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re: The Webb Search for Extraterrestrial Life Has Begun
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:55 am to Jimmy2shoes
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:55 am to Jimmy2shoes
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What kind of life?
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Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:56 am to Kentucker
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Webb took a 5-hour look
This is one of the biggest things with Webb that a lot don't understand.
Its processes things so much quicker than past telescopes that we can get a lot of data quickly.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:59 am to hubertcumberdale
Bro... you blow that up to the size of a huge wall... Eat some mushrooms and turn on some Phish you absolutely will see spacemen in that pixelated thing. It's there you just have to expand your mind.
This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 9:00 am
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:59 am to Jimmy2shoes
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What kind of life?
Rogue thetans or invaders forces, probably. Either way, Xenu is still running shite.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:02 am to hubertcumberdale
Odds are if we find something it will be ambiguous like the Martian meteorite with features that looked like tiny fossils in the 1990s or the recent possible discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere Venus. Maybe evidence of life or maybe not.
(probably not in the case of Venus and still maybe for the Mars meteorite)
(probably not in the case of Venus and still maybe for the Mars meteorite)
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:09 am to Jimmy2shoes
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What kind of life?
Life begins when geochemistry becomes so complex that it is labeled biochemistry. At that point, it effects a metabolism that allows the process of life to be continuous.
During metabolism, waste products are given off. Some of them are gaseous and rise into the atmosphere. On earth, for example, early single-cell life produced massive amounts of waste oxygen that rose into the atmosphere and would have been easily detectable by aliens.
So if we see oxygen in the atmospheres of Trappist planets, especially if accompanied by methane and carbon dioxide, we can be confident that at least primitive life exists there.
Advanced life such as ours also produces waste products from industrialization. If we see pollutants then we’ll know that there’s an intelligent species similar to us living there.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:09 am to Diseasefreeforall
I'm banking on alien life identifying they are being scanned, and then picking up signals from the LHC activity, and sending invasion forces.
I, for one, welcome our new Ant Overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new Ant Overlords.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:15 am to Fun Bunch
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This is one of the biggest things with Webb that a lot don't understand.
Its processes things so much quicker than past telescopes that we can get a lot of data quickly.
Right. This machine is the most complex tool that humans have ever created. It promises to change the direction of our social evolution.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:18 am to Kentucker
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The Trappist 1 star is only 9% the mass of our Sun, and its temperature is much cooler. But because its planets orbit so closely to the star, they receive comparable levels of light and heat to Earth and its neighboring planets.
AKA size doesn't matter.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:19 am to Kentucker
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Webb took a 5-hour look at the Trappist system
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:19 am to Displaced
Forgot what show I was watching the other day. When some alien says "Jesus? Great guy we love him. He comes to our planet all the time. What did you guys do when he came to your planet?"
Thought it a funny throw away on interplanetary religion.
Seriously though. If aliens come and follow a religion that ALSO exists on earth. That religion would instantly be the dominant religion.
Thought it a funny throw away on interplanetary religion.
Seriously though. If aliens come and follow a religion that ALSO exists on earth. That religion would instantly be the dominant religion.
This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 9:23 am
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:21 am to TheHarahanian
Different stars/sun's have different temperatures. A smaller sun may not be as hot and planets could be closer.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:27 am to Kentucker
wouldn't an advanced race of aliens be past the point of having industrial pollutants in their atmosphere ? surely they are all libs by now, right ?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:31 am to Napoleon
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If aliens come and follow a religion that ALSO exists on earth. That religion would instantly be the dominant religion.
There’s only one religion that can be
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:32 am to hubertcumberdale
Hilarious.
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Lmfao why do they even release these?
Because... NASA (like any gummint agency) gets off on extending what's still an ongoing big joke. They've been jerking around the same True Believers who've been awaiting for another "Lunar / "Martian" manned landing for 50 years.
Webb "Images" that are about 5% better than the Hubble -- and now an official, "Search for ET/Alien Life") is supposed to pacify Nasa-Fanbois. (wasn't it just a couple years ago when "Aliens" was still a "kooky conspiracy"?? But NOW it's actually taken seriously...)
Boggles the mind.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:41 am to Kentucker
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we will try to detect features of molecules such as carbon dioxide, water, and ozone in the transit spectra of those planets
This is only relevant to carbon based life forms. Life on other planets could have propagated in other ways potentially with different atmospheric gases
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:42 am to Kentucker
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So if we see oxygen in the atmospheres of Trappist planets, especially if accompanied by methane and carbon dioxide, we can be confident that at least primitive life exists there.
Advanced life such as ours also produces waste products from industrialization. If we see pollutants then we’ll know that there’s an intelligent species similar to us living there
The egotism of humanity insists that life elsewhere would produce the same markers as life here, so if we see them then it must mean life is there. We dismiss planets with other gasses because as a species we cannot entertain the idea that aliens may have biological processes so different from us that they produce totally different gasses, or maybe they do not resperate at all.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:47 am to Meauxjeaux
I wonder what a red sun would look like
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:49 am to Kentucker
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How will a confirmation of ET life elsewhere affect you?
Two ways depending: can I frick it or eat it?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:51 am to Kentucker
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Trappist system
Sounds ghetto as frick
It would be our luck when we find life, it’ll be the solar system we should have avoided
Roll ‘em up
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