Life out of our Solar system? Wait, what?

[Mikal]

Actually, the monkey was too busy scratching his ass, he did not notice it was too late when the aliens beamed him up into their prehistoric spaceship for neurological enhancements that would elevate his intelligence level.

[aleksandar_gojkovic]

THE Milky Way is home to tens of billions of rocky planets - including about 100 nearby - that could potentially harbour life, a new study has concluded. Astronomers spent six years observing 102 of the most common type of stars in our galaxy, known as red dwarfs, to come up with this direct estimate of planets in the habitable zones around them. They calculated that about 40 per cent of red dwarfs have super-earths - planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth - in the not-too-close, not-too-distant zone where liquid water can exist. The research team leader, Xavier Bonfils, said about 160 billion red dwarfs - fainter, cooler and longer-lasting stars than the sun - exist in the Milky Way. ''Because red dwarfs are so common this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone,'' Dr Bonfils, of the University of Grenoble in France, said. Within 30 light years of earth, there are probably one hundred of these super-earths in habitable zones, he said. While the temperature on these planets would be suitable for liquid water, red dwarf stars commonly experience eruptions or flares. The x-rays and ultraviolet radiation released by these stellar events could reduce the chances of life existing there, the researchers said. They used a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile to make the observations and the results are to be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. In the past 16 years astronomers have detected more than 700 planets outside our solar system, many of them massive planets, similar to Jupiter or Saturn, more than 100 times bigger than Earth. The latest study, which looked at changes in the light spectrum of the stars to infer the presence of planets, suggests these giants are rarely found around red dwarfs.

Source:
Theregister
So maybe not in our lifetime, but perhaps in a couple of hundred years the human race could begin expanding and living out of this galaxy! Incredible!

Do you think that human-like species exist out of our World? Is it possible we could life out of this world? EARTH LIKE PLANETS, could they be new homes?

What do you think?

I bealive that if we discovered "new earth", our asshole moron goverment fools, would just exploate it, use theyre minerals, than after taking all of its resources, nuke it, and move on.

I know it sounds SCI-FI and stupid, but look at what they are doing now... That scenario could be preaty much possible (if aliens were actually discovered).

[Leon.]

There HAS to be some sort of life outside of Earth. It just makes no sense that there wouldn't even be microbial life outside of this planet.

I was going to go into a bunch of math mumbo-jumbo about the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, the number of galaxies, etc., but a simple google search had multiple sources telling me there are 30 sextillion to a septillion stars within the observable universe (who the hell would remember all of that shit?), saving me from brain meltdown. That's 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, zeroes included to put things into perspective. Now, given that there is a chance that these numbers could be off, it goes without saying that there are a shit ton of stars. It can be assumed that there are as many planets as there are stars, given that some star systems have many planets, while others have none. There is no logic in saying that the solar system, with 8 major planets, four of which are terrestrial with only one inhabitable and currently inhabited (as far as our current knowledge goes), is the only star system out of one septillion stars with life in it. It's a given that beyond the observable universe, there are tons and tons more of stars. How could even those not have life, not a single microbe? The universe is an absolutely gigantic place, we all know that. But few people actually bother to take a step back and realize how inferior they really are and how much they underestimate what "big" really is. My state is big. My country enormous. My continent is gargantuan. My planet? It goes without saying that I as a human being aren't even a shitlet when compared to it. So when we stretch beyond the boundaries of this planet out to our solar system, our galaxy, to our entire universe... it really puts things into perspective. This source says that there ten times as many stars as there are grains of sand in the entire world's beaches and deserts. Can you spell holy shit?

I am 100% sure that there is life out there. Even if these gigantic estimates of the numbers of planets and stars in our (observable) universe are way off, there just HAS to be. Will I see it discovered within my lifetime? Perhaps microbes, but to come in contact with intelligent life within my years would fulfill every hope and dream I would ever have, and should I come to this point, I'd be happy dying before I even got laid.

[Mikal]

Humans could definatly expand far out, IN OUR LIFETIMES, look at what we've achieved in the past 112 years, the invention of that shitty biplane turned into high speed prop planes in no time, and then prop planes turned into jet engines even faster, brick phones turned into credit card sized paper thin touch screen computer in only 20 years, as technology advances each day, the possibily of doing more and more with the technology becomes more real, they could discover how to harness the power of dark matter to make their ships travel far further at much higher speed at any time, nothing really stopping the human race from doing it apart from the lack of knowledge.

[Alsatian]

We haven't even discovered all the species on this planet let alone the rest of the universe.

