Are We Alone In the Universe? New Analysis Says Maybe

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  1. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Here at the top, my fierce stare aimed down upon you scrawny sub-7 footers, I leave you with this one last quote from the greatest man the Nazis produced before bidding your beddy-bye.

    "You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering."
    --Wernher Von Braun

    I leave it to you to find a great quote from a gay red lobster.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    The expanding shell of radio transmissions has been found, next to the missing WMDs.

    http://xkcd.com/482/
     
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    ya know, the funniest thing about this thread is that they have just discovered a planet that they believe to have liquid water on its surface, reported to be the closest to earth in configuration than anything ever discovered. The down side is that it is 13T miles away and would take like three hundred thousand years to reach it with present tech.

    So the odds just went up, guess that cat should not have published that quite yet..
     
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    What I've never understood is why it is assumed that a different sort of lifeform on another planet would need the same basic atmospheric conditions to exist as our known species on Earth require. It seems pretty arrogant to me for any scientist to work on the assumption that all life exists in some sort of form that we know of on Earth.
     
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    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    Finding life in the Universe is going to be never-ending.

    Like trying to build a real time machine -- not gonna happen!

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    There there. Don't be lonely. There are plenty of others that just recently learned how to cut-and-paste from wikipedia.
     
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    it is impossible to time travel into the future because it hasnt happened yet
     
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    Time travel to the future is easy. We do it every day when you move to high speeds.

    I think you meant time travel to the PAST looks impossible because we have never met somebody from the future.
     
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    we are never in the future, it is always now now

    because today is yesterdays tomorrow
     
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    what happened to then?
    We passed then.
    When?
    Just now. We're at now, now.
    Go back to then.
    When?
    Now.
    Now?
    Now.
    I can't. We passed then.
    When?
    Just now.
    When will then be now?
    Soon.
     
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    Regarding the original paper, here's some interesting casual commentary from the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club. It's an interesting group -- they choose topics, discuss via Twitter, and compile the results. Looks like mostly PhD students and recent grads.

    Their primary reaction seems to be a collective shrug: Spiegel and Turner don't attempt to prove that extraterrestrial life is unlikely, only that there's a CHANCE that it is unlikely. It's basically an underdetermined probabilistic equation -- we don't have enough data to properly constrain the various possibilites.

    Here's another light review, and a link to the original paper itself, FWIW.

    And here's a mostly unrelated comic that made me smile.

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