NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life

Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by mg on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:33AM (#37479025)

120 light years away.

If there was life out there, similar to us - could we detect their radio and television signals over this distance?

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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by XorNot on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:57AM (#37479206)

If we could get a positive confirmation of just anything living - even if it's just oceans of plankton - then that would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Actual, viable, recognizable lifeforms of extra-solar origin changes the inputs to a lot of our ideas about where and who we are pretty substantially (also some rather unfortunate possibilities about the great filter).

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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by 867-5309 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:03AM (#37479252)

of course. photons do not experience time or distance, and are probably ageless

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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by fbhabbed on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:26AM (#37479448)

They do, however, experience the inverse square law.

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