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So the Juno Probe that arrived at Jupiter nearly 2 months ago is about to make its first close up fly by with all its cameras and instruments live. Possibly the first step to finally answering many of the questions we have about the biggest planet in the solar system.
This is what it's taken from a distance but it's going to be right up in Jupiters face and doing the probing thing all over it shortly.
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Well it entered a very wide orbit nearly 2 months ago. But due to how fast it was going when it got there it's had to swing out a long way away. The photo above was one taken while it was far out. They have been testing system and getting it ready. Now it's passing close again. It will be stuck in the huge elliptical orbit for a bit but they are going to adjust that to bring it closer so it will get to take measurements more often.
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Colonising, as in vast communities living there permanently? No I don't think so. But mining or somehow extracting resources from moons / planets / asteroids with the possibility of a settlement to facilitate that then probably yes... if not our lifetime then the lifetime of some of the younger members here.
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Even if we colonized another planet - We couldn't play video games with other planet's due to lag issues - Probably couldn't order something UPS via Earth to Mars? haha - It would be cool to see colonizing another planet.
That's right, nobody is 100% sure, but like I say there is no reason to suggest it's only us that exists when these space probes keep finding new galaxy's that could sustain life form. It's just a matter of time before one comes across a planet that has the same conditions as earth, in which case it would be a matter of how high up the evolutionary tree they are, and when you think earth is a young planet they are probably going to be more advanced.
The biggest hurdle to encountering intelligent life in the universe is the distances involved. getting anywhere would take hundreds / thousands of years. Although we could potentially soon be able to detect signs of civilisations on other planets the chances of seeing one amongst the billions of possible worlds, and them being at the right stage of civilisation at the right time in the past to have those signals reaching us right now are very slim.
More likely is discovering microbial life on one of the planets / moons in our own solar system. No chance of aliens dismembering movies stars unfortunately but will be pretty exciting stuff.
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A post about that from SETI themselves is not so promising. Its an interesting find, but a lot about the data so far that makes it unlikely to be a genuine discovery.
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