Scientists Are Calling This the Most Persuasive Evidence of Life in Deep Space Ever Discovered
Scientists Are Calling This the Most Persuasive Evidence of Life in Deep Space Ever Discovered
Scientists Are Calling This the Most Persuasive Evidence of Life in Deep Space Ever Discovered
Scientists Are Calling This the Most Persuasive Evidence of Life in Deep Space Ever Discovered
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An ocean planet eight times the size of earth, 120 light years away, teeming with life. Mind blowing.
The James Webb Space Telescope may have just brought us closer than ever to answering one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we alone in the universe? Its detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on exoplanet K2-18b, a compound known on Earth to be produced only by life, is being called the most persuasive hint of extraterrestrial biology to date. While it’s far from definitive proof, it marks a huge leap forward for astrobiology and our ability to detect life across light-years. Could we be witnessing the first real signs of life beyond Earth? And how will future missions or AI-enhanced telescopes build on this moment?
I actually contracted brain cancer from opening that website on mobile. Holy shit.
This planet is 2.6 times larger than earth.
When a planet is 2.5 times larger than earth, the gravity well becomes so great that chemical rockets can no longer escape it.
You need an entirely new propulsion system to get to space. We don’t even have a technology to do that today. A civilization even more advanced than us could live there but be trapped.
Considering the competition for most persuasive deep space hints of life are essentially zero that’s not saying a whole lot.
Soon we’ll find many many more of this signs. What is really amazing is that we already found a different kind of living organism, that reshape, or expand, the idea of life, and is so trippy…
Man, we are not ready. Like, if we call the attention of a highly advanced civilization and they’re not friendly, we are doomed. Literally ants to an intergalactic boot. There is just way too much space for there not to be another civilization out there. That’s not a question worth exploring if we can’t even leave our own solar system and start over if necessary.
This is where the aliens that fly out of our oceans originate from. Joking but not really.
The planet is in such a fucking horror arc right now, even if aliens in spaceships were photographed, I would hardly care at this point… I wanna know how the cost of living is going to go down… sky creatures can come back in another 100 years. Too much other shite to deal with…