Interstellar Bebo spamgasm targeted at 'water world' Astronomers believe that there may be a "water world" capable of harbouring intelligent alien life orbiting a star just 20 lightyears from Earth. Unfortunately, it appears that the first communication any aliens will receive from the human race will be a multimedia compilation assembled by Bebo users. News of the possible …
WE COME FROM THE SYSTEM YOU KNOW AS GLIESE.
TAKE US TO NICOLE, FOR WE HAVE A NEW REALITY TELEVISION PROGRAMME THAT WE THINK HER INABILITY TO GRASP NEW CONCEPTS AND EXTRAVERT PERSONALITY WOULD MESH WELL WITH.
OUR TELEVISION EXECUTIVES ARE OPEN TO ALL GREEN SKY THINKING AND WILL SURELY STEAL ALL OF YOUR VALUABLE AIRTIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
WE MAY SEEK TO REINVISAGE 'THE OFFICE' IN OUR OWN, WATERY, BOOMING VOICED FASHION THOUGH..
UNTIL NEXT TIME, HUMANS.
Gl 581d is about 7 Earth masses, but due to the larger radius, the gravity is more like 2g.
This means it would be tiring for us, but not a problem. Water-based creatures have no problems with it.
One important bit about "deep oceans" is "no continents". There is a maximum height for mountains, beyond which the pressure of the weight of the mountain melts the rock underneath. This means mountains would be no more than 20 km or so off the ocean surface, while the ocean could be 100km deep. No continents or islands, no monkeys swinging in the trees.
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Alastair McKinstry
ooh the 3rd planet is to hot for life?
Why? What evidence do you have?
Juts because earths inhabitants have adapted to out climate and ecosystem, doesn't mean that's it.
There may be super inteligent beings out the living in molten lava, "beathing" liquid nitrogen, looking at earth going, nah, nothing could live there, to bloody cold and look at all that toxic water.
But I guess we are the centre of the Universe after all.
Er... Land-dwelling lifeforms could exist in seven times Earth's gravity. They would just evolve to take the extra forces into account. If (or WHEN!!) our gravity-loving overlords arrive on our humble speck of rock, they would feel nice and light and, eventually, start to weaken - as Earth astro/cosmonauts do in space - thus making it easy for Earth's resistance fighters to regain control.
Don't know the maths for water-based sentients, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they've got big teeth and eat Loch Ness Monsters for brekkie!
Has no-one else heard of the broadcasts made by SETI?
What about the radio and TV transmissions that leak off the surface of our horribly dry planet all the time?
If they are less than 50 years behind us technologically (or ahead of us) then they've picked those up already.
So the Bebo stuff will go completely unnoticed. They're already on their way...
It's always fun to see how everyone seems to assume that life *must* be of the water-and-carbon-based variety. Hey, there couldn't be intelligent life there anyway as it's mainly a waterworld, how would bipeds survive?
Needless to say, the probability of any lifeform co-existing with us in the same timeframe is pretty low, now they would have to communicate using the same physical media (and the same sensory systems). So all in all, the chances of poor aliens being hit by Bebo spam is negligible. And it's that much crap that Beboers won't be slinging at their earthly siblings (including me). So carry on, by all means! Actually, we should probably send the whole Bebo servers in outer space, to, you know, increase the chances of the message reaching its alien target. Maybe Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Twitter et al. want to join in (or "out", in this case)?
The thing with scientists is, they've discovered that most materials, when deep inside molten lava, tend to be very unstable. Ie, they burn, melt, or otherwise dissolve, mix, recombine with something else. All the time. Heat helps atoms move around.
It seems it's very difficult to imagine something evolving into a super-intelligent being when starting as a bit of protein that has trouble keeping its molecules together to turn itself into a proper bacteria.
Kind of the same with liquid nitrogen: when your molecules can't move because they're frozen solid, they, hum, don't evolve into anything.
Oh, it might be possible to be *created* to live in such an environment. But to evolve in it from scratch, assuming the same Laws of Physics have been ratified everywhere in our Universe, is most unlikely.
Given that it's a foregone conclusion that any intelligent being no matter how benign and enlightened would be driven into a murderous genocidal rage by Nicole and her like, I suspect the exact length of our remaining time pivots on whether they have already have a vast interstellar invasion force prepped and ready to go. With a bit of luck, I may be already have shuffled from this mortal coil by the time the first dropships land and spew forth enraged death-ray wielding tentaclospawn who systemically reduce the biosphere to a steaming puddle of protoplasmic gloop before stamping around a bit, shouting angrily, relieving themselves and buggering off home. And you all thought the budget was bad news.
As we all know anyone who uses bebo is highly intelligent represent the feelings of a large section of humanity and every one is very intrested in what they say, i feel that this is a great way to greet our new alien overlords, it may even get the more intelligent ones of us taken off to "a better place"
Mines the one with the copy of miss protoplasma 2009 in the pocket
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