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  • whos says life needs water?

    maybe life can live without water...

  • @MegaNES101

    humans,plants,animals(we know) can't survive for long without water

    without water,earth wouldn't be who it is now.water produced the first living cells

  • lol what if there is human intelligence there our Sun will Be name Guwrhqpirh C

  • the problem is if that planet has a colonization like us we are aliens to them and they are aliens to us! the nasa sent a message from that planet if they receive i don't know if they understand our language or accept that message that message that give nasa to that planet was approximately receive in the year 2029 we don't know if earth still alive that time, better to work faster and make a ship that travel speed of light to get there to know some knowledge to that planet em i right!

  • wow

  • Collisions? Planet X? I bet you can't wait to see my Venus slam into Uranus. >:P

  • Europenis

  • so if what you said is true about water.....where is the water on mars or venus?.....no my friend you have no clue wtf you are talking about. trust in god, btw the earth is flat

  • @REDTEAM22003 There is water on mars, although it is either frozen or chemically attached to another substance. But, it is there.

  • @PivotXL1 no....the bible said nothing about water on mars, therefore it isnt true. in fact....the bible do not even talk about mars, so the planet really isnt there.

  • @REDTEAM22003 Oh, my mistake I forgot about the facts that the bible. The earth is 6,000 years and people lived at the same time of dinosaurs. I apologize.

  • @PivotXL1 wtf are you talking about? wtf is dinosaurs? some kinda of food?

  • @REDTEAM22003 It was just some kind of weird dragon looking thing I was on a documentary once. I just assume they lived with humans since everything was created at the same time.

  • @PivotXL1 are you joking with me right now? dragons with humans? you been playing too much games. bottom line is: Jesus said nothing about Mars and nothing about water elsewhere. The stars in the sky will fall down on earth to burn people that dont believe in god. plz go to your nears church and give them 10% of your income to be save. There will be a room for you in heaven, trust me.

  • @REDTEAM22003 You sir, are either a fool, just plain stupid, or FAR to obsessed with religion good sir. I have just about HAD IT with people like you that I have met with in the past. People who think that if it's not written in BLASTED BOOK WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, it doesn't EXIST. Science has done more crap, proven more things, done incredible thing in the past CENTURY, then religion has done in the past THOUSAND years. I can see your point, I am a christian to; but...

  • @REDTEAM22003 ..sorry, ran out of space, now where was I? ah yes. BUT, when we place all of our blind faith, trust, and LIFE in religion, then thats where religion becomes a problem. For example: horrile massacres have occured in the past based around religion.

  • i want to go gliese 581 E so bad!

  • they hadnt discovered g yet...this is new solar system is a great discovery and makes a lot of space fans so excited

  • Well, I heard that the planets of Gliese 581 were miscalculated... we seriously need a better way of seeing planets then looking at a black dot and making wild speculation from then.

  • e b c d g f

    at least 6 planets

  • the biggest questions of all is their life on that planet?

  • There are enormous amounts of water on other planets too.In a such huge Multivers how could be posible that only this small planet called earth to have water on it?

  • Yes, but do they have Aldi stores?

  • I hope the human race stays trapped on earth and never able to step on another earth-like planets surface and only see and observe it. It would be a sad day to see our parasitic nature spread to another beautifull planet, gobble up its resources and leave it like a stripped fruit tree.

  • at 1:05 it sounds a lot like he says Europenis

  • @MasterXxploder More like "Ur a Penis" xDD

  • Humans are slaves of God...

  • @ohboon2 - so God is a slave driver and owner...how funny that you think so. I wonder what a god might need slaves for...unless he's not a god and some lazy bully who can't do everything as a god is supposed to be able to do instantly or by will alone. And that is why religion is stupid.

  • "That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy." - Isaiah 65:16-18

  • one question... how will we get there?

  • YEAH MR WHITE! YEAH SCIENCE!

  • Lol

    turn in the cc transcribe,,,

    so hilarious...

