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[quote]It's your friendly neighborhood Agent Venom, here to put some knowledge into your empty skull, OP. So social media has a real affinity for OPs that claim to be good but present literally nothing but broad guesses, restatements of precedent [b]insults[/b] and then 99.8% bullshit. Lately there's been a rant by OP about how Alpha Centauri B, a planet circling the closest star to our solar system, is not capable of sustaining life. I want to ask [b][i]OP[/i][/b] how far up his ass he had to dig to find that gem. Based on the "facts" that have been reported, here's why (((without actually have done any observation))) he thinks Proxima Centauri B [b][i]is BS[/i][/b]: 1. He's an a-hole that's never actually seen the damn planet, and grasping for straws probably is his only form of entertainment. 2. He could've at least listed sources to be legitimate. Or not. Who knows, right! Let's send it to the news. 3. He may be jealous. 4. More conjecture bullshit. And how about the fact that this OP uses such slang! Hold up let me write a dictionairy consisting of all the words OP knows of. I mean you gotta have huge balls to have made such a shitty claim and publish it as a "quality post". -Venom[/quote]

The whole "needs water to survive" works on earth species. We have no clue what goes on other planets and their moons. We just assume they need the same shit to survive like we do. Yeah, we got satellite imagery and a rover on mars. That gives us some ideas about a area. There is life out there, and probably some in our own range of planets. We still havent explored much of the deep parts of the ocean yet.

Oh, you mean like the science that went into claiming a rock found on Antarctica in 1984, MAY have had a fossilized single cell organism on it, and MAY have flown all the way to Earth all the way from Mars, because? Yeah. That's the way the justified all the probes they have sent there for the past 20+ years costing billions of dollars to find what? You guessed it! More rocks. But at least these actually are from Mars. I do love the idea of space exploration. I love the achievements that we've made in seeing further and further into the universe and all the wondrous galaxies throughout. It is truly awe inspiring. BUT, making up nonsense and feeding it to the American populace for a tax money grab to go sight seeing on the next closest celestial neighbor, all in the name of 'progress'. Viking I & II in the '70's pretty well showed what was on Mars. Rocks. Wow! It was cool to do it and repeat it (land probes on Mars), but now it's beyond ridiculous. How many billions of dollars have we launched into space? Venus - multiple fly bys attempted since 1961 We currently have multiple probes on and orbiting Mars, with plans to send another.... There are probes currently orbiting Saturn and Jupiter The Pluto fly by earlier this year Voyager I & II still continue traveling outside our solar system past the heliopause and transmitting data, about basically nothing. ISS Apollo Probes to comets and asteroids [i][b]It's ALL cool and really neat, mind altering stuff![/i][/b] But how has it clothed, fed, sheltered, protected those here who are in need? Defeated disease? Maybe the money would be better spent fixing here before finding whatever out there. I'd still argue in favor of the space telescopes though.

The study of these "rocks" and other planets help us to understand our own planet more, while I don't necessarily disagree with you I would like to point out that with all these spendings on space programs it actually puts a lot of money back into your economy, for every dollar spent on taking us to the moon more was put back into the economy and helped with job growth, space exploration is incredibly expensive but it bring back invaluable information and knowledge about not only our own planet but the others in our system and the Galaxy as a whole that we would never know without these excursions into space.

I mean it's a theory. [i]and it is in the Goldilocks zone....[/i]

You realise that if there is water and the other point you said about where it orbits it's own star then there is like a 90% chance it supports life

Why are you so angry about this?

Same with most of the Big Bang theory, and evolution. [spoiler]Inb4triggeredatheists[/spoiler]

Read that as Three-Dog