This could be the most important day in human history

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This could be the most important day in human history #525319 04/24/07 10:48 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,181 Birmingham, AL Kid Prime OP Wanderer
OP Kid Prime Wanderer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,181 Birmingham, AL	Earth-like alien world found White. A blank page or canvas. His favorite. So... many... possibilities.

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525320 04/24/07 10:54 PM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ... Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors
Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ...	And so it begins! I'm always looking to expand my fanbase too!

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525321 04/24/07 10:55 PM
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OP Kid Prime Wanderer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,181 Birmingham, AL	I know, statements like that are SO premature. But still, my heart is beating a mile a minute right now. Imagine... the actual, real possibility of extraterrestrial life. I know... so far ahead of myself here. But... if it happened to be true, if there is a planet out there with a median temperature similar to ours and liquid water on the surface of the planet, and then if we were to verify that life exists... This could be the day that my most cherished dream finally began to become a reality. Of course, we won't know for years to come. BUT... What if... LIFE. On another planet in outer space. Ever since I was 4 years old and watching the original run of Star Wars in the cinema in 1977, I've dreamed of this. Sorry if I'm rambling... I'm very happy. White. A blank page or canvas. His favorite. So... many... possibilities.

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525322 04/25/07 04:29 AM
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Fat Cramer Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,863 Café Cramer	It is pretty exciting, but I fear that any first contact will be with the most aggressive and greedy elements of our Terran society. 20 light years away - I probably won't live long enough to see any results of a probe, let alone an actual voyage. I hope someone does some illustrations of what it might look like, though. Holy Cats of Egypt!

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525323 04/25/07 05:39 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol Vee Time Trapper
Vee Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11,656 Paragon City on patrol	How cool! Even if there are no life forms there, this could easily become a future world available for colonization and the push into space by mankind. "Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525324 04/25/07 06:48 AM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 9,062 S Set Long live the Legion!
Set Long live the Legion! S Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 9,062	If the planet is, as theorized in the article, tide-locked, it's already got some major strikes against it. Only a narrow band of it would be habitable, and it would lack tidal and weather systems like ours, which were major factors in evolutionary development. I made Kathoon tide-locked in my Emerald Legion story, but as a settled world, that was okay. As a world with life of it's own, it would be more problematic. IMO, given the sheer size of the universe, it's astronomically unlikely that the universe isn't teeming with life and living worlds. Any species with the technology to transport themselves across light-years in any meaningful amount of time, would also have matter deposition technology and be able to create anything they need from raw elements. They would have no reason to actually go anywhere, other than for information that they could get at home by pointing big telescopes at us. The universe is likely an enormous collection of couch potatoes, watching us send our probes out of system and thinking, 'they're so cute at that age.' Wrapped Around Your Finger now complete in BITS!

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525325 04/25/07 08:40 AM
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DrakeB3004 Wanderer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 9,168 New York, NY	Does the planet have a name? "Death of a Legionnaire" fan comic

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525326 04/25/07 08:24 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,760 Canada Arachne Legionnaire!
Arachne Legionnaire! Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,760 Canada	Quote Originally posted by Set: The universe is likely an enormous collection of couch potatoes, watching us send our probes out of system and thinking, 'they're so cute at that age.' arachne3003.deviantart.com Current Obsession: Birds of Prey/Secret Six

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525327 04/26/07 12:15 PM
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 262 Portland, OR Uranus Lad Active
Uranus Lad Active Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 262 Portland, OR	And it will only take us between 390 thousand and 5 billion years to get there! Is that a moon?

Re: This could be the most important day in human history #525328 04/26/07 05:40 PM
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Blockade Boy Wanderer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,078 East Toledo	Cute? Naw, I'm thinking we're going through our terrible twos. Lots of ideas with no way to communicate them, so we throw a fit.