Is there life on other planets?

I was all excited until I read some of the comments on that foxnews interview. Stupid godfuckers ("their monkey theory can't explain the majesty of the LORD" - oh fuck off and die already) - I wish aliens came over here and just annihilated our entire planet right now. We're not worth discovering.

alien fossil taking a free ride on a meteor is the plot to a lot of horror/sci-fi films. i am excited!

<3

stoked, but no one irl seems to share my enthusiasm. my wife's response when I told her: "wow cool hey would you mind walking the dog?"

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php

http://www.theonion.com/articles/mean-scientists-dash-hopes-of-life-on-mars,1423/

Thx for both those links, guys!

I wish aliens came over here and just annihilated our entire planet right now.

we have already started iirc

http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/images/D/pluto.jpg

Hello.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=habitable-planet-gj-667cc

I was going to suggest that this is Lou Reed's "new planetary system", but unfortunately according to Vogt "It's pretty deficient in metals" .

The low metallicity (seen in the parent stars absorption spectra) means the parent star is a population II star formed rather early in the galaxy's existence. If there's enough silicon & iron for a planet 4.5 times Earth's size to accrete, there's likely enough carbon for organic chemistry (and life).

The problem with habitable zones around red dwarfs like Gliese 667c is that they're so near the star that the planets are liable to be tidally locked with one face permanently facing the star (like Mercury and the Gallilean moons of Jupiter in our own system). Gliese 667cC has an orbit of 0.28 AU (26 million miles), so that may not be a problem.

To the OP, I'm largely in agreement with Stephen Webb in Where Is Everybody? and Peter Ward in Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe. The universe is probably teeming with bacteria-like life, but complexity and intelligence are exceedingly rare.

Keep asking for a Pluto:Revolve in Peace t-shirt from the Hall of Science but haven't received one yet, guess I'll have to get it for myself.

Interested to read those books Sanpaku mentions.

Seeing this thread on new answers immediately made me think of Martin S.

Of course I have met many of them and they all think Earth sucks.

Earth: the toilet venue of the galaxy

They don't like all the wrappers and litter about.

aJacques Vallée

bthat lawrence poem upthread is pretty good

there is no life anywhere else in the universe & there is no way a colony of humans could survive a trip to any other potentially habitable planet

whew glad that's settled

I would actually feel glad if this was the case

Consciousness downloaded into nanobots and bodies 3D printed at the other end, how about that?

Burroughs thought of it first

also, there is no way santa claus could possibly visit all of those houses in one night

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-venus/potential-sign-of-alien-life-detected-on-inhospitable-venus-idUSKBN2652GO

Remember this?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55071058

Its twin has just been deployed in Romania:

https://adevarul.ro/locale/piatra-neamt/un-misterios-monolit-metal-similar-gasit-recent-sua-descoperit-cetate-dacica-romania-1_5fc1178c5163ec42714d36bf/index.html

(Sorry, I couldn’t find an English equivalent but it includes photos and a video embed.)

oh god david surber is totally one of these cumstains who reads every craig childs fart in existence. going to be about 500 more douchebags in utvs on the lockhart basin road next spring.

That Aimless/Martin Skidmore dialogue really cracks me up for some reason - a shame to have missed the golden age of early ilx.

love that there was a poster named "sb" in 2003. very prescient

Yeah that was good xpost

Weird thinking about the dates on those.

This one made me smile:

DJ Martian
Posted: 3 October 2001 at 01:00:00

Yes, there is life on Mars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-55212336

DJ Rob da Bank, another island resident, was also among those who took a stroll to see the sight for themselves.

He mused: "I'm not sure if it's aliens, a Coldplay PR stunt or a local mirror dealer drumming up trade, but it got us all down the beach anyway."

Otm. There's one here some 20 miles away now too, btw. I'm still guessing Coldplay PR stunt.