Originally posted by maoklein
THIS discussion of God ad Aliens imprints the imagery of men arguing over the hue of the shadow cast on the cave walls. Is it akin to black or more of
a white...?
btw, inside that cave i`m partaking in the group claiming that life elsewhere is statistically plausible (or quite certain -- we`re still figuring out
the saturations of 'our' shadow).
On topic: great news OP. and more important then the discovery itself -- of this 32 planets -- is the realisation that our planet ins`t such an
exception
"From [our] results, we know now that at least 40% of solar-type stars have low-mass planets. This is really important because it means that low-mass
planets are everywhere, basically," explained Stephane Udry from Geneva University, Switzerland
Never said it wasn't possible. All things are possible. All I was saying is that at this moment in time, we are the only life we know of. When ET
phones home...GREAT, until then who cares.
Like Kennedy said, "I could care less for space, we are only spending 7 million on the desalination of water and an ungodly amount on space, but if
we are going to do it, we must be first"...."Second is nice, but it is second."...I'm paraphrasing, but it is something to that effect.
Kennedy was not interested in space at all. He only wanted to do it for the ego of the American Ideology.
We can't even feed people and we are worried about space....makes no sense. That's the only point I was trying to make. Why waste time on
"possibilities" when we have real issues right here on earth?