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MichaelEFC96 said:
Not meaning to sound crazy here but if there have been Aliens visiting Earth in this amazing technology I'm struggling to think how we're going to do it in the near future. I mean it's ridiculously far away.
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Agreed. If it took us 9.5 years to get to Pluto which is 3 billion miles away then how long would it take to get to an inhabited planet. Even Proxima Centauri (our nearest star apart from the Sun) is 4.2 light years away. Pluto is roughly 5 light hours away.

Something I heard the other night. Our galaxy, the Milky Way has 500 billion stars and the observable universe has 170 billion galaxies. That is a lot of stars.
 
These science fellas could say anything and who's going to dispute it?

They're coining it in with grants and funding, they have to 'discover' something every few months to keep it coming. I don't know how they keep a straight face at these conferences.
 
PITA said:
Agreed. If it took us 9.5 years to get to Pluto which is 3 billion miles away then how long would it take to get to an inhabited planet. Even Proxima Centauri (our nearest star apart from the Sun) is 4.2 light years away. Pluto is roughly 5 light hours away.

Something I heard the other night. Our galaxy, the Milky Way has 500 billion stars and the observable universe has 170 billion galaxies. That is a lot of stars.
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young Romulus
Will take the leadership, build walls of Mars,
And call by his own name his people Romans.
For these I set no limits, world or time,
But make the gift of empire without end.
 
'Oh yeah lads, we found another planet'.
'Where?'
'Oh way off over that way, it's that far away you can't see it like, anyway it's just like earth only older. If you want to know more about it that'll be more funding. We're off back to the lab to drink green sh1t outta beakers and w&nk into petri dishes'.
 

Then out comes Hawkins smiling away with his ventriloquist, look lads it's Steven and he wouldn't lie to yis. We've circulated a document with our workings, it might look like gibberish but there's an executive summary at the front, pictures are on pages 3, 5 and 7 and the costings are at the back (camera fades to what looks like a few boxes covered in tin-foil and a close up of a couple of rocks).

We're still working on the dark matter thing lads, it's fairly dark now so don't expect to see it and if you did see it it would suck yer eyeballs out yer asshole now you don't want that do you? We know it's there though because we've whammed two lumps of tin-foil together and it made an awful noise. too loud for you to hear in fact. Anyway we'll need more funding and fancier tin-foil for that else we'd risk opening up a sink hole that would swallow Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks in one gulp, don't worry though you've more chance of winning the lottery but just in case like we'd be best off covering the place in the special foil, it'll cost you though. (* Hawkin's blows snot bubble as he struggles to keep straight face).
 

Comet yields 'rich array' of organics

The spacecraft which made a spectacular landing on a comet last year has discovered a rich array of carbon compounds.

One leading scientist has even described the chemicals as "a frozen primordial soup".

This supports the theory that comets may have seeded the early Earth with the ingredients for life.

The findings came after the lander, known as Philae, touched down on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P in November.

It was dropped by the European Space Agency's Rosetta "mothership" in the climactic stage of a ten-year mission.

Results from the lander's seven instruments are published in a special collection of papers in the journal Science.

One team running a device called COSAC found no fewer than 16 organic compounds, four of which had not been known to exist on comets before.

Ancestral material

Prof Ian Wright of the Open University, who leads another instrument, Ptolemy, said the results were "really interesting".

"I see this cometary material that we're analysing as frozen primordial soup. It's the kind of stuff that if you had it, and warmed it up somehow, and put it in the right environment, with the right conditions, you may eventually get life forming out of it.

"What we may be looking at here is our abiological ancestral material - this is stuff that went into the mix to produce life.

"In many ways it's quite a humbling thing to be working on, because this is life before life happened."

Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33720951
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PITA said:
Agreed. If it took us 9.5 years to get to Pluto which is 3 billion miles away then how long would it take to get to an inhabited planet. Even Proxima Centauri (our nearest star apart from the Sun) is 4.2 light years away. Pluto is roughly 5 light hours away.

Something I heard the other night. Our galaxy, the Milky Way has 500 billion stars and the observable universe has 170 billion galaxies. That is a lot of stars.
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It's yer actual illustration yer Fermi Paradox innit
 
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A really good sighting of the international space station is forecast for around 21:50 this evening...not everyday you can watch something doing 17500 mph over your house
 

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