"First Goldilocks Planet Found"

[adamrahn]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/100-percent-chance-for-life-on-newly-found-planet/?hpt=C2

 

[Jawa Ex Machina]

They're gonna call it iPlanet.

You know that, right?

 

[Jawa Ex Machina]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/100-percent-chance-for-life-on-newly-found-planet/?hpt=C2

If there are no shifts in days and nights, then this must be Ursa Minor Beta from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where it's always Saturday afternoon just before the beach bars close.

 

[Nektonic]

If there are no shifts in days and nights, then this must be Ursa Minor Beta from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where it's always Saturday afternoon just before the beach bars close.

This would also make it a great planet for co-existence between humans and vampires.

 

[mikkowilson]

So right about now SETI is swinging all their dishes in that direction I suppose?

- Mikko

 

[Nektonic]

So right about now SETI is swinging all their dishes in that direction I suppose?

- Mikko

I wonder how bad the world financial markets would crash if SETI picked up a signal in the not too distant future.

 

[Sad Max]

I'm not sure I can think of any reason that the one would have an effect upon the other.

Then again, market player behavior tends toward the irrational, so I guess no good excuse for a freakout would go to waste...

 

[Nektonic]

That's what I'm thinking Max.

And it would be pretty world altering and shocking if we actually received an alien signal. I think lots of people would do all kinds of very silly things after hearing about it in the news.

 

[Sad Max]

I figure you're right, but I don't get it. So what? I mean, yeah, sure, darned cool but given the distances involved and the constraints of physics it hardly seems like there would be any immediate practical implications. It would just be placing a cherry on top of something about which we can already be very close to certain anyway.

 

[mikkowilson]

I guess the contents of that alien signal could have varying implications...

"I guess those folks on Earth don't care to comment about the new space highway. Not that it matters, the constructor fleet will be there in 21 years anyway...."


- Mikko ... grabs a towel.

 

[Allan Black]

So James Cameron was right .. start him laughing all over again.

Cheers.

 

[Gord.T]

I don't think there is life on other planets. I think there can be though.
I think we're the first. We are the seed so to speak.

Someone has to be first? Do they not?

Unless someone seeded us first, but I don't think so.

I think, we're it baby. It all starts right here.

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Holy ****. You guy's have an attention span of about about 4 posts.
I thought I was bad.

 

[ugafan]

I don't think there is life on other planets. I think there can be though.

this is the way i look at it. the sun has 8 planets (not counting dwarf planets like pluto, eris, etc.). that's just one star. there are about 200 billion stars in our galaxy. some galaxies are many times the size of our own. IC 1101 has about 100 trillion stars. there are estimated to be hundreds of billions of galaxies.

given those kinds of odds there has to be someone else out there. the question is, will we ever be able to find each other. :cheesy:

 

[Gord.T]

Why? Never mind the odds. Why are we here? What are the odds of that?

Why can't we be the first? The first intelligent lifeform in the universe? And granted, I mean a collective intelligence. Individually, I think we're poo pooed.

Why can't we be the first poo poo ups to populate this universe?

So far everything is dead out there that we know of. I think we're the sorry poo poos to take up God's work. Maybe no one wants to think about that or consider it.

Maybe there is no God. Maybe there is no nothing. Just us sorry poo poos out here in the middle of nowhere.

So. We can start from there. Right? Like I was saying, maybe it's just us, and up to us. Just saying. Maybe we are the first. :beer:

//Edit: Wow, I just might posterize that comment so I never drink again. Wow. The things I can post around here. Did I say that? Really? Fuuuuuuuck. I need to get off the booze. :beer:

 

[Sad Max]

Why are we here?

Plastic, a$$hOle!*

Why can't we be the first? The first intelligent lifeform in the universe?

I don't think there's any known reason that we can't be. But considering the known processes that probably led to the development of life here, and the estimated quantity of other worlds where those processes could also have operated, it doesn't seem very likely that we would have been the first.

Why can't we be the first poo poo ups to populate this universe?

Let's see if we even succeed in making it off this planet in any substantial way, before we get into the rest of the Universe...

So far everything is dead out there that we know of.

We've sent probes to land on/orbit/collide with...lessee...Mercury, Venus, Luna, Mars, Titan, Saturn, Jupiter and a couple of asteroids, with flybys of Neptune and Ouranos plus several moons. I'm not sure what percentage of the Universe (or even what percentage of the visible Universe) that represents, but it's an infinitesimal fraction of an infinitesimal fraction. We don't know much of anything in that regard about the overwhelmingly larger proportion of what's out there. What we know of when it comes to this particular topic isn't enough to be meaningful.



*per the George Carlin stand-up routine; I'm not calling you names...

 

[Jawa Ex Machina]

We've sent probes to land on/orbit/collide with... Ouranos

Huh huh... huh huh...

 

[Sad Max]

Reminds me of the bit from an old Futurama, wherein the Professor has invented the "Smell-o-scope," into which one plugs one's nostrils and with which one can smell the aromas of heavenly bodies...

"Here, Fry, try out my Smell-o-scope!"

"Okay...just so long as you don't make me smell Uranus."

"Oh, Fry, they renamed that planet years ago to put an end to all those stupid jokes!"

"Really? What's it called now?"

"Urectum!"