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Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 2:18 pm
How many exo planets by december 31 2023 will James webb find to have good indications of life?
My guess is 80 planets.
Feel free to make your guess here on the thread you could even try and make a more educated guess than my very rough ball park but I thought I should throw my guess into the hat never the less.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 2:48 pm
Nil.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 3:52 pm
No idea... if we knew then we wouldn't need to build it!
I am looking forward to seeing what it finds though
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm
Between 500 and 1000 worlds.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2022 at 4:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
“ How many exo planets by december 31 2023 will James webb find to have good indications of life?”
Good according to whom, and remain seemingly good to most for how long?
I think seemingly tantalizing indications will probably not be long in coming, but indications that can’t, after some period of reflection by the scientific community, be explained away by non-biological causes will be long in coming.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 6:19 pm
I'll take 57. As in, look at that: there must be 57 tits up there.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 18, 2022 at 8:12 pm
42 or 73. Best non cosmologist TV based guess.
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 19, 2022 at 9:28 am
Everyone is avoiding 69 for some reason. Would such be due to Chance or Design?
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RE: Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.
May 19, 2022 at 9:43 am
I can only assume that by then, they will figure out that the moon is a harsh mistress
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