Star To Be Investigated For Alien Life

Ananova ^ | 10-8-2003

[Junior]

That one's highly controversial. A number of researchers say the evidence found actually is the product of non-organic processes.

[JethroHathAWay]

I think you have to "define life". That would be interesting I suppose. It isn't even agreed on concerning babies so I don't know what they would come up with.

[JethroHathAWay]

I know about the theory of comets seeding planets, so meteors would make sense, I think?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[StriperSniper]

While none of us will be alive when mankind explores planets outside of our solar system,

Well, if they would just hurry up and perfect Cryonics...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If you're a positive person, we're made of stardust. If you are a negative person, we're made of nuclear waste.

[longshadow]

Would the Big Bang be like a black hole?

They are fundamentally different, though superficially similar.

A Black Hole has point of infinite density in space and time.

The Big Bang is considered to start with a point of infinite density OF space and time itself.

[new cruelty]

Well, not intelligent life anyway.

[Ogmios]

Thanks for the ping, and by responding, I probably just destroyed this thread. My apologies, but I seem to have a built in fan club, and they seem to enjoy stalking me.

We'll wait and see.

[Ogmios]

Yep, that way we can travel to the stars as astrocicles.

[longshadow]

Long before the probe actually arrives, we'll be awash in great data.

That won't deliver the mail..... halfway to a star a hundred light years away will take 550 years of travel + transmission time, and your image resolution is only twice as good as it was from Earth.

[AndrewC]

so I believe it is also the product of the stellar furnace.

It is, but "large" amounts were formed in the Big Bang according to the theory.

During the first three minutes of the universe, most of the deuterium combined to make helium. Trace amounts of lithium were also produced at this time. This process of light element formation in the early universe is called “Big Bang nucleosynthesis” (BBN).

The predicted abundance of deuterium, helium and lithium depends on the density of ordinary matter in the early universe, as shown in the figure at left. These results indicate that the yield of helium is relatively insensitive to the abundance of ordinary matter, above a certain threshold. We generically expect about 24% of the ordinary matter in the universe to be helium produced in the Big Bang. This is in very good agreement with observations and is another major triumph for the Big Bang theory.

[Friend of thunder]

Hence almost everything you come in contact every day is made from "star-dust."

Well, I came upon a child of God

He was walking along the road

And I asked him, 'Tell where are you going?'

This he told me

Said, 'I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,

Gonna join in a rock and roll band.

Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.'

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are billion year old carbon,

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

'Well, then can I walk beside you?

I have come to lose the smog,

And I feel like I'm a cog in something turning.

And maybe it's the time of year,

Yes and maybe it's the time of man.

And I don't know who I am,

But life is for learning.'

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are billion year old carbon.

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock,

We were half a million strong

And everywhere was a song and a celebration. Riding shotgun in the sky,

Turning into butterflies

Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are caught in the devil's bargain,

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Woodstock

[Written by Joni Mitchell, performed by

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]

Sorry I could not resist.

[longshadow]

Sorry I could not resist.

Tastefully done!

[Calvin Locke]

... Ken Starr...

I thought it was going to be an after election hit piece from that mighty bastion of journalistic ethics, the LA Slimes.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Alien? Star? Didn't the alien become naturalized many years ago and is now a governor?

[Junior]

Ya learn something new every day.

[PatrickHenry]

Ya learn something new every day.

You do. I do. But some don't.

[JethroHathAWay]

Thankyou AndrewC! I am struggling to understand this and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it. Thankyou so very kindly.

[JethroHathAWay]

I found the fan club for Miss Ann Coulter; and I heard that there is one here for Shawn Hannity. I have not found that one just yet. Is there also one for the scientists on FreeRepub? I won't bother you, but I am interested in reading the bio's. Thankyou very much!