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solosnake
09/12/23 5:20:20 PM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66786611

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.
It may have detected a molecule called dimethyl sulphide (DMS). On Earth, at least, this is only produced by life.
The researchers stress that the detection on the planet 120 light years away is "not robust" and more data is needed to confirm its presence.
Researchers have also detected methane and CO2 in the planet's atmosphere.


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Tyranthraxus
09/12/23 5:21:31 PM
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How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away

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Were_Wyrm
09/12/23 5:21:41 PM
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Banging alien babes when?

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UnholyMudcrab
09/12/23 5:22:10 PM
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No.

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DeadBankerDream
09/12/23 5:22:41 PM
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Remember when they said this about Venus?


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Robot2600
09/12/23 5:23:10 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away

Organic compounds absorb infrared light at characteristic frequencies, and those absorption lines can be used as a fingerprint to detect the molecule.

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TMOG
09/12/23 5:24:12 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away
You know what this is a really fucking good question
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TMOG
09/12/23 5:24:39 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
Organic compounds absorb infrared light at characteristic frequencies, and those absorption lines can be used as a fingerprint to detect the molecule.
Magic, got it
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-_rustykranz_-
09/12/23 5:24:44 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away
Different chemicals absorb light at different wavelengths

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Questionmarktarius
09/12/23 5:25:53 PM
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On Earth, at least, this is only produced by life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfide#Industrial_processes
Technically correct, in that humans are involved in making it in a lab.
There's no reason to believe it can't just spontaneously form where there's a lot of methane and a lot of sulfur.
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Pikachuchupika
09/12/23 5:26:44 PM
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This is freaking exciting.
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DeadBankerDream
09/12/23 5:26:55 PM
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Is the telescope called Webb because it was invented by Spiderman?

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Tyranthraxus
09/12/23 5:27:12 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfide#Industrial_processes
Technically correct, in that humans are involved in making it in a lab.
There's no reason to believe it can't just spontaneously form where there's a lot of methane and a lot of sulfur.
Methane is also life exclusive. Otherwise we'd have seen it on Venus by now

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Zikten
09/12/23 5:27:21 PM
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Even if it's real, nobody alive today will probably ever get to see it confirmed. Or see that life. Some future generation might

120 light years is frustratingly too far away.
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DeadBankerDream
09/12/23 5:28:08 PM
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Zikten posted...
Even if it's real
It's not real.

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bevan306
09/12/23 5:32:40 PM
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Lets arrange to meet them halfway

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Questionmarktarius
09/12/23 5:33:39 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Methane is also life exclusive. Otherwise we'd have seen it on Venus by now
There's methane on Pluto.
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Zikten
09/12/23 5:33:56 PM
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bevan306 posted...
Lets arrange to meet them halfway
Even that will take a long time. We could try to send a message by radio waves. But I think it takes 120 years for the aliens to recieve it. And then another 120 years for their reply to reach us

And that is assuming this planet even is civilized
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K181
09/12/23 5:37:36 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away

Ever watch CSI and they zoom and enhance a security video to make out a previously blurry license plate?

Well, same concept, except NASA did it eleven million times.

Robot2600 posted...
Organic compounds absorb infrared light at characteristic frequencies, and those absorption lines can be used as a fingerprint to detect the molecule.

Or this.

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DeadBankerDream
09/12/23 5:38:45 PM
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K181 posted...
Ever watch CSI and they zoom and enhance?

Well, same concept, except NASA did it eleven million times.
But when CSI does it, it's literally sci fi.

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K181
09/12/23 5:41:08 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
But when CSI does it, it's literally sci fi.

NASA can zoom and enhance.

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ClayGuida
09/12/23 5:41:45 PM
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Someone tell all the Billionaires so they can fuck off somewhere else.

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bevan306
09/12/23 5:42:49 PM
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Zikten posted...
Even that will take a long time. We could try to send a message by radio waves. But I think it takes 120 years for the aliens to recieve it. And then another 120 years for their reply to reach us

And that is assuming this planet even is civilized
Easy, we can save time by not waiting for their reply

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Pikachuchupika
09/13/23 10:58:49 AM
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Maybe the Mexico aliens came from this planet?
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FortuneCookie
09/13/23 10:59:23 AM
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Oh, I was thinking this was the guy that directed the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movie.
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XxKrazyChaosxX
09/13/23 11:02:32 AM
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Zikten posted...
Even that will take a long time. We could try to send a message by radio waves. But I think it takes 120 years for the aliens to recieve it. And then another 120 years for their reply to reach us

And that is assuming this planet even is civilized

Aliens: We got their message after 120 years.

