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[What's Burning?]

Yeap, I'm sure much longer than that even if we're talking about wondering. I'm just ball parking the time frame when we could actually perform scientific experiments to work things out. You can call creating a celestial calendar scientific even if they didn't know why it worked.

In any case, it's a drop in a bucket given our history so we've made good progress... hopefully we can keep it up.

I've been a member of this project since 1999.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

[RA Dunk]

This excites me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100929/sc ... 0929210707


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100930/ ... rgliese581

Cool when you moving?

[darwin dali]

This excites me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100929/sc ... 0929210707


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100930/ ... rgliese581

Cool when you moving?

A bit harsh

[RA Dunk]

A bit harsh

lol, I could have said worse, like when did she emigrate to planet Earth.

Besides she's a big girl I'm sure she will see the funny side of it.

[darwin dali]

A bit harsh

lol, I could have said worse, like when did she emigrate to planet Earth.

Besides she's a big girl I'm sure she will see the funny side of it.

The last pic I saw of her, she was actually quite slim

[What's Burning?]

A bit harsh

lol, I could have said worse, like when did she emigrate to planet Earth.

Besides she's a big girl I'm sure she will see the funny side of it.

The last pic I saw of her, she was actually quite slim

He's just digging himself a deeper hole.

[RA Dunk]

lol, I didnt mean she's a BIG girl in that sense I bet she's actually quite fit

[SennaVille]

Honestly what excites me more than a potentially habitable planet is the prospect of life outside of this planet.

We always knew the day would come, Carl Sagan indoctrinated me, so I find the news more of confirming than exciting.

Life outside this world already exists. Thats a fact with or without proof. Think about it logically. You probably know just how huge the universe is. If the Earth were the only place with life on it in the entire cosmos, then that would actually be more extraordinary than the fact the other life forms on different planets existed elsewhere.

Aaargh! Don't get me started on this topic! I will out-geek you!

No, the above is not true. The universe is very vast and all that cool stuff. BUT! life started on Earth may actually be a one-off freak event. Have you heard of the fermi paradox http://www.fermisparadox.com/

Scientists have tried many times to artificially reinact the start of life, and they just can't do it. We are looking for life on Mars, because that would prove that life could occur on other planets. Most of the books that I've read state that life is some freakish occurence, a one-off basically. And then there is intelligent life, that's another book.

[Jabberwocky]

This excites me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100929/sc ... 0929210707


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100930/ ... rgliese581

I've already booked my ticket on Virgin Galactic!

Intersteller travel for humans is still centuries away. But nice wishful thinking with the Virgin Galaric.

HELLO! I'm having my body cryogenicly frozen first silly.

Or why not attempt to go there now with your astral body. oops forget I said that. Really just ignore it. By the way this planet. They say it is habitable, but you realise all they are using is small pictures made of light. dots, colours and movements plus some maths. They could still be wrong with the habitable zone assumption. So you freeze your body, you gom there ina few hundred years time and then you find the planet is not habitable. In all honesty I think we are still far from discovering a planet that is liverable like ours without a doubt simply because we do not have the means currently to do so.

and the irony would be that in a few hundred years someone will of invented light drive/warp drive/faster than light drive or whatever you want to call it and have got to your planet realised it is rubbish before you defrost.

[stonemonkey]

No, the above is not true. The universe is very vast and all that cool stuff. BUT! life started on Earth may actually be a one-off freak event. Have you heard of the fermi paradox http://www.fermisparadox.com/

Scientists have tried many times to artificially reinact the start of life, and they just can't do it. We are looking for life on Mars, because that would prove that life could occur on other planets. Most of the books that I've read state that life is some freakish occurence, a one-off basically. And then there is intelligent life, that's another book.

From what I gather, it took something like a billion years for the right molecules to come together under the right conditions to form the first single cell organisms so it's not too surprising that we've not come up with anything after only a couple of decades of work in that area. You could be right that life on earth is a freak of nature or at least extremely rare but there's nothing currently to suggest that's the more probable scenario.

[darwin dali]

Honestly what excites me more than a potentially habitable planet is the prospect of life outside of this planet.

We always knew the day would come, Carl Sagan indoctrinated me, so I find the news more of confirming than exciting.

Life outside this world already exists. Thats a fact with or without proof. Think about it logically. You probably know just how huge the universe is. If the Earth were the only place with life on it in the entire cosmos, then that would actually be more extraordinary than the fact the other life forms on different planets existed elsewhere.

Aaargh! Don't get me started on this topic! I will out-geek you!

No, the above is not true. The universe is very vast and all that cool stuff. BUT! life started on Earth may actually be a one-off freak event. Have you heard of the fermi paradox http://www.fermisparadox.com/

Scientists have tried many times to artificially reinact the start of life, and they just can't do it. We are looking for life on Mars, because that would prove that life could occur on other planets. Most of the books that I've read state that life is some freakish occurence, a one-off basically. And then there is intelligent life, that's another book.

Maybe time to read other books?
Most of my colleagues, from geneticists to exobiologists, from anthropologists to evo-devo biologists I talk to are actually convinced that there's life out there, in one form and shape or the other.

[The_Stig_Money]

Dork out

There are roughly 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets

I dont beleive we are the only living things

I dont beleive the aliens are flying around abducting hillbillys

Even a small organism is good enough for me

[AKR]

lol, I didnt mean she's a BIG girl in that sense I bet she's actually quite fit

It's ok. No offence taken. I actually chuckled at your joke. And yes I know when you said I am big enough that you meant big as in the context of being adult/mature enough to take a joke and nothing else. All is good.

[What's Burning?]

lol, I didnt mean she's a BIG girl in that sense I bet she's actually quite fit

It's ok. No offence taken. I actually chuckled at your joke. And yes I know when you said I am big enough that you meant big as in the context of being adult/mature enough to take a joke and nothing else. All is good.

You're like the cream in coffee Kiki a little goes a long way. I never have my coffee without cream, unless it's espresso.

[What's Burning?]

Most of my colleagues, from geneticists to exobiologists, from anthropologists to evo-devo biologists

Your colleagues sound like the life of the party!