New Planet Discovered ( Space)

[Furryanimal]

( Need a fourth word in the title)
Astronomers have identified a newly discovered exoplanet that may orbit within the outer edge of its star's habitable zone, raising fresh questions about how common potentially life-supporting worlds might be in our galaxy.

The planet, known as HD 137010 b, was detected orbiting a sunlike star 146 light-years from Earth. Early observations suggest the planet is slightly larger than Earth and follows an orbit that places it near the cooler boundary of the so-called habitable "Goldilocks" zone — the region around a star where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist under the right conditions.

NASA has nicknamed the planet "an ice-cold Earth" due to likely frigid weather conditions. Based on observations, the surface temperature is no higher than 90 degrees below zero, making it colder than Mars.

 

[Repondering]

Only 146 light years away from us........well then it's a close neighbor of ours. When one considers how vast the observable universe is.
Maybe by the time our species has achieved interstellar travel, that planet's climate will have entered a warming era.
That is if we are still a viable technological species in the distant future.........

 

[Wombat]

If it has life it still won't know about us yet, there hasn't been enough time for our earliest radio signals to reach them yet has there?

 

[smiley]

us humans constantly seem be experiencing extreme loneliness??

 

[Lewkat]

I think there are tons in distant galaxies that we'll never see nor know about.

 

[Gardenlover]

Amazing to think about.

 

[RadishRose]

That is if

Right!

 

[bobcat]

It seems kinda strange. Different nations on this planet can't seem to get along, but we would welcome those from another world if we determined they existed. We humans are a perplexing species.

 

[David777]

None of we organic humans now or in the near future of centuries will ever even reach the nearest star that is far closer. More likely is at least mostly non organic intelligent entities within our near region of the Milky Way Galaxy, that are essentially immortal if not physically destroyed and could endure long dormant periods (like our future AIs) will eventually make their existence known to we Earth monkeys, so that we can at least exchange information over that may open up what is going on with intelligent entities within the rest of the universe.

Google AI:

The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is about 4.37 light-years away from Earth. This distance translates to approximately 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers). The fastest spacecraft to date, the Parker Solar Probe, travels at about 430,000 miles per hour (700,000 kilometers per hour). At this speed, it would take around 6,700 years to reach Alpha Centauri.

 

[bobcat]

None of we organic humans now or in the near future of centuries will ever even reach the nearest star that is far closer. More likely is at least mostly non organic intelligent entities within our near region of the Milky Way Galaxy, that are essentially immortal if not physically destroyed and could endure long dormant periods (like our future AIs) will eventually make their existence known to we Earth monkeys, so that we can at least exchange information over that may open up what is going on with intelligent entities within the rest of the universe.

Google AI:

The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is about 4.37 light-years away from Earth. This distance translates to approximately 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers). The fastest spacecraft to date, the Parker Solar Probe, travels at about 430,000 miles per hour (700,000 kilometers per hour). At this speed, it would take around 6,700 years to reach Alpha Centauri.

It is rather like quicksand for the mind to hypothesize what may or may not be out there. If there are intelligent AI's, then intelligent non-organics must have created them at some point. Also, what would intelligent AI's want, or would they want anything (Including contact with other beings)? They may view space travel as a waste of energy. We just don't know.

Would they build houses to live in? They wouldn't grow food, or instead just build energy producing devices. How many would they decide is enough? Would there be struggles for power? Who decides on rules? Would they vote and go by the majority? Would currency be eliminated? would they have any goals, or just be content to exist?

It's hard to imagine what would have happened on this world if the dinosaur killing asteroids had missed earth, or if some virus would have wiped out everything. We may not even be here, and AI's wouldn't even be a twinkle in someone's eyes.

 

[David777]

The first intelligent AI's in any universe would have been created by organic entities because we homo sapiens have now shown with certainty within our own life evolved existence with developed science and technology, that AI super intelligence can with absolute certainty, soon be possible. If light speed is a true limitation in what I see as a mysteriously fine tuned universe, as I lean towards strongly, then due to time and travel isolation, there may be billions of races of entities, both organic, totally non organic, and combinations of the two that are effectively isolated but however over millions to billions of years, send out non-organic AI probes elsewhere.

So am one, sorry to pop the balloons of many science fiction fans, that for a fair list of logical known science reasons, expect warp drive and near light speed travel will never ever be possible. That is also a good solution to the Fermi Paradox. We may eventually travel technologies for our future non organic entities like supposed UFOs have been said to attain, but even that is vastly below light speed.