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Study: Exoplanets could have better conditions for life than Earth
- Thread starter Zen
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Sometimes I wish I was born two or three hundred years from now to be able to see just how far science and technology has advanced when it comes to space exploration and travel.
Can't begin to imagine the wonders we've yet to discover.
Can't begin to imagine the wonders we've yet to discover.
"More habitable" doesn't mean that we humans could necessarily live there easily. They could still have different atmospheric compositions, gravity, or other things that messes up our anatomy and bodily functions over time. That's not even considering what would happen to someone's immune system upon contact with biology that evolved completely separately from Earth... All "more habitable" means is that life, in general, has more favorable conditions to live in than Earth has.
Even if there's only life in one in every trillion planets that means there's trillions of planets with life out there (across the entire cast universe). Even in our own galaxy 1 in every million gives you thousands at least of life bearing planets. We can't be the only intelligent species to have blossomed in the entire cosmos. No chance.
Given the circumstances of why we'll have to leave Earth, it most likely would be this ship that we'll have to use:
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Given the circumstances of why we'll have to leave Earth, it most likely would be this ship that we'll have to use:
Me too, constantly, but I imagine everyone with an inquisitive mind thinks that, no matter when they were born. Galileo probably thought that and people 300 or 1000 years from now (assuming we don't self-destruct in the meantime) will probably also think the same. :)
I'm still stuck on the second/third volume of that one. I loved Blame!, Abara & Biomega (I am a Tsutomu Nihei stan) but I have yet to fully get into this.
Also, it feels that the BSG analogy still is a better fit in this particular context, so I'll stand by my words. Or, well, image.
I am into it only because it would mean that we will have capability to travel to other planets and that means that statistical our chances of completely fucking up ecosystems of multiple planets should be pretty low. Then again I might be underestimating human desire to fuck up planets
Imagine if another species interfered with our evolution by immigrating to earth in earliest days. Voluntarily or otherwise, they would be invasive species.
Now, look around at our current predicament in the socio-political sector, rife with corruption and greed with facts of their detrimental effects laid bare without any conclusive rectification movement on a large scale. Humans have a tendency to react rather than pro-act. Anyway, point is, humans need to stay in their fucking lane and sort out the fundamental issues that plague the world before we inevitably repeat the same offences on a different planet with,presumably, its own native lifeforms?
I hope someone exterminates humanity before it exterminates another native species on another world (something that is highly likely between survival at best and greed at worst).
Anyway, these are far out fantasies given we have yet to exploit the resources of our solar system to the fullest to become a Type 1.x civilization.
Now, look around at our current predicament in the socio-political sector, rife with corruption and greed with facts of their detrimental effects laid bare without any conclusive rectification movement on a large scale. Humans have a tendency to react rather than pro-act. Anyway, point is, humans need to stay in their fucking lane and sort out the fundamental issues that plague the world before we inevitably repeat the same offences on a different planet with,presumably, its own native lifeforms?
I hope someone exterminates humanity before it exterminates another native species on another world (something that is highly likely between survival at best and greed at worst).
Anyway, these are far out fantasies given we have yet to exploit the resources of our solar system to the fullest to become a Type 1.x civilization.
Man we should be figuring out how to get to those planets to colonize. But nope let's burn/kill our only home fuck the future
