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To: backwoods-engineer
I don't understand why people get so hopeful that there will be life on hot Jupiters, Saturns and Neptunes.

There is more to the universe than just hot planets. I think the earth, and planets such as Mars would clearly substantiate that.

Did you know during nuclear weapons testing that life was found just below the surface close to where weapons were detonated?

Name one extra-terrestial system that doesn't contain close-orbiting giant planets (i.e., "hot Jupiters"). Out of the over 200 that have been discovered, they all contain them. Those will not be life sites, nor will their moons.

No offense, but you seem really ignorant here. Do you realize that we have only started to scratch the surface with our search for similar earth like planets, and or planets that we believe might harbor life? Do you realize that with our extremely limited technology, we are currently capable of searching a very small, limited regions close to earth?

We've only started searching for these planets in the past few years.

Asking to, "Just name one" is a bit ridicules at this point.

It was only just a couple of years ago that we actually discovered other solar systems exist outside of our own.

The universe is really a big place...Please, give it some time....lol

77 posted on 08/26/2010 2:46:00 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2
I'm not ignorant on this subject. I'm not a professional astronomer, but an engineer who has been following the search for extra-terrestrial planets almost since it began.

My "name one" challenge would be supported by any number of habitable-zone proponents, such as Dr. Guillermo Gonzales, Dr. Donald Brownlee and Dr. Peter Ward. Simply put, we do not believe there is another system like Sol in the entire galaxy. I know that is unpopular with the trekker types, but it is supported by hard facts.

78 posted on 08/26/2010 5:05:16 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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To: dragnet2
It was only just a couple of years ago that we actually discovered other solar systems exist outside of our own.

Incorrect. It was in 1992, 18 years ago. (pulsar PSR B1257+12) It was a shot heard 'round the astronomical world. I remember it. Do you?

79 posted on 08/26/2010 5:08:46 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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