New 'super-Earth' found in space

[thales]

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm

i bags president


afternoon...

[Ninja Squirrel]

Vice President

Afternoon EOIN

[Dr LuKas]

Aye I saw that, kinda makes me sad that I'm gonna die soon. I want to be alive to explore that planet it looks totally awesome.

Also we'd find out so much, if there's no life on there maybe God did only create us and we're alone in the universe. Oh I wish I was alive 500 years from now.

[Ninja Squirrel]

lucasledge said:

Aye I saw that, kinda makes me sad that I'm gonna die soon. I want to be alive to explore that planet it looks totally awesome.

Also we'd find out so much, if there's no life on there maybe God did only create us and we're alone in the universe. Oh I wish I was alive 500 years from now.

statistically impossible for use to be the only ones in the universe Funkmaster L theres funky life out there its a big place

[thales]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

Vice President

Afternoon EOIN

my first act as president is to declare it Gliese 581 Day

and i wonder if all the women are like Gisele...

[Neko Bazu]

Reading the article, I can't help but think that any life that is there will have to be a damn sight hardier than that on Earth - but that said, that doesn't rule out the possibility.

If there is life there, though, I'd love to see it...

[Dr LuKas]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

lucasledge said:

Aye I saw that, kinda makes me sad that I'm gonna die soon. I want to be alive to explore that planet it looks totally awesome.

Also we'd find out so much, if there's no life on there maybe God did only create us and we're alone in the universe. Oh I wish I was alive 500 years from now.

statistically impossible for use to be the only ones in the universe Funkmaster L theres funky life out there its a big place

Not everything is statistics Ninj.


Although I do agree that the chance that we are the only form of life in the universe is too small to contemplate.

[Dr LuKas]

I be Pres-o-dant ;D funk up our own Chocolate City up there.

I bet the aliens look like GC in my sig.

[Ninja Squirrel]

lucasledge said:

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

statistically impossible for use to be the only ones in the universe Funkmaster L theres funky life out there its a big place

Not everything is statistics Ninj.


Although I do agree that the chance that we are the only form of life in the universe is too small to contemplate.

if you think every star is a sun and each one could have planets then out of 1,000 Billion the odds look favorable for life

though what we define as life doesn't mean beings like you or I but bacteria and so forth or even silicon based life forms

[thales]

28allirelandslufc said:

"if there are say a billion planets and 1% are like our universe with a capacity to support life and then only 1% of those actually have life, still leaves a 1,000,000 planets"

jodie foster paraphrased from contact

simple maths LL

[Neko Bazu]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

lucasledge said:

Not everything is statistics Ninj.


Although I do agree that the chance that we are the only form of life in the universe is too small to contemplate.

if you think every star is a sun and each one could have planets then out of 1,000 Billion the odds look favorable for life

though what we define as life doesn't mean beings like you or I but bacteria and so forth or even silicon based life forms

1000 billion's probably just a touch on the conservative side of estimates Ninj!

[Ninja Squirrel]

neko said:

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

if you think every star is a sun and each one could have planets then out of 1,000 Billion the odds look favorable for life

though what we define as life doesn't mean beings like you or I but bacteria and so forth or even silicon based life forms

1000 billion's probably just a touch on the conservative side of estimates Ninj!

How so?

[Dr LuKas]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

lucasledge said:

Not everything is statistics Ninj.


Although I do agree that the chance that we are the only form of life in the universe is too small to contemplate.

if you think every star is a sun and each one could have planets then out of 1,000 Billion the odds look favorable for life

though what we define as life doesn't mean beings like you or I but bacteria and so forth or even silicon based life forms

No need to lecture me people I'm aware of all this shit.

I just hope the aliens are intelligent and as funky as those from funkadelica.

[Ninja Squirrel]

lucasledge said:

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

if you think every star is a sun and each one could have planets then out of 1,000 Billion the odds look favorable for life

though what we define as life doesn't mean beings like you or I but bacteria and so forth or even silicon based life forms

No need to lecture me people I'm aware of all this shit.

I just hope the aliens are intelligent and as funky as those from funkadelica.

Their be funky alright *words echo in time when earth gets annihilated by ravaging horde of aliens*

[Neko Bazu]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

neko said:

1000 billion's probably just a touch on the conservative side of estimates Ninj!

How so?

Well, the Milky Way alone is estimated to have between 100-400 billion stars, depending on which source you look at - and when you consider there are millions, if not billions of galaxies out there...

I'm supporting your point here, I'm just trying to show how many stars there really are!

[Ninja Squirrel]

neko said:

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

How so?

Well, the Milky Way alone is estimated to have between 100-400 billion stars, depending on which source you look at - and when you consider there are millions, if not billions of galaxies out there...

I'm supporting your point here, I'm just trying to show how many stars there really are!

More starts than grains of sand on Blackpool beach apparently according to that wheelchair guy

[Neko Bazu]

Well, taking absolute minimum estimates, if we assume there's 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and 1 million galaxies altogether with an average of 100 billion stars again each, that'd be 100,000,000,000,000,000 stars - 100 quadrillion. Bear in mind that's a pathetically low estimate that'd get me slaughtered by NASA if I ever mentioned it in a seminar.

Even on that low an estimate, we have a 0.00000000000000001% of being at the only star with any sign of life. Assume, then, that a quarter of the stars have planetary systems, and - with systems ranging from 3-15 planets usually, so average at 7 - there's 175,000,000,000,000,000 planets. That leaves a 0.00000000000000057% chance that we're the only planet with life.

And like I said, that's if I use numbers that are ridiculously small - you could probably double the amount of zeroes trailing those decimal points.

[Ninja Squirrel]

neko said:

Well, taking absolute minimum estimates, if we assume there's 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and 1 million galaxies altogether with an average of 100 billion stars again each, that'd be 100,000,000,000,000,000 stars - 100 quadrillion. Bear in mind that's a pathetically low estimate that'd get me slaughtered by NASA if I ever mentioned it in a seminar.

Even on that low an estimate, we have a 0.00000000000000001% of being at the only star with any sign of life. Assume, then, that a quarter of the stars have planetary systems, and - with systems ranging from 3-15 planets usually, so average at 7 - there's 175,000,000,000,000,000 planets. That leaves a 0.00000000000000057% chance that we're the only planet with life.

And like I said, that's if I use numbers that are ridiculously small - you could probably double the amount of zeroes trailing those decimal points.

To........many........numbers.......brain...........hurt.........now........talking...........like.......William.........Shatner

[Dr LuKas]

The wheelchair guy also says the universe is always expanding.

[Teesside White]

if life can form on earth and thrive for billions of years , then why cant it form elsewhere in the universe