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- inactive, on 10/27/2008, -0/+15Awesome! I'm outta here!
- lensman00, on 10/27/2008, -3/+17The idea that in about 10 years or so scientists will be directly viewing planets that orbit other stars is amazing.
- Murdats, on 10/28/2008, -0/+12hmm, a telescope thats in space thats 18 years old and was built on a highly restricted budget, thats easy stuff there right?
- OfNumbers, on 10/27/2008, -3/+13http://digg.com/general_sciences/Solar_system_s_yo ...
http://digg.com/space/Solar_System_s_Young_Twin_Ha ...
http://digg.com/space/Evidence_found_of_solar_syst ... - Dionysus04, on 10/28/2008, -1/+7I always wondered if people who believe in reincarnation could believe in aliens.
Could they die come back to life as a creature on another planet?
Maybe that's the secret traveling across galaxies! - neosinn, on 10/28/2008, -3/+8Ok, no.... It won't and doesn't matter because we'll never be there. Damn them limits... Oh well
But if there was another race of people, oh just think. What if the first thing they asked was "Do you guys know Jesus Christ?" - Zarokima, on 10/28/2008, -1/+6Even if we do find a sentient, space-faring species they will most likely not be people. It is even less likely that they would be Christians, regardless of species.
- theatheist, on 10/28/2008, -0/+4very amazing news, the search for exo terrestrial planets is still very new and yet scientists are rapidly growing fundamental discoveries about earth like planets in nearby galaxies. i cant imagine what we will find within 50 years from now.
- dafragsta, on 10/28/2008, -0/+4One of these days they'll find the telltale patches of green on brown. Then we won't even need to ask. I can't wait to see what the next generation of Hubble-esque telescopes can see.
- rustintable, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3And they have already detected hundreds of planets that orbit other stars.
Some of the new ground based telescopes are about as good as Hubble now so if they put out some new space or moon based ones it should be doable.
Funny how just any idiot of the street will feel qualified to criticize NASAs handling of the most advanced technologies to ever exist. - harvinator24, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3Scientists will you please find aliens, Hopefully they could replace the idiots that are leading this nation.
- slabdigger, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3omg - WE ARE THE ALIENS!
- doublefelix, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3Or more intriguing yet: Maybe that's the secret TO traveling across galaxies. We need to leave our corporeal form to supersede the laws of physics and become true intergalactic travelers.
Oh, by the way, I have some openings at my web design firm in San Diego. - sanman, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3Oh yeah, Babylon5 is also stationed there
And so is the planet Reach, where MasterChief gets trained, before it later falls to the Covenant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(Planet)
And Battletech
*****, that's one crowded star system! - sanman, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Eridani_in_fi ...
The Epsilon Eridani star system is supposed to be where Mr Spock's homeworld Vulcan is located, according to Star Trek
No wonder they were the first to find us
I guess they'd have to be situated inside the inner asteroid belt, since their planet is so hot. I'm also assuming that it could be bigger than Earth, since the Vulcans are 50% stronger than us. - inactive, on 10/28/2008, -2/+4Nuke it from orbit.
- MattBD, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Yes, it orbited the third planet.
- 4degrees, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2that was the system i chose in "Outpost"...
- mytCbumps, on 10/28/2008, -2/+4I'm with you man! Maybe pot is legal out there and not just for "medical" reasons!
- neonsox, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Here's hoping for three boobies.
- knopper67, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Eyes match you PJ's?
Theres a Visine for that. - Ev3nt372, on 10/28/2008, -1/+2Technology advanced enough is no different from magic. I find it ironic that in the future those who are godless and embrace reason have the chance to become the gods themselves and may be corrupted by such an option.
- MattBD, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Epsilon Eridani figures a lot in SF. Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series features the planet Yellowstone in this system a lot.
- Skooma714, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1The Epsilon Eridani system?
Isn't that where Babylon 5 was supposed to be? - Versh, on 10/27/2008, -2/+3Almost like ours, there's a confirmed (b) and unconfirmed (c) 2500 day-period Jupiter-like planets orbiting the star. Considering the heavy gravity and barrage of magnetic fields-- if and when life develops on B, even the Epsilon Eridani microbes would seem to be impervious titans compared to our Earth microbes. I'm sure it would be nice to visit in a few hundred years.
- snoopdogg, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1The solar system is bigger than I thought.
- Versh, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1True, I remember the Sulfolobus solfataricus thrive in volcanic springs and the like. Maybe the Epsilon Eridani system would be the closest/best way to compare what is the true threshold for life resilience outside our own solar system.
- Jkins019, on 10/28/2008, -1/+2But is there Pie?
- lalalalamppost, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Actually it IS our own solar system, there's just the mirror out there and we're seeing our own li---
oh, nevermind, the drugs just wore off. - teh1, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1The Pie is a Lie.
- bluewithinblue, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Wow.. and then just at the right moment, out of the primeval mud life emerges. Then the mud turns into monkeys and stuff, all by a series of millions of accidents, and because they had opposable thumbs, we got space travel, cellphones and cable. I must admit, it sounds realistic.
- fatherdaly, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Welcome to digg.
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -1/+2I know a girl that has 3 nipples
- gfish3000, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1And if we ever want to send an unmanned probe to that system... hey, it's not that far away. Relatively speaking of course, but with the right technology like positron engines, it could be done within a human lifetime.
- gfish3000, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Actually life on Earth is pretty damn tough. We've got some vicious microbes that happily swarm inside nuclear reactors. They're called radiophiles and they can repair their DNA which is why the immense amounts of radiation don't kill them.
Turns out that a genetic adaptation called annealing originally appeared to help bacteria deal with extreme drought, can also repair radioactive damage. - karan1003, on 10/28/2008, -1/+1nearby and solar system never belong in the same sentence.
- rustintable, on 10/28/2008, -0/+0Funny thought.
I just about hate most governments bad enough to wish them to be taken over by aliens. - rustintable, on 10/28/2008, -0/+0Are you an alien?
- gkiltz, on 10/28/2008, -0/+0it's not like ours today though!
- spiderwing, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0No reason to assume chloryphyll would be the photosynthetic compound. The best telltale would be signs of both oxygen and methane in the atmosphere...
- rustintable, on 10/28/2008, -1/+0I don't know about the Chinese they seem pretty bigoted; but the Japanese seem to be doing pretty good.
Except I have read that they teach something like creationism in Japan but with Japan as the center of the universe. - MilesyMiles, on 10/28/2008, -2/+0As far as I'm concerned, the only thing telltale patches of green on brown would indicate is a sobering reminder to wash your underwear more regularly.
- neosinn, on 10/28/2008, -2/+1we can't even find intelligent life here. What makes you think some other evolution loving God hating race of people, you don't need that you have plenty of morons here..
- rodon, on 10/27/2008, -4/+2I think they have a cream for that.
- neosinn, on 10/28/2008, -5/+2you really put some thought into that... To bad it means.... .NOTHING
lol - eecue, on 10/27/2008, -7/+4My god it's full of... asteroids.
- pat0neill, on 10/28/2008, -5/+1i just want to see more watchmen trailers
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/27/2008, -9/+4I just hope that we find some sign of intelligence out there. FSM knows we have got very little here on this planet (most of it in China and Japan I would guess!).
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