Scientists Discover Star Wars-Like Planet!
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Star Wars fans are rejoicing: scientists have found a distant plant that they say is like a real-life Tatooine. This is the first non-fictional planet found to orbit two stars.
Watch this video about the new planet:
Discovered with NASA’s Kepler telescope, the planet, unlike the fictional Tatooine that has a desert-like environment, scientists wager is more like Saturn — dense and gaseous. Wall Street Journal has more:
“The reality goes beyond the imagination of the most creative theorist in astronomy or science fiction writer,” said astrophysicist Fred Rasio at Northwestern University, who wasn’t involved in the work. “Just about anything you could think of as a planetary system is actually out there.”
Check out this info graphic from Space.com to visualize the planet’s two suns: 
This planet joins the list of more than 50 planets, which includes 16 “super earths,” announced earlier this week by astronomers at the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher in Chile. British astronomers with the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) announced an additional 23 planets. Bringing the grand total of alien planets to 74 for the week.
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Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:36pmQuestion – If life evolved on earth, and there are (as Carl Sagan would have said) billions and billions and billions of stars in the galaxy with even more planets out there, shouldn’t the galaxy be teeming with life, including other intelligent life? Don’t the odds suggest that earth would not be the only one or even anywhere near the first one? Why haven’t we heard from our galactic neighbors? Why are the galactic airwaves silent? Just wondering.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:09pm@wiseone1w – From a biblical point of view I believe there is a ‘great controversy’ between God and Satan.
Out of all the cosmos – we are the only planet that sinned (in other words Adam and Eve did not pass the test. Therefore – we are isolated from those planets in harmony with God and that also passed the sin test.
And because of that – God will not allow us (humans in sin) to make contact with those other beings and those other beings cannot reach us because this planet is in open rebellion against God.
I believe we will meet those other created beings when we spend eternity with Jesus/God – but for now it cannot be.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:16pm@ming the merciless
OR … we just don’t have the technology to communicate over those vast, vast distances and other beings from other places that DO have the technology don‘t feel it’s worth it to waste their time contacting us.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:17pmActually, our muslim-in-chief wants to badly to go down in history, why not send him off to investigate these galaxies as to why no one from there is communicating? We can all get together and wave goodbye as he begins his journey.
Report Post »JapesMacfarland
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:12pmThere’s a theory that suggests that when a civilization gets to the point of being able to travel or communicate across such vast distances, they are also getting to that point where they blow themselves up or the tech is just too powerful (ie greater power greater responsibility) to prevent destroying themselves.
Report Post »I personally believe that whatever the reason, it is in God’s hands/plan somehow. There’s a lot more wonders out there than just other beings like ourselves, I’d bank on that.
CFNCBETA
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:12pmJust answering! The gulf of time!
Report Post »CFNCBETA
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:16pmMing. There is no sin in God. The realm of existence is perfect. Our problem is understanding.
Report Post »Tony Sanchez
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:39pmLife on other planets may not have become sentient yet, and, possibly, never will. Sentient life is rarer than simple life on other planets.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:15pm@ CFNCBETA – I didn’t say there was sin in God.
But there’s a great controversy between God and Satan and we as humans (created in God’s image) are the ones being fought over.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:22pm@ CFNCBETA – I didn’t say there was sin in God.
But there’s a great controversy between God and Satan and we as humans (created in God’s image) are the ones being fought over.
What I am saying is that God allowed Satan the freedom to ‘test’ the humans he created – in other words – God gave us free will – to choose either his ways or Satan’s ways.
If Satan didn‘t have that opportunity then his charge would be that God wasn’t fair and did not allow humans free will.
unfortunately Adam and Eve chose incorrectly.
And because of that choice ultimately Jesus had to pay a price to rectify our sins against God.
