kepler 22b - Life or Gas?

[bluntsword]

Is it weird that I like people to "forget" that I'm one?  It seems they can be more real with me when they aren't like "Oops I made a curse." That's quite immaterial to me.

Life on Kepler. Why not?

[pacdiggity]

I like that you're still a person that happens to have that job, instead of that guy that does that job.

[bluntsword]

that guy that does that job.

[Thnap]

I'll refrain from posting my views on God. (They're not positive )

Why does life on other planets have to be restricted to this?

The chances of our planet being the only one capable of sustaining intelligent life are astronomical, when you consider the sheer vastness of space. So there are probably entire civilisations on other planets that are as advanced as ours. How could there not be when we know just how gigantic the universe is?

[Gracie]

Namekians live on Keplar 22b.


Observe. This is Keplar 22b.



and this is Namek.





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I'm not going to lie, I find it almost impossible to be excited by the thought of amoeboids on another planet. Its cool and all, just a bit too dull for me to pay much interest.

[Acolyte]

Hey, you were a single cell at some point in your life. Respect the humble amoeba.

[ToxicTrevor]

Namekians live on Kepler 22b.


Observe. This is Kepler 22b.



and this is Namek.

DragonBall Z is always right, they obviously have a more advanced telescope that found Kepler-22b before NASA and discovered the alien race that inhabits it AND THEY CAN FLY.

But in all seriousness I see Kepler-22b as a very fine enforcer that life could easily be inhabiting other planets, yes it looks similar to our world so it is automatically more appealing to us visually, however my speculations are that this planet on the surface is not similar to ours sense its radius is slightly larger than ours therefor the organisms inhabiting this planet (If there are any.) would be slightly diffrent and unable to reach the exact same similarities of humans even though advanced cognitive abilities could still be attained, unless its age is younger than earths, then I believe the lifeforms are multi-cellular Eukaryotes, but not very advanced such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (This is all speculation of course.)

[Acolyte]

You guys know that's just an artist's rendition, right?
We have no idea what the planet looks like.

[strike]

Is it weird that I like people to "forget" that I'm one?  It seems they can be more real with me when they aren't like "Oops I made a curse." That's quite immaterial to me.

Life on Kepler. Why not?

I agree, why the fuck not!

[Sophist]

It's also funny, because for all we know, the planet might not even be there anymore.

[Acolyte]

Lol, I didn't even think about that. We're looking at it from 600 years in the past.

[bluntsword]

Kepler 22 b asploded?

[Acolyte]

It may have. We may never know.

[Arrow]

Actually, we can guarantee we will know. We'll just know six hundred years after the fact. o - o

[firerain]

that's not a guarantee. who knows if we'll make it that long, that we'll have developed the sufficient technology to know? nothing is guaranteed.

[Mushu]

Didn't they recently find an arsenic-based life form in a pond or something?

Not to mention, it would be far easier making a spaceship with a mid-section that spins(a long cylinder) creating artificial gravity and grow plants in greenhouses instead of terraforming an entire planet. We could just have giant solar arrays(once solar gets good enough) orbiting near suns to power space colonies(along with nuclear) and go down to planets simply to mine. Colonizing another planet would be more hassle then it's worth.

[bluntsword]

Didn't they recently find an arsenic-based life form in a pond or something?

Not to mention, it would be far easier making a spaceship with a mid-section that spins(a long cylinder) creating artificial gravity and grow plants in greenhouses instead of terraforming an entire planet. We could just have giant solar arrays(once solar gets good enough) orbiting near suns to power space colonies(along with nuclear) and go down to planets simply to mine. Colonizing another planet would be more hassle then it's worth.

But this.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2011-12-04/arseniclife-bacteria-dna/51593468/1

The problem is that it would take us generations to reach another solar system, let alone an inhabitable planet.

[Mushu]

Another method would be to advance computers to a point where we can replace our brain with them so we can withstand high speed transport. We could also make it where we could withstand living anywhere. Another method would be figuring out how to 'compress space' with a special field around the ship so that there wouldn't be that much force on us while traveling and get to places quickly. Pertaining to alien life forms, we might be able to manipulate or create our own before we find any 'aliens'. All in all, this stuff is very far from where we are now and totally ridiculous.

[Acolyte]

Another method would be to advance computers to a point where we can replace our brain with them so we can withstand high speed transport.

Replacing our brains with computers wouldn't make us able to withstand high speeds. We'd need like an exoskeleton or something.

Another method would be figuring out how to 'compress space' with a special field around the ship so that there wouldn't be that much force on us while traveling and get to places quickly.

You watch too much science fiction.

Pertaining to alien life forms, we might be able to manipulate or create our own before we find any 'aliens'.

What.


Also, this has ceased to be a debate, though I don't think it ever really was one in the first place. I think a move to general discussion is appropriate.

[ToxicTrevor]

Also, this has ceased to be a debate, though I don't think it ever really was one in the first place. I think a move to general discussion is appropriate.

That shouldn't signify that it should be moved because the debate stopped, plenty of topics in this sub forum have ceased to be debated on, that doesn't change the fact that there are intelligent debates, which is what this area was created for.


Anyways bringing this back on topic which it should have been brought back about 4 post ago, If Kepler 22b has life on it what do you all think would be on it? would it be other human like beings or gray little martians? Would they be as intelligent as we are? Could they be viewing us 600 years in the past right now?

[Acolyte]

I don't think you understand the difference between a debate and a discussion. There hasn't been any debating in this thread, as there are no opposing viewpoints or hard evidence to support any one opinion.

And most of your questions were already discussed earlier.

[Holkeye]

If we were able to replace our brains with computers, then why would we want to keep the rest of our fragile selves?

[Mushu]

If we were able to replace our brains with computers, then why would we want to keep the rest of our fragile selves?

Robot on robot sex wouldn't feel as good? Maybe put our brain on a usb and plug it in the space ship and keep one body on each planet. lol

Anyways, if we did find life on another planet, it would probably look like a slightly different version of what we had on earth a billion or so years ago.

[pacdiggity]

would it be other human like beings or gray little martians?

> non-human life
> must be gray martians

[Dwarra?]

>martians
>not on Mars