Posted on 04/16/2025 6:12:34 PM PDT by fruser1
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, have identified the chemical fingerprints dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) – molecules that indicate life.
Here on Earth, these molecules are only produced by living organisms – primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton.
The molecules have been detected in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b, which is located around 124 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Leo.
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Give me grant money — pleeeeze
...yet.
I would like to travel there only 120 light years away. May be Elon will invent a rocket ship travelling at 100 light years per earth year.
You nailed it!
“May be Elon will invent a rocket ship travelling at 100 light years per earth year.”
Impossible
I could imagine that once they start spotting hycean water worlds full of algae, they’ll find these types of planets everywhere.
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
Yogi Berra
Warp speed now, Mr. Scott!
How long would it take to travel there?
You can take the subway, but you have to transfer like a billion times..
50% tariffs for starters, and it’s only fair. Those organisms have gotten away with a lot. It’s time to make earth great again.
There is a duplicate universe and Earth in space, a planet where you exist in duplicate, obeying all the laws and commandments you were supposed to in your life. On judgement day, God brings out the book’s planet and shows you what your life should have been if you were good and obedient to his law. He has us nailed, we have no excuse.....
You beat me to it. “We have discovered a planet composed of unattractive, overweight women, empty cartons of box wine, and cat litter.”
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of the Sun’s outer corona.
At its closest approach in 2024, its speed relative to the Sun was 690,000 km/h (430,000 mph) or 191 km/s (118.7 mi/s), which is 0.064% the speed of light. It is the fastest object ever built on Earth.
If it takes light 120 years to travel to this exoplanet, and we could fly on PSP there, it’d take about 2,000 years.
At current rocket speeds it would take about 1.4 million years to get there.
I was of course joking.
I wonder how many generations we’d have to spawn on the spacecraft, for Earthlings to arrive there alive...or for any from the other planet to arrive here alive.
(I don’t know how sex and progeneration work out in outer space, but it doesn’t sound like a ‘fruitful’ enterprise upon which to embark...)
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