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First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World
Galactic_grub writes "The detection of planet HD 189733b is in some ways just another small victory for extra-solar planetary science. It is too hot for there to be anything 'alive'. Just the same, somewhere on the planet are trace amounts of the gas methane. The fact that the element was detected at all offers hope for understanding future discoveries of Earth-like worlds, says NewScientistSpace. Researchers from Caltech and University College London used the Hubble Space Telescope to peer at the planet and examined spectral signature of starlight filtered by the planet's atmosphere, to identify different chemicals. 'The authors suggest that some ill-understood chemical process might be responsible, either concentrating the methane in cooler parts of the atmosphere, or generating extra methane directly. Alternatively, the methane might simply mean that the planet happens to be very rich in carbon.'"
One day I'm gonna bang me a green chick.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
methane... aliens can fart...?
Meh, I'm positive that the FSM put it there, to test our faith in his noodly appendages. Life on another planet?! Preposterous!
Please no more overlords, my back fucking hurts from the whip with those we got now...
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Actually, who knows what our planet may look like from a few lightyears afar in, say, a couple of hundred years?
Powerful is he who overpowers his temptations.
I use tcsh, you insensitive clod!
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
What we have here is failure to compound.
Alternatively, the methane might simply mean that the planet happens to be very rich in carbon.
Most likely it's because of cows. Space cows.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
You are making a critical mathematical error. This thread is about the number of vaginas per woman.