Interesting find

[hang man]

This is good news and hopefully we'll find life out there within our physical lifetime.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/sugar-molecule.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

[TazDaz]

How the hell can they see molecules in space?!?!

[hang man]

IRAM Space Telescope

http://www.iram.fr/IRAMES/index.htm

[Frank]

How the hell can they see molecules in space?!?!
the same as men landed on the moon




















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[Mr Speirs]

this is good news and hopefully we'll find life out there within our physical lifetime.

2012 ;)

[metalmonkey]

Thats is interesting however, how many people have considered that there could other forms of life as well?

Life could also be based on silcon for example, we are carbon based life forms. More to point what are expecting to find out there? The nearest star to us is about 26 light years I think (I may well be wrong)

So how are going to get out there and fiding anything? We haven't got to grips with fusion power yet, nor have we worked out the problems of making lighting speed, the other alternative of of being bending space time with gravity to create worm holes.

Its going to be long time before we do that, the other problem being nonoe of coutries will togther to put togther one single effort, we spend all our time trying to get one up on another country. Until that stops, I doubt anything of importance will happen,

[Mr Speirs]

I think we will be the visitees not the visitors.

[hang man]

Thats is interesting however, how many people have considered that there could other forms of life as well?

Life could also be based on silcon for example, we are carbon based life forms. More to point what are expecting to find out there? The nearest star to us is about 26 light years I think (I may well be wrong)

So how are going to get out there and fiding anything? We haven't got to grips with fusion power yet, nor have we worked out the problems of making lighting speed, the other alternative of of being bending space time with gravity to create worm holes.

Its going to be long time before we do that, the other problem being nonoe of coutries will togther to put togther one single effort, we spend all our time trying to get one up on another country. Until that stops, I doubt anything of importance will happen,

I agree with you , someone else said in another thread (i think it was Baph) "If we do discover other life it would be so vastly different we wouldn't know it was life" but at the same time the universe is so big and diverse that there is no way it was created simply to inhabit "us" into it's existence ..... I think Mr Speirs is right we will be the Visites.

Simply from the perspective of our natural destruction of each other , civilisations going extinct as in the past 100,000 years (but more like millions), do to wars , plague , natural selection , unforeseen events such as meteors and so on the next civilisation has to start over again in turn keeping our advancing technology way far behind .

I'd like to add this talk here so that some folk who don't realise how big "BIG" is can have a perspective of it , though i don't agree with everything in the talk i think it makes a very good reality check.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html