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In the farthest reaches of space anything can happen ;p considering our views on physics and what not are constantly challenged and changed with new discoveries found on a monthly basis.
I agree with that, but I doubt the next ground breaking physics discoveries will be made on Earth.
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Sure its not huge news (ok it is literally lol) but the ramifications of this are pretty substantial. I mean forever it was almost ruled out that Hyper massive stars could even form planets since they have massive solar winds and other big problems. Yet scientist found rings around 2 of the stars (only like 8 er something in the Milky Way).
I mean this could totally change the way we look at planet formation. Not to mention only a few months ago the detection of planets around a binary star system (two star solar system).
Do you read space.com too? lol I love that website, even if it make me feel like a nerd at time.
Yeah, those discoveries are pretty important in my opinion, but mostly because it's an unexplored domain. When we will have analysed 2000-3000 rings around stars, I doubt it will have the same impact on our theories if we discover a new star cluster or whatever.
About binary system, it was an interesting discovery, but those planets are most likely going to be desert without water. At least, if our previous theory about water coming from comet is right. There is also a problem with the star itself since most of them are unstable due to the proximity of their neighbour. Planet's temperature would varie too much to make them worthwhile for anything.
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The most important questions in science are "why?" and "how?" We need to know ‘How’ our solar system evolved and ‘Why’ we ended up with such a perfect planet. So we need to look at the big picture. We need to see how other solar systems form and evolve.
I couldn't agree more with that part. But I don't think it apply to the new specimens we discovered.
We already have the "why" and "how" concerning them, or at least, the interesting one. Only reason they werent discovered before is because they are a pain in the ass to reach. The result of finding variants from a known species was expected. None of the new animal show particular behavior that was never observed multiple time already.
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Survival and evolution. These scientist are finding animals that were thought to not exist or thought to be so rare no one person would ever see them. Animals that are endangered and dying off are thriving in an area we never thought to look (or couldn’t look). While we thought they were dead, they actually survived. On the surface it doesn’t look important, but science needs to see these things for reasons like "Why did mammals survive when dinosaurs didn’t? How did they survive? How did they adapt? Why did we evolve emotions?" and questions like that. I’m not a scientist so I have no idea what else to say, but I’m sure there are lots of benefits.
Those species are far from being the only one who survived in a similar fashion. There is a ton of birds and animal who live exclusively on a particular island, or in a small region. Those specimens already offer the same data about evolution we can extract from the one in that article. Considering their accessibility is generally easier, I don't really see why those new species are interesting.
I'm not saying it's completely useless either. Knowing their existences is better than not knowing it, but it won't change our current data.
I understand the important for us to find how we were born, how living evolve in general. I just don't think this place will offer the data we need to answer that question. We already have thousand of specimens who does, and having a few thousands +6, according to mathematics and statistics change nothing.
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We also get to see just how differently animals have evolved here. This gives excellent fuel for the evolution vs. divine intervention debate. I mean what question is more important to us than "where did we come from?"
People who believe in divine intervention just refuse to see the facts
I don't have any problem with people believing in God, as long their god exist only outside the big bang and our universe.
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Maybe I’m just spouting gibberish off because I’ve got 20 minutes of work left.
Nah, was a nice post. Even if I don't agree with everything.
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