Dollyak:
This is nothing new. There wasn't much information about it until now. Anyways, it's a much more dangerous territory to live in compared to the solar region. Due to many hyper giant stars like Uy scuti located in the same belt region.

You an astrophysics buff?

IGBOSON1:


^^^Bros, it's not us reaching them that should bother us...rather we should be more bothered about them reaching us!

Damn!!

Hollywood has ruined you

I've read about rocky Kepler 186f few years ago. What really funny about this is just like knowing your dad impregnated a woman before your mom and gave birth to a good or bad child you have never seen before and you are eager to see him/her the meeting might/mightn't go smoothly.

Dollyak:
This is nothing new. There wasn't much information about it until now. Anyways, it's a much more dangerous territory to live in compared to the solar region. Due to many hyper giant stars like Uy scuti located in the same belt region.

Ma, are you an astraunut?

semitunde:


You know I always wondered, when scientists discovered microbes on particles of asteroid rocks, I thought if these could survive the extreme heat and cold of space and probably for millions of years; lord knows what's out there.

An ancient "compass" book said a thousand years will be like a day. That makes sense in so many ways, not excluding compressing the fabric of space to shorting time as dollyak said, but also lasting millions of years such that a thousand years is actually a blink.

Have you tried to imagine the world of an ant? In its locality, it is bound by what it sees and encounters. Most of the things around it, it cannot comprehend, at least not like us. If its in a sitting room, it won't know that. It won't also know that the sitting room is part of a house, that is part of a building, that is part of a street, and state, country, world, etc it doesn't even have a clue how limited in knowledge it is. Even as the ant moves about it is not totally aware of the significance and real use of its environment. It just does its thing, make food, make babies, defend itself.

Do you know there's a new theory that suggests that there is another universe, in fact several universes. With each having same composition, in time and space as we have in our universe? What that means is that you can have several "you"s in those other places occurring at the same time, but probably facing different encounters. That the interconnection of your minds, even if briefly is what comes out in dreams, visions, reincarnation, or an event occurring twice.

In the larger scheme of things, we are mere ants. For so much as we know, we are about to still discover that we know nothing.

Very Well said.

Although I do not believe in parallel universes. It sounds just too surreal.

What if another planet doesnt need oxygen for life to exist.

Jeromejnr:


Actually billions of years in the future when it finally becomes a red giant. At that time life cannot exist on earth anymore.

I believe at that time Pluto itself will become hot. Even though Pluto is not really considered to be a planet anymore.

educate me...why is pluto no longer considered a planet

kayo80:


Ma, are you an astraunut?

Of course I am not .

hamzeiy:

educate me...why is pluto no longer considered a planet

As you probably know, there are billions of planet in the milky way alone never mind each galaxy. Therefore, scientists like to break things down into many clusters for simplicity. Pluto is no longer regarded as a planet but a dwarf planet due to her small size.
For any 'body or mass' to be regarded as a planet it must:
1. Orbit the sun
2. Has enough mass to assume a nearly round shape
3 Has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
4 is not a moon.

Pluto failed number 3.

ruggedtimi:
What if another planet doesnt need oxygen for life to exist.

That is also plausible.

hamzeiy:

educate me...why is pluto no longer considered a planet

There's something known as the Kuiper belt. Its icy bodies shaped like planets that are near to each other that actually forms a disc shape. It looks kind of like the rings (asteroid belt) around Saturn.

They found there where many of Pluto looking like bodies near to each other that formed that.

And once again, before an object in space could be considered a planet it had to fulfill some conditions. Pluto fulfilled most but missed out on one. Which is: Planets in themselves have the gravitational force around them either to pull objects in or sling object around it out (which is what is actually used to sling space probes further into space). Pluto cannot do that.

So therefore Pluto is no longer considered a planet but a dwarf Planet.

semitunde:


You know I always wondered, when scientists discovered microbes on particles of asteroid rocks, I thought if these could survive the extreme heat and cold of space and probably for millions of years; lord knows what's out there.

An ancient "compass" book said a thousand years will be like a day. That makes sense in so many ways, not excluding compressing the fabric of space to shorting time as dollyak said, but also lasting millions of years such that a thousand years is actually a blink.

Have you tried to imagine the world of an ant? In its locality, it is bound by what it sees and encounters. Most of the things around it, it cannot comprehend, at least not like us. If its in a sitting room, it won't know that. It won't also know that the sitting room is part of a house, that is part of a building, that is part of a street, and state, country, world, etc it doesn't even have a clue how limited in knowledge it is. Even as the ant moves about it is not totally aware of the significance and real use of its environment. It just does its thing, make food, make babies, defend itself.

Do you know there's a new theory that suggests that there is another universe, in fact several universes. With each having same composition, in time and space as we have in our universe? What that means is that you can have several "you"s in those other places occurring at the same time, but probably facing different encounters. That the interconnection of your minds, even if briefly is what comes out in dreams, visions, reincarnation, or an event occurring twice.

In the larger scheme of things, we are mere ants. For so much as we know, we are about to still discover that we know nothing.

Semitunde, I have enjoyed all you've been writing but I find many of them to be closer to fiction than reality. Parallel universe and worlds are stuffs of Hollywood fiction movies.

HighIQ:
hmm! Igi iwe! Bookworm!

are u an OAU alumnus? #jst curious

Jeromejnr:


Very Well said.

Although I do not believe in parallel universes. It sounds just too surreal.