  • we have to invade it, then kill the aliens, next we made an independance movement in order to destroy the earth, and finally look for an other world to continue with the proceess

  • @GLITCHERO That would be like Aliens invading us :P

  • really? your all stupid snooty snobs germs bugs be gone

  • I personally am amazed that the sun managed to form a planet with life even though its hostile towards all life

  • alright we found something that could sustain life now we need a rover there and a spaceship that can travel very very fast

  • all are posting so long texts lol

  • One point I haven't heard brought up before: Red dwarf stars mature and change MUCH more slowly than yellow stars like our sun. Thus, any habitable planets STAY habitable for a much longer window of time. It only took about a billion years for life to get started here, and G581's planets have probably been capable of supporting life since long before our solar system even formed. And they'll still be capable of supporting life long after our sun has gone nova. So their odds look pretty good!

  • This video needs to be updated. There are indications, reported recently by a team of scientists, that 2 additional planets (Gliese 581 F and Gliese 581 G) have been discovered orbiting Gliese 581. That would bring this star's tally up to at least 6 planets. More importantly, of the 2 latest additions, Gliese 581 G is thought to be in the "Goldilocks Zone". The other, 581 F is too far. Also,of the previous 4 known, none are as promising as 581 G for possibly having favorable conditions for life.

  • @drzeus99 thank u for the information. can you tell me where can i find more fresh news about these planets and about other science stuff to?

  • Beam me up Scotty.

  • Find a planet like earth will give us more information about the formation of the Earth as well as the evolution of life. Another reason is since we need water to survive if there is water there you may live there. If anything happens to the Earth or the Earth just to crowded, we can move there. ^^

  • I could've sworn I heard him say "penis" at 1:05 the first time I watched this.

  • @TekaiGuy lmao i know right lololol

  • @TekaiGuy he says Europeans not penis just that he pronounced it wrong

  • @TekaiGuy AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HE DID SAY PENIS

  • @TekaiGuy There are some words & phrases which are just difficult, Even Isaac Asimov commented on the matter in 1 of his essays. e.g. take the planet "Uranus". Now, you can do the your-anus thing which is, perhaps, most common. But it somehow seems improper in polite society. Or, you can do "urinous". But that's not much better. Brian Greene narrated the audio version of his recent multiverse book, and ran into the same problem with "pianist". In a world of potty-minded people, you can't win.

  • What's with the "rrrrr"

  • check out my latest exclusive exoplanets

  • awesome!!! NOW THE TERRORISTS AND ROBBERS AND CIREAL KILLERS CAN HAVE THERE OWN BITCHING PLANET

  • So, is this completely different to planetX?

  • I hope there's Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald down there.

  • @arecksandro

    you are crazy!

  • maybe theres life on that planet checkin out our planet ;P

  • I hope it's habitable.

  • It will happen sooner than you think.. We'll have the tech soon or have it already!

    We're not alone.

  • It sucks we'll never live to the day of inhabiting other planets :C

  • @drrednek Never say never. Someone may discover a means to surpass the speed of light in the next 20-30 years. It could happen.

  • @piratebri rather count in centuries than decades before it happens...

  • That is so cool! I would love to go see what a day is like on that planet! The gravity is only about 2x that of Earth, so we could potentially live there.

  • if we have the speed of light sorry to slow

  • @phildenbelg it would takke 20 years to get there WITH the speed of light.

  • @shoshanish That is why we need FTL travel.

  • @PivotXL1 good luck getting that. if we can find out how within the next 50 years i would be so fucking happy.

  • @shoshanish Step 1 is finding out how to move at that speed. Step two would be how to negate mass while in FTL travel. I wouldn't rule anything out, but it's unlikely. Unless some alien spaceship that has already done it crashes on earth.

  • @phildenbelg what we need is to find a way to act like that theoretical particle that cuts itself off from the universe, we could do the same with a eletro-megnatic field.

    or we could just warp or cut spacetime fabric, we could warp it by expanding space behind the ship and contracting space in front of the ship.

