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#496082 - 02/09/06 05:08 PM Extrasolar planets
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For those of you who are either astronomy buffs, sci-fi romantics, or just plain fascinated by the possibilities contained in extrasolar planets (planets in solar systems other than ours)... here's a link to someone who renders paintings of what these systems could possibly look like.

Extrasolar Art

So far we are yet to discover a planet that could in of itself be close enough to Earth to support life as we know it. However, there's nothing to say that moons orbiting these Jupiter-like planets couldn't...
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#496083 - 02/09/06 05:09 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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those pictures are so neat looking.
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#496084 - 02/09/06 05:12 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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The newest edition of Astronomy magazine covers an article about a new device/machine that was designed to locate planets not located in our galaxy, or any type of solar/galactic entity that previous instruments could not detect, it's pretty damn cool.

hey czar, I wrote a paper a while back about the application of Fibonacci sequence to the birth of star systems, what do you think?
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#496085 - 02/09/06 05:18 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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I love the historical ones too, especially the cannons.

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#496086 - 02/09/06 05:20 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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I bet no one here is familiar with Drake's Equation?
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#496087 - 02/09/06 05:20 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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of course i am. I am dating you.
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#496088 - 02/09/06 05:21 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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You don't have one clue to what Drake's Equation is!
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#496089 - 02/09/06 05:21 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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sure i do.
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#496090 - 02/09/06 05:23 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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What then? Let me just tell you, it's an extremely long and complicated equation used to test the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
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#496091 - 02/09/06 05:28 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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i already knew that.
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#496092 - 02/09/06 05:30 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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For those who don't know, but care, essentially, the Drake equation estimates the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we may eventually come into contact with.

I am not too big on presupposing the number of civilizations that may or may not exist. I am much more interested in theorizing on the mere possibility of extraterrestrial life and its components.

For what it's worth, I loved Carl Sagan's attempt to describe what life might be like on Jupiter. Very cool and very imaginative!
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#496093 - 02/09/06 05:42 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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It is good that the artist puts a rational with the painting instead of just flopping something out there. I will have to order prints for my new apt.

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#496094 - 02/09/06 08:16 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Quote:

For those who don't know, but care, essentially, the Drake equation estimates the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we may eventually come into contact with.

I am not too big on presupposing the number of civilizations that may or may not exist. I am much more interested in theorizing on the mere possibility of extraterrestrial life and its components.

For what it's worth, I loved Carl Sagan's attempt to describe what life might be like on Jupiter. Very cool and very imaginative!


Quite, particularly because he moves away from the egotistical thought that aliens would look something even remotely like us. The jelly fish-esq creatures were cool!
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#496095 - 02/09/06 08:27 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Have you guys watch the show "Alien Planet" on Animal Planet? It did a lot of theorizing on aliens, I also liked the one they did on future Earth after man.

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#496096 - 02/09/06 08:32 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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No, but it sounds like an interesting program
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#496097 - 02/09/06 08:34 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Yeah, that was on a while back right? The two legged runner creature was cool, but not very practical and the HUGE pancake looking beast was awesome!!
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#496098 - 02/09/06 08:39 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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lol, pancake looking beast eh?
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#496099 - 02/09/06 08:42 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Yeah, sorry. I can't remember the name of it. It was HUGE and had a flat round face with trees growing on it's back. It had elephant like legs too, but much larger of course. That's about all I remember from the show though.
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#496100 - 02/09/06 08:43 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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yeah, some of the ideas were far fetched (the flying whales) but overall i found it really interesting. Plus if you take into all the different factors that could be involved nothing is impossible. Have you seen the future planet stuff Pirate?

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#496101 - 02/09/06 08:44 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Anyone watch the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series from BBC?
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#496102 - 02/09/06 08:49 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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I was too busy watching The Young Ones. I saw an episode or two when it was on PBS. It never really excited me as a book or TV series, but I know it's got a die hard fanbase.
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#496103 - 02/09/06 08:52 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Pirate, I will tell you this, the BBC series is an EXACT adaptation of the book (actually the entire series), its brilliant, it's almost word for word, so check it out (you can get it on Amazon for a great price).
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#496104 - 02/09/06 08:56 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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I started reading the book, it was by Douglas Adamson.. right? Seriously, it didn't grab me. I also tried Discworld by Terry Pratchet of Monty Python fame and again, the style didn't grab me. I'm weird that way I guess. I may try the TV show once more. I think I can acquire an episode on BT easily enough.
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#496105 - 02/09/06 08:57 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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Yeah, thats where I got mine, good ole Bit Torrent
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#496106 - 02/09/06 10:04 PM Re: Extrasolar planets
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anyone read, Waiting for the Galactic bus or Snake Oil Wars?

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