The worlds not made for us.

johnson1010 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:42 pm

Even earth was not made for humanity. But there are those short sighted egotisticals who will claim that it was.

Well what of these?

http://io9.com/#!5786685/every-exoplane ... -telescope

GreggMattson · Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:10 am

These images only prove there are other rocks and gas balls orbiting other flaming gas balls. Earth is unique, since, as hard as we search, we have yet to find any “ugly bags of water” on any of the other worlds.

Maybe those egotistical claims aren’t the result of shortsightedness. They could be assertions simply rooted in fear. Where some people are comfortable existing in solitary, other people believe life exists “out there”, and even others believe supernal entities watch over us.

Regardless of the opinions and beliefs of humanity, that life exists on other worlds, in any form, is more difficult to prove than Sasquatch or Orbs. We are still very alone and with all the effort expended to see farther and clearer, we continue to find more proof that we are just that.

Given that perspective, Earth is special for some reason. What other conclusion could a rational person draw?

amarynth · Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:50 am

It would be such an irony if there are many other world but unable to communicate.

The question is not if but why, or why not? If it is true that life exists only on Earth and is in that sense unique, then, why is it so? And, who can prove that we are not being watched, that we are not just a result of an experiment?

johnson1010 · Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:08 pm

it isnt so much whether there is life on those other planets.

So far as we definitively know, we are the only life that there is. But if THIS world was made for us, then what are these other world made for? Worlds that are so far beyond our reach that they may as well not exist.

These worlds are real. These other stars, other star systems, not just whole galaxies, but innumerable multitudes of galaxies are real. They are out there. They are beyond our reach, and not for us.

We occupy one of 8 planets in the solar system. But that does not equate to 1/8th of the solar system. Several of the planets around us are hundreds of times the size of earth, and the sun is very nearly a hundred times the size of everything else in the solar system. Already, almost 100 percent of what we know about is completely lethal to human life. But that number is going to pale in comparison to the distance to the next nearest star, and it's star system. All of that territory... light years of empty space, all completely and utterly lethal to human life.

But those numbers are insignificant next to the size of this one spiral arm of the milky way. None of which, except this one insignificant tiny spec has ever been seen by anything that lives on earth, and none of it at all will ever be directly experienced by any human that lives today, or likely for the next several hundred generations of human life.

The human species itself is likely to die out before anyone sent on a rocket ship made it to the core of our galaxy, where the stars are more numberless than the sand, and among that dazzling brilliance, there are almost certainly other worlds which might suite human life, but which will never feel the tread of our boots.

And ours is just one of trillions of galaxies which tear away from us at break neck speeds, even as the space itself expands between them. Galaxies chock full, i'm sure, of alien, and intelligent life. The odds approach the infinite, and at these numbers whatever CAN happen, almost certainly WILL happen.

Sometimes i think that it would be nice to live forever. So that i wouldn't miss anything that happens. But even if i did live forever, and was granted the omniscience often imagined of our primitive gods, and could see everything that transpired on earth from now until the day our planet is disintegrated... by any standard... having missed everything that occurred everywhere else in the universe, i will have observed so little, you could dismiss it as nothing.

Because the earth does not comprise even 1 percent of what there is. That is too generous by a factor so large it would take lifetimes to write it out long-hand.

johnson1010 · Sat May 07, 2011 8:56 am

Hey, remember how there are a few hundred exoplanets that we discovered which might be habitable?

Remember SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life?

Seems like a perfect time to use SETI, right?

*PULL THE PLUG!*

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/ ... tarter-qa/

UPDATE:
Here's a chart you can think about while grinding your molars flat.
http://io9.com/#!5798730/the-cost-of-ke ... ison-chart

johnson1010 · Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:29 pm

Seti is apparently now semi-funded again.

Lets hope that works out.

In the mean time, here's how you find exo-planets.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lucianne_walko ... stars.html

johnson1010 · Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:15 am

First, a possibly habitable exo-planet.

http://io9.com/5839395/potentially-habi ... exoplanets

so that's neat.

Next awesome space images

http://io9.com/5839189/the-most-amazing ... es-of-2011

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