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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
I grow tired of stories like these.
stories about life on other planets, planets that support life, and planets similar to our own, or planets with liquid water all too often contain words like:
"May"
"Could possibly"
"theoretically"
"might be"
and besides that, these places are always 270 million light years away, nobody will be going there any time soon, so why in the hell should we care??????
I wouldnt have had this opinion last year, but ... NASA.... money better spent elsewhere if you ask me, shut them down and divert their funding to cancer research  |
Actually, stories like those rarely originate with NASA. They're usually provided by astronomers, universities and other scientific institutes. The Laboratoire de Métrologie Dynamique in Paris being the most famous for putting forth these claims lately.