  • @shoshanish you mean a gamma particle? Yea that is one theory. Another is using anti-matter/dark-matter to warp space, as you say. It's all still theoretical, but I'm sure someday someone will figure something out. Humanity can't be destined to live out our whole civilization on one planet. But who knows for sure what will happen.

  • I cant take these guys seriously because of their funny accents lol

  • maybe we should advance some form of reasonable space travel, since the way things look now we cant even travel within our own solar system, space is freaking huge, who wants to spend 40,000 years traveling to another earth like planet?

  • @LordoftheJamesClan It's an awesome idea, however, we've become pretty stagnant as far as new technology is concerned. Computers are awesome, and that field is expanding at an extraordinary rate. It still hasn't helped, as far as I know, the use of combustion engines. I have hope..........I just think our revolutionary ideas are borderline nonexistent. We're great at furthering current tech........not so good at creating new tech. (my opinions and nothing more)

  • To bad space travel has not yet been adapted. Someday though...

  • science kicks religions ass

  • Why are we ONLY searching for planets that have the possibility of having liquid water?. How do we know that other life forms need water to survive?. We DON'T!, considering we haven't found any extraterrestrial life forms (as far as we know). As far as we know Earth might be the only planet that needs liquid water to sustain life. We, humans, are only considering the fact that other planet's need liquid water to sustain life because WE humans on Earth need water to survive.

  • @turtule66 We assume that basic organisms need water to survive because otherwise they would need some complex mechanism to lift themselves up and move towards some source of energy.

  • @turtule66 Yeah, our science is based on our own nature.. With such a huge universe there should be life forms that may survive on other conditions than we do.

  • @turtule66 I see what you mean but surely you would have the best chance of finding life on a water planet...maybe somewhere there is life that doesn't need water to survive but stick to what we know i say.

  • @turtule66 life needs water for the chemical reactions, it wouldn't work with other chemicals

  • @turtule66 Well dont you think it's a good start? I really agree on your point,but we need to start somewhere...if we do find a planet with water and no life, the least bacteria....and from there we can go on.

  • @turtule66

    thats the point. because we need water to life we are searching planets with liquid water on it. we expect that we (all life forms) are the cosmic "standard", that means if everything goes right in the evolution of a planet it must be like on our planet.

  • @turtule66 A planet with water in gas form can maintain an atmosphere which should help life to emerge.

  • @turtule66 Water is chemically unique which allows it to sustain life. Nothing else detected so far can act as water. Therefore, going by what we know we'd look for planets with water.

    It's possible that the laws of physics are different in different areas. However, we assume it's the same everywhere.

  • @turtule66 Just stop talking... like seriously.

    If you need a new pair of shoes you don't start by looking for it at your nearest McDonalds. You first go to stores that you know for certain that sells shoes, like Sports Trek or Foot Locker. We know for certain that a form of life evolves around water, so we start by looking at planets with water on it as opposed to glaring at a Gas Giant hoping to discover some kind of bubble gum monster.

  • @zkevwlu Bubble gum monster approves this message.

  • @turtule66 you've got a serious point there. In fact you are actually right, the only problem a lot of scientists have is a closed-mind. They dont know how to think of other possibilities

  • @spacewatcher215 I wouldn't say it is because they have closed minds at all. Many scientists have speculated about silicon based lifeforms, who might live off something other than water. That would be a TOTALLY different kind of life than what we have here on Earth. But how do we know we would even recognize it as a form of life if we did see such a thing? We look for planets that can support life as we know it (like us) because we have no idea what to look for otherwise (if anything).

  • @turtule66 Perhaps this has already been pointed out, but we are searching for planets with liquid water because we KNOW that liquid water can give rise to life. Do you happen to know of any other way complex life can evolve? If not, by what criteria other than liquid water do you propose?

