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Astronomers Detect ‘Strongest Indication Yet’ of Life on Exoplanet 120 Light-Years From Earth
Gateway Pundit ^ | April 17, 2025 | Ben Kew

Posted on 04/17/2025 9:38:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/17/2025 9:38:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata

Ping!...................


2 posted on 04/17/2025 9:39:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Just a clump of cells (typed in my best Dim voice)


3 posted on 04/17/2025 9:39:56 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

This is very exciting news.
I hope it pans out.


4 posted on 04/17/2025 9:41:22 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: Tell It Right

detecting life organisms 120 light years away, and we cant even find one rock solid case of fraud in our own home...

Me thinks they should turn the James Webb Telescope around and point it at DC. Who knows what they will find!!!?


5 posted on 04/17/2025 9:44:09 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Red Badger

Can I move there ? No, Seriouly. Get me the hell off this crazy planet.


6 posted on 04/17/2025 9:46:02 AM PDT by Strict9
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To: Red Badger

The space probe has been traveling for most of 50 yrs, and has not reached one light DAY. So it will need to travel more than 700 yrs to reach a light year.


7 posted on 04/17/2025 9:46:31 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Red Badger

If there are 2 planets with life in the space of 120 light years, there is life everywhere in the universe.


8 posted on 04/17/2025 9:47:09 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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I see a huge difference between atmospheric oxygen and methane. Our own solar system has dead planets whose atmospheres contain methane.

Oxygen as a free gas is completely different, I believe. If there is free oxygen, then there is life, I would think.


9 posted on 04/17/2025 10:08:10 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Red Badger

Send the ladies to check it out.


10 posted on 04/17/2025 10:18:46 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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Is there video of porpoises frolicking in the water?

Are there SHARKS!

SHARK WEEK! Sharks discovered on K2-18b. Women and children hardest hit.

These morons (”scientists”) can’t predict tomorrows weather, yet they can “claim” from 120 light-years away, that “the best explanation for their findings is that K2-18b is covered with a warm ocean, brimming with life.”

Is it “leap” year? Right, these “scientists” LIVE in “leap year”. They LEAP from one conclusion to a diametrically opposed conclusion faster than you can say “global “warming”” ugh wait... “climate change” (up or down).

I remember one renowned astronomer (scientist) BRAGGING how he modified his computer model until it exactly confirmed his hypothesis. WOW! Hello Nobel.


11 posted on 04/17/2025 10:20:39 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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These scientist types are waaayyyy to enthusiastic about “potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”

I get that it’s how they make a living, but expecting everyone else to think it’s important is asking too much.


12 posted on 04/17/2025 10:34:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Everywhere we look on earth, we find life. I assume God created a universe with life. Whether any other planet has intelligent life is questionable.


13 posted on 04/17/2025 10:35:20 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: sit-rep

I call BS. It is not around any star so how does it have any warming of the surface outside of geo-thermal. These big scopes are great for pics and what not but detecting minute amount of trace elements is a little hard for me to believe. And yes, I am familiar with red shift and how they detect entire planets and such but...

Just like LV-426. It was a rock. :)


14 posted on 04/17/2025 10:43:03 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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first I read it a couple days ago on another thread I immediately called it BS and exited the page. not even worth the time making a comment... lol...

They can just overly enhance the image(as usual) and add pretty colors and the’ll get instant followers ooohing and aaaahhhing over it.


15 posted on 04/17/2025 10:46:58 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Red Badger

Who cares? Don’t these people have better things to do with their time?


16 posted on 04/17/2025 10:47:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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17 posted on 04/17/2025 10:49:58 AM PDT by DannyTN
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“Only” 120 light years away.


18 posted on 04/17/2025 10:51:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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be careful!
the ET’s may not wish to be discovered by a race of savage primitives


19 posted on 04/17/2025 10:56:38 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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It keeps them out of trouble..............


20 posted on 04/17/2025 10:57:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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