New Life Supporting Planet?

[Tutor]

Richard,

yes, i see what you mean. to be honest Richard, i dont know how to respond other than saying that i respect your caring concern and appreciate you. Richard, sage advice indeed. i too cannot claim knowing anything. nor do i have the confidence, just as you've intimated. and God forbid, how do i avoid my child's pointing a finger back at me? please feel free to pm me anytime.

Tim

[Beekeeper]

So, consider my quandary: parent and teacher!

My attitude is do the best with what you've got. Collectively we hopefully all move away from ignorance - hopefully. Sometimes my teachers got it wrong, the important thing is that more often they got it right. Where would I be without them? Not only did they transmit knowledge but the wisdom of their experiences and the warmth of their personalities.

I learn a lot from my students and children too and I tell them so. I enjoy the exchange. If I were too afraid of making mistakes and too arrogant to know that they have things to teach me, there'd be none of that.

[eyeoneblack]

Thanks Tutor and Beek.

[-asalantu-]

¡Hi, CFT!

I interrogated him again, and he told me that this teacher had "connections" to certain organizations and had shown them pictures. He is adamant about it. I asked him to ask her to send me a link or source, because I don't believe him. He doesn't lie but sometimes misunderstands- could have been a "what if" scenario and he took it for a fact.

May be (the teacher) saw some generically kown as Hypothetical Artistic View like those pictures Carl Sagan accustomed to include in his famous book "Cosmos".

For such a reason, he don't lied. Simply he hasn't the scientifical basic culture that could allow him to be able of to read and acquire info in a skeptic/serious viewpoint.

BTW, the fastest deep space probe, New Horizons mission, only reach Pluto planet (and beyond into Kuiper' belt) about year 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons/

To talk about life in an exoplanet is close to SciFi. Only we can to speculate with it done remote sensing (through Hubble or Kepler [terrestrial planet finder] telescopes) of atmospheric conditions, orbit characteristics and type of star; and formulate predictions about compatible lifeforms with such exoplanet physical properties.

Carl Sagan do some like this when writing about hypothetical lifeforms at jovian atmosphere (look at Adolf Schaller pictures)

Some artists involved in development of such pictures:

Rick Sternbach (this frequently appears in credits of Star Trek series [TNG, DS9, VOY])
http://www.ricksternbach.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sternbach

Adolf Schaller
http://neuronaviva.blogspot.com/2010/08/adolf-schaller-postales-de-otros-mundos.html

Jon Lomberg
http://www.jonlomberg.com

Anyway, this artists perhaps play a fundamental role when convincing skeptic governmental agencies (at time of obtaining funds for research) is the headache for scientists.

My best regards,
Ángel