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Do you think any aliens exist in the universe?

 
 
 
OK, it is BS. There is no star that close to us.
 
Correct self, about one light year away. No such star.
 
pood said:
A simple look at the site’s home page reveals it is all bunk.
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I agree it’s bunk - at first glance. It says 1100 LY - I only scanned to see haw far away. Turns out they can’t even do math. Even 1100 ly* would be “local” within the galaxy …
Sez:
light emanating from the surface of a planet within its original star system at a distance of more than 7 trillion miles from Earth or about 1,100 light-years away
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* maybe they’re euro-conspiracy wackos, and they mean 1.1ly
Bullshit either way.
 
John Gribbin wrote two books -- Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique and The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth. The books go into great detail about several reasons the solar system and the Earth are rather unique. As just one example, the formation of rocky planets like Earth may be uncommon:
Something else may also have helped the particles to stick together -- something else that is special about the solar system. Studies of pieces of rock from meteorites show that the dusty disc around the young Sun contained tiny globules of material, known as chondrules, formed by melting at temperatures between 1,200 °C and 1,600 °C. Molten, or partly molten, blobs would be more sticky and encourage the buildup of larger lumps of stuff in the disc. But how did they get so hot? The most likely explanation is that the heat was released by radioactive elements that had been sprayed by a nearby star in the process of dying into the gas cloud from which the planets formed. One possibility is that a supernova occurred close to the cloud that became the Sun just before the Sun formed; it is even possible that the blast wave from this explosion triggered the collapse of the gas cloud that became the Sun and solar system. Supporting evidence for this idea comes from measurements of the proportions of various isotopes found in meteorites. Radioactive aluminium-26 seems to have been present in the proto-solar system from the beginning, but a pulse of iron-60 arrived about million years later.
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You can tell its clickbait garbage by the title. The article itself cautions that its not confirmed to be artificial lights and scientists suspect there may be a natural explanation for it. So why claim they are city lights?!
 
It could be giant fireflies.

If you look closely there is a sign that says ' ETs observing our planet please respect our privacy and mind your own fucking business, this is a private solar system and trespassers will be shot on sight'.
 
Oh good, their home page now has a time traveler sending a message from 2028 and elephant heads found on Mars. :rolleyes:
 
Breaking News!, so labeled. Alien signal detected from planet 12 light years away. Oh, and also, we got a message from a time traveler back in 1933. :rolleyes:
 
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