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Via the fabulousness that is Kij Johnson: Scientists have found an earth-like planet that appears to be capable of sustaining, as we SF people say, life as we know it. A mere 20 light years away. Could there be life there?
Okay. One man's opinion doesn't constitute proof. But, as astronomer Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution put it, the question wouldn't be to defend that there is life at Gliese 581g. "The question," he said, "would be to demonstrate that there isn't."
One of my favorite lines in Contact, a movie I really love (O! Jodie Foster! O! David Morrison and Tom Skerrit! O! space!) is when the small Ellie asks her father if there's life on other planets. "I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."
Oh, the 14 year old space-geek in me is just jumping up and down and up and down and up and down. Damn.
Via the fabulousness that is Kij Johnson: Scientists have found an earth-like planet that appears to be capable of sustaining, as we SF people say, life as we know it. A mere 20 light years away. Could there be life there?
"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.
Okay. One man's opinion doesn't constitute proof. But, as astronomer Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution put it, the question wouldn't be to defend that there is life at Gliese 581g. "The question," he said, "would be to demonstrate that there isn't."
One of my favorite lines in Contact, a movie I really love (O! Jodie Foster! O! David Morrison and Tom Skerrit! O! space!) is when the small Ellie asks her father if there's life on other planets. "I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."
Oh, the 14 year old space-geek in me is just jumping up and down and up and down and up and down. Damn.