Earth like planet detected very near by!

SpacE82 · 10-01-2010, 02:54 PM

I read about that yesterday. Its pretty interesting. I hope im around for when they find life on other planets.

The article I read said that it was 120 TRILLION miles away and would take decades for us to get there...although, danniexi is on to something i think.

MCMLXXXIX · 10-01-2010, 05:22 PM

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i wonder what they call us, lol.

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aliens

lmao

this is incredible

TiAg335i · 10-01-2010, 05:56 PM

it's funny how humans tend to give human characteristics to outer space life. fact is, you have no clue what they could be. for all we know the lifeform on a distant planet could be an organism the size of a grain of sand that is immortal. we will never know until we know.

immiketoo · 10-01-2010, 05:58 PM

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it's funny how humans tend to give human characteristics to outer space life. fact is, you have no clue what they could be. for all we know the lifeform on a distant planet could be an organism the size of a grain of sand that is immortal. we will never know until we know.

That's because almost every Sci-fi show depicts aliens as humanoid. It's also because we are hugely egotistical and not equipped to deal with a scary bad race of super intelligent ferns.

TiAg335i · 10-01-2010, 05:59 PM

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That's because almost every Sci-fi show depicts aliens as humanoid. It's also because we are hugely egotistical.

yup...and obviously it's completely erroneous to think that way.

immiketoo · 10-01-2010, 06:01 PM

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yup...and obviously it's completely erroneous to think that way.

This has been discussed in the news here a bit, and they keep saying that the planet is in the "life-belt" or that only planets like ours can support life. It's just as likely that there are many types of "life" incompatible to ours and that discovery could be the end of us or them.

TiAg335i · 10-01-2010, 06:40 PM

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This has been discussed in the news here a bit, and they keep saying that the planet is in the "life-belt" or that only planets like ours can support life. It's just as likely that there are many types of "life" incompatible to ours and that discovery could be the end of us or them.

yeah...that reasoning still isn't very logical...the laws of physics and chemistry and all things that govern nature are unique to our planet and our planet only. just because we don't know of any other way to support life besides what supports ours doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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