in the search for life outside our solar system
Everyone seems to be double-extra-cautiously optimistic about this finding, so don’t go running out to your telescope tonight looking for greetings from friendly space creatures.
But in work reported today in Nature, astronomers say they used the Hubble Space Telescope’s infrared imager to pick up signs of methane in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star some 63 million light years from Earth. And methane, an organic molecule, is an indicator of the possible presence of life.
The bad news, for ET fans, is that the planet is probably too close to its host star to support the kind of life we’re all really looking for. The good news is that the very presence of methane, and water, in the planet’s atmosphere could be evidence that some form of life may be out there, either on this planet or others. Methane is key to the formation of amino acids, the basic building blocks of organisms.
Another key takeaway from this work, scientists say, is that astronomers have now moved from simply finding these planets—a not-so-simple job in and of itself—to exploring them chemically.
I have no further responses for you to latch onto. Try asking the Admin Mod for further exchanges.
YOU get help. Or maybe, just defend your grand hypothesis.
***I realize that won’t be so easy to defend your grand hypothesis in such a context, but you are the one who chose to engage heavy and aggressive insults on this thread. So... please... either get help ... or... politely defend your hypothesis.
Take responsibility for your own choice of being the first to engage aggressive insults on this thread. The same thing happened on the last thread. We will get nowhere until you take responsibility.
Then it would appear that your Extraterrestrial Hypothesis is indefensible in this 2nd thread.
Same thing happened with Quix. He refused to defend the same hypothesis in the light of such things as the book
“Intercept UFO” by Renato Vesco
http://www.amazon.com/Intercept-UFO-Renato-Vesco/dp/B0006WI572/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369892598&sr=1-1&keywords=intercept+ufo+renato+vesco
which explains the boundary layer control technology which the allies appropriated at the end of WWII, was developed over 2 years and resulted in the 1947 UFO sightings.
Quix also engaged in the same kind of aggressive insults. It’s easier than defending your theory.
Would please help this poster? There seems to be some sort of obsession in play ...
Would please help this poster? There seems to be some sort of psychosis in play ...
This theory begs the question of the origin of the space aliens — so where does it really get you???
But then such folks as propose such patent nonsense are the sort that will propose ANY theory, just as long as it obviates the need of a Creator God — in their own imagination. They would turn themselves into pretzels if their “theory” needed it.
It’s just NUTZ, or — not to put too fine a point on it — psychotic. ~Betty Boop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3014868/posts?page=147#147
OK
We added ‘ufo’ to the topics
You mean, in the light of the sentence that I omitted?
“This theory begs the question of the origin of the space aliens — so where does it really get you???
So as to save face for Betty Boop, in the hopes that you wouldn’t engage in such observably ... uhh, ‘ERRATIC’... aggressive insults in the future...?
Read THAT sentence, and its following paragraph? Is that the one you want Betty Boop to re-read? Is that somehow a defense of your behavior?
I have no further responses for you to latch onto.
***Well, this one seems a doozy
To: Admin Moderator
Would please help this poster? There seems to be some sort of obsession in play ...
64 posted on 05/29/2013 10:48:14 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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I'd compare you to Willie Green and his strange, nonstop obsession with trains. But, even he appeared to know he didn't control everybody and everything, a point of differentiation between him and yourself.
Your behavior is getting weirder and weirder, Kevmo. What are the Intrade odds on a zot from outer space generating an LENR on your behind?
“...and the stuff that comes from the back end of a bull is still....”...a DUCK??! LOL (I agree)
***From elsewhere on the thread; If it walks like a duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and isn’t a goose, it’s probably a duck. Welcome to the world of inductive reasoning. Here’s a hint: don’t attack a 3-headed dog with a 2-pronged pitchfork
Your behavior is getting weirder and weirder, Kevmo. What are the Intrade odds on a zot from outer space generating an LENR on your behind?
***ETFOOM. Is this an Intrade thread? Is this a LENR thread? Why then do you stalk me across threads?
I wouldn’t compare you to Quix, who at least had a humorous side and was capable of being charitable to those with whom he disagreed.
***Baloney. He lost that charity with those who supported the Secret Weapon Hypothesis. Besides, It is MHG who is operating like Quix, supporting similar hypotheses to Quix, and gathering the same support from the same characters as Quix, losing his ‘charity’ to Secret Weapons hypothesisers like Quix did, so the real comparison is MHG to Quix.
Oh, but I insist.
You’re wrong.
Do you insist on arguing against these impossible odds? If so, your reaction has been predicted as a faith response. And the emotionalism you’ve exhibited is what was commented on upthread. So at this time, I must insist: You’re wrong. Demonstrably wrong. By hundreds of Orders Of Magnitude, many times beyond the mathematical definition of IMPOSSIBLE.
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“IOW, a faith response.”
Yep and since “faith cometh by hearing” you have to wonder what folks are inclining their ear towards.
“So the SETI project was off by 29,343 orders of magnitude. It only needs to be off by 50 orders of magnitude to be impossible...”
Even in the face of impossible x 500+ someone,somewhere will simply say “nothing is impossible with God’ and around it will all go again.
30 posted on 05/29/2013 7:41:53 PM PDT by mitch5501 (”make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall”)
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Is this an Intrade thread? Is this a LENR thread? Why then do you stalk me across threads?
I doubt I’m wrong based upon the mathematical treatment of IMPOSSIBLE, but you are a stalker.
Why then do you stalk me across threads?
You stalk me because you cannot defend your position with reason.
;^)
And that reason would be....?
And that reason would be....?
***Because non-fiction is based on fact and accountable to facts. Fiction is not accountable in that way.
I think we’re going to be surprised to run into traffic when we get out of this little backwater solar system.
***That was one of the premises of the book, that Apollo 11 astronauts ran into such traffic. Basically, even though it’s fiction, it is one of the top 20 or 30 books to read on the subject of UFOs. But... again I say... It is fiction for a reason.
yay now we get to go on the conspiracy theories that our government intentionally hides things from us and they dont always tell the truth cause if we knew the truth we would all be stampeding around out of our minds with fear because we cant handle the truth
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