Dinosaurs found on distant planet!
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Cigarlover
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Once the warp drives come online we should be able to travel there pretty quickly. Warp 9.9 is like 3000 times the speed of light. Be cool to run over and grab some photos to see how they are evolving.
Even better would be my idea of an expandable telescope. Space based of course. Similar to James Webb but expandable infinitely. Eventually we get to the point where we can see minute details of far away planets. Could be paid for by people on earth subscribing to different channels of different planets. Imagine we find 100 or 100,000 planets teaming with life that we can view by changing the channel. Real reality TV.
Even better would be my idea of an expandable telescope. Space based of course. Similar to James Webb but expandable infinitely. Eventually we get to the point where we can see minute details of far away planets. Could be paid for by people on earth subscribing to different channels of different planets. Imagine we find 100 or 100,000 planets teaming with life that we can view by changing the channel. Real reality TV.
Hijacking the thread - similar topic, different planet / discovery:
www.sciencealert.com
"a mere 40 light-years away"
Most Earth-Like Planet Yet May Have Been Found Just 40 Light-Years Away
One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.
www.sciencealert.com
"a mere 40 light-years away"
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Measuring the light of the star as it passes thru a planets atmo ? Fascinating really.
We are probably one generation away from being able to confirm such finds. The Webb and a few others will begin the process but to really confirm is probably 30 years down the road, a road most likely paved with silver. But once we can confirm the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane,ozone, and especially Chlorophyll, H2O, well that pretty much seals the deal then doesn't it ? If we can also detect argon and nitrous oxide along with sulfur dioxide then we'll know we've found an Industrialized society as well, probably able to pick up signals from earth
And this WILL happen. Measuring a planets light spectrum is a proven method of detecting life. We likely already have and Govt.'s just haven't released the findings figuring were not mature enough to draw our own conclusions. And likely we've been visited already in the form of robotic inter-Galactic drones and A.I. . This science is almost within our reach so why not another society a few leaps ahead of us ? And since we have a shoot first policy they probably figure were barbarians not worth 1st contact, and they are probably right.
The Galaxy and universe is so massive its only a matter for time tho isn't it ? What makes us think were so special ? We share over 98% of our DNA with Chimpanzee's and are litterly a few million years down the road from Ape-hood. Science, like its use of silver for it, is a exponential process. It moves faster and faster, and gets larger and larger, as time passes. The only reason we dont have more answers right now is because we've lacked the national will to spend the $ needed for space exploration.
But thats changing while in fact the evolution of science has never slowed down, let alone stopped. I believe the Galaxy is filled with life, let alone the universe. The only question is how and Will we find it, hopefully ASAP.
We are probably one generation away from being able to confirm such finds. The Webb and a few others will begin the process but to really confirm is probably 30 years down the road, a road most likely paved with silver. But once we can confirm the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane,ozone, and especially Chlorophyll, H2O, well that pretty much seals the deal then doesn't it ? If we can also detect argon and nitrous oxide along with sulfur dioxide then we'll know we've found an Industrialized society as well, probably able to pick up signals from earth
And this WILL happen. Measuring a planets light spectrum is a proven method of detecting life. We likely already have and Govt.'s just haven't released the findings figuring were not mature enough to draw our own conclusions. And likely we've been visited already in the form of robotic inter-Galactic drones and A.I. . This science is almost within our reach so why not another society a few leaps ahead of us ? And since we have a shoot first policy they probably figure were barbarians not worth 1st contact, and they are probably right.
The Galaxy and universe is so massive its only a matter for time tho isn't it ? What makes us think were so special ? We share over 98% of our DNA with Chimpanzee's and are litterly a few million years down the road from Ape-hood. Science, like its use of silver for it, is a exponential process. It moves faster and faster, and gets larger and larger, as time passes. The only reason we dont have more answers right now is because we've lacked the national will to spend the $ needed for space exploration.
But thats changing while in fact the evolution of science has never slowed down, let alone stopped. I believe the Galaxy is filled with life, let alone the universe. The only question is how and Will we find it, hopefully ASAP.
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