And with that – my theory is that the other planets God created (with life forms – like us?) passed the test (choice of Satan‘s way or God’s way) and therefore we cannot communicate with them and they cannot communicate with us because of our sin condition – until Jesus comes again to deliver us from our ‘prison planet’.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:48pm@ jhrusky – that doesn’t make sense (at least to me) from a biblical perspective – your perspective leaves out God in that scenario and puts it into created being’s abilities.
I believe God doesn’t allow us to contact these other created beings and they cannot contact us.
Why? Because sin divides us. I believe those created beings are sealed (in God’s grace) – they passed the ‘test’ of choice. If that is true – why would God allow these beings (in perfection) to interact with degenerate sinful beings like us? He wouldn’t. It would be like dripping droplets of mud into a glass of clear water – after awhile the water becomes contaminated.
anyway – this theory is not mine but so far (at least to me) it makes the most sense out of the theories I’ve read about.
Although the Bible doesn’t talk about these other beings and that the sin test was universal – it‘s just speculation but at least it’s rooted in biblical principles. Someday God will explain it all to my pea sized brain – I still probably won’t comprehend it all – it’ll definitely take eternity for me. :-)
Report Post »5headspro.com
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:19amBecause silence is peaceful. If our planet would just shut the hell up and live according to common sense, they would come. Just a thought.
that is all…
Report Post »fangbanger
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 11:24amhow do we know it isint teeming with life? just becasue they havent invaded or stopped by to say hello? i dont understand why people assume that aliens would be more technologically advanced than we are. our space station isint exactly ready to be a galactic gas station, what if aliens like to stay on their planet. maybe they have been here, saw what obama was like, and decided to get as far away as possible without looking back? if their are aliens do you think the progressives will try and get them to pay there fair share of taxes?
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:01am@ Ming the Merciless: ” From a biblical point of view I believe there is a ‘great controversy’ between God and Satan.
Out of all the cosmos – we are the only planet that sinned (in other words Adam and Eve did not pass the test. Therefore – we are isolated from those planets in harmony with God and that also passed the sin test.”
Ming, there are a couple of things wrong with this theory you stated.
1) If Earth is just one planet among the multitudes, then why did our planet merit special favor as to be created 3 days before the rest of the “Heavens that were created for times and seasons”?
2) You say, or rather this theory says, that we won’t meet these perfect beings (who passed the sin test) from other planets until after we die and go to Heaven. But if they passed the sin test, that means that they haven‘t died spiritually and therefore they haven’t died physically; since death to us is a penalty for our sin. If they can’t die physically, then how will they be up in Heaven?
Do ya have any anwers for these two questions?
Report Post »912network
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:48pmYou’re assuming that Godless evolution is the mechanism by which we came into being.
What if we were created, despite what unimaginative, anti-God ‘scientists’ and anti-religious crusaders assert?
And what if our creation was part of a grand plan?
And what if communication with other worlds isn’t part of that plan, at least, not in mortality? What if it serves no justifiable purpose?
What if we really are here on earth as a test of our faith, our devotion to God, and our obedience to His Divine Will? And if we pass that test, what if we have the ability to learn everything there is to learn about all of creation? What if we can, and will talk to those from other worlds, in the afterlife, but in this life, it simply doesn’t serve any justifiable purpose?
What if we’re really here for a reason, and it has nothing to do with living a science-fiction fantasy?
If that were the case, distracting us from our divine purpose, from our test, from our mission in life, would be the greatest goal of the devil, if he cannot destroy us, wouldn’t it? If he can’t destroy, distract?
And what if the reason God doesn‘t reveal himself to us is that then there’s no real test; if we all knew him, rather than merely believing in him, if we could speak with him face-to-face, then faith would be irrelevant, because then we’d have knowledge, wouldn’t it? So choosing to keep us in the dark, so to speak, would be part of the plan, so the test would be genuine, right?
