Someone posted this on Spectrumville. Very interesting IMO.

so, when can we move?

Interesting but I'm not holding by breathe. Maybe I scanned it too quickly but they never seem to say how far away these planets are.


You really want to weigh four times what you do now?

From the article it would appear that it's 120 trillion miles away.

hahaha
hmmm ok, on second thought...

Oh yeah, thanks.

My little brother is really into space and astronomy and when he heard about this he started crying.

wow, that's pretty exciting. I think being 100% certain is a bit optimistic. He's assuming that there isn't some kind of external factor which caused life on Earth (like being carried through space on an asteroid). Nonetheless its probably the first of many such planets and the more they find the greater the chance of finding life becomes. Even if they're bereft of life they could be colonisable by Humans at some point in the future.

Astronomers have finally discovered my home planet.

Ooops... shit... now you guys know my secret.

I wouldn't focus too keenly on the title. The actual quote reads more like, considering the way life flourishes like bacteria on a damp cloth, wherever the conditions to sustain it are met, by all odds life should be present. He later goes on to say that 'he has almost no doubt about it', so obviously his initial statement of 100 percent is a bit of attention grabbing rhetoric; and even then he stresses 'my own personal feeling' so it's clear his claim is not a scientific one.

Thats quite an interesting article, now we just have to invent warp drive so we can go there and check it out.

It seems stupid to me that scientists who can't even get off the planet(I don't count low earth orbit) can make claims that they know so much about the rest of the universe. I agree that life can probably develop just about anywhere but that's just my opinion based on a lot of guesswork.

A few years ago astronomers said a different planet in this solar system had life and hyped it up even more than this. Turns out it's probably like Venus.

Lol, in this "solar system"? You must mean "galaxy"?

All of the planets in our solar system have been explored enough to know that there's likely no life on any them. If there's life anywhere in our solar system, it could perhaps be on a moon.

I meant the Gliese 581 star. A few years ago they said a different planet there was Earth's twin and that we could live there. Turns out it's probably a hot motherfucker. I don't believe this stuff. I want us to find life and another planet we could live on but we don't have the technology to discover it yet. Mostly all astronomers can do is detect planets.

I'm guessing you lived on the dark, cold side then...

the universe is so infintely BIG that there just has to be life out there somewhere there just has to be.....no doubt...not to mention all the weird sh!t people see in the sky wormholes UFO'z and other crazy stuff.....goverment is sooooo hiding sumthin from the general population....

Has anyone here ever heard of "the Drake equation"? If not I suggest that you look it up. It is quite simple and you can crunch the numbers yourself. Even if you use very conservative numbers in this equation you will still wind up with millions of advanced civilizations in our galaxy alone, not to mention all the other countless billions of galaxies in our observable universe. It boggles the mind to think how truely vast the universe really. The odds of life on other planets truely is 100%, it just needs to be documented.