http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7617031.stm
The first exo-planet around a sun-like star has been discovered!
We are not alone!
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We are not alone!
by terrorizer on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:47 am
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:52 am
As it's so far away, the life will have to have the same technology as us, or we'll never know.
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Re: We are not alone!
by zykloned on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:54 am
I knew it.
Mulder was right.
He was such a G.
Mulder was right.
He was such a G.
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:57 am
He was an A.
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Re: We are not alone!
by terrorizer on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:58 am
It must be great being an astronomer, you can say what you like and no-one can say if you are right or wrong.
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:59 am
Apart from all the other astronomers. And all the people in jobs based around space.
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Re: We are not alone!
by terrorizer on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:01 am
Ok, they can speculate all they want. How can anyone prove what conditions are like on these new planets?
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Re: We are not alone!
by James on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:03 am
It doesn't seem very likely that there is life there, considering it is a 1500C gas giant...
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:03 am
Given size and distance, you can pretty much gather an idea. Ideal amount of light from the sun for life, decent rotation rate for a right amount of weather changes to keep the planet alive...etc...blah blah.
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Re: We are not alone!
by James on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:05 am
Also surely it can't get much sunlight, if it is over ten times further away from its star than Neptune is from the Sun.
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Re: We are not alone!
by terrorizer on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:05 am
James wrote:It doesn't seem very likely that there is life there, considering it is a 1500C gas giant...
Not life as we know it no, but who is to say what form life takes elsewhere in the universe? We can survive in the Goldilocks zone (not too hot, not too cold) so we automatically look for these conditions elsewhere.
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Re: We are not alone!
by James on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:08 am
I know, that has also crossed my mind many times - if there are crustaceans living around boiling vents in the pitch black deep ocean, who knows what life really needs? But it is pretty impossible to know what to look for in that case - how do we know there is not life in the gas clouds of Jupiter for example?
Based on what we know it doesn't seem like this planet is much of a candidate, but who knows.
Based on what we know it doesn't seem like this planet is much of a candidate, but who knows.
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:08 am
I think in the distance we can see to, we're looking at the same stuff for life anyway. Although the distance is huge to us, in the universe that's not much distance. We'd have to be looking a lot further into space before we discover things that live in a completely different way to our own.
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Re: We are not alone!
by James on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:09 am
Why?
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Re: We are not alone!
by Lev on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:11 am
Well on this planet we have atleast one thing being able to live off one type of gas...or in a type of water...or breathe in this or that way...with this gas...with that gas. There's atleast one in every sort of situation you can think of. "Something that lived in water and lives off the iron content through..it's eyes.." - There'll be something.
We'd have to be discovering new liquids, gases, waters.
We'd have to be discovering new liquids, gases, waters.
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