Astronomers detect possible distant life

[Inky_Wretch]

Big, if true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[Bubbler]

Come colonize us and put us out of our misery.

 

[MileHigh]

5.88 trillion miles -- times 120 -- away.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

5.88 trillion miles -- times 120 -- away.

But that’s like an hour away with a wormhole!

 

[Deskgrunt50]

5.88 trillion miles -- times 120 -- away.

Yet 15 minutes from Tahoe.

 

[dixiehack]

5.88 trillion miles -- times 120 -- away.

Which is also our tariff with them.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Think there’s another Trump there?

 

[Starman]

Think there's another Trump there?

Probably at Uranus.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Think there's another Trump there?

Why don't we send ours to find out?

 

[Driftwood]

It is a mathematical certainty that there is intelligent life somewhere else in the universe. I have no clue if it looks like us, giant squirrels, or what, but based on the number of stars and planets, there has to be.
They can't get here, and we can't get there.
People are dead set on traveling months to the nearest planet, which we know is uninhabitable. I'd just as soon we spend those resources on not destroying this one. There is no Planet B.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Big, if true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

And if it’s Earth-like. It seems like it may be more of a proto-Venus.

Wikipedia:

High-energy radiation from the star, such as hard[f]​ UV radiation and X-rays, is expected to heat the upper atmosphere and fill it with hydrogen formed through the photodissociation of water, thus forming an extended hydrogen-rich exosphere[61]​ that can escape from the planet.[11]​ The X-ray and UV fluxes that K2-18b receives from K2-18 are considerably higher than the equivalent fluxes from the Sun;[11]​ the hard UV radiation flux provides enough energy to drive this exosphere to escape at a rate of about 350

+400/−290​

tons per second, too slow to remove the planet's atmosphere during its lifespan.[62]​ Observations of decreases of Lyman alpha radiationemissions during transits of the planet may show the presence of such an exosphere; this discovery requires confirmation.[63]​

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

 

[Slacker]

Good God, won't somebody harness the technology?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

A simple signature of molecular oxygen would be enough for me.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Good God, won't somebody harness the technology?

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