woberto Report This Comment Date: February 04, 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.
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 09:50AM
I've already been there. The aliens took me in their spaceship, probed around a
bit and then brought me home.
quasi Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 10:37AM
Did you go off your meds, woberto? And, pulse, you should look into getting
some meds.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 11:54AM
Given the countless number of solar systems in the universe it is conceivable
that there would be systems that could hold life far more advanced than we are
and might have the possibility of stellar travel. I have always considered
space as being infinite therefore I believe there would be many planets which
support life as we know it and possibly even many supporting life as we are
unaccustomed to possibility like silicon based life or some other. To think we
are alone in the universe is just conceited and shallow thinking, or maybe
religious thinking. Even thinking religiously one should consider that God in
his infinite wisdom would not place all his egs in one basket.
numbnuts Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 04:26PM
of course theirs life out there, haven't yall seen star trek
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 07:28PM
Even if the universe is not truly infinite (and there is some evidence
indicating that it might not be) it is still incomprehensibly huge. I think it
is pretty arrogant to think we are the only intelligence capable life forms in
existence. As far a religion goes, it is pretty damn arrogant for people to
actually believe that they have even the slightest glimmer of a clue about God's
"plan" and that sort of thing. I mean, who the hell do we think we are
anyway?
aliengod666 Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 09:07PM
why is there evan a discussion about if theres other live out there,, lol,, of
course there is !
numbnuts Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 09:34PM
if the universe ends, whats on the other side, its too much for the human mind
to comprehend, thats why we believe in a god or creator, and what made them? so
lets just try to make our short lives better by working hard and killing as many
liberals, socialist, fags, niggers, nazis, communnist, bull dykes, terrorists,
people who take and don't make and our little planet will be such a better
place.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: February 04, 2012 09:37PM
That's a pretty easy question to answer. There's a discussion about it because
we do not know if there is or not. The probability for there to be is extremely
high, yet we have no accepted evidence and experience to support it. Therefore
questions about it persist and it is therefore discussed.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2012 09:37PM by BlahX3.
LLL Report This Comment Date: February 05, 2012 12:59AM
Curved Space..... find the shortcut.
Black Holes.... backdoors.
LLL Report This Comment Date: February 05, 2012 01:01AM
Also, it wasn't long ago that scientist were saying that we would never be able
to travel at the speed of sound.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: February 05, 2012 10:57AM
If you got to the end of space then you would fall off the slide onto the lab
floor or you would hit the locker door.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: February 06, 2012 06:26PM
or the bow of your sailboat crashes through the wall...