  • @turtule66

    You obviously do not understand them most basic fundamental concepts of molecular biology. I assume you are a religious mind, and I apologize if I am incorrect, but if I am correct in assuming so, this is defense enough to explain why you would assume such an unrealistic proposal for "living material."

  • @turtule66 Stop complicating things man, they are bad enough right now.

  • @turtule66 DUH! and what do think we are goung to need to head for wn about 5 billion years when the sun explodes? THINK Mc Fly!

  • @turtule66 DUH! and what do think we are going to need to head for in about 5 billion years when the sun explodes? THINK Mc Fly!

  • @turtule66

    it's just because water is a great polar solvent, and complex molecules tend to have some hydrogen bonding to keep them together, like the hydrogen bonding among water molecules

    necessary for life? idk, but it certainly is a plus

  • @turtule66 I agree we should expand our search instead of just Liquid water life.

    But as far was we know water is the only thing that means life.

  • @turtule66:

    -All- life on Earth requires liquid water. Like it or not, it is the only form of life with which we are familiar, and as such, it is the only form of life for which we know how to look. Nevertheless, if, say, we one day come across life in the outer solar system that uses liquid methane as a solvent, then we will know to broaden the search to include extrasolar planets that are covered in this chemical as well!

  • @turtule66 yea man, I cant tell ya how bad watching stuff that assumes life HAS to have water to exist and thats not true at all. People need to stop asking the impossible answers and deal with the answers the universe gives us because we'll NEVER know everything about the universe. People are so obsessed and half dont even know what they're talking about.

    \

  • @turtule66 its because EVERYTHING we know of that is living needs liquid water, even if its just small amounts, to servive, and many scientists do admit that, other life might not need that, its just since the only life we know of does need water, its the best place to start, theres too many planets out there, and too many starts to just pick at random, and they needed to start somewhere, and liquid water was on of the things they decided to put in the list to start, at least.

  • @turtule66 it's because so far we only know of liquid water to be the substance that can sustain life

    and it's the only starting point we've got

    scanning all other planets just in case would be a waste of time for the moment

  • @turtule66

    Water is life.

    every life form in on earth needs water to survive.

    the other planets in our solar system cannot sustain life because they dont have water. they are also either too hot or too cold. i highly doubt life on other planets in our galaxy or universe or anywhere else in the multiverse use some other substance like poisonous gasses to sustain life. thats only in the movies bro.

  • @JoeSueHayabusa1

    our water came from outerspace bro inside bilions of meteors.unlikely Earth was the "ONE and ONLY" planet or moon bombarded by meteors with water inside as you seem to suggest. There is Water on Mars but not in liquid form, and there is water (and ice) on the moon Europa. Nevertheless, it is possible for Gliese 581 to have water. You don't know for sure whether it does or doesn't so stop making guesses and presenting it as fact. Only scientists are allowed to do that LOL

  • @JoeSueHayabusa1 Hey guys! Every planet in our solar system has water, but not all of them liquid. We might find liquid on Europa under the ice crust or on Mars, undersoil.

  • @Ulhvan Not necessarily, and even if so, in what amounts? To go even further, it's liquid water that's necesssary, , not ice or vapor, and we've still yet to find a planet that has definitively. I am all for the search, though.

  • @turtule66 If humanity hopes to explore the galaxy and move to/colonize Earth like planets, then water is necessary. Do you know of a human whose anatomy is made of 70% water that can survive without water?

    Hence, the whole point of water.

  • @turtule66 Most scientists keep an open mind when it comes to the possibility of other life forms capable of sustaining themselves without water. But it all comes down to our survival instincts. We are mostly interested in planets we could colonize. We need water for life and planets containing liquid water in a friendly environment give us hope. We are very well aware that our sun won't last forever and that in a few billion years whatever evolves from us better take off or get roasted.

