And So, Earth #2 is Discovered

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

Think about this: on that planet, you would weigh twice as much as you do now. I'm not sure If I could handle weighing 300lbs. You could develop heart troubles from the increased gravitational pull as your heart struggles to pump blood around your body.

Then 30% of America is fucked XD

Seriously though, I'm not very suprised something like this was eventually found, but at least it boosts the odds of Earth2 becoming a reality. Now we just need pics so that we can rag on how fat the planet is.

Years only take 14 days? Damm...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Chie

amazing, this only boost my belief that there is another type of life other than ourselves. The chances that there isn't is just becoming lower.

See, its not a matter of belief, but rather a matter of odds of Intelligent life being on other planets. It's entirely way too unlikely for there to be an entire ecosystem full of life, and not have that sort of occurance occur ANYWHERE else in the entire universe.

Try this on for odds: "The Statistics", taken from http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Extrat...ial%20life.htm,

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1) The number of galaxies. An estimated 50 billion galaxies are visible with modern telescopes and the total number in the universe must surely exceed this number by a huge factor, but we will be conservative and simply double it. That's 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe.

2) The number of stars in an average galaxy. As many as hundreds of billions in each galaxy.

Lets call it just 100 billion.

That's 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy.

3)The number of stars in the universe.

So the total number of stars in the universe is roughly 100 billion x 100 billion.

That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, 10 thousand, billion, billion. Properly known as 10 sextillion. And that's a very conservative estimate.

4) The number of stars that have planetary systems. The original extra-solar system planet hunting technology dictated that a star needed to be to close to us for a planet to be detected, usually by the stars 'wobble'. Better technology that allows us to measure the dimming of a stars brightness when a planet crosses its disk has now revolutionised planet hunting and new planets are being discovered at an ever increasing rate. So far (August 2003) around 100 have been discovered so we have very little data to work on for this estimate. Even so, most cosmologists believe that planetary formation around a star is quite common place. For the sake of argument let us say it's not and rate it at only one in a million and only one planet in each system, as we want a conservative estimate, not an exaggerated one. That calculation results in:

10,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. Ten million, billion, as a conservative estimate.

5) The number planets capable of supporting life. Let's assume that this is very rare among planets and rate it at only one in a million. Simple division results in:

10,000,000,000 planets in the universe capable of producing life. Ten billion!

I completely acknowledge this is both very simple and very faltered as far as scientific standards of testing and probability goes, but that itself goes to show that even with a simple example of how much or few the odds of life developing on other planets are, with those results showing multi billion possibilities, that the chances are higher then we might realize.

So, is there Intelligent Life out there? That's what we need to discover

There's nowhere I can't reach.