Comments on: How Excited Should We Be About the New "Goldilocks" Exoplanet? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/09/30/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-new-goldilocks-exoplanet/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Michael Gliese http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/09/30/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-new-goldilocks-exoplanet/#comment-22430 Michael Gliese Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:12:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=20770#comment-22430 The only plausible explanation that works is that ourselves and everything we know and see from in front of us to Gliese 581 and beyond are computer generated algorithms. Follow this guy on twitter for humor on life on gliese 581 http://twitter.com/RealGliese581 The only plausible explanation that works is that ourselves and everything we know and see from in front of us to Gliese 581 and beyond are computer generated algorithms.
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]]> By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/09/30/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-new-goldilocks-exoplanet/#comment-22429 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:33:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=20770#comment-22429 Exactly. But ironically, we have found _the next_ habitable planet, so we can make Earth count. Conversely, if Gliese 581 g is an erroneous prediction (small signal, possible systematic errors), it will still define a "habitability search volume" despite being in error since it is a possible positive! (Much so now, but even so then.) Since Earth remains, it would only halve the observed ~10-30 % habitability frequency of stars. Statistics and its backbreaking logic - you gotta love it. :-D Exactly.

But ironically, we have found _the next_ habitable planet, so we can make Earth count. Conversely, if Gliese 581 g is an erroneous prediction (small signal, possible systematic errors), it will still define a “habitability search volume” despite being in error since it is a possible positive! (Much so now, but even so then.) Since Earth remains, it would only halve the observed ~10-30 % habitability frequency of stars.

Statistics and its backbreaking logic – you gotta love it. :-D

]]> By: Rhacodactylus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/09/30/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-new-goldilocks-exoplanet/#comment-22428 Rhacodactylus Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:13:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=20770#comment-22428 People are acting as though how excited we should be depends on whether or not we find Green women on the planet. Just the discovery of this type of planet in this position is positive news, because if we found one, there are likely many many more like it. <a href="http://untitledvanityproject.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">~Rhaco</a> People are acting as though how excited we should be depends on whether or not we find Green women on the planet. Just the discovery of this type of planet in this position is positive news, because if we found one, there are likely many many more like it.

~Rhaco

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