We've Never Found Anything Like The Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?

Science Alert ^ | 29 December 2022 | By MICHELLE STARR

[Red Badger]

He’s dead, Jim..........................

[ifinnegan]

“There are considerable religious, philosophical, practical considerations in either case, especially in the long run.”

What are they?

[fretzer]

All I can say is the author babbled on quite a bit without once mentioning the Drake equation.

https://www.space.com/25219-drake-equation.html

[dragnet2]

Science alert!

They haven’t a clue what’s out there.

[blueunicorn6]

He lives on in our hearts.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

We've Never Found Anything Like The Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?

It takes light from the closest star 4 years to get to us. Space is really big and we're really small. Supposing that we are unique has been proven false repeatedly. Odds are we will find numerous examples of other "solar" systems around other stars as our technology for detecting them improves.

[Right Brother]

Actually, I think the discovery of life on other planets would validate God. If life is some sort of cosmic accident, then it should likely not be repeated elsewhere. Numerous similar ‘accidents’ implies purpose.

[Red Badger]

Abd on our radios.................

[SaveFerris]

(By extension, this could mean life itself is an outlier; that the conditions that formed Earth and its veneer of self-replicating chemistry are difficult to replicate.)

How about that.......✝️🙏🛐

[JustaTech]

After all these billions of years I feel it’s unlikely that what we have with the Earth-Moon combination and the solar system in general, is 100% “natural”.
Almost certainly we live in/on a construct.
That is not to say we won’t detect more systems similar to ours, because I expect we will.
Even if this all is a construct there’s no reason to assume it’s unique.

[Qwapisking]

The larger question is if there ARE “others” out there would they really want to associate with the morons who inhabit this planet or would they hide any evidence that they exist and hope that we go away? betting on the latter.

[dfwgator]

So that means that our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.

[gitmo]

"Things like the Solar System are very hard for us to find, they're a bit beyond us technologically at the minute," Horner says.

"The terrestrial planets would be very unlikely to be picked up from any of the surveys we've done so far. You're very unlikely to be able to find a Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars around a star like the Sun."

And if they are smart, they will put a cloaking device around their system.

[SaveFerris]

Especially now since Joe and the WEF seem to have followers

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Learnt” is indeed a word, and may be correctly spelled that way too, though it’s a British thing that could be disappearing in more recent writing.

[Olog-hai]

Not when I was a kid. “Learnt” was a misspelling. So it really is not a word.

[laplata]

“Or one could just acknowledge that “In the beginning God….”

Yes!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Tell it to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.

[StAnDeliver]

Somewhere, probably in this same galaxy, there is an M-Class star (or a stable dual- or even triple-star system that throws M-Class heliosphere capabilities) with a slightly different setup that still has habitable worlds in the Goldilocks/Drake zone.

Carbon-based life with abundant water, albeit maybe a rocky planet where the oceans mostly dwell within.

Frankly, almost absurdly, the canon of "Vulcan" seems the most likely candidate for Sentient Life 2.0.

But at the end of the day, we are not alone.

[joma89]

God has a way of making things special.