REALLY SOON NOW! The search for extraterrestrial life is almost wholly a gimmick* to get funding and work up public awareness etc, Overall it is irrelevant when compared to the important task of placing our DNA beyond the reach of the madmen here on earth right now. Got a better idea? - Migrate, thats what humans do best, the only barriers are our own. No sentimental gaia worship around here! More Heinlein, less Dylan. - latimes/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nasa-looks-for-life-in-space-20-20140714-story.html - *While we may never know exactly what a henway particle is, the steller distances and probabalistics associated with our own Earth make life fantastically rare. Earth has just the right dimensions for gravity, our sun at the right distance, we have a radiation blocking magnetic iron core, an atmosphere and ocean irrigating moon, vasts amounts of temperature stabilizing water, large nearby planets that catch deadly asteroids etc.. Its like trying to find Michael Jacksons original nose, not gonna happen anytime soon.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:16:02 +0000