Comments on: Found: Planet Vulcan? Spock’s Home Star May Have Earth-Like Planets http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:18:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rileyyoung http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/comment-page-1/#comment-33868 rileyyoung Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:27:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/#comment-33868 Olivia Munn is amazing she should totally take over the Jace Hall Show on http://jacehall.tv, but she should also stay on Attack of the Show then we could see her twice as much. Olivia Munn is amazing she should totally take over the Jace Hall Show on http://jacehall.tv, but she should also stay on Attack of the Show then we could see her twice as much.

]]> By: Science Fiction’s Bet on Epsilon Eridani Pays Off | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/comment-page-1/#comment-11500 Science Fiction’s Bet on Epsilon Eridani Pays Off | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:55:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/#comment-11500 [...] noted over on 80 Beats, scientists using the Spitzer space telescope have found strong evidence that Epsilon Eridani has a [...] [...] noted over on 80 Beats, scientists using the Spitzer space telescope have found strong evidence that Epsilon Eridani has a [...]

]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/comment-page-1/#comment-11480 nick Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:54:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/found-planet-vulcan-spocks-home-star-may-have-earth-like-planets/#comment-11480 We have only one example of how life evolves - one fraught with pain and extinction. When you consider how far humans have come in the last 50-100 thousand years, it's entirely possible for an advanced civilization to spring up in quite a rapid space of time - though we may not know what form they will take. We know know multicellular creatures can survive hard space vacuum and radiation, so it's possible that a planet seeded with more advanced life than bacteria could have evolved at a more rapid rate, especially if they have calm conditions in their solar system. Of course, the complete opposite could be true as well - conditions could be so poor and violent that nothing is there yet. We'll find out in a few hundred to a few thousand years, however long it takes us to get our probes there, assuming that pain and extinction problem our system has been plagued with doesn't take us down with it. Cheers! We have only one example of how life evolves – one fraught with pain and extinction. When you consider how far humans have come in the last 50-100 thousand years, it’s entirely possible for an advanced civilization to spring up in quite a rapid space of time – though we may not know what form they will take. We know know multicellular creatures can survive hard space vacuum and radiation, so it’s possible that a planet seeded with more advanced life than bacteria could have evolved at a more rapid rate, especially if they have calm conditions in their solar system.

Of course, the complete opposite could be true as well – conditions could be so poor and violent that nothing is there yet. We’ll find out in a few hundred to a few thousand years, however long it takes us to get our probes there, assuming that pain and extinction problem our system has been plagued with doesn’t take us down with it.

Cheers!

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