You don't believe theres other life on other planets? The odds are not with that statement.

I mean they did find that bacteria that lives off of sulfuric acid, that's kinda alien to our life here on earth, I say best bet would to send a probe to that one moon around jupiter or Saturn i cant remember. They claim there's definitely moving water under that ice.

Life is possible, but it's not habitable. You'd be hard pressed to find a scientist who does not believe there is life beyond earth, so it would just be proving something most people already accept as fact.

the honest truth is that if we really went into space we would have all the resources we would ever really need. the moon to start with and then the asteroid belts and comets. the powers on earth wouldnt want that since it would spell the eventual doom of their power.

What? Stop with the dumb conspiracy theories. Corporations and goverments salivate at the possibility of explointing the resources of our solar system. Their only problem is they think too small.

No I don't ..
I guess u could say I'm somewhat biased in a way because I believe in the bible

Soooo until scientists find alien life..I will be a bible thumper lol

The odds against there being life are so low you can all but guarentee theres life. There is just too many stars in the universe. Theres likely hundreds of thousands of planets in the exact same location as earth within their solar systems.

I say its all a huge waste of money, %$@& space

If you convert light years to kilometers, it is roughly 207,993,609,020,736 km away (if exactly 22 light years away, which it isn't).

207,993,609,20,0.0184km/40,000km/h = 5199840225.5184 h
5199840225.5184 h/24 = 216660009.3966 d
216660009.3966 d/365.25 = 593182.7772665297 y

^ These are calculations for how long it would take us to reach that planet using "today"'s technology -- actually it's an overestimate of the timeframe. 593,000 years. This assumes a relatively typical shuttle-style launch, using acceleration boosts around the planets (already used), and assuming that develpers would go with solar sailing technology (already developed, not sure if manufactured). I'm fairly sure it would take a lot less time to get there usinf current technology but there is one HUGE hitch, and it isn't fuel by any means.

That hitch is maintaining Earth-like biology for a trip that would take something like a quarter million years even if the best techs were utilized. Actually I think there's one more tech available that would speed things up quite a bit.

Currently it would be much more likely to communicate with advanced life on that planet. Interestingly enough, "they" could have already heard our inadvertent "communications" quite some time ago, since we've been pumping out radio noise for a while (century+)--and deliberate communication more recently. On that note, if "they" tried to respond to us when "they" caught our messages, it's doubtful that we would have noticed the response. The reason is that we didn't do much listening until much later, when the SETI program came into place. Maybe we missed the calling

Most life (as we know it) doesn't communicate so well. Communications depends on how evolved life-forms are in a given habitat, and other factors. At 22 light years away, we can certainly learn a lot about the planet. We can send out probes ASAP, too.

Anyway we could terraform Mars at least as quickly as we could reach that habitable planet, given current technologies. It would be even better if we took drastic measures to clean up our planet and worried about moving elsewhere later

This post was edited by RewtheBrave on Feb 4 2012 10:03pm

It would take forEVA.