Comments on: Possibly habitable planet sparks dreams, emotions

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By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:24:47 +0000

Is just the first and smaler step to know that the Universe have bilions… of Planets similars to Earth. But we are so far away of that reality, not only in light years ,but also far away in light years concerning our mentality about to care our own beautiful Earth.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:30:39 +0000

ha ha i loved anonymous reply, i have this conversation often with people that talk of ufos. i do in fact believe that there is other life in the universe, i believe that the odds by sheer numbers of stars like our own must be amazing, however i do not believe we are being visited. any civilization that has the capability to produce a craft that cannot only cross interstellar distances but also block out the radiation and cosmic rays of deep space while avoiding collision with stray objects, yet their technology is so limited they come into our atmosphere with lights blazing and crash.i mean even we have radar evasion tech and can see in the dark with optics, surely they would not be bumbling about and wreck. no i believe life is out there but not visiting us. but it is a fantastic thought life could exist and how alien it trully must be.perhaps in our lifetime we will detect radio waves generated but not actually aimed at us. or we will design a telescope array on the moons dark side and have better answers but im sure its out there.even if it is as primitive as we are

By: lindsay

lindsay — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:51:22 +0000

Does this mean we have love our own planet before we can hope to move in with another?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:45:27 +0000

It’s alittle spooky to think that it might be occupied and by whom?

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:32:43 +0000

I’m all for finding planets and trying to search for other life in the universe. Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute is a pesonal hero of mine. However, after reading that this planet is a close 20 light-years away, I think to myself . . . that’s farther than we could ever hope to travel. We’re not going there and knowing about it isn’t going to save our skins.

Or is it? I think about the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Every one of the movie characters who knew somehow that aliens were in our midst were changed forever. Is that fundemental perspective shift possible on a human population scale?

What would that first “hello” from a planet 20 light years away do for us? Given the size of the universe, asking a question and having it answered 20 years later - time on a human scale - would be almost unthinkable good luck . . . like winning a lottery a million times. But I can dream we’d be that lucky.