Bobdude15

I found this when reading the news the other day. Its an earth like planet found. It is pretty awesome...

First Truly Habitable Planet Discovered, Experts Say

Dante

Yeah, I saw a similar article today, I was all "Awesome! Get my on the first plane there!" But then it's 20 lightyears away so right now this discovery means not much.

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fenny

how far is 2 lightyears?

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Platy

33,372,000,000 miles.

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Dante

My bad, it's 20 lightyears, my zero key is broken.

20 lightyears is 11,756,999,600,000 miles, or eleven trillion, seven hundred and fifty six billion, nine hundred and ninety nine million, six hundred thousand miles.

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Platy

Oh, that's not too far then. Isn't it only half way across the universe? Or is that something else?

Off topic; nice link in your sig, Dante.

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fenny

awww i just want to see one decent photo of a real life animal or creature that came from a different planet. All of ours are boring. :O mayb they are millions of years behind on that planet and they have dinosaurs roaming :P

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Bobdude15

Yeah that would be awesome, but I don't think my mind could process what a alien would look like. Or maybe they just look like smurfs or something haha. I am quite curious when it comes to science like this.

Olaf Vikingsson

Are you a descendant of Darwin himself? Your portrayal of the theory of evolution paints an astonishing picture.

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Yukimaru

I'm certainly curious about what the native animals look like there and if there is any sentient life there.

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fenny

what do you mean?

if a planet has the same temp + elements surley there is a possibility that the same animals could evolve? And if that planet was formed millions of years before earth was COULD that planet not be "behind" us. Of course this is all down to probibility and the choices any dominant species makes on that planet

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Bobdude15

And also certain events did occur that pushed us forward, such as dinosaurs with the giant meteor thing. Wondering if that had to happen just for us to be here, or maybe we would have gotten here just slowly and I would have a pet T-Rex..

Yukimaru

If we lived in a super hostile environment then it is likely we would have tried to advance our technology faster in order to survive so if say the dinosaurs were still around and a constant threat there is a chance that we could have better weapons and equipment designed to keep us safe from harm. Also some of the things we use every day came about from a solution for a military need. Satilites are one such example.

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fenny

dinosaurs like t-rex (which was most prob a scavenger) and humans would not beable to live side by side. We would be slaughtered and not have the time or resources to advance due to are main objective which is not being eaten

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Zoar

There's no question there's life out there. But remember since it's a larger planet that it won't have aliens like we most likely imagine if there IS life. I would be amazed if they even found some form of microscopic life out there. Life is life and that alone would answer our question of if anyone else is out there.

Something that is awesome is that technically those scientists who discovered it are looking into the past by approximately 20 years. :P

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Colts23

Is it better then shitty earth? And will other nations will tried to nuke it to make it shitty as Earth?

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And I believed when you told that lie
I played that soldier / You played king
And struck me down when I kissed that ring
You lost that right / to hold that crown
I built you up but you let me down
so when you fall / I'll take my turn
and fan the flames as your blazes burn"
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Olaf Vikingsson

Since adaptation is the basis of evolution and mutation is the basis of adaptation, the likelyhood of evolution producing the same organisms over the same timespan in two seperate instances is miniscule in the extreme.

Take the example of an isolated biosphere such as Australia. the group of animals that take advantage of the resources used by mammals in Europe are marsupials. Most of these parallels, while achieving the same ends, are as genetically far apart as humans and sharks. The fact that they've evolved fur, similar anatomies and similar behaviours is purely superficial when their bodies are entirely distinct.

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Dante

I lol'd SO hard.

EDIT: Jo, your avatar having Cloud in the foreground makes me confuz0rd.

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JoLo

Exactly this, our idea of finding life on another planet in another solar system/galaxy exactly like our is obsurd at best. They would have to have the EXACT same elements in their system as ours, and that's not always the case. The only things that make this planet habitable from our perspective is that it's in the "zone" and looks semi solid. It would take like generations and generations of our current space travel capabilities to see what's out there.

Our closest genetic relative on earth his a Chimp...and it's 98% a match, and the smartest chimp we know can do sign language (something we can teach infants). SO even if we did find a system with the same elements and dynamics for life the chance that we can even communicate with them is so small. I mean if that 2% goes the other way they could look at our Steven Hawkings and our Monet and our Shakespere as merely chimps doing sign language.

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chaR

It's not even known what the atmosphere is made out of, so there might be foreign species living there, but we have no idea at all if we'd be able to live there ;p

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