Ninth Planet May Exist in Solar System Beyond Pluto, New Evidence Suggests

The New York Times ^ | JAN. 20, 2016 | KENNETH CHANG

[PIF]

Ah yes modern man throws up a few instruments and says see that all there is.

Hubris.

“My point was that if life arose once on this planet it should of arose more than once on this planet”

Point of fact it did. There was a period where the Earth’s atmosphere was methane. Prior to that there was life, and after the methane period ended there was life again. Don’t ask me to detail this for you, please.

[presidio9]

Ah yes modern man throws up a few instruments and says see that all there is.

In fact, I do not believe that the observable universe is "all there is." I'm just taking your statistical argument, correcting it, and throwing it back at you to say that there are not nearly as many throws of the dice available as most people seem to think. Not by a long shot.

Point of fact it did. There was a period where the Earth’s atmosphere was methane. Prior to that there was life, and after the methane period ended there was life again. Don’t ask me to detail this for you, please.

You are almost right about this. There was more methane in atmosphere when the first life arose, but it was still mostly CO2 and Hydrogen. This first life added to the atmospheric methane by through their own biological processes.

But, again, that's not my point. All of life that we are aware of on this planet is based on the DNA molecule and there fore ultimately arose from a single source.

[The KG9 Kid]

Right, in addition to the ones we already know, inside and outside the orbit of Pluto there's got to be plenty more even if they're Neptune-sized.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks presidio9.

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[CodeJockey]

One trip around the sun would take 10,000 to 20,000 years.

Wow... That’s one heck of a long year!

[SunkenCiv]

http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/

http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/

https://twitter.com/plutokiller?lang=en

[Larry Lucido]

That would be a long football season.

[bolobaby]

Man, I loved that show as a kid.

[rollo tomasi]

Planet MickeyJanus

[keving]

Has any when there Uranus?

[presidio9]

Uranus?

I think 50 posts just might be a record for a thread like this.