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:08pmActually, it’s the opposite. The probabilities necessary for evolution are so far-fetched, that if we do find life nearly that should put the nail in evolution’s coffin. SHOULD. But evolution is a zombie, no matter how tattered, it will be revived.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:11pmOh, also, I believe that according to current physics, FTL (faster than light) travel isn’t even THEORETICALLY possible. So Star Trek and Star Wars are fantasy, not science fiction.
Report Post »webpreacher
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:20amMING THE MERCILESS, Well, that sure does make for a great Hollywood Movie, maybe you could summit the story line to one of the Producers ? I don‘t know maybe its that you just haven’t STUDIED God’s Book, He authored, The “Bible”, wherein is found the ‘account of creation’ ? Well a careful study of the book of Genesis, “In the beginning”, ( 1:1) God created the Heaven and the earth (singular). then of course we read of ALL of HIS creation in chapters 1&2. Lets look at some key revelations (what has been revealed) in these chapters.
Genesis 1,1-31, Six days of creation, and in verse 31, “And God saw EVERY THING that he had made”… it says everything God made, heaven & earth, which is given in these 31 verses.
Genesis 2:1, “Thus the heavens (plural) and the earth (singular) were finished and ALL the host of them”. It says, ALL THE HOST OF THEM, in the Heavens (all) and the earth.
Genesis 2:2, ” And on the seventh day God ENDED his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from ALL his work which he had made”. in other words, finished His creation,,ended
Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: “because” (the reason) that in it he had rested (finished) from ALL his work which God created and made”. EVERTHING created !
Genesis 2:4, “These are the generations of the heavens (plural) and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth AND the heavens”.
We have the entire a
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:34pmDoes this mean the Imperial Destroyers aren’t far behind?
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:38pmIf they are, I hope the bring Princess Leia with her!!! Won’t that be a nice surprise!
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 12:23pmWe don’t see the imperial star destroyers simply because the stole romulan cloaking technology, and now we CAN’T detect them.
YET…
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:39amActually guys, it won’t be the star destroyers that will be coming… but it will be those giant cube ships. That’s right… The BORG have long ago assimilated both the Galactic Empire and the rebels. Palpatine, despite his force lighthing and ability with the Light Saber, still was unable to prevent his assimilation after their personal shields adapted. He now has wires coming out of him as well as that eye patch thingy. Also conquered is SG-1 and ALF (who is now trying to assimilate cats instead of eating them.)
Resistance is Futile !!!!!.
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:05pmOf course, there is an alternative scenerio; and it’s this:
Time period: A New Hope time frame – Han Solo and Chewy are taking Obi Wan and Luke to Alderaan (prior to death star incident).
They come upon a totally destroyed Death Star with pieces of it and several Star Destroyers twirling around in space and a headless Vader impacting against the Millenial Falcon and floating off. Just then, while the occupants of the ship are trying to make sense of the scene, the Borg Cube appears and issues their demand:
Borg: Surrender to us and we will add your biological and intellectual distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile!
Obi Wan {waves hand thru air}: No you’re going to disarm and surrender to us, and then go back to your home galaxy and rethink your existance and entire purpose.
Borg: We think we will disarm and surrender and then head back where we came where we will rethink our whole existance and purpose.
Obiwan: Depart then and never return!
Borg: We will depart and never return.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:15pmNo, didn’t you read the first screen of the original movie? Long ago and Far away…. In other words, all of the characters involved are long ago dead and gone. Kind of kills that suspense and so forth, no?
Report Post »webpreacher
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:18amOk, that is a chuckle,, made me laugh !
Report Post »scguitar
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:05pmAs a star wars fan, I can honestly…. Thats freakin awesome
Report Post »OhForGodsSake
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:24pmBut wait… Scientists… They only lie to get gov’t money. This must be some kind of trick to get stimulus money to build some kind of death panel star.
Report Post »stone2016
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:56pmYes, because there are scientists and non-scientists devoted to the religion of money/economic destruction through man-made global warming, that means ALL science is corrupt. Finally the message is getting through, it’s either everyone is corrupt or all are pure. But remember Supreme Being Gore (not the “anti-civil rights” verion, but the “Neptune’s bones” version) helped clarify that only scientitist that verbally express they’re a skeptic of man-made GW are the greedy, “sudo” scientists. So as long as the scientists that found Tatooine believe in MMGW, then it is legit.
