is it POSSIBLE that they could live there right now?
The search for extraterrestrials is a hotly debated topic. And the discovery of numerous exoplanets in the last decade has taken things up a notch. Previously the S.E.T.I. program and other methods used to get the majority of the search for alien questions (and of course area 51). And of the exoplanets there is one in particular that has caught the attention of many astronomers:
Scientists say a world that’s 490 light-years away qualifies as the first confirmed Earth-sized exoplanet that could sustain life as we know it — but in an environment like nothing we’ve ever seen.
The planet, known as Kepler-186f, is “more of an Earth cousin than an Earth twin,” Elisa Quintana, an astronomer at the SETI Institute at NASA Ames Research Center, told the journal Science. Quintana is the lead author of a report on the planet published by Science this week.
What do you think is this one of particular interest?
Let’s check out this exoplanet in the video on page 2
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2 hyper commercial pages to click through to get to a NOVA episode, WTF?
I don’t know. Have they detected some signs of photosynthesis?
I doubt it, the planet orbits so close to its star that it would be tidelly locked. Which means that one side always faces the star and the other side away. One side would be in perpetual darkness while the other perpetual day plus it won’t have a magnetic field.
What by any means do you think any other life forms can’t inhabit these planets? We base life off of our miniscule perspective here. And we are supposedly a few chromosomes from being chimps. Most humans are ignorant monkeys… But that aside why do you possibly think “other” life couldn’t… We are the bottom of the totem pole in terms of the universe.
Not at the bottom, but we’re stupid for certainty. We’re definitely the most destructive force, however. We’re a melting pot of different views and it sucks that we can’t be shown the true nature of the universe because it would do two things: destroy those who can’t come to terms with the truth and then unite those of us who can.