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gamer guy
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Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 11:57 am Posts: 863 Location: I'm stuck somewhere... Not quite sure where that is though.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080915/ ... unlikestar
This article is about a newly found planet near a a star like the sun. What do you think about the article? Do you know anymore about this?
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:32 am |
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Peanut-Lover
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Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:32 am Posts: 1917 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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We have found about a hundred other palnets, with similar densities to the earth. Unfortuately, they fail to hold life for a variety of reasons. This one has a problem of being far out past neptune (it is 330 Astronomical units, or earth-sun distances, from its star), has the mass of a brown dwarf (failed star - 8 times the mass of jupiter), and has no organic elements necessary (Hydrogen and Oxygen are not enough - Sulfur, lots mroe Carbon, Phosphorus all need to be plentiful in liquid form).
Lots of hype, not enough to say "space mission".
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:27 pm |
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DatVu
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Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:35 pm Posts: 1350 Location: C-Town
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What disappoints me about space findings is they write articles about them and further research is rarely published for the layman.
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:04 pm |
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gamer guy
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 11:57 am Posts: 863 Location: I'm stuck somewhere... Not quite sure where that is though.
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Nothing I remember says anything about it being able to support life...... why did you mention it?
DatVu, I feel the same as you.
Ooh, rhyme. :]
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Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:15 pm |
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Meteorfite
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Joined: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:00 pm Posts: 1
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Newly discovered planets are too far away! And the newly-discovered stars are soooooooo BIG!The sun looks like an ant to them!
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Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:06 pm |
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Zombie
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Joined: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:24 am Posts: 412 Location: credit goes to afonso for the avatar, and the "faceplant"
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ant is a understatment, it's like an atom compared to some other stars. I'm sure that there are planets that can sustain life, I just don't beleive we'll ever discover them.
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:09 pm |
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KOL40
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:41 pm Posts: 728 Location: Atlanta, on a never ending quest to find wifi opponents...
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Peanut-Lover wrote: and has no organic elements necessary (Hydrogen and Oxygen are not enough - Sulfur, lots mroe Carbon, Phosphorus all need to be plentiful in liquid form).
I think it's very callus of you to assume that all lifeforms must be carbon based. Who's to say in this vast universe (vast is an understatement) that life could not have emerged from other circumstances?
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Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:06 am |
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DragonSpear
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Joined: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:52 pm Posts: 166 Location: Umm...that's a good question
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Ah.. here is where my astronomy shines. There are theories when a nebulic mass decended upon earth, causing a split on the atoms which then joined together to create supplements of carbon, H2O/water and other basic materials for living organisms. It also could soon happen to other planets. For example, maybe organisms there could consist on their body being radium or another element. Like for example we may think that all organisms on earth should have iron in their blood (gives a red colo(u)r), but crabs have heamocaynin (spl?) which subsitutes iron for copper (gives out turqouise colo(u)r). Who knows, maybe their body can be heat resistant? Or live in icy climates (think Star Wars). My only guess is that we may find another life source in the future, deep future.
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:29 am |
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KOL40
Pokemon Ranger
Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:41 pm Posts: 728 Location: Atlanta, on a never ending quest to find wifi opponents...
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DragonSpear wrote: Ah.. here is where my astronomy shines. There are theories when a nebulic mass decended upon earth, causing a split on the atoms which then joined together to create supplements of carbon, H2O/water and other basic materials for living organisms. It also could soon happen to other planets. For example, maybe organisms there could consist on their body being radium or another element. Like for example we may think that all organisms on earth should have iron in their blood (gives a red colo(u)r), but crabs have heamocaynin (spl?) which subsitutes iron for copper (gives out turqouise colo(u)r). Who knows, maybe their body can be heat resistant? Or live in icy climates (think Star Wars). My only guess is that we may find another life source in the future, deep future.
He repeated what i said, but expounded on it.
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:34 am |
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