Report Post »KYWATCHDOG
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:05pmVaguely, I seem to remember Al Gore visiting another planet in search of an audience after 2000. Could he have found one? You go get green real fast Bub. Bon Voyage Mr. EX-VP.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:31amPack up all libs and their allies and send them to this planet. Watch and wait and see how long it will take them to thoroughly ruin it and to eventually kill each other with laws and edicts. Good riddance.
Report Post »KYWATCHDOG
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:56amVaguely, I seem to remember Al Gore visiting a planet in search and audience after 2000. Could he have found one? Right on Mr. EX-VP and Bon Voyage.
Report Post »Kael Hyun
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:18amAh Lucas being some what prophetic once again (Lightsabers are also Possible)
Now, the geek in me is pissed that they labeled the Lars Homestead as the “Skywalker Household” Only one other Skywalker lived there, Shmi (When she married Cliegg Lars)
Report Post »Bullhorn Guy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:26amThe Nerd is strong with this one.
Report Post »Kael Hyun
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 2:19pmAt least I admit it.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:17pmYes, but FTL isn’t.
Report Post »fcbs46
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:43amBring on the Anti Gravity drive to speed me to the far planets take me away from the Socialists,Communists,and the Other kooks. Let me thrive in my own kooky world.
Yee Ha
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:23pmheck no, ill just send them to one of thoes planets and let them fend for themselves….byt their own admission they are superior so let them proove it and build their ‘utopia’…in a galaxy far far away
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:28amSomeone’s home it is not.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:18amThe fact that there are billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, is proof enough that there are a lot of advanced planets with life in the Universe. It is a mathematical certainty. See UFO INTERLOPERS and AUTOMATIC WRITER and other such stories at AMAZON KINDLE and BARNES&NOBLE NOOK.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:42amTotally agree with you. I’ll be interested to see how the “evolution is a theory” brigade respond to you. We only need to find life on one other planet to blow their minds. Oh, just thought, maybe creation happened simultaneously throughout the universe and everyone had a flood, and this big wooden boat rescued everyone but had no room for the dinosaurs and there was this garden with two people and a snake….no, I prefer the Star Wars stories.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:30amAbsolutely!
NoBama 2012
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:45pmTo Jack of Hearts – If evolution of life on other planets is a mathematical certainty, and I agree that if one accepts the premise of evolution that it must be so, why are the heavens silent? Shouldn’t the galactic radio waves be teeming with evidence of other intelligent life? What are the odds that our barely intelligent species is the only species to have acquired the ability to transmit electronic signals into space? Where is the Vulcan mentor race to nurture humanity beyond its mental infancy into enlightment? Where is the competition eliminating species posited by Steven Hawking that will destroy earth if they find us? I think they are about to give up on the SETI project because all they have ever heard is the background radio noise from stars….
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:59pmYou’re not fully comprehending the SIZE involved.
If the current distance that we can see into the universe was equal to the diameter of a grain of sand then our galaxy would be the width of, say, an eighteen wheeler. We are nowhere near capable of intercepting signals from light years away, at his point. And who’s to say that the life on other planets is advanced enough to send it?
Report Post »Dabldo
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 12:16amLet see now…… we have only been transmitting radio waves out into the universe foooorrr about 100yrs now. And we have changed modulation methods how many times?? Can the FM modulation method pick up the AM modulated signal info……No. And now we have side band and digital spread spectrum and frequency hopping methods……. I‘de say we are still taking baby steps and haven’t reached the adult table yet. Perhaps gravity wave modulation. Theoretically instantanious any where in the universe…..Oh and there is the advent of several new forms of electronics coming. Spintronics and several others that will change things in ways we can’t possibly forsee.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:27pm@JackofHearts – Replied above. Exactly the opposite. Evolution is so improbable, that finding life out there should put the death knell to that theory – except it won’t, since its source is not science but religion. One keeps on getting a form of – well then, how did he get here?
