Proxima B: The Pale Red Dot
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The Pale Red Dot campaign was launched to find a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri. Incredibly, the quest succeeded and astronomers detected a planet. The planet, Proxima b, falls within the habitable zone of its host star. It is by far the closest potential abode for alien life.
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here we are again, you cannot evolve intelligent life on a planet just because it orbit a special star and are in the golden-lock area. Its so much more components that must be there, like a circle orbit, a big moon, gas-giant planet in right place for protection against all comets and asteroids and right size on the planet so its can have Continental drift . list can be long
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Why is that planet "by far the closest potential abode for alien life"? We've got other potential abodes in our very own solar system, such as Jupiter's moon Europa. It doesn't take a planet to harbour life, a moon can be sufficient.
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What country is Chili? (1:30)
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They need to stop claiming possible habitable planets like this. They are out there but the constant "we may have found" is dumb as fuck. At 5% of an AU the planet will be tidally locked and would not be a nice place to visit.... Astronomy has totally gone off the deep end as of late.
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Venus and Mars are also in the habitable zone and their orbits are longer: I think the media / science are jumping the gun on this. We need to wait until James Webb telescope goes up: it has a better chance of detecting atmospheres. That happens in 2018.
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If I was another advanced civilization I would destroy any human ship leaving the solar system because we don't deserve to travel amongst the stars.
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soon we are going to destroy those planets hahaha
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so a star wobbles and dims, and you get your hopes up, you have no idea what the atmosphere or land composition is, or if in fact it's in the habitable zone, or even seen the planet
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Orbit of 11 days. I'd get sick of the new year parties.
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*closest known.
Rogue planets are not at all impossible, nor (I suspect) unlikely. But finding one of them...yeah. Would be awesome as shit when we can though -
"it is still debated on weather of not a planet so close to its star could harbor life" why not? yeah it may be bathed in radiation but its a natural occurrence in that environment, any life that evolved there would be exposed to it constantly and would harm them just as much as earth background radiation harms us.
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R we alone? how we observe and see world around us including universe is based on our point of view, our common perception or illusion. Nothing is forever, only what we call god is infinite.
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We have discovered plenty of planets yet our spacecrafts we build are slow as fuck. It can only be around 4 light years but the farthest man-made object is still less than 2 "light days" away.
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This planet is probably tidally locked to its star, and the star is a flare star. This planet is NOT habitable.
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what if aliens came not to earth but to Venus because that is where they expect to find life as they know it and just did acknowledge us people next door as living intelligent beings.
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we should send a hello message towards Proxima, if there is intelligent life on the planet, we would get a response 8 years from now, since it takes 4 years for the signal to be sent and then the alien signal to be recieved.
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Someone misclicked and hit the dislike button
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but it could also turn out to be like Venus or Mars
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its possible this planet is in TIDAL LOCKED to its star, meaning it shows only one side of it just like the moon do to us. Such planet will have a very hot day side and very cold dark side ... the only habitable place would be the middle
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So many people with letter avatars on colored background and nicknames as real names. Wtf, are they bots?
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