Let's assume the number of exoplanets being found continues, as expected, to increase. Let's then assume that increased technology also allows, as expected, finer details about those exoplanets to be discovered. It's fairly safe, based on this and simple statistics, that the chances of finding a rocky planet in the habitable orbit zone around its star asymptotically approaches one very rapidly.
Give this data, should we not release probes out of our own orbit to observe our planet from afar, to determine what, if any, characteristics of a "planet inhabited by intelligent life" can be observed? Rather than speculate on what, if any, way we'll know if a planet is inhabitable, or inhabited...why not gather empirical evidence of what an inhabited planet looks like by launching a very fast, rear-facing probe deep into space?
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Monday, 1 November 2010
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