So why shouldn’t all creations happen at the same time – except, of course, for the fact that time is a function of matter and deosn’t even flow everywhere at the same rate.
I really tire of how the anti-religious crowd builds all of their straw men. Rabbi Judah Halevi, in the “Kuzari”(8) around a thousand years ago alreadt stated that Judaism has no opinion regarding extraterrestrial life – that this was a matter for scientists.
(Actual title, in Arabic, “Hope for the opressed people”, or somethig of that nature.)
Now if we are to be so scientifically accurate, why does everyone forget that current theory says infornation cannot go past light speed, so there cannot be FTL drives.
Report Post »TinCanVet
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:03amYeah, so lets go check it out! Aah, 200 Light Years away! I think I was able to get a Doc appointment on that day. Can’t make it.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:16amWell, they DID say it was on a planet far, far, away, but that was a long time ago :-)
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:02amYou just KNOW George Lucas and his marketing campaign is behind this. Stars comes out on Blu-Ray…and now this? Get ready for Tatooine Action Planet mobiles for the bedroom.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:58amI just figured out why our POTUS bows to all the world leaders. It is practice, if aliens arrive he will lead our troops right to their face. And if necessary bow and let the bullets fly over his head. Right?
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:52pmSilly you, our current POTUS wouldn’t lead the troops anywhere. He would issue orders from the presidential bunker to have the military load up their beanbag guns and go protect the union thugs that he sent out to make a deal to sell the U.S. to the aliens in return for tricked out space rides and handheld intergalactic communicators for him and the union leaders and high paying jobs cleaning the alien space toilets for the rest of the union members.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:58amI believe that sector of the galaxy is controlled by the Empire. We should just stay away…at least until we spot any imperial probe droids here on Earth.
Report Post »christos
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:38am…….+JESUS+ said in my +FATHERS+ house there are many mansions the word Awesome belongs only to +GOD+…….
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:46amDictionary definition of awesome “Awesome describes something that is wonderful, impressive and sometimes frightening”. So you don’t think the Universe is awesome? You should get out more.
Report Post »Bullhorn Guy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:28amThe word “punctuation” apparently doesn’t belong anywhere near any of your posts. Plus signs are cool, though.
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:47pmDude – He is using an apple, they don’t have quotation marks on their keyboards yet…
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:57pmI just can’t understand why the religious nutjobs have to be the only representatives of Christianity to post on these sites. They are downright embarassing. For the record, the vast majority of relgious people are actually capable of rational thought and coherent expression. However, for some reason, the nutjobs who are not feel compelled to expose their ignorance with nonsensical posts like the one Christos placed here. Downright embarassing.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:18amIf only we could convince Michael Moore that they have a bigger tea party problem on this newly discovered planet and that he needs to go their quickly and tell them how bad the tea party is…
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:36amSpeaking of Michael Moore, that reminds me of a line from Star Wars: “That’s no moon…”
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:41am” the planet, unlike the fictional Tatooine that has a desert-like environment, scientists wager is more like Saturn — dense and gaseous.”
So it’s similar to Tatooine, except that it’s dissimilar to Tatooine. I’d think you would need more than two stars to call it similar. Saturn is not even vaguely like Earth, and Tatooine was like a desert type Earth.
Good job on the ol’ headlines there Blaze.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:18am@TH30PH1LUS
Report Post »I was expecting a Jabba the Hut joke, there :-)
Beneupho
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:50pmHow about: “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.”
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:59pmI think he has already been there. They did say it is a “gas giant” didn’t they?
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 1:57pmAnonymous T Relevant: “@TH30PH1LUS
I was expecting a Jabba the Hut joke, there :-)”
To tell the truth, Anon, i don’t think anyone wanted to insult Jabba, as bad as a Hutt that he is.
