New Planets Found That Could Harbor Life

Read fingerprint of the gods by graham Hancock. That will get you thinking, or at least your panties in a bunch if you don't believe.

 

The thing I was thinking of was our Earth is relatively young, 4-5 billion years old, compared to the universe... So whose to say that a planet that had life potential evolved far before ours say 3 billion years earlier... That's 7-8 billion years old... They could be so much more advances than us... So that being said, whose to say they don't have a mode of transportation that could span the universe in mere years as opposed to thousands of years

 

I see what I did there.

 

yeah yeah, One of the other _______ planets (Earth) has life.

 

read the CNN article today, really interesting stuff, i also think that given the size of the known universe, there can't not be other life out there. The new planets they're finding in terrestrial zones makes all this so much more exciting to me

 

I agree it's so interesting to read and think about... Mind boggling really... How big our universe really is

 

Really cool discovery! it being so close in astronomical terms is even more exciting! maybe if we get off our asses and get on some of our neighboring planets we will be inspired to go further.

 

We don't have the resources or the technology. The cost to get people to Mars would be immense. That could certainly be done, but thats the only planet we could land on.

We are not space travelers, we haven't solved the problems of energy consumption on our own planet. Their isn't a good propulsion system for a spacecraft even close to being made. Rockets are not the answer but its all we got.

 

so we should give up?

the more we do and understand about our solar system the more we will understand about space travel. We should have been on mars 40 years ago. we are slacking.

Humans by nature are the exploring type. We may find some resource on mars that provides unlimited energy or a new fuel source capable of accelerating us to faster speeds. But we just need to go up there and kick some rocks around and find out.

 

Perhaps we will evolve past rockets

 

Looking at a planets orbit can tell us if it sits in a "habitable zone"

Looking at the type of radiation given off by the planet can give us a rough temperature

Elemental spectroscopy can tell us the atmospheric composition of a planet. As long as we can get light from it, we can tell what elements are in it

 

I think it has to do with the proximity of the planet to it's star and whether or not it can contain water. Too close, and any water would water boil off. To far, and it freezes. These planets appear to be at an ideal distance from their star to contain water.

 

Beam me up, OZ-T. That does not flow

 

The book "Voodoo Science" has a good chapter on Space Travel. There's a good history of the space program and the problems it faces travelling to other planets:
http://books.google.com/books?id=xz...onepage&q=voodoo science space travel&f=false

 

And if one of those elements is O2, it is going to take a novel explanation as to its origin, other than a biological one.

Like almost all other human-centered explanations, we will find the widely accepted "specialness" of our situation is anything but. Extrasolar planets/systems are the rule, not the exception. Life elsewhere, is next. Intelligent/technological life that endures geologic time spans?, that is an interesting thought.

 

There is always the possibility that we are the ones who will colonize the galaxy/universe.

Our little blue planet may be the "Primordial Ooze" of the universe.

 

Or...it could be Purgatory.

 

i want nibiru to come down already and tear shit up here. i need some excitement in my life