NASA Confirms CO2 On Distant Planet, Life To Be Found?

[MTK]

http://www.dbtechno.com/space/2008/1...e-to-be-found/

[KLHJ2]

I didn't want to start another thread but this is pretty cool.

Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? - Yahoo! News

[Alvin Walton]

We should go there and relocate their people, take their land and exploit their resources.
Unless people havent evolved yet and then we would have a big ass Jurassic Park.

[firstdown]

Maybe there is an unlimited resource of oil.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Maybe there is an unlimited resource of oil.

Yes, just as soon as you invent wormhole travel technology. The fate of the world rests on your shoulder FD. Don't let us down!

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by saden1

Yes, just as soon as you invent wormhole travel technology. The fate of the world rests on your shoulder FD. Don't let us down!

Damn you can't even give a man 2 shoulders to rest the fate of the world on? Or is this some sort of physical limitation that I am not aware of yet?

[saden1]

Originally Posted by Angry

Damn you can't even give a man 2 shoulders to rest the fate of the world on? Or is this some sort of physical limitation that I am not aware of yet?

He needs the other shoulder to fish! The man has to eat!

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Maybe there is an unlimited resource of oil.

By the time we create the technology to get us there I certainly hope we don't care about oil as an energy source.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

By the time we create the technology to get us there I certainly hope we don't care about oil as an energy source.

Maybe we'll invent the combustible engine warp drive and use all our oil in one shot trying to get there. Hopefully they have a gas station where we can fill up to get home. Otherwise we're screwed.

[saden1]

The math says there's life on other planet. Us being the only life in the universe is absurd!

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by saden1

The math says there's life on other planet. Us being the only life in the universe is absurd!

if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?

if a person lives on a planet 300 light years from earth, does it matter to us?

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?

if a person lives on a planet 300 light years from earth, does it matter to us?

It does if they can travel at the speed of light and kick our ass.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

It does if they can travel at the speed of light and kick our ass.

it still takes them a couple hundred years to get here, so IF they show up, I think technological edge will go to them regardless.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound

There are two schools of thought on the subject. On one hand you have Spinoza, the greatest man whoever lived, who postulates that the laws that determines the fall of a tree and the sound it make exist whether they are perceived or not. That is to say "ideas and laws are more permanent and therefore more real than senses perceived particular things."

On the other hand you have Berkeley who postulates that "objects of sense exist only when they are perceived." That is to say if no one is there to hear the tree fall the tree does not make a sound because it doesn't even exist.

I tend to favor the school of Spinoza.

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

if a person lives on a planet 300 light years from earth, does it matter to us?

Yes because knowledge is power.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by saden1

The math says there's life on other planet. Us being the only life in the universe is absurd!

Agreed, and I agree with CRedskins. Communication is difficult

And aliens have seemingly moved on from black and white tv's, making it even more difficult

Fortunately, we've already got an ambassador lined up for peaceful discussions.