Could there be life on the Pleiades?

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by Eyvind, Oct 2, 2011.

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Could there be life on the Pleiades?

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  2. No

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  3. Maybe

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  1. Eyvind Registered Senior Member

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    Billy Meier and other UFO contactees claim that they have been in contact with beings from the Pleiades.

    But I read on wikipedia that the stars in the Pleiades are very young, only 75 to. 150 million years. The cluster is also dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars.

    Would this make it impossible for intelligent life to exist on the Pleiades?
    Intelligent life has taken 4 billion years to evolve here, so maybe it would be very unlikely that it could evolve over just 100 million years on the Pleiades? Would these hot blue stars be too hot for life to exist on any planets there?
     
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  3. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    I wouldn't put to much faith in Billy Meier, his aliens also live in the Plejares star system that lay beyond the pleiades (so a different star system) and in a different timeline (that doesn't make sence).
     
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  5. Eyvind Registered Senior Member

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    I see. Would it be impossible for intelligent life to exist in a cluster with young and hot blue stars, like the Pleiades?
     
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  7. Rhaedas Valued Senior Member

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    Improbable would be a better word to use, since we have only one example so far of life developing. Intelligent life, even more improbable, since it would need more time.

    Playing along to make it seem more rational, the likelihood would go up a fraction if they said they were from the Pleiades, but it wasn't their original home. Would that system be a good place to settle for a space faring race?
     
  8. Eyvind Registered Senior Member

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    I've read the info from lots of people, who claim that they have contact with the Pleiades. They say a lot of things, but I have never heard anyone say that "they were from the Pleiades, but it wasn't their original home".

    Maybe the blue stars are too hot, which makes it a bad place to settle for a space faring race?
     
  9. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Billy Meier is fairly convincing evidence that intelligent life doesn't even exist here on Earth.
     
  10. Believe Happy medium Valued Senior Member

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    I voted no because even if aliens could have moved in to the Pleiades system, there is no possible way they would be talking to someone like Billy Meier instead of someone who matters.
     
  11. darksidZz Valued Senior Member

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  12. chimpkin C'mon, get happy! Registered Senior Member

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    Life could conceivably be anywhere.
    Until we've been or observed evidence...who knows?
    :shrug:

    Almost certainly not Billy Meier.
    ( Chimpy shakes up big can of deep-woods woo repellent)
     
  13. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Insert "DarksidZz and " at the start of my previous post. Change "is" to "are".
    Thank you.
     
  14. Believe Happy medium Valued Senior Member

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    WTF people are voting YES ON THIS??!!!???!!! You think of all the people in the world this one random attention hungry person has a magic box to talk to aliens and he is completely unwilling to prove it so people don't think he's crazy?
     
  15. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    The way the question is worded certainly leaves room for a "yes" even from a strict scientific stance.
    Could there be life? (Note, not intelligent life or even "advanced" life.
    Can we rule it out altogether? No, we don't know enough.
    If there's bacteria there then the answer is "There's life!"

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  16. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    Bacterial life on a hot blue star? I think not.
     
  17. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I'm pretty sure we will never find any bacteria in their natural habitat outside of Earth.
    We will possibly find bacteria-like creatures though.

    Edit: But not on any stars..

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  18. The Esotericist Getting the message to Garcia Valued Senior Member

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    Does it say, "Bacterial life"? No, it just says life. Wow, humanity hasn't changed in 10,000 years, has it? Columbus comes to the new world and finds humans. . . . and thinks, hmmm. . . no humans or civilization that I recognize, guess it doesn't exist here. :bugeye: Can we even say there isn't life on our star? No, not really, just none that we recognize.

    If it isn't life we recognize, well, then it isn't life.
     
  19. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    I was responding to Dywyddyr. He specifically mentioned bacteria.

    Correct. Most of them still can't frigging read.

    Which is precisely why I limited my scepticism of life on the Pleiades to scepticism about bacterial life.
    Perhaps if you spent more time considering the content and intent of other posts you wouldn't make such uninformed comments.
     
  20. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    I'm pretty open minded, but I'm convinced Billy was proven to be a liar.
     
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    On significant cultural star locations, one could assume a capable star migratory route to pass through many young star regions, to reach our Sun.
    For example:
    Because our star-travelling path to Alpha Centauri would first mean a pit-stop through Proxima Centauri territory, the observing Alphas should not assume all Earthlings would necessarily have originated in the Proxima system.
     
  22. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    :bravo:
     
  23. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    How can you land on the sun? You go at night.

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