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Looking for Life in Light

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shine-on dept.

Gearoid_Murphy writes "Earth-like planets around distant stars may be too far away to be reached by spacecraft but scientists could still investigate whether they harbour life. Telescope technologies are being developed that will probe the very faint light from these objects for tell-tale signs of biology. These are the same "life markers" known to be present in light reflected off the Earth - so-called "earthshine"."

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  1. Queue xenophobic reactions by caller9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From what I hear these aliens are just non-stop lining people up on volcanos and nuking them. Maybe we don't want to go ringing doorbells just yet.

  2. Re:Earthshine? Pah. by slashpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or weedshine - yeah baby yeah - i said weed on slashdot - who ah.

  3. Re:Pardon me... by slashpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes. We do. We've been hoarding low slashdot ID's for some time now.

  4. Re:Earthshine? Pah. by AoT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, I'm drunk too.

    I was just wondering because your name was so perfect and your UID so low.

    No offense meant.

    P.S. We'll both get modded down for this exchange, especially so early in the thread; but, whatever, we're drunk.

    good times.

    --
    A blog about stuff.
  5. Maybe? by gaanagaa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Earth-like planets around distant stars may be too far away to be reached"
    May be?

  6. Re:Earthshine? Pah. by slashpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that's the spirit!

    Would you like to exchange slashdot userid's ? I'm getting quite tired of running out of weed and feeling out of place!

    Just kidding. I'll keep it for a while longer. And I'm at the end of Glenfidditchorwhatthefuckever :)(

  7. Re:Earthshine? Pah. by slashpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BTW - your slayer 666 site is the shit #9 (volume)

  8. Re:Pardon me... by slashpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah - cool mf - my responses aren't showing up...

    Commander Taco has No Life.