Screw you guys...

[Shea]

..I'm going home

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/...ain_new_planet

Not quite there yet but getting closer. C'mon Dirk, get your ass in gear, this planet sucks

[Snowman]

You have to realize that when we look up into the night sky there is a very high probability that something or someone is looking back at us.

[GixxerCarrie]

You have to realize that when we look up into the night sky there is a very high probability that something or someone is looking back at us.

Sounds romantic Randall....

[Shea]

You have to realize that when we look up into the night sky there is a very high probability that something or someone is looking back at us.

I firmly believe that the universe if far too vast to be completely empty save for our little corner of it.

[Snowman]

Sounds romantic Randall....

Only in a late 50’s martian men stealing earth women movie type of way…

[XJ600s]

Ahh, the Drake equation...

People fail to realize that while a possibly habitable planet is only 20.5 light years away, we are not even close to traveling at the speed of light, so effectively, it could take us hundreds or even thousands of years to get there... We barely have the technology to make a 6 month journey to Mars, let alone hundreds of years...

[Snowman]

That also presumes that “life” has to exist under the limited parameters of what we have here on earth. I would wager life will exist anywhere is given a chance, and it does existing outside of the earth and within this solar system.

[GixxerCarrie]

Only in a late 50’s martian men stealing earth women movie type of way…

No....its a 2000's thing...haven't you read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?...lolz

Not trying to take the point away from your thread Shea...I believe and the thought and idea that others exist.

[Shea]

Ahh, the Drake equation...

People fail to realize that while a possibly habitable planet is only 20.5 light years away, we are not even close to traveling at the speed of light, so effectively, it could take us hundreds or even thousands of years to get there... We barely have the technology to make a 6 month journey to Mars, let alone hundreds of years...

At the speed of the fastest space vehicle (Voyager I) it would take us 352,202* years to cover the 20.5 light years. You know, pretty doable

*really rough calculation

[Shea]

That also presumes that “life” has to exist under the limited parameters of what we have here on earth. I would wager life will exist anywhere is given a chance, and it does existing outside of the earth and within this solar system.

Yeah, if we can find silicon based life forms that breath liquid methane it still counts

[Snowman]

No....its a 2000's thing...haven't you read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?...lolz

Not trying to take the point away from your thread Shea...I believe and the thought and idea that others exist.

If in that, you are saying women breathe sulfuric acid and expel gasses at temperatures of 850°. You may have a point.


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[Snowman]

Yeah, if we can find silicon based life forms that breath liquid methane it still counts

One of the programs we have testing on the ice is a probe that will melt its way through an ice sheet to get at the ocean of water underneath.

I fully believe one day its more advanced successor will do the same on Europa. And upon reaching the ocean below it will transmit to earth one last picture of a set off teeth before we lose contact with it completely.

[Shea]

One of the programs we have testing on the ice is a probe that will melt its way through an ice sheet to get at the ocean of water underneath.

I fully believe one day its more advanced successor will do the same on Europa. And upon reaching the ocean below it will transmit to earth one last picture of a set off teeth before we lose contact with it completely.

That would be so fricking awesome!

[GixxerCarrie]

If in that, you are saying women breathe sulfuric acid and expel gasses at temperatures of 850°. You may have a point.


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I couldn't help myself....