Jaskalas
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Such knowledge is impossible.
We cannot know that we are alone until we've reached the furthest edges of all that we have seen. Even then, it would merely be an assumption that all we can see is the limit of habitable space. There may be things beyond our sight, let alone beyond our reach. We will NEVER know that we are alone.
I never really thought that way until recently, but there are sooooo many factors that make the earth "unique" that it's not an assumption at all. I highly recommend watching a movie called "the priveledged planet".
Basically, the earth being in the "goldilocks" zone to provide the current temperature is just one in about a trillion factors that makes life possible here.
Like I said, the likelihood of finding other "earth" like planets is high. I firmly believe that here is other intelligent life, possibly on planets we could survive on. Waking up and looking around and not realizing you are not on earth? not a chance.
The Earthlike planets are Mercury Venus Earth and Mars, Earthlike, as explained in the article because they are rocky and not gaseous as is the new discovery in question:
Terrestrial planet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, their sizes to scale.A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, rocky planet or inner planet is a planet that is primarily composed of silicate rocks. Within the solar system, the terrestrial planets are the closest planets to the Sun. The terms are derived from Latin words for Earth (Terra and Tellus), and an alternative definition would be that these are planets which are, in some notable fashion, "Earth-like".
Terrestrial planets are substantially different from gas giants, which might not have solid surfaces and are composed mostly of some combination of hydrogen, helium, and water existing in various physical states.
Rubbish. You know nothing of the possible evolution of consciousness up the seven harmonic divisions, the shocks that are required along the way, or the knowledge possible at each stage. You also can't imagine what is possible for a stage 4 civilization. And you know nothing that is known to whales who arrived at self awareness millions and millions of years before apes appeared on the earth.
Earth like??? Orbit in the liquid water life zone? Large enough to hold an atmosphere and generate a planet protecting magnetic field? Have outer giants to sweep the system of planet killing comets? Guess not, just a hot as hell sun skimming rock. Probably spiralling into the sun due to friction and breaking up from tidal forces as most near sun orbits do.
Astronomy Magazine:
September 16, 2009
The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like exoplanets. The detection by CoRoT (Convection ROtation and planetary Transits) and follow-up radial velocity measurements with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) suggest that this exoplanet, CoRoT-7b, has a density similar to that of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth making it only the fifth known terrestrial planet in the universe.
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Those bastards also seem determined to call rocky planets earth-like. Don't they know that earth like means the planet has to have people? No God damned science magazine is going to tell me what earth-like means.
September 16, 2009
The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like exoplanets. The detection by CoRoT (Convection ROtation and planetary Transits) and follow-up radial velocity measurements with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) suggest that this exoplanet, CoRoT-7b, has a density similar to that of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth making it only the fifth known terrestrial planet in the universe.
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Those bastards also seem determined to call rocky planets earth-like. Don't they know that earth like means the planet has to have people? No God damned science magazine is going to tell me what earth-like means.
AyashiKaibutsu
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TastesLikeChicken
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I am familiar with the term. I don't agree with its usage as I believe it's misleading. Apparently so do many others in here.
You do understand that, when it comes to scientific terminology, some things aren't etched in stone, Mooney? After all, up until a few years ago Pluto was considered a planet.
Ignorance misleads ignorant people and there is no help for that. Many of the idiots you claim are confused remained so even after I pointed out what earth-like means. They didn't want to learn, they wanted to argue and join some team. People who don't lead with their feelings of inferiority and need to ego dominate would just say, well, I didn't know earth-like in reference to planets meant ones of high density. Nope, when faced with information they didn't have they reacted defensively with a need to defend a position. Them dumb scientists don't know how to use English.
TastesLikeChicken
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Right. Don't question. Just accept what you're fed and get in line. NEVER disagree with what Moonie says because he is the final word, the gospel according to Moonie. All hail his self-righteousness wrapped in psycho-babble.
Ironically enough, Moonie, without realizing it you propound that which is precisely the antithesis of science - to be unquestioning and to never disagree. Anyone who does disagree with you is to be belittled and maligned. It must be that massive load of self-hate that you carry around on your shoulders that compels you to lash out at others like that. It's the only possible explanation.
I told you the facts which you, unaware of how inferior you feel, felt was belittling and maligning you and that psychological truth you you also call psychobabble because you feel too inferior to admit how petty you are. But if you want a real example of psychobabble consider the notion that by correcting ignorance I am somehow in your twisted little mind enforcing anti-scientific conformity. What a joke. You are and were inaccurate in your application of your common usage of earth-like to imply the article used it confusingly, when in the article itself it explained exactly how that misconception could occur if the nature of earth-like as other than rocky and dense were to be used. What sort of idiot complains about word usage when the user goes out of his way to clarify exactly how he is using the word.
No, as I knew would happen the moment I challenged your pedantry, I knew also we would be off to the races with your endless attempt to spin your childishness as something other than it is.
You are a butt-head. I know you well. I graduated head of that class and got my Doctorate in Rigorousness, being precisely accurate, logical, intellectually tight, and RIGHT and unafraid to defend it. Bullies like you don't scare me. You are a lot of noise.
TastesLikeChicken
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