Aliens?

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Jack
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

"WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe."

What do you think? Just some water or organic molecules on saturn?

Full on frozen alien corpse??!?!

I live in hope.
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
more likely we are to be told that messiah has failed and biederman and wolf are now on a collision course.........
 
joshua

joshua

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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard

or tough.

and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

and you feel that you've had quite enouuuuuuuuugh...

Just

re-

member that your standing on a planet that's evolving,

and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...

That's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,

the sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,

are moving at a million miles a day.

in an outer spiral-arm at forty thousand miles an hour

of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,

it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,

but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.

We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,

we go 'round every two hundred million years.

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,

in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,

in all of the directions it can whiz.

As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;

twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember when your feeling very small and insecure,

how amazingly unlikely is your birth,

and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,

'cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!

with credit to eric (cuz he's my idol)
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Be prepared.
 
G

GLHF

Jack
turned out to be a new form of life living on earth in Arsenic:

"NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything."

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life
 
Noah

Noah

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Mikinton said:
Just leaving this here in case anyone would prefer an alternative to the "January" sales.
The Fermi Paradox, or (re extraterrestrial intelligence), "Where is everybody?".
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Click to expand...

The straightforward explanation, maybe. Whenever the civilization on a planet reaches the point of being able to achieve interstellar communication or travel it has also reached the point where it has destroyed all the resources of the planet and promptly vanishes.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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As far as us monkeys are concerned, the essential problem would seem to be one of longevity.

Depending on the Carbon cycle in an Oxygen rich environment means that we have a rather short shelf-life. Even the oldest of us struggles to reach into a second century.

A bit like the England cricket team.

We oxidise over time, and it is our undoing that it kills us before we can take the kind of time we would need to travel much further than the reaches of our own Solar system. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is not very far at all.

What would be interesting would be calculations of the kind of expected longevity - ie life-expectancy - of life-forms based upon other chemical configurations. As far as i know, most of the speculative interpretations of the potential for 'life' beyond our own Solar system have been predicated on various Carbon compounds - eg a Methane rich atmosphere - rather than an entirely new chemical interpretation of what may be possible.

Not that i've kept much 'up' on what is current in this field.

We've more to worry about at home at the 'mome'.
 
BobClay

BobClay

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...are you lot trying to tell me that Donald Trump ISN'T AN ALIEN !!!


Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…. don't believe it.
 
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