Besides… take a look at any Michael Moore pic and you can tell he probably already has an alien symbiot (think Segourney Weaver type) in him.
Report Post »Autumknight
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:17amOn that planet there is a very rare material that will solve ALL our energy needs. Problem is that there are these blue people inhabiting the planet and are very rigid to their ideological way of life. Trying to mine the planet will surely mean war!!
Report Post »princeman26
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:34amThere is a REAL alternative energy source available. Google Andrea Rossi, his nickel power plant gives 10-1 power, clean. Amazing real solutions are never made available, perhaps big oil and gas, don’t want there to be alternatives?
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:40amWait!. NASA is wanting to build a super rocket, the bridge to nowhere. The blue person is fighting the red person on their planet and having spent all of their savings become broke. The commoner is saying work together even if there is no common thesis. Their deep space listening probe is working well, having transmitted thousands of messages via their Goldstone to that similar planet in the far away Orin Cygnus Arm.
Report Post »shorthorn
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:14amLooks like it might be a tad hot there, based on the orbit.
Report Post »Texas sorta feels like we have two suns, so maybe we could live there.
SamIamTwo
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:12amInteresting…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:01amInteresting discovery.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:00am.
Report Post »Is it free and clear of democrates? If so Beam me up Scotty…………
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:43amYep, it only has the standard wood and cardboard crates.
Report Post »Conservator99
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:57amI have always believed that there are other planets with life out there somewhere. I doubt very seriously they are what the movies would have us believe, though. I’d say they are very similar to us.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:04amYou should watch or read “The Privileged Planet”. Google it, it may change your mind on that.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:17amLife is a little more complicated than “just add water”. It requires several “habitable zones”: (1) within a solar system (assuming the star type/size) = too close or too far spell doom; (b) within a galaxy = too close to the center multiplies killer radiation; and also (c) within time itself = too early in the formation of the Universe – too hot/unstable, too late – not enough raw materials for the creation of Earth-type planets.
Life is a rare and beautiful gift.
p.s. the roll-over ads are uber-annoying.
Report Post »twofoot_trucker
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:21amGonzo, I checked out the Privileged Planet website. I can’t speak for anyone else but me, it’s not going to change my mind when the second sentence of the synopsis is wrong.
“Mathematics, a creation of human reason…”
Math exists independent of human existence. Man doesn’t create math, he discovers it.
Report Post »Wiseone1w
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:01pmCome now, you really don’t think there are some species of life out their that would make your nose hairs curl? How would you feel about a sentient race that evolved from a skunklike creature?
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:57amMaybe someone can find a job there?
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:38amI’ve heard there are a lot of jobs on a planet called Jeopardy. Seriously, I believe there must be life out there somewhere – the statistics are heavily in favour. Just remember that with the distances involved if someone was watching earth they‘d probably describe us as the Dinosaur planet since that’s what life here consisted of for over 200 million years. They wouldn’t have spotted the little mammals had developed yet.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:55amThere are many binary star systems. They tend to be unstable.Some speculate that Jupiter may have beem a failed star that did not ignite.Star Wars planet ,Tatooine, had some real global warming issues.When need to send Al Gore and gang to go save them.
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:47amAh, the discovery of ridding ones village of snake oil salesmen. The only trouble is when that snake-oil guru is sent packing, he goes to the next village, changes the label on his elixir and professes the cure for some unfounded aliment.
Report Post »dudeman4
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:05pmTatooine’s problem is a lack of water, not any atmosphere.
Report Post »The_Postal
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:47amAnd on the day Star Wars is released on Blu-Ray. May the Force be with you, Always.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:43amTwo stars…. maybe solar panels would work there.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:44amIf your solar panels don’t work, try taking them back to the supplier. The rest of the world are cutting their electric bills every day. There’s even an annoying advert on this site for them.
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