"Earth rules, you guys suck."

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CADE_FOSTER
09/13/23 11:13:56 AM
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not like we will evewr see them 120 light years come on now
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Tyranthraxus
09/13/23 11:22:19 AM
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"hey an industrialized planet! Maybe they can see us too! Let's send them a message!"

"Ok now what?"

"Now we wait 240 years for a response. Maybe."

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BewmHedshot
09/13/23 11:27:58 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
There's methane on Pluto.
They're talking about atmospheric methane, the only kind you can detect with spectroscopy.

Pluto doesn't have that, because it doesn't have an atmosphere.

Zikten posted...
Even that will take a long time. We could try to send a message by radio waves. But I think it takes 120 years for the aliens to recieve it. And then another 120 years for their reply to reach us

And that is assuming this planet even is civilized
No transmitter we can construct would generate a signal they'd be able to recognize above background noise from the Sun. Space is big.
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potdnewb
09/13/23 11:31:38 AM
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so another planet has plants similar to ours color me not surprised
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Shotgunnova
09/13/23 11:34:57 AM
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littlebro07
09/13/23 2:41:13 PM
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Next week: Signs of oil discovered on alien planet
Two days later: USA announces technological breakthrough in space travel technology that can travel faster than light

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Tyranthraxus
09/13/23 2:44:24 PM
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littlebro07 posted...
Next week: Signs of oil discovered on alien planet
Two days later: USA announces technological breakthrough in space travel technology that can travel faster than light

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Turbam
09/13/23 2:44:41 PM
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Maybe that's heaven?!?

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Kazer
09/13/23 2:45:22 PM
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Leave that planet alone, Walter White just want to cook in peace.
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Bandit_Keith
09/13/23 2:46:04 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfide#Industrial_processes
Technically correct, in that humans are involved in making it in a lab.
There's no reason to believe it can't just spontaneously form where there's a lot of methane and a lot of sulfur.
Methane is not methanol. Methanol is an organic chemical compound.

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Forest_Temple
09/13/23 2:47:29 PM
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TMOG posted...
Magic, got it
"I cant figure it out so no one else can"

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Malcrasternus
09/13/23 2:52:09 PM
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Forest_Temple posted...
"I cant figure it out so no one else can"
It's a Futurama quote.

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Slaya4
09/13/23 2:57:34 PM
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Pretty exciting ngl.

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Forest_Temple
09/13/23 3:08:45 PM
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Malcrasternus posted...
It's a Futurama quote.
Oh okay. Sorry.

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VFalcone
09/13/23 3:24:45 PM
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The sun is 93,530,000 miles away. A light year is 6,000,000,000 miles. This planet is 150 light years away.

In other words... who gives a shit.
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littlebro07
09/13/23 3:29:21 PM
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VFalcone posted...
The sun is 93,530,000 miles away. A light year is 6,000,000,000 miles. This planet is 150 light years away.

In other words... who gives a shit.

Wormholes

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Tyranthraxus
09/13/23 3:30:39 PM
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littlebro07 posted...
Wormholes
I'll file this one next to space bending, gravity wells, and negative mass.

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Pikachuchupika
09/13/23 5:01:32 PM
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Slaya4 posted...
Pretty exciting ngl.

What's even more exciting is that our tech to find these planets is improving every day. Maybe one day we can see a planet in full view with a super advanced telescope.

Zikten posted...
Even if it's real, nobody alive today will probably ever get to see it confirmed. Or see that life. Some future generation might

120 light years is frustratingly too far away.

When there is a will, there is a way. If we can prove that there is intelligent life there, all of the best scientists will make it their life's mission to contact them. They'll fast-track any kind of communication technology. Fingers crossed we can communicate with aliens before we all die of old age.
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Forest_Temple
09/13/23 5:01:42 PM
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VFalcone posted...
The sun is 93,530,000 miles away. A light year is 6,000,000,000 miles. This planet is 150 light years away.

In other words... who gives a shit.
With this knowledge I came to the conclusion the nearest star is roughly 24,000,000,000 miles away.

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luigi33
09/13/23 5:08:28 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How does a fucking telescope detect chemical compounds light years away
wavelengths of Light gives you information of a celestial bodies' properties and chemicals.

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EyeWontBeFooled
09/13/23 5:10:47 PM
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Going to listen to pale blue dot again.

I want to believe.

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