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- Channel, on 06/04/2008, -2/+12The planet is three times the size of Earth.
Now maybe we can try to shoot more for Earth-like, rather than just Earth-sized. More waterional microlensing please. - twoheadedboy00, on 06/05/2008, -1/+11sanman-- Come on. There are plenty of reasons: 1) we are the most developed. 2) we are the most developed in our region. 3) we are developing at the same rate as other local systems, but we've only had radio for 150 years, and only powerful broadcasts for half that time. This star system is 3000 lightyears away. 4) the signal is too degraded by the time it reaches us. 5) they don't use radio anymore. 6) they are telepathic. 7) . . . 8) . . . .
But really, i'm sure it has something to do with Hilary Clinton. - bosssmiley, on 06/05/2008, -1/+8How long has there been life on Earth? About 3 billion years.
How long have human-type homonids lived on Earth? About 2 million years.
How old is civilisation? About 10,000 years.
How long have we had wireless radio? About 100 years.
How old is SETI now?
Yeah. We shouldn't be like the guy who expects an instant response to his forum post when he's not even sure if there are any other users evolved enough to build computers. ;-) - CosmicKeys, on 06/05/2008, -0/+5"new tools and methods like the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) telescope-camera based in New Zealand come in." - Yay for New Zealanad :)
Anyone else here feeling a tingle more excitement about space news lately due to the mars lander? - Harbinger67, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2New Zealand ROCKS!!!
*wonders if anyone got that reference* - TexanRudeBoy, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2"Scientists believe that this shows that there might be far more planets out there than we ever suspected."
I don't get why scientists would suspect anything else. With literally countless galaxies, each with billions of stars, common sense would say that the likely hood of an abundance of planets in the universe is not only likely, but should be obvious. - jgzman, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2From the astronomy point of view, that IS the size of earth. If it makes a difference to the way you think about it, that's three times the mass. The diameter is probably only about 25-35% more.
However, I thought that Gliese 581c was the first earth-size planet discovered.
RESEARCH: no, it's terrestrial, but still far larger than earth. - JohnnyXmas, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and iPhones. - sanman, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2So you mean others will only broadcast IN RESPONSE?
How come we're not merely broadcasting in response to others' messages? How come we're proactive, and others aren't? I guess that we're the only ones willing to get out of bed without a wakeup call?
If there are lots of planets out there, there should be more inhabited planets out there, and there should be more with intelligent beings, and there should be more with at least some damn radio and willingness to use it.
We should be getting a torrent of messages, but we're not. Ever heard of the Great Filter? - inactive, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Carl Sagan. "Like grains of dust"
- Proctor, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1There are a ridiculous amount of planets orbiting stars. Think of how many stars there are in the Universe. You can potentially find them using Spectrometry at home also. With a good telescope and a CCD imager of course. Large planets close to the star pass through the light path, creating a blinking. It's measured by Spectrometry.
- phuzzy3d, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Making assumptions is where you dashed your dreams
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Denial? WTF!
- Duositex, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1One could make the argument that if we are part of a random sample of all intelligent life in the galaxy that there is nothing special about us. If you chose to use this line of logic, you're presented with the probability that intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy developed at the same or a similar rate and hence could not have contacted us yet, much in the same way we could not contact them. In light of this way of thinking, even if you were to remove the assumption that we are unique as a civilization, it only makes sense that we seem to be alone, the vastness of space having become the biggest barrier between communicating with another such civilization.
- bosssmiley, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Dugg for mental image of a planetary firewall set up wrong.
- dc2vegas, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1I hope they find the Amazonian "death by snu-snu" planet. I've always wanted to go there.
- buywowgoldz, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0you can read more at:
http://article-elf.com/ - Markpdotcom, on 06/05/2008, -2/+1You are a god!
- wilhoitm, on 06/05/2008, -1/+0Bipple is from the 3rd planet to the right!
- zacemaster, on 06/05/2008, -2/+0More planets than the hundred trillion we already suspected...real great discovery guys.
- sanman, on 06/05/2008, -10/+1So how come there's nobody out there broadcasting to back us?
Don't tell me we're the only ones in the galaxy with an IQ...
...woo, more dates for me...
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