ever find other life like ours or other life forms out there?
or have they already?
2007-04-24 23:40:11 · 16 answers · asked by Drop the donkey 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070424/tts-uk-space-planet-ca02f96.html
2007-04-24 23:40:23 · update #1
a planet does not have to be like earth to have life .. different creatures live in different climates here on earth be it very hgot in boiling springs or very cold under the ice sheets so why shout a planet needto be just like earth..they wouldnt tell us of life on other planets .. they wouldnt want to start a scare ..mind you the USA might they love to scare the crap out of thier folk
2007-04-25 00:53:12 · answer #1 · answered by golden_oldie_male 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No if your are thinking in animals and plants.
With the actual technology we only can find a more advanced civilization than ours, by recieving radio signals. If we would send a robotic spaceships to the nearest stars, it would need many thousand years to reach those stars. And the planet that was found is not in the nearest stars.
Maybe in some hundred years we can have the telescopes with the power to see small planets in such distances.
2007-04-25 08:12:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only 20.5 light years away, why don't you run over there and check it out? Even at our current top speed we can only reach a fraction of light speed so no probe is going to get there in your lifetime, not to mention once there it will take 20 years for any data, traveling at the speed of light, to return to the earth if it hasn't degraded to almost unless signal strength by the time it arrives.
Based on the article it may be able to support life, due to its temperature, but there is no hard evidence of water.
Also it has a mass roughly 5 time that of Earth, so if you should happen to land you will need to be able to support 5 times your current weight just to walk.
2007-04-25 00:19:23 · answer #3 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question but this planet has only been seen through a telescope. There are no solid facts yet. By the time anybody gets there, if they can during your lifetime which is very unlikely, we will find out if the planet can hold life.
2007-04-25 22:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by I Tisi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This earth like planet only lies 20 lightyears away from us. That means that they have been recieving 60 years worth of our radio and telvision broadcasts. Also, if they are as advanced as us, then we should have been recieving theirs.
However, its exciting to find an earth like world, reasonably close to us. That means our local area in the galaxy could well be littered with sutible star/planet systems
2007-04-25 01:02:04 · answer #5 · answered by wil_hopcyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a matter of time, now they've found one I'm sure they'll start finding more and more as the years go by. Sadly they are too far away for any sort of communication but looking at the way we are currenty developing I don't think we'll have to wait too long.
2007-04-25 02:31:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The threat of searching one of those international is about 0. whatever number planets there are, maximum of them are previous the attain of human beings by their distance from earth. besides, none of the different planets contained in the universe had earth's geological and organic and organic historic previous. it truly is this historic previous in which human beings advanced and are adapted. for this reason, the answer is not any.
2016-12-04 20:16:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time life has been on this planet it has been in the form of bacteria only. Not little green men but little green slime. It still exists in Parliament
2007-04-25 22:36:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's still an opem question and finding a planet with a temperature range near earth guarantees nothing.
2007-04-24 23:44:18 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It all lends authority to what scientists have always maintained. Life adapts to environment.
We shall be hearing of more alien abductions than ever before..
2007-04-24 23:44:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