new potentially habitable planet found

[Wind]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_...table_planet_17

awesome

Take that Jesus!

[Crube]

Wrong section, sir. Plus, what does this have to do with Jesus anyway?

[amy]

I read about this! It's so exciting! =D=D

[Chris]

I heard about this yesterday, but it really isn't a big deal considering there are fossils and structures on Mars. And that a few moons of Saturn and Jupiter are ideal for life to evolve.

Jesus has been misinterpreted for 2000 years...more like..... take that Christian faith! And take that Book of Genesis!

[Galkar]

there are fossils and structures on Mars.

What fossils and structures?

[Chris]

What fossils and structures?

read The Mars Mystery by Graham Hancock, im skeptical on structures though

[Wind]

my bad lol

[noodle]

What fossils and structures?

the transformers from the movie.

(or at least they were in the first trailer)

[TeleportSandwich]

Earth 2? If that's where Golden Age Superman lives then......OH MY GOD, THE MULTIVERSE STILL EXSIST! :ohmy:

[Chris]

Look at the artist's illustration of the planet, that's awesome!

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070424/481/054...xEHxM_.6yNxieAA

[No Sad Endings]

I heard about this yesterday, but it really isn't a big deal considering there are fossils and structures on Mars. And that a few moons of Saturn and Jupiter are ideal for life to evolve.

Jesus has been misinterpreted for 2000 years...more like..... take that Christian faith! And take that Book of Genesis!

ummm what? There is no proof as of yet that there was ever life on Mars. They're still looking for it.

[Wind]

We need more funding for our space program. Otherwise those damn communists might get to it first.

listen to this man

[Belial]

ummm what? There is no proof as of yet that there was ever life on Mars. They're still looking for it.

Uhh... Didn't you see Mission to Mars?

True story.

[Chris]

ummm what? There is no proof as of yet that there was ever life on Mars. They're still looking for it.

Oh that's right, because the icecaps, dried up rivers/streams, and fossilized bacteria can't possibly be looked on as evidence of life existing or once existing there.

[HappyLittleBoozer]

As ambassador of earth I offer to mingle with the alien kind, breed with their women, and expose them to earth cultures. Domination through osmosis.

[Ceraziefish]

I say we FUCK 'EM UP.

Seriously, though, there's much more likely to be life on Titan (moon of Saturn, I believe) than Mars -- and there's a decent likelyhood of there being life on Mars. Now, that life is probably bacteria, mind you, but still.

Titan has a huge amount of Methane and even some Nitrogen in its atmosphere! It has liquid methane lakes :awesome:

[Chris]

Yea, I mentioned that earlier; Jupiter's Europa is the other with a high likelihood of having life. Since there's most likely an ocean under the massive layers of ice.

[No Sad Endings]

Oh that's right, because the icecaps, dried up rivers/streams, and fossilized bacteria can't possibly be looked on as evidence of life existing or once existing there.

Wait, wait, wait. I never heard they found definite signs of fossilized bacteria on Mars. I remember them getting worked up about possible fossilized bacteria but they weren't sure of the validity of what they had. Can you point me toward a Nasa source for this info?

And no, the mere presence of water isn't a sign of life; it's sign that there's a much greater possibility life could exist/have existed there, but that's not the same thing.

I'm pretty excitable about the possibility of life on other planets too, but I haven't heard anything about them declaring that they had found fossilized life on mars. Actually, I think it was just the other day that there was some kind of article on them being excited because, what was it, I think that there seemed to be a lot more water than originally thought? Like enough to cover the whole planet. And they were excited because this raised the possibility of finding life there.

[Chris]

Well it's being debated still whether they are actually are fossils or not. I assume they are signs of life, since Earth life is commonly theorized to have began in water, and most scientists agree that millions of years ago, Mars had flowing water.

Here are two pictures under speculation, everything I could find on them either says "They are fossils" "Are they fossils?" or "No they aren't fossils" so make your own conclusions. I mean, I'm no expert, but I think it's legit.

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/roanoke/n...fe_96-12609.gif

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/mars/cone_m_029b.jpg

Anyway, I'm pretty excited too about intelligent life elsewhere that is 100% provable. The problem is, how do we get there?! :laugh:

[darkon]

I forget. Is Mars in an Ice Age or a Hot Age (forget the scientific word here)?

[Ceraziefish]

Well, we've got space shuttles that can do about 17,500 mph, and that article said that the planet was about 120 trillion miles away... By my rough calculations it would take us 6857142.858 hours to get there; or 285714.286 days, or 40,816.327 weeks, or 784.93 years. But I've never been very good at math.

[Galkar]

Those pictures are from a meteor that landed here and for a bit everyone was all excited cause that looks so much like bacteria, and while a few people in the field fstill think that it is, the general concensus is that it's not from bacteria. Note that I have no source to cite here, this is just something I know because every time I've ever been to a museum where they mention that rock, or any time it's on like Nova or something, they say what I just said.

But yes, the stuff about Titan and Europa are correct. Europa does have an ocean and it is considered highly yet speculatively possible that there is life there, and Titan does have lakes of methane cause it's that awesome :awesome:

[Natsu]

Earth 2? If that's where Golden Age Superman lives then......OH MY GOD, THE MULTIVERSE STILL EXSIST!

I actually like Earth 2 Superman better then the mainstream one..and whats sad he's dead:(

[Samurai Drifter]

Considering the staggering size of the Universe and the amount of stars and star systems, it's practically statistically impossible that the only life is on Earth.

Thats awesome. There has to be other life forms out there, its just not possible that we are the only ones. But it always bothered me how they just base everything off how we were created, how water has to exist in order for there to be life etc. I don't believe that's true. I just want life to be more like Futurama. And be a space pirate. Ah, the sweet life of a space pirate.

It's not that there nessecarily has to be water. We look for planets like Earth because we know there was at least one successful case of life evolving on such a world.

[No Sad Endings]

It's not that there nessecarily has to be water. We look for planets like Earth because we know there was at least one successful case of life evolving on such a world.

^ What he said

From all our knowledge, we are not aware of the possibility of life without water. It is theoretically possible, in that pretty much anything is, but we have no concept of how it could happen.