Badlucktroll
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i for one am glad that we don't have a highly intellegent civilization nearby fucking with us…..wait we actually might. the species we know as the greys
Possible signs of life found on k2-18b
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Fixed it for you.
kpopSuperstar
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I was mainly thinking about the planet they are talking about. Even the closest earth-likes we know of are lightyears away.
Werewolf Jones
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Elon Musk in a race to space to be the first one to clap alien cheeks.
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K2-18B is 124 light years away which is a huge distance. Spectroscopy can show us clues for life, but we'd never be able to actually go there any time soon.
There are earth like planets that are a lot closer. Proxima Centauri b is on our door step at only 4.2 light years away. A little further out, we have Teegarden b at a little over 12 light years. There are others as well that are pretty close.
The best bet for discovering life in lifetimes will be searching the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. We're already doing this now with the Clipper Misson that is currently on it's way to Europa.
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Nocty
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I personally believe the asteroid seed theory, aka panspermia to use the correct term, which is that life here originates from elsewhere. It seems the most logical to me, which means there are planets out there with life forms much like if not the same as earth.
