Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars
 

This is pretty damn huge...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...exoplanet.html

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827...alhautb-02.jpg

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827...-hr8799-02.jpg

alienq will finally meet the rest of his fam, nice

That is pretty awesome.

Niiiiiiiiice. (i think)

That's one hell of a zoom lens..

1.46962495 × 10'14 miles away

Pictures are always a nice touch.
Guess for some the wobble graphs and such were not enough or something for proof.

Pretty cool stuff

the truth is out there...

that is awesome. god knows what we will be finding in the days and years ahead!

wonder if aliens had adult websites like us, or affiliate programs? don't know if we'll ever live to see if there's really life outside our own solar system.

I'm pretty sure that aliens can self reproduce. That means they are trannies who can fuck themselves.

Pretty bad ass.

Thats amazing just wait until we get a picture back with a visible manmade ring around it

Reall nice.

Wonder if Elvis is there

I know - I hope I am still around for it!!

I'm not sure why this comes as a surprise to some. It takes a certain type of star, and a planet that is just the right distance from that star for life to be possible. Look at our own solar system, out of 9 planets we have two near misses (Mars, Venus) and one bullseye. That's 3 possibles or near possibles for our one star, the sun. The number of stars in the galaxy are near uncountable, out of all that it would actually be UNlikely that there aren't other suns with planets that are in the "life zone" orbiting around them.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were millions of such planets strewn around the galaxy. Then of course there are billions of other galaxies with trillions more stars and planets. To think we're the only life in the universe in light of all that is pretty presumptuous of some people.

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827...alhautb-02.jpg

Is it just me, or does the black part in the middle look like a shadow of the USS Enterprise?

Haha...it sort of does

You actually think people have given up on life on Mars, Venus, or a few assorted moons in our own solar system? There is a high probability of life on all of them. We have not shown it to anyone yet as they are just beginning to get the machines together to actually look for it. Pretty damn sure we will discover that life is not only common, it is just another processes that happens a lot more often than anyone would have ever thought possible. Just need to look at Earths own extremophiles to see it.

Not at all. That's why I said "possibles or NEAR possibles".... meaning we don't know if there's life on them but there could be.

READ man.

does kind of fit in there huh

http://www.15dollargalleries.com/temp/enterprise.jpg

wow very cool.. thanks for the pics

Just as it is an almost mathematical certainty that many many life-bearing planets exist out there, it is also mathematically very unfeasible that there are technological societies with either space travel or ultra-long-distance communications capabilities within communiations or travel range of us during the same time window. (assuming that super-light travel or communications are not possible)

In other words - mathematically we are almost certain to miss each other by a long time and a long distance.

Mindblowing, but nasa have faked or altered images many times before.

True, but screw the mathematics and check out the ufo research scene (the serious one), there is tons of solid proof.

Seeing is believing for most. :2 cents:

Who says aliens are just binary? M/F, MF/FM, MF/MF

There could be other sexes out there besides binary that we just can't even imagine. </stoned>

hey I love this kind of stuff...nice post

i dont know where you got that info but its wrong

mathematically speaking, the odds of life on a planet evolving to the point of technology is 100%. If there is life, then it will evolve to our level. That's mathematically speaking (out of all the planets we know of, 1 has life, 1 has advanced life, so that's 1:1).

and at the same time to assume that aliens are only sending signals to us now would be silly, if there are so many, and so many different directions then there must have been some that were sent millions of years ago and are just getting to us now, there are no rules that say we have to send them at the same time or anything

i think the real problem is they might be sending signals all the time but theyre things we don't know as signals and instead we see them as some sort of other natural phenomenon (quasars etc)

I would kill to see a day that life is discovered on another planet. Just imagine a world that sustains as much life as earth does but with completely different animals on it. It'd be like going back in time and observing earth during the cambrian explosion when totally different creatures ruled our world.

Yeah well I did the same thing in photoshop last night too :)

That's awesome...

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Not for life to be possible, only for life as we know it to be possible.

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Good point.

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