  • @turtule66 I agree, we need to keep an open mind about things, but until you demonstrate that maybe life doesn't need water, we're going to stay with our best theory. I mean, yeah, maybe a certain atmosphere would give rise to a new type of life, but water and certain chemically active solids are where nucleotides and proteins form, nowhere else, without water, they can't join together. You need to prove that life can exist in non Earth-Like environments, or else we'd waste billions of dollars

  • I wish I was born a couple hundred years from now, when other earth like planets are the norm. and we could hopefully be able to travel to them

  • Bah since youtube got its update its been fakking slow to load movies, what the hell is this shit. Btw cool vid

  • Science kicks ass

  • Pack up boys. We're heading there tomorrow

  • This makes me wonder, is someone or something looking at Earth thinking the same thing we are about Gliese 581.

  • science kicks ass.

  • @matreyia u sound like my physics teacher!

  • @matreyia it dose

  • @matreyia

    It sure does!

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  • > You're quoting me "facts" from a science "fiction" writer

    Look at my first post. I introduced it as an interesting concept. Nothing more.

    Secondly, the entire trilogy explores things like the Fermi principle and Drakes equation using a sound scientific basis.

    Thirdly, apart from ad hominem attacks, some of which suggest misunderstanding of the premise being voiced by Baxter, no-one has actually tried to explain what problem they have with it beyond 'you should pick up a maths book'.

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    "If our living numbers were able to grow beyond quadrillions in space, you and I would be much more likely to exist then, not now. "

    For this to be the case, you would have to believe that we (our consciousness) are waiting in some kind of limbo before conception. I am of the thought that our minds and personalitys, while shaped by our environments in certain ways are as a result of our physical structure. In which case, the chances of me being born in the future are zero.

  • > For this to be the case, you would have to believe that we (our consciousness)

    You're missing Baxter's statistical premise entirely. Forget all that other stuff I wrote when I was trying to rehash and re-explain again and again. Just find the post that starts...

    "It's not my logic! I tracked down the origin for you..."

    That is the best, simplest explanation of what Baxter is trying to say. It is purely a statistical statement. Nothing about the how or why of existence itself.

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    Why so are you defending this logic so vehemently? I am not missing anything, your explanations are weak/misguided. The premise you are refering to, is only valid after the point at which we leave to planet to colonise others. It does not mean that because we were born on earth, we will never colonise the stars.

  • > Why so are you defending this so vehemently?

    THERE IS NOTHING TO DEFEND! It is a very, very simple statistical concept or premise to understand, voiced by a famous scifi writer. There is nothing wrong or illogical with it at all.

    I'm just frustrated that people who are supposedly refuting it are also talking about biogenesis, sperm, births, consciousness, etc. That has NOTHING to do with anything Baxter said. YT is obviously not a good place to try to explain stuff in less than 500 chars.

  • > It does not mean that because we were born on earth,

    > we will never colonise the stars.

    Of course not! Statistics can't tell the future! I nor Baxter never said that. That's ridiculous! But statistically speaking, it means we are either in the first hundredth of humans to exist, or we are in the first trillionth of humans to exist.

    Take that how you want. I've had enough of trying to explain the very simple implications of this to people who are intent on somehow misunderstanding it.

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    You are going around in circles man.

    "it means we are either in the first hundredth of humans to exist, or we are in the first trillionth of humans to exist." People find it easy to understand what a person is trying to say, as long as that person knows what they are trying to say. The above sentance means nothing.

    I was quoting you by the way,

    "Ergo, statistically speaking, either me and you have won the lottery, or humans will not colonise space. "

    Who's confused?

  • There are only two scenarios.

    Either we are earthbound until extinction, which limits the number of humans that will ever exist. If this scenario is true, we are in the first hundredth of humans that will ever exist, which is statistically more likely than the next scenario...

    If we colonise space, the number of humans that will ever exist is not limited. If this scenario is true, then we are in the first quadrillionth of humans to exist, which is statistically much more unlikely.

