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Re: Image comments for Planet - GJ 667Cc
Posted by: woberto
Date: 04/02/2012 07:51AM
Firstly, that's an artists impression. This is real life not the movies, you cannot just zoom in on something that far away.
Secondly, who cares? There is no chance that our human race will ever get there before we extinct ourselves.
An example from Bill Bryson;
"Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts but the solar system doesn’t end there. In fact, it isn’t even close to ending there. We won’t get to the solar system’s edge until we have passed through the Oort cloud, a vast celestial realm of drifting comets… Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one 50,000th of the way. Of course we have no prospect of such a journey. Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system — ever. It is just too far".
Thirdly, it's no big deal that another planet fits the criteria for life. Under Drake’s equation you divide the number of stars in a selected portion of the universe by the number of stars that are likely to have planetary systems; divide that by the number of planetary systems that could theoretically support life; divide that by the number on which life, having arisen, advances to a state of intelligence; and so on. At each such division, the number shrinks colossally—yet even with the most conservative inputs the number of advanced civilizations just in the Milky Way always works out to be somewhere in the millions.

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