This has the potential to be exponentially more exciting that it already is. If even simple life... (Reply #11)

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Mon May 2, 2016, 02:36 PM

11. This has the potential to be exponentially more exciting that it already is. If even simple life...

...is able to exist on either (or all) of those planets, then there's no reason to doubt that life is common, and not rare, in the universe.

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35 replies	Author	Time	Post
Astronomers discover three habitable planets just 40 light years away [View all]	G_j	May 2016	OP
Heh just	Egnever	May 2016	#1
Aw come on... 40 light-years is but a hop, skip, and a jump!	cherokeeprogressive	May 2016	#2
Ensign... Warp 9...	tk2kewl	May 2016	#14
When you're talking cosmic proportions, 40 lys is just over yonder ---->	ChisolmTrailDem	May 2016	#8
Fair enough	Egnever	May 2016	#12
The Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide	KelleyKramer	May 2016	#18
Perspective	Stuckinthebush	May 2016	#32
Let's start building an Ark now	felix_numinous	May 2016	#3
Well, There Isn't Advanced Civilization There For Sure	ProfessorGAC	May 2016	#4
Because they haven't sent us signals?	lagomorph777	May 2016	#6
How Would They Stop It?	ProfessorGAC	May 2016	#15
Yes	felix_numinous	May 2016	#7
We don't need there to be an "advanced civilization" there...hell we don't have that here! Anyway..	ChisolmTrailDem	May 2016	#9
Again, I Was Kidding Around	ProfessorGAC	May 2016	#16
Ya we aren't even considered	JesterCS	May 2016	#28
The Time Window, encryption and advanced technologies.	Ichingcarpenter	May 2016	#34
And let's call it Noah's spaceship	meow2u3	May 2016	#24
Just ask the Golgafrinchans!	longship	May 2016	#27
Word is that they want all persons on our planet to stay away	malaise	May 2016	#5
Also that Earth is under quarantine	felix_numinous	May 2016	#10
This has the potential to be exponentially more exciting that it already is. If even simple life...	ChisolmTrailDem	May 2016	#11
K & R!	HuckleB	May 2016	#13
send cruz and trump	captainarizona	May 2016	#17
Sounds like one already has the first colony of Catholic space monks	pinboy3niner	May 2016	#19
I should probably research how life would evolve in such a system.	ladyVet	May 2016	#20
sadly, I think you're right n/t	Pakhet	May 2016	#22
You can detect an extrasolar transit with almost any telescope, the article is wrong on that	Fumesucker	May 2016	#21
Meanwhile, on the planet TRAPPIST-1 ...	aggiesal	May 2016	#23
Outside a relatively small distance from us, They don't love Lucy	IDemo	May 2016	#25
informative	G_j	May 2016	#30
that was also an 1880s Russian plan to recapture everyone's particle paths and resurrect them	MisterP	May 2016	#31
40 Light Years? Piece of Cake...	Oneironaut	May 2016	#26
If Trump wins I'm going there.	Lint Head	May 2016	#29
just forty lightyears away!?	wildbilln864	May 2016	#33
Sure putting a lot of money into finding a place to run to.	glinda	May 2016	#35

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