and only for us?all the universal vastness may only be able to claim any significance through us! — universeness
Your post has Martin Rees written all over it — Agent Smith
Our place as the only species in the universe, as far as we know, that can build something like the James Webb telescope and find out a little more about the universe. — universeness
As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before. — Julian Huxley
Water and carbon are the most plentiful substances in the universe, — Enrique
So they measured the light of a star as it passed though the atmosphere of a planet 1,500 light years away, and by the absorption pattern they found, they can say that the planet's atmosphere contains steam. — Banno
Dude, they measured absorption lines in an atmosphere 1,500ly away. — Banno
possible life-bearing planet — Wayfarer
↪universeness :up: — Agent Smith
(The nearest star to our Sun is Alpha Centauri - from memory - around 7 lya I think. Even that would be a voyage of thousands of years. — Wayfarer
Have a look at Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Starshot. I love the ambition, and the vision, but I'm dubious about the reality. — Wayfarer
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