Life on The new discovered planet?

Question

I have heard about the new plant that some scientist have discovered. They said that it may have water on in liquid form. So do you think it may have some sort of life on it??? Maybe humanoids???

Answer 1

It can have life on it. the possibilities are endless.we have eight planets in our solar system, there are billions of stars in 1 galaxy. there are also billions of galaxies. c'mon even if the chance is 1 in a million, there still are a lot of possibilities

Answer 2

Well Hello Marcus...

Don't you think that it is a gigantic leap to go from early reports of the discovery of an extrasolarsystem planet with similarities to Earth to deep discussions of that planet having live humanoids? It seems that way to me.

Take the present humanoids on Earth, for example. First,
the Earth is some 4 Billion Years old. We are still debating over the date when humans first set foot on the Earth but it seems fairly likely that man developed around 5,000 years ago (give or take 1,000 years). It is a starting point for purposes of discussion anyhow...

Now place the 5,000 over 4,000,000,000 and make a fraction that you can see and understand... like
5,000 / 4,000,000,000 Years
and cancel out the unnecessary zeros...
which leaves
5 / 4,000,000

and that may be reduced to
1/800,000.

So man has been on Earth for 1/800,000 th of the age of the Earth.

Furthermore, highly intelligent man and highly technicalogicaly developed mankind has only been around for say the last 100 years or so (developing space craft, probes to outer space, space telescopes, and operating rovers on distant planets far from the mother Earth.

If you look at that fraction, you will find it to be rather like
100 / 4,000,000,000 Years
and
if you cancel out the unnecessary zeros, you get:
1 / 40,000,000 th of the age of the planet Earth.
That is one fourth millionth of the time Earth has been around.

So, (here is the good part) what possibility is there that we are looking at this new "584 C" Planet in the right one fourty millionth part of its existance? Like, isn't it a wild guess to assume that these things developed in exactly the same time frame - in a parallel manner, given such things as occasional asteroid hits, tumultuous volcanic erruptions, mass flooding and rampant waves of viral disease which we have certainly endured here on Earth? Really... mankind might have come and gone on "584 C." In fact, what may reside there, if anything, is a species of very highly developed fish, or bird in complete contrast to human development here on Earth. Just imagine global warfare on "584 C" between rival species of intelligent, giant squid, or toothed, immense, carniverous birds. Change the page to a swarm of huge red ants with colonies everywhere, covering the entire solid land mass.
What leap of the imagination could propose that mankind would evolve there when a set of totally different circumstances must have prevailed there?

Now, not meaning to diverge far from the practical aspects of your question, i would like for you to consider the prospects of a superior fish operating your laptop or desktop computer and sending you an EMail some day soon... Don't count on it. The imaginary EMail will take about 50 years to get here and another 50 years to decipher.

Answer 3

People forget that Mars has all these things, but to date no life at all has been found there.

There is no reason that this new planet is any more conducive to life than Mars. Speculation is great, but that is all it will be for centuries. We do not have the technology that goes beyond just knowing certain elements and chemistry exists there.

Meanwhile Mars is a million times closer and we have had probes on it for years.

Answer 4

I will disagree with Nick S above and say that life is *more* likely on the new planet, simply because the temperature at it's surface is more conducive to support liquid water; whereas Mars is decidedly colder.

Answer 5

At this time there's no reason to believe that there is *definitely* life on the planet you mention (..Gliese 851c..) We don't even know if it's a solid planet like Earth, or a gas planet like Jupiter.

Answer 6

Yes, it may. Then again, it may not.