[JDC]

Humans could definatly expand far out, IN OUR LIFETIMES, look at what we've achieved in the past 112 years, the invention of that shitty biplane turned into high speed prop planes in no time, and then prop planes turned into jet engines even faster, brick phones turned into credit card sized paper thin touch screen computer in only 20 years, as technology advances each day, the possibily of doing more and more with the technology becomes more real, they could discover how to harness the power of dark matter to make their ships travel far further at much higher speed at any time, nothing really stopping the human race from doing it apart from the lack of knowledge.

At the rate our space program is going right now, I doubt.

[Y2JFaN]

Everyone always considers life to exist on other planets, but what if the search goes on for so long its just assumed we are the only known habitable planet. Wouldn't that be weird? Just thinking that with all of the masses of stars and planets, we are the only one to sustain life.... would just extend the importance of one's life.

[aleksandar_gojkovic]

Everyone always considers life to exist on other planets, but what if the search goes on for so long its just assumed we are the only known habitable planet. Wouldn't that be weird? Just thinking that with all of the masses of stars and planets, we are the only one to sustain life.... would just extend the importance of one's life.

If we are the ONLY alive beings in entire UNIVERSE, than how do you explain UFO's?

There was an UFO case from 1893. Some air vehicle the size of a blimp moving at (approxemeatly, compared to today's speed) jumbo jet speed. That UFO crashed, and hit a windmill. It happened in USA, in the city of Aurrora (idk if it is the correct name). After the crash, they found an aluminium like metal, and in middle of all of that, they found an alien body. That body was burried on a local cementeary. They made a toomstone wich had picture of that UFO. Metal from wich that UFO was made was radioactive. Also, History channel was there, and they recovered a piece of that metal. They took it to lab, and tested it. They figured out that that metal did NOT BELONG TO ANY OF THE EARTH ELEMENTS! Hey, if that AINT big enough proof, than, only proof valid to you is an actual alien coming to your house, and punching you in the face...

[Oliver]

If we are the ONLY alive beings in entire UNIVERSE, than how do you explain UFO's?

lol

[KhornateMonkey]

If we are the ONLY alive beings in entire UNIVERSE, than how do you explain UFO's?

There was an UFO case from 1893. Some air vehicle the size of a blimp moving at (approxemeatly, compared to today's speed) jumbo jet speed. That UFO crashed, and hit a windmill. It happened in USA, in the city of Aurrora (idk if it is the correct name). After the crash, they found an aluminium like metal, and in middle of all of that, they found an alien body. That body was burried on a local cementeary. They made a toomstone wich had picture of that UFO. Metal from wich that UFO was made was radioactive. Also, History channel was there, and they recovered a piece of that metal. They took it to lab, and tested it. They figured out that that metal did NOT BELONG TO ANY OF THE EARTH ELEMENTS! Hey, if that AINT big enough proof, than, only proof valid to you is an actual alien coming to your house, and punching you in the face...

Sure.

[aleksandar_gojkovic]

lol

What is funny bout that? Humans certeanly dont not make UFO in 1947.

[Mikal]

Everyone always considers life to exist on other planets, but what if the search goes on for so long its just assumed we are the only known habitable planet. Wouldn't that be weird? Just thinking that with all of the masses of stars and planets, we are the only one to sustain life.... would just extend the importance of one's life.

It's kind of impossible that Earth could be the only planet with intelligent life or just plain life at all, theres so many stars, with so many planets on each star, scientists estimate that the Milky Way could contain upwards of 50 billion planets, and 500 million could be habitable.

If we are the ONLY alive beings in entire UNIVERSE, than how do you explain UFO's?

You said your dad says 'the faster you learn, the better' but, whats happening with you? If UFOs were flying round us on a daily occurrence we'd have more than just videos of a floating white light in the sky, it'd be nearly impossible for any government to hide any contact from outside, or inside from life that developed elsewhere in the solar system, honestly man I see so many posts from you and nearly all of them have no realistic facts or just anything of interest at all.

[Oliver]

What is funny bout that? Humans certeanly dont not make UFO in 1947.

I believe there were plenty of "UFOs" as early as late 19th century as it means, by definition, an unidentified flying object.

If you're talking about flying saucers, the things aliens in pop culture commonly fly in, then it's more of an "FO", a flying object.

[JDC]

What about those unexplained lights / objects that would fly around high-profile places such as the US District of Columbia (which itself is mostly a no-fly zone), where dispatching fighter jets have failed to intercept / contact them, while the public watched from below?

Such occurrences have happened before.

[Exterminator]

What about those unexplained lights / objects that would fly around high-profile places such as the US District of Columbia (which itself is mostly a no-fly zone), where dispatching fighter jets have failed to intercept / contact them, while the public watched from below?

Such occurrences have happened before.

Now i wonder who would suspect experimental aircrafts flying in there...