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- Ravatar, on 07/12/2008, -0/+6They're talking about the only life we're aware of, carbon-based water-requiring lifeforms.
- insomniacal, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5So the Drake equation becomes more favorable ... and the universal silence more remarkable.
- EverTheCynic, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4At what point did we decide that a planet must be similar to Earth in order to host life? I realize it makes the search for life somewhat less overwhelming if you include that constraint, but why should life take a form with which we are familiar? The environments that would be deadly to humans might be utterly comfortable for an alien species.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3It was thought that after the atmosphere on the dark side was completely iced out, then it would suck atmosphere from the hot side, freezing that out as well...
- jpowell180, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1One possbiel danger from these worlds, is that they may send tall Morticians to our planet in order to steal the bodies of the dead, so they can scrunch them down to midget-size, re-animate them, and use them as slave labor.
- Fergy, on 07/13/2008, -1/+1Do you really think it is remarkable when a civilization only makes 'noise' for a very small amount of time? Our current technology needs to transmit a lot of signals because 99% are lost before we can pick them up. But when you imagine technology in about 200 years will be far more efficient. That gives you a window of 300 years of signals.
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