Posted on 01/23/2018 2:23:29 PM PST by Red Badger
But hasn’t it been the goal of man since he stepped out of he cave and looked at the night sky .... To “make it” with a hot alien babe?
“Planet P is clear!”
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Do you have to travel to the sun to find out what it is made of? As the article already says, because of the nature of the star in question, life might be difficult. We don’t know everything we are capable of discovering about this system. To say we can never know whether life is possible there or has ever been there puts you in with Comte and the patent guy. Never say never.
“Do you have to travel to the sun to find out what it is made of?”
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It’s pretty safe to assume that most stars are made of hot stuff. That’s hardly going out on a limb there.
“because of the nature of the star in question, life might be difficult.”
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Now, that is the type of assumption that I’d cite as not having much basis. The underlying problem is in the assumption that life elsewhere has to the same as it is on earth.
“Never say never.”
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If you have some kind of notion that humans will be zipping from galaxy to galaxy at warp speeds without being burned to a crisp or squished like so many ants, then more power to you.
I enjoy some good sci-fi at times, myself. But humans have real physical limits, so I stick to the science-reality and quantifiable physics involved.
Though I agree that imagining such things can be fun and worthwhile diversion there just are some things man will never do because he just can’t. But we can certainly ponder about them and make hypothesis just for fun.
The star is ‘A’ what?
Well a single light is 6 trillion miles so...uh.... that’s ..24 and a whole bunch of zeros. Forget it. Too far.
In a star system, the biggest or brightest object is labelled ‘A’, as in the Beta Centauri system....................
Pure speculation on “scientific” guesses and assumptions that a tiny few factors of similarities (to earth) spell “possibly habitable” when the requirements for “possibly habitable” require much more than the few known similarities and dozens of facts not in evidence.
I have begun to rate phys.org as I do the History channel on cable TV. And how do I rate the History channel? I refer to it as the speculation channel.
I call it ‘ANYTHING BUT HISTORY Channel’..........Pawn Stars?, really?...................
All because of global warming. /sarc.
Thanks Red Badger.
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