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BlueSpot

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8. If it wasn't that far away

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Wed Apr 16, 2025, 11:49 PM

Apr 16

I can totally imagine Trump re-funding NASA to figure out a way to go and steal their stuff. Fortunately, we don't have the tech for that sort of thing, as least as far as I know.

Actually, the thought of something good that Trump can't steal kind of makes me a little happy.

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Webb telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world [View all] Zorro Apr 16 OP

Maybe Bezos will send his "wife-to-be" to check it out... hlthe2b Apr 16 #1

Send Muskrat to check it out. sheshe2 Apr 16 #2

I was just thinking that... The Madcap Apr 16 #3

Lol! Great minds think alike. sheshe2 Apr 16 #5

Great idea, but Musk needs a crew. Maybe add the 64 other billionaires that seem to have taken power. PatrickforB Apr 17 #11

I'll go. Laffy Kat Apr 16 #7

124 light years away Polybius Apr 17 #14

we can still try LOL nt Javaman Apr 17 #15

Any reason... 2naSalit Apr 17 #16

I hope there are no "evolved" species BaronChocula Apr 16 #4

Plankton? Avengers assemble! LudwigPastorius Apr 16 #6

If it wasn't that far away BlueSpot Apr 16 #8

It is an incredible discovery. It has the potential of confirming what many of us know at heart... Ol Janx Spirit Apr 16 #9

This NYT article has more information Zorro Apr 17 #10

Thank you for that link. flvegan Apr 17 #13

Hyffg Ysfboc, a subspace astrophysicist at the University of Planktonia, urged reporters to be cautious. Marcuse Apr 17 #12

Sure hope it is more intelligent than the life on this planet. republianmushroom Apr 17 #17

How can they detect molecules so far away? intheflow Apr 17 #18

If I remember correctly when...a particlar planet.... electric_blue68 Apr 18 #19