Talks on TRAPPIST-1

[Most Lee Harmless]

'And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
cos there's bugger all down here on the earth'

M Python (BSc ; failed)

[Sebena]

'And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
cos there's bugger all down here on the earth'

M Python (BSc ; failed)

Amen to that

[Bmw]

we might be the only planet with intelligent life left in the universe maybe all the previous lifeforms wiped each other out in a massive war and only a few survived becoming our ancestors. Maybe we are the only intelligent life in the galaxy but i can almost say for certain that we are not alone in this vast universe of ours.

[Grapefruit]

i was being told off by one of my students the other day for not learning Vietnamese,
"if your going to live here you should learn the language" she said
she is right of course.
but i told her that i was on a mission to teach English to the entire planet,
only once we can all speak the same language can we put an end to wars and petty disputes over resources
we can do away with countries and borders,
and work together to build a world free from greed and hunger.
(you may say i am a dreamer. but i am not the only one)
then once we all speak with one voice as an entire planet
then we can explore the stars and other solar systems
meet and greet the alien races that live out there
and find another planet to live on before this one explodes......

[DezNutz]

i was being told off by one of my students the other day for not learning Vietnamese,
"if your going to live here you should learn the language" she said
she is right of course.
but i told her that i was on a mission to teach English to the entire planet,
only once we can all speak the same language can we put an end to wars and petty disputes over resources
we can do away with countries and borders,
and work together to build a world free from greed and hunger.
(you may say i am a dreamer. but i am not the only one)
then once we all speak with one voice as an entire planet
then we can explore the stars and other solar systems
and find another planet to live on before this one explodes......

A common language isn't going to magically make cultural, religious, and other differences just evaporate where everyone lives in peace and agrees to the same point of view.

So good luck with that.

[Meliva]

I definitely believe there is life outside of earth. I mean the universe is SO big, there is SO much out there it seems extremely unlikely we are the only planet with life., but the problem is due to how big it is, finding another planet with life is like finding a needle in a planet sized haystack. And there are probably planets that are currently developing life at the cellular level, and we have no ways of knowing without getting there and checking personally. Now I do not know if there is intelligent life out there, but if there is, I hope they are more peaceful then we are. of course then we would probably kill them all and take over. We humans are not very friendly, not even to eachother

[Meliva]

i was being told off by one of my students the other day for not learning Vietnamese,
"if your going to live here you should learn the language" she said
she is right of course.
but i told her that i was on a mission to teach English to the entire planet,
only once we can all speak the same language can we put an end to wars and petty disputes over resources
we can do away with countries and borders,
and work together to build a world free from greed and hunger.
(you may say i am a dreamer. but i am not the only one)
then once we all speak with one voice as an entire planet
then we can explore the stars and other solar systems
and find another planet to live on before this one explodes......

A common language isn't going to magically make cultural, religious, and other differences just evaporate where everyone lives in peace and agrees to the same point of view.

So good luck with that.

I learned an awesome moral out of a video game once. the bad guy was trying to turn everyone into the same race, thus no more racism. the heros said then they would find other reasons to hate eachother and discriminate. hell even if everyone was the same race, religion, culture, we would pick fights due to different names or something dumb like that.

[Grimrock Litless]

I definitely believe there is life outside of earth. I mean the universe is SO big, there is SO much out there it seems extremely unlikely we are the only planet with life., but the problem is due to how big it is, finding another planet with life is like finding a needle in a planet sized haystack. And there are probably planets that are currently developing life at the cellular level, and we have no ways of knowing without getting there and checking personally. Now I do not know if there is intelligent life out there, but if there is, I hope they are more peaceful then we are. of course then we would probably kill them all and take over. We humans are not very friendly, not even to eachother

I do believe the same as well, the universe is very big. We don't have TO go there to find out, the light rays or whatever rays that the sun on the system shots will bounce off the planet and they just need to study the waves to know what the planet is made out of, Eg. Water, Hydrogen, Oxygen. Same for colour of planet as well, since each colour has a different length.

If a planet has water, oxygen and nitrogen. Which is what we have the most of, and we have life here, there could be life there as well, developing or not.

[Meliva]

I do believe the same as well, the universe is very big. We don't have TO go there to find out, the light rays or whatever rays that the sun on the system shots will bounce off the planet and they just need to study the waves to know what the planet is made out of, Eg. Water, Hydrogen, Oxygen.

that method is not exactly perfect though. for starters, the information they get is not modern. the light that reaches us took time to get here, so lets say it took 10 lightyears then the light that reaches us is 10 years old. and the farther it is, the older the picture. for example lets say there is an twin earth exactly the same, with life and history 150 million light years away, and we got the image now, we would be seeing that earth in the Jurassic period.
not to mention those light waves while we can learn some things about the planet, we cant learn every little detail. that water could have toxins in it. or the planet could be radiated, or have flesh eating bacteria.

[Grimrock Litless]

I do believe the same as well, the universe is very big. We don't have TO go there to find out, the light rays or whatever rays that the sun on the system shots will bounce off the planet and they just need to study the waves to know what the planet is made out of, Eg. Water, Hydrogen, Oxygen.

that method is not exactly perfect though. for starters, the information they get is not modern. the light that reaches us took time to get here, so lets say it took 10 lightyears then the light that reaches us is 10 years old. and the farther it is, the older the picture. for example lets say there is an twin earth exactly the same, with life and history 150 million light years away, and we got the image now, we would be seeing that earth in the Jurassic period.
not to mention those light waves while we can learn some things about the planet, we cant learn every little detail. that water could have toxins in it. or the planet could be radiated, or have flesh eating bacteria.

Yes, but Trappist - 1 is only 39 lightyears away, which means we are only seeing things 39 years ago. In the scale of the universe, nothing much would have changed.