Lol. Well its too surreal ofcourse. You know, ants in your room cannot know or even imagine that there's a place called Australia, talk less of another set of ants living there. How will you let the ant know unless you take it there? And even if you do, will it still realise its environment has changed drastically.

We know only what we are allowed to know determined by our mind power and maybe even with help from higher beings. Cos really, an ant may not know its being helped to Australia na abi.

Who says, in terms of size, we are not even like ants, and our world is just a bit part of a table or chair for a much bigger being, just like atoms are
parr of the make up of our own objects. Who says even those even those electrons are not another world on a super microscopic level we are yet to know about or understand.

We know nothing abeg.

meccuno:
I hope we don't have a situation where we mistakenly signal some alien dudes who should be left alone with sophisticated weaponry from the planet that wants to colonise us like in the movie battleship.....

With 1.5 billion years ahead of us in existence; Those guys over there will be more civilize than us here, and imagine the kinds of advance technologies the will they will possess...

I refuse to believe we are not significant in the universe semitunde. Unlike ants we are intelligent creatures living on a planet extremely suitable for our existence which forces the believe that it designed to match our needs.

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

django1:


Semitunde, I have enjoyed all you've been writing but I find many of them to be closer to fiction than reality. Parallel universe and worlds are stuffs of Hollywood fiction movies.

Lol. Ore me I believed it o! These are the only answers to questions plaguing me from childhood. I question(nd) everything.

semitunde:


Lol. Well its too surreal ofcourse. You know, ants in your room cannot know or even imagine that there's a place called Australia, talk less of another set of ants living there. How will you let the ant know unless you take it there? And even if you do, will it still realise its environment has changed drastically.

We know only what we are allowed to know determined by our mind power and maybe even with help from higher beings. Cos really, an ant may not know its being helped to Australia na abi.

Who says, in terms of size, we are not even like ants, and our world is just a bit part of a table or chair for a much bigger being, just like atoms are
parr of the make up of our own objects. Who says even those even those electrons are not another world on a super microscopic level we are yet to know about or understand.

We know nothing abeg.

Lol. I love that last statement. Super microscopic level.

That will be infinitely too deep. The whole known universe could just be an atom compared to what is out there.

Very Good!Nnamdi Kano & other illusionary Biafrans will now move 2 dia promise land Earth 2.0.

AwesomelyMade:

Oby so you believe in evolution? Hmm, that means you can believe anything.

We ain't wearing leafs anymore, that's evolution

django1:
I refuse to believe we are not significant in the universe semitunde. Unlike ants we are intelligent creatures living on a planet extremely suitable for our existence which forces the believe that it designed to match our needs.

But how do you know the ant does not think itself intelligent too?

Before humans there were animals, both in the holy books and from evolution. You think at those times, those animals won't think themselves supreme?

Our capacity to think is limited by what we know and can conceive as possible. How do you know the ant too doesn't think as such? Because we are bigger and have achieved more? We look down on their organisation and all, but we've not stopped to think that the very fact that we can be above them shows a possibility that another can actually be above us! Laughing at stupidity masked as human wisdom.

django1:


If they(supposed aliens who I don't believe in) were so superior why are we the ones discovering their planet?

And if they truly exist, who says they haven't discovered us and aren't even living amongst us presently!!?

IGBOSON1:


^^^Bros, it's not us reaching them that should bother us...rather we should be more bothered about them reaching us!

"Laugh wan kill me here" Abeg if we no fit battle Boko haram,how we wan take fight people from another planet wee de 1.5 billion years more advanced than us. God abeg help your children oooo so those creatures no go everly think of coming down here.

Time to relocate....Where's ma glass Kepler tins!!!

Time to relocate....Where's ma glass Kepler tins!!!

semitunde:


But how do you know the ant does not think itself intelligent too?

Before humans there were animals, both in the holy books and from evolution. You think at those times, those animals won't think themselves supreme?

Our capacity to think is limited by what we know and can conceive as possible. How do you know the ant too doesn't think as such? Because we are bigger and have achieved more? We look down on their organisation and all, but we've not stopped to think that the very fact that we can be above them shows a possibility that another can actually be above us! Laughing at stupidity masked as human wisdom.

Hmmm, no one can truly tell if ants have minds of their own but just follows intuition but in any case we all know ants are not capable of emotion (they don't mourn their dead, do they?) or have a sense of religion, all things that makes us humans and better than them, hence more intelligent.

I suppose there are merits to your theories anyway, the universe is simply too gigantic.

For instance, If i was from that planet or any other planet in a different galaxy or ours. Is it possible for me to go to hell when the wrath of God descend upon earth? Religion fanatics.... Think....

Dollyak:

The bolder part is what people are predicting. We already know keplar is about 2 times the size and weight of the earth which kinda makes it inhabitable for we humans due to denser atmosphere, higher gravitational force, possibly higher oxygen level etc. However, some other forms of aliens might be living in there? Exciting stuff

since the keplar is twice the size of the earth dnt u think that will compensate for the weight with regard to the gravitational pull, considering the fact that acceleration of free fall follows inverse square law.

the beginning of the End

coolzeal:
For instance, If i was from that planet or any other planet in a different galaxy or ours. Is it possible for me to go to hell when the wrath descend upon earth? Religion fanatics.... Think....

I guess we will never know.

So since you are here, make hay while the sun shines.

If you know what I mean

Dollyak:

Of course I am not .

How come you so much about outer space then?