Scientists Discover Planet With "100 Percent" Chance Of Containing Life

I checked out the video from the same site. Very interesting stuff. Given that some top retired Air Force brass held a press conference a few days ago covering their own encounters with extra terrestrial life - hanging out around US missile silos, I think this whole topic is really getting fascinating. Thanks for the heads up on this!

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a cosy alien planet that might be hospitable to life. The planet is not much bigger than the Earth, and it enjoys balmy temperatures of about 20° C (68° F) as well as spectacular scarlet sunsets.

so exciting when you think about it. Now how do we make contact?

I was just reading about that not too long ago.. very interesting and awesome. I'm pretty sure theres something out there since they found water on the planet.. man this will change everything!!

Besides, suppose the temperature, atmosphere, radioactive level, chemicals, light, cycles, years and days, were ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL to the earth. In EVERY way, and they didn't vary by even a trillionth of the smallest measure commonly available. So the planet didn't vary by even a trillionth of a ug(A millionth of a gram), and the distance from the closest planet didn't vary by a trillionth of a um(A millionth of a meter). Suppose all that were true, and there were even water there, by the same measure, with the same levels of the same minerals. HOW would that mean there were life there?

I mean COMEON! They tried HERE and failed, and this is the same planet. How could they expect another planet to be the same? Basically, they have only found that life comes from life, and that the ideal circumstances only mean that it COULD start, not that it will.

And, keep in mind that they don't have any way of measuring so precisely at a distance.
HECK, even ICs are only measured down to some number of nm, which is a thousandth of a um. And THEY have fixed points of reference.

Steve

With a hundred billion stars (suns) in our galaxy, and roughly a hundred billion galaxies in the "known" universe, if there wasn't other life out there, that would be kinda crazy.
And once we thought the earth was flat. Right..!
Here's a link to that might help the skeptics: retired airforce brass press conference a week or so ago on their encounters with ufo's over US and Russki nuke silos.

100% certain.

I'm 120 trillion percent certain that no one will disprove their statement.

I love this stuff!

Very interesting indeed.

It's interesting: every period in history was "modern" to those experiencing it. Even the flat-earthers.

I see people looking back at this time 200 years from now (or less), and wondering how we could seriously believe we live on the only inhabited planet in the known universe!

Over 100,000,000,000 (hundred billion) stars in our galaxy; at least 1,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe; one planet with intelligent life on it? What are the odds?

Wow, but it take several generations just to get there.. There's a very slim chance for me to know whether they really have any life forms on that planet

Here are some odds from a Phd Professor:

Odds of other life in the known universe...

Interesting stuff.

As far as the monkey experiment. "Theoretical" would be the operative word there, me thinks.

Hello,
reading between the lines on this, it says to me that someone is building a Noah's ark to move to that planet.

Whichever way you lean on this discussion, it's interesting to ponder.

Who opened up this can of worms anyway... Hesaidblissfully.

I'd better quit pondering and get back to some production!

This is so cool! There must be so much out there in the universe. There are literally trillions of stars and billions of galaxies. There should be one planet in half of all the solar systems that contain life. I wish I could go there and see what's out there. How cool!

In a handful of years 5-10 there will be thousands of earth like planets discovered.

Probably we will find sign of earth like aliens within 5-10 years.

By "earth like" I simply mean things that we can distinguish as life forms as we are. I definitely expect this with the 5-10 yr time frame.

But in this century it wont be such a big deal. It would have been 50 years ago or 100 years ago but lets face it we can nearly "make" any kind of alien we want now.

In 20 - 30 years we will be planning the missions to these other worlds with space craft designed by super AI computers using technology that humans are too stupid to even understand.

It may be that the computers deem deep space travel is unnecessary & can just simulate everything for the dumb humans.

But my ultimate theory of AI & space travel is that physical travel will be replaced by virtual teleportation between hyper advanced AI nodes that have evolved independently.

This is really interesting stuff and It makes me eager more to know about it

Very interesting stuff. I think this whole topic is really getting fascinating. Thanks for the heads up on this!

If it's true it really is amazing, but i'm not sure as i noticed to inaccuracies in the article for starters

It amazes me how much misconception there is about this subject.

The fact is that we still don't know whether there is one single planet in the universe besides Earth that harbors life.

What we now know is that rocky planets appear to be plentiful. There are around 150 billion stars in our galaxy and at least 100 billion galaxies in the Universe. There are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Therefore, it is likely that there will be many planets that harbor life in the Universe.

But "likely" is the key word there and as of today there is no conclusive evidence of life anywhere but Earth.

We will know within the next few years whether any such planets exist within a couple of hundred light years of our Sun. If a planet's atmosphere contains more than a trace of oxygen, it almost certainly harbors life. While detecting what's in this planet's atmosphere is not possible due to its orientation with Earth, we will be able to test others and future technology will certainly be developed to test this planet's atmosphere too.

This planet they just discovered is different from Earth in many ways. One side always faces its star with extreme boiling temperatures and the other side with extreme freezing temperatures. It is 3 times the mass of Earth so you would barely be able to stand on the surface. It is circling a totally different type of star from our Sun. It is much closer to its star than Earth from our Sun.

So I'm not saying that life on this planet is impossible or even unlikely. There is a temperate zone between the light and dark sides where life "could" possibly exist. Life could most certainly evolve to handle many times more than triple Earth's gravity.

I'm just saying that all of the news reports and a few over enthusiastic scientists are saying that this is an Earthlike planet that's nearly certain to harbor life and that's far from the truth. The first rule of science is to not jump to conclusions until adequate evidence is in and that's all I'm doing.

But I hope their enthusiastic prediction prove to be correct.

How will the discovery of alien life affect our civilization here ?

How can we possibly make contingencies for alien contact ?

When we look at the moon, we are seeing the moon from 2 seconds ago (that's how long it takes light to travel from the moon to Earth). When we see Mars, it's about 3 minutes. Now imagine a planet that is 120 trillion miles away - even if we sent a spacecraft there TODAY, the planet itself could be totally gone by the time we get there.

I just want to be the first to market to them. I can see it now, my alien aweber list.

Let me know when the tourism guide comes out

20 years ago in a galaxy far, far away.... There was a planet that almost resembles earth, except it does not rotate fast enough to ensure the equal distribution of heat and cold across the face of the planet.

On one side of the planet, all of its water is frozen rock solid. On the other side of the planet, the atmosphere remains constantly hot, to the point where it may boil off all of its water.

At the edges of the planet, scientists expect to find a belt of inhabitable regions where life could exist.

And as would be expected, the war between the north and the south fights on, with little cause to believe the conflict will end any time too soon.

The only thing more threatening to its inhabitants than the other life forms on the planet Gliese 581 is those damn green aliens with their anal probes!!!

That link jumped to Yahoo search, why?

Just finished watching the video. So guys what's the cheapest and fastest way to reach to that planet