Faraway planetary system may be habitable

[fulltimer56]

Has anyone else seen this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12837988/

Can anyone say "Star Trek"!!! :shock:

Linda

[SatansProdigy]

Didn't they find water on Mars? Thought I read that somewhere.....or maybe I've been watching too many Sci-Fi movies!

[fulltimer56]

SP,

I think there is water in the "Ice Caps" but I know that they think they have found proof that there was water there at one time! Anyone?

Linda

[The Charlton Guy]

No doubt. "They're out there".

This has been accepted by many astronomers and phyicists for decades.

Given the sheer vastness of space and the "billions and billions" of star systems,
it is a mathematical impossibility that they're NOT out there.

Better have a hell of a long vacation time to visit them though, a few thousand light years anyway. And by the time you get there, they may have come and gone. Impossible with current technology of course. We need time machines, like them.

[marvelguy]

Regarding Mars, they have found channels like the Grand Canyon in which rivers used to run thru it. They also think that water is under the ice caps (am I right?), not sure, my memory is foggy.

[Greg]

Given how large space is and how old I would say yes. If there hasn't been any in the past then there will be in the future. Even if life is a freak accident, with one in a billion billion chance, that would mean that there most likely is life. This life may not even be in our concept of the universe. Space is infinite, so it seems safe to say that there would be other big bangs going on all the time out there creating thousands of other gallaxy's aside from those contained within our own universe*. Of course we may never be able to see this life due to travel limitations.


*Note I am not talking about other universes where duplicats of earth exist or anything like that. Just collections of gallaxy's created through a common event.

[rowand]

OK! What comics do they publish and what does a subscription run a fanboy?

Hope they ship them flat. Took FOREVER to get DC to ship them flat!

Last I looked at the unfounded theories it was: Water Ice under the CO2 ice at the poles. Mars gets cold enough for CO2 to solidify and that kisses off any ecosystem like Earth's.

Inner moon is artificial though. Check out the nuclear bomb crater at its north pole that was created by moving it from its orbit in the Asteroid Belt to a stop over stepping stone for Mars launches. We keep loosing contact with our perfectly good probes that try to get close up and personal with it.

Still looking for intelligent life in Washington DC myself. No sign so far!

[marvelguy]

rowand said :
"Still looking for intelligent life in Washington DC myself. No sign so far!"

And yet we keep sending those talking heads over there, never to be seen again.

[The Charlton Guy]

Inner moon is artificial though. Check out the nuclear bomb crater at its north pole that was created by moving it from its orbit in the Asteroid Belt to a stop over stepping stone for Mars launches. We keep loosing contact with our perfectly good probes that try to get close up and personal with it.


Yet more proof that Rowand and C.G. were separated at birth (likely by the Men in Black).

[rowand]

Marvel Guy: If we don't send them to Washington DC, they stay here!

Charlton Dad (Again!): (Phobos = Fear, Diemos = Loathing)

The Stickney crater on Phobos is directly on line with the major axis of the moon and thus is right where you would plant thermonukes to use them as rocket motors to move an asteroid into orbit. During my childhood the National Space Agency declaired Phobos to be artificial no less then 5 times! One guy claimed that it was a thin iron shell like a space station some 5 cm thick and asteroid sized.

And they said cartoons and funny books were going to warp my tiny, undeveloped brain. (Well they were right but we just won't give them the satisfaction of knowing that truth.)