Found: first rocky exoplanet that could host life

Would it not be weird if we all get freaked out if we went their and found life?

Now... Reverse that, does this mean that Aliens could freak out if they came to this planet and found us?

Imagine that! 2 worlds meeting, both totally unaware of any other existent outside of their solar system... Would be like a surprise sex date rape.

ags

Imagine they were absolutely awesome and we integrated with them. How cool would that be?! :D
 
Pft coward, we will invade and force them to be our slaves thus starting our interstellar empire!

That's mean. :(

I think most OcUK'ers would like to use their skills to make gifts for the aliens. I've been learning how to make various yummy pies lately, and there are others here who can cook other tasty treats.

We could also make toys for the baby aliens and the girls here could knit scarves and other clothing incase they were freezing when they come to visit Scotland. :)
 
That's mean. :(


He's right though... what is the point in exploring Space if we aren't going to start a ruthless and all power Empire like in the movies and games we all love?

If we don't do it, someone else will think of it first and we'll be kicking ourselves!!
 
That's mean. :(

I think most OcUK'ers would like to use their skills to make gifts for the aliens. I've been learning how to make various yummy pies lately, and there are others here who can cook other tasty treats.

Excellent idea we'll poison them all!

You sir have the mind of a truly psychotic evil genius :cool:
 
Excellent idea we'll poison them all!

NOOOOOOOOOO
hsl000.jpg
 
20 light years is pretty close, you could send a radio message and within your lifetime you might get a response, so conversations and exchanges if information and technology with the uber alien race would be viable.

Not like the galaxies 10 billion light years away that wont even exist once the radio message arrives.

Quite close in the respect that with the technology we have today it would take approx. 200 thousand years for an object to reach it.
 
So you would prefer scientists to say "Oh we found a planet, it could support life, we have no evidence for this and it's so close to it's parent star it's surface rock would be permanently liquid and it suffers from constant meteor showers...but what do we know?! There could be magic lava monkeys down there!"

Yeah, far better than creationists.

That's completely missed the point of what I'm saying. Pretty much every planet out there has the potential to support some form of life, and I'm not picking on the excitement over finding a planet relatively similar to Earth. I'm just highlighting the inaccuracy - I consider it important in subjects like this to clarify, i.e. "life as we know it" rather than simply "life". It doesn't make for such a snappy headline, but it's also not clarified at all in the article.


The reason they discount planets that "could" support life is because we can't prove anything anyway, it's far better to search for planets which have properties like our own because that's all we know, it is ridiculous to assume every planet out there could support life, that is belief and assumption, not science.

It's hardly ridiculous to admit to ignorance on a subject, and while I'd agree that thoroughly searching every planet we come across for unknown xenobiology wouldn't be the smartest move, assuming that there is the potential to support life in pretty much any unfamiliar terrain is only common sense. It's not a mad dash to remote, barren planets on the off chance, just acknowledging that the possibility is there. That's science, not belief or assumption.
 
Pretty much every planet out there has the potential to support some form of life,

I agree. We only know about how we live in our environment, we are still pretty clueless when it comes to what is possible in other extreme or just different environments.
 
Quite close in the respect that with the technology we have today it would take approx. 200 thousand years for an object to reach it.

and thinking on it... we'd probably have the technology to over-take it before it arrived lol.
 
So in the first sentence we have potentially and probably.
I might be a Martian.

The Wright brothers thought they could potentially make a flying machine.

NASA must have thought they could probably go to the moon.

No, you are not a Martian. :D
 
The aliens on that planet are probably using a big telescope and looking at us looking at them and saying "Christ they've spotted us".
 
were doomed
war.jpg


they will come here in their war machines and just heat ray everyone.

time to live in the sewers
 
Back
Top Bottom