  • Sorry but this seems to be a really stupid conversation. Your chances of existing are 100% your chances of exsting now are 100% and your chances of existing on earth now are 100%. Unless of course you are another one of my hallucination then your 50% a figment of my imagination and 50% chemically induced.

  • > and your chances of existing on earth now are 100%

    Exactly. But given the total number of humans born (past *and* future) and the places that they will be born, and the time-scale in which they will be born, it would be statistically strange for you and I to be born now and on earth if humans did eventually colonise space. Whereas it would not be statistically strange if our population is going to be limited to 10 billion (due to the size of the planet) and we never do colonise space.

  • @ByeCruelWorld Given the total number of British born (past *and* future) and the places they will be born, and the time-scale in which they will be born, it would be statistically strange for a British to be born 2000 years ago AND in Britain if the British did eventually colonize 90% of the world by the 1600s. Whereas it would not be statistically strange if the British population is limited to 100,000 (due to the size of the island) and they never colonize 90% of the world.

  • @ByeCruelWorld Your words, except with its subjects changed to fit the obvious fucking events that already happened. I hope you realized just how messed up your logic is.

  • @garfieldthree

    I think ByeCruelWorld is a troll. That or he has no idea what he is arguing. I wouldn't continue to waste your time trying to convince him.

  • It's not my logic! I tracked down the origin for you. It is from sci-fi writer Stephen Baxter, from 'Time' (part of a trilogy). It uses Bayes Theorem.

    One more time, as simply as I possibly can:

    If you believe humans will colonise the galaxy, then you must believe that you and I were born in the first trillionth or quadrillionth of all humans that will ever exist.

    If earthbound until extinction, we are in the first HUNDREDTH of humans to ever exist.

    The 2nd scenario is much more likely.

  • as long as im provided with a good ship enough food an a few sexy women to reproduce with ill take the trip :P

  • I'm terribly sorry to break up the scientific debate for something this insignificant, but can anybody recognise that accent?

  • @xuci111111 European.

  • > 200 planets with earths population, there is actually a 0.5%

    > chance of you existing on earth (not 2%)

    I wasn't expressing probability is percentages. However, I did get that wrong. 1/200 = 0.005 chance, not .002 as I typed previously; I just wasn't thinking. I got the other two examples correct though.

    > but there is only a 0.5% chance of you existing on any other colonized planet

    Yes, but a huge 95.5% chance of not being born on Earth!

  • > If we are to colonize space, it MUST start like this

    That just illustrates that you still don't understand what is being statistically said. I'm not going to explain it again though.

    All I can suggest is that you think about it like this: What are the chances of YOU being born NOW (this time) and HERE (this place), if instead of a paltry 100 billion earthbound humans ever existing before our demise, there are going to be quintillions of humans spread over the galaxy?

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    To be honest, you should pick up a math book. You keep rambling on completely missing the point.

  • also, the human reproduction system or dna could start to wear away like the clock stops ticking but we are still here, also how would u tell the time ? there would be no such thing as a clock in space so we would have to invent new ways to deal with time. time was originalally took from the time it takes the sun to circulate our earth so in space u cant tell the time.

  • @Jman21UK YES YOU CAN MEASURE TIME IN SPACE.

  • right firstly this new youtube is shit an they cant keep anything simple. an i not anybody to say anything about our future to be honest who r any of us to say anything...but it would be amazing if we could live to see space. i would do anything to go out to different planets, maybe the human species is destined to evolve to such a high level that we will be gods ourselves. wat will your average human look like in 50000.000 yrs??

  • Its Rly quite pointless wen ppl try searchin for 'earth-like planets' with the intent of migrating there in the future..

    Wat they should be doing more of, is researching New technologies that will help them travel through space Much quicker for When & IF they find a planet dat is 20+ light years away (such as the one talked abt in this vid).

    Normal combustion engines just wont cut it in space & nobody in their right mind would want to spend generations in a spaceship 'trying' to get there..!

