Life out there?

hockeyboy

Here is an interesting discovery. It makes me think there has to be plenty of other life out there. If humanity could get our crap together we might accomplish better things.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422846,00.html

Airplay355

I think this stuff is awesome. It would be a lot cooler if there was the possibility of life though. The possibility of life on other planets fascinates me.

Kris Siegel

There is most definitely life out there. Our universe is ever expanding and contains millions, if not billions of galaxies. Our entire solar system is on one of the edges of the Milky Way; a very tiny piece of the Milky Way.

While the conditions for life to be created are rare (at least in our Solar System; we don't know how it's like much further out since we can't actually see planets beyond our Sun's reach), there are so many chances that it's bound to get lucky a few times. It's like playing a million dollar lottery and buying 50 trillion tickets. You gotta hit several times.

By studying the "wobble effect" that orbiting planets create on their stars, we've learned there are many planets out there that are at a perfect distance from their star and are roughly around the size of Earth. One in particular that I remember is about 20 light years away. Unfortunately our closet star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away. If we wanted to just get to Proxima Centauri it would take about 110,000 years with our current technology (citation).

Nasa has done some great work with Plasma engines but I believe they're more efficient but not too much faster than our current rockets. For interstellar travel we need something better. Where's a warp drive when you need one?

Airplay355

I have a spare warp drive in the closet. It's just collecting dust. I suppose I should offer it up for karma. You pay shipping from 04005 lol.

Demiurge

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39079

Doesn't matter.

heiney9

Yea, but what gear do the other galaxies have? Do cables make a difference in other galaxies? Perhaps the other galaxies have something even better than SDA's. I'm ready to take a trip!

H9

ShinAce

Kris Siegel wrote: »

There is most definitely life out there. Our universe is ever expanding and contains millions, if not billions of galaxies. Our entire solar system is on one of the edges of the Milky Way; a very tiny piece of the Milky Way.

While the conditions for life to be created are rare (at least in our Solar System; we don't know how it's like much further out since we can't actually see planets beyond our Sun's reach), there are so many chances that it's bound to get lucky a few times. It's like playing a million dollar lottery and buying 50 trillion tickets. You gotta hit several times.

By studying the "wobble effect" that orbiting planets create on their stars, we've learned there are many planets out there that are at a perfect distance from their star and are roughly around the size of Earth. One in particular that I remember is about 20 light years away. Unfortunately our closet star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away. If we wanted to just get to Proxima Centauri it would take about 110,000 years with our current technology (citation).

Nasa has done some great work with Plasma engines but I believe they're more efficient but not too much faster than our current rockets. For interstellar travel we need something better. Where's a warp drive when you need one?

Huh? I only know of 3 earth sized planets. There's Earth, Mars, and Venus.

Show me a single planet between these sizes that has been discovered elsewhere. I think the closest right now is about 5x the size of the earth orbiting another star.

We are still in the early infancy of planet discoveries. Not even close to a habitable(earth-like) planet yet.

Kris Siegel

Demiurge wrote: »

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39079

Doesn't matter.

I always find it odd when people ask questions like "Do you believe in UFOs?". A UFO is an unidentified flying object. They are seen everyday and do not have to be of extra terrestrial origin.

ShinAce wrote: »

Show me a single planet between these sizes that has been discovered elsewhere. I think the closest right now is about 5x the size of the earth orbiting another star.

I'm only speaking of planets orbiting other stars. Our planets are dead and worthless.

If you check out the planet orbiting Gliese 581 (the one you're probably talking about), it's considered Earth like due to a similar size and distance from the star. Its mass is about 5x that of Earth but it's not 5x the size. Two balls the same size do not have to have the same mass.

According to one article I noticed, some scientists seem to think that it could have an atmosphere. Too bad we won't know for a very long time.

I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about but this stuff fascinates me.

MrNightly

There are currently 2 billion galaxies discovered and more every year. Just an FYI.