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re: What would like to see / know about in our solar system during your lifetime?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:10 am to SeafoodPlatter
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:10 am to SeafoodPlatter
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good news though it’ll turn into a red giant and consume all the inner planets
Let's hope by that time, the Atlanta Falcons have not yet won a Super Bowl.
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Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:12 am to weagle1999
The beginnings of terraforming on Mars
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:25 am to Fun Bunch
What is the driving force behind continental drift (and what stops it one place and speeds it up others). Are the other inner planets having the same sort of response to their core/shell relationships?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:31 am to kilo
We know exactly nothing about the probability of life outside our solar system.
Talking about “statistics” is asinine.
Talking about “statistics” is asinine.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:38 am to weagle1999
Put a high resolution satellite in Mars orbit so we can see those Martian cities and pyramids. I’m tired of random robot pics of dirt from ground level.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:48 am to kilo
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To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Fixed it
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:49 am to Fun Bunch
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terraforming on Mars
Is that ethical?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:07 am to holdem Tiger
I think what people are referring to when they bring up statistics of life is the size of the Milky Way and the observable universe.
While we don’t have numbers to figure out how rare life actually is. We do have estimates of how many galaxies there are. It is statistically impossible that the Earth is the only planet with some form of life in the entire universe.
While we don’t have numbers to figure out how rare life actually is. We do have estimates of how many galaxies there are. It is statistically impossible that the Earth is the only planet with some form of life in the entire universe.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:16 am to weagle1999
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quote:terraforming on Mars
Is that ethical?
As long as there is some affordable housing included.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:22 am to Swamp Frog x
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It is statistically impossible that the Earth is the only planet with some form of life in the entire universe.
Based on what we know about what makes life work on Earth (large moon, distance from the sun, the Jupiter vacuum cleaner) it isn’t a sure a bet as one might think.
Plus, all of our data to this point says there isn’t anyone else out there, to include the fact there has been enough time for an advanced civilization to colonize our entire galaxy.
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 11:46 am
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:37 am to mdomingue
quote:Evidence to support life in the universe is planet Earth. Is you slow?
There is no definite without evidence to support it.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:46 am to speedybaw
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Evidence to support life in the universe is planet Earth.
Earth is evidence to support the possibility of life. The evidence that there is life anywhere else is 0. That doesn't mean there is or isn ot life, it simply means there is no evidence.
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Is you slow?
Maybe, but not as slow as you, apparently.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 12:05 pm to real turf fan
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Are the other inner planets having the same sort of response to their core/shell relationships?
We already know this. Mars, for example, has a solid core, which is why it lost its magnetic field and subsequently most of its atmosphere and water.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 12:07 pm to mdomingue
quote:So life being found in the universe isn't proof that life exists in the universe? Yeah you is be real slow.
Earth is evidence to support the possibility of life. The evidence that there is life anywhere else is 0. That doesn't mean there is or isn ot life, it simply means there is no evidence.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 12:13 pm to speedybaw
Chat GPT tells me there are 100 quintillion to 100 sextillion ( 
) sun-like stars in the observable universe. It stands to reason that one of those has the exact same situation as we do on earth and life exists there.
This is 100 sextillion: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (so if you assume an average of 2-3 rocky planets in each system, well, do the math).
) sun-like stars in the observable universe. It stands to reason that one of those has the exact same situation as we do on earth and life exists there. This is 100 sextillion: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (so if you assume an average of 2-3 rocky planets in each system, well, do the math).
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:25 pm to speedybaw
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So life being found in the universe isn't proof that life exists in the universe?
Wow, are you clinically retarded?
But please, present your evidence that there is life anywhere else. And since you don't seem to comprehend, in this context, anywhere else means anywhere that is not Earth.
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Yeah you is be real slow.
You should also work on grammar.
For clarity, here is your original statement that I responded to
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I second finding out if there is any life elsewhere in the solar system.
Solar system? Probably not. Galaxy? Most likely. Universe? Mostly definitely.
I think it is clear that you used the word universe to mean anywhere else in the universe. Unless, of course, you think life on Earth is evidence of life in the universe but not life in the solar system or galaxy. Now that would be a really stupid statement.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:14 pm to kilo
quote:can you imagine the shite we are going to learn? Just the stuff we know now vs 20 yrs ago is staggering. There are proposed projects to go to both Europa and Enceladus in planning, they just need a commitment. The one to Enceladus is particularly exiting as it would make several transits through the venting plumes of water than land at the South Pole where all the action is.
I'm jealous and excited of what my children and grandkids will get to see in their lifetimes
we know that water, ammonia, CO2, and complex organic molecules are being vented from a subsurface liquid water saline ocean. All of that is very familiar to biologists and chemists here on earth, it is how life on earth began
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:18 pm to Chucktown_Badger
quote:it is unlikely we will discover complex life forms on a habitable earth like planet, without much faster spacecraft. The distances are too large. However we don’t need that as proof. If we find molecular life in our solar system, that’s the proof. We are not alone
It stands to reason that one of those has the exact same situation as we do on earth and life exists there.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:25 pm to MRTigerFan
I don’t care about space much. But it would be cool to find a black hole or whatever it is to send me back to around 2006 or whatever year it was before social media
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:36 pm to weagle1999
Archeological ruins on Mars.
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