  • Maybe I can put it another way for you. If humans colonized space, only a few hundred billion would have ever been born on earth, compared to the quadrillions or more who colonised other planets in the galaxy. So being born on earth is statistically strange. To be born on earth, the original planet, is like winning a lottery, given the huge number of humans that would not be born on Earth.

    Ergo, statistically speaking, either me and you have won the lottery, or humans will not colonise space.

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    Even though you don't understand the statistics, this is basically the argument, but as I've said, it's nonsense because of exactly the same reason that the chances of the first multi-cellular organism arising are so low and yet it happened. If we are to colonize space, it MUST start like this, there has to be a starting planet from which the life arises. It can't be any other way and that makes the "statistics" of your existence irrelevant.

  • @ByeCruelWorld WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? I am able to understand a LOT of absract ideas, yet I have no clue what you are saying. So to get this striaght, if we colonize space, the chance two different people (non-twins) born on the same planet in a relatively close time period is less than if we didn't colonize space. And I am taking out of consideration each sperm cell chance of fertilizing a egg.

  • @ByeCruelWorld

    You don't understand statistics. What you're doing by saying your chance of existing is 1 is that you MUST exist. Now when you say there are 200 planets with earths population, there is actually a 0.5% chance of you existing on earth (not 2%), but there is only a 0.5% chance of you existing on any other colonized planet. So there is equally low chance of you existing on any of them. And yet, from your assumption, the total chance of you existing is 1 and so you MUST exist on one

  • @ByeCruelWorld You don't know shit about statistics. Your arguments are absurd. To be blunt, the odds of you coming into existence is the odds of your dad fucking your mom on the day you were conceived (denoted x) multiplied by 1/the number of sperms in your dad's body at the time of conception. x is a function of PAST variables which brought your mom and dad into the same room. It has nothing to do with what the population is in the future, or what planet they end up on.

  • Scientists have always thought the bottom of the ocean was inhospitable yet we found animals there (beyond the suns rays)

    So what is stopping living creatures on other planet from breathing gases other than oxygen... maybe they dont breathe at all, maybe they absorb heat to stay alive? For all we know Jupiter could harbour life... Think out of the box; there has to be different metals/minerals out there we havent heard of, as well as some forms of life, right?

  • Water mean oxygen.... Which could mean the ability for us to live on it... But what do I know...

  • I wanna see how they look like..

  • how do they know the composition of the planets? will they send a space probe?

  • @darkbluemars

    spectroscopy, basically the light that bounces off the planet has signature patters in it that tell you what the atoms it bounced off of were. you can tell, for the most part, what a planet is made up of just by looking at it.

  • @eggkunt wow thanks

  • eventually the whole of space will collapse on itself, we will neva colinise space anyway.

  • @Jman21UK

    oh, and you know this for a fact do you? current estimates say that the universe will go on expanding forever, not collapse back in on itself. and who are you to say we wont colonize space? we have come this far in only a few hundred years, how can you be so pessimistic when we still have millions, at least, to go on this planet.

  • > who are you to say we wont colonize space?

    Here's an interesting concept. On the planet right now are more living humans than the total who have ever existed. Space colonisation would mean continued exponential growth. If quadrillions of future humans are going to exist, then the chance of you and I existing at this particular point in time becomes utterly minuscule.

    Whereas if our population stays stable and earth-bound, the chance of you and I being born on earth is 1.

  • @ByeCruelWorld I've heard this argument before and it's absurd. The chances of us existing have nothing to do with the potential of humans to colonize space. Also, evolution does not stop at humans. Once there are different colonies on different planets, evolutionary drift will continue and there will probably even be speciation, no more humans. In this light, I ask you: What are the chances of the first mutli-cellular organism arising? And yet it happened. The argument you present is nonsense.

  • @ByeCruelWorld Another thing: the chances of us being born on earth if life stays on earth is not 1 if colonization makes the chances "utterly minuscule". I'd like to know how you come up with that.