Teh One Who Knocks
07-07-2016, 12:33 PM
By Sean Martin - The Express
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JUPITER could be inhabited by giant, kilometre-wide beings that thrive off the planet’s gasses, a world-renowned cosmologist claimed.
As Nasa’s historic Juno satellite prepares to deploy scientific equipment as it enters orbit of the massive gas planet, NASA experts have already predicted the discovery of alien life is a possibility for the mission.
However because Jupiter is a gas giant alien life would be very different from homo sapiens.
US Scientist Carl Sagan theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface.
He said on his TV show, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, that “vast living balloons could stay buoyant by pumping heavy gasses from their interiors or by keeping their insides warm.”
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The 'Floaters' predicted by Mr Sagan
He added: “They might eat organic molecules in the air or make their own with sunlight. We call these creatures ‘Floaters’.
“We imagine Floaters kilometres across, enormously larger than the greatest whale that ever was – beings the size of cities.”
Naturally, he argues, with passive creatures there, there are bound to be predators, or ‘Hunters’ as he calls them, that prey on these massive beasts.
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A herd of Floaters
He continued: “Hunters are fast and manoeuvrable, they eat the floaters; both for their organic molecules and for their store of pure hydrogen.
“But there can’t be many hunters, because if they destroy all the floaters, they themselves will perish.”
He theorised that organic molecules would fall from the sky which sustain the Floaters.
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'Hunters' on Jupiter
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The molecules that fall from the sky
The whole point of the Juno mission is to learn more about Jupiter, the biggest planet in our Solar System, and its history, which will in turn help us learn more about life elsewhere in the Universe.
Mr Sagan, who died in 1996, said: “Biology is more like history than it is like physics.
“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
Juno finally completed its five year journey from Earth to Jupiter in the early hours of July 5.
Already the spacecraft has captured stunning images of its four moons orbiting it, as well as the eerie sounds of solar winds crashing into it at a million miles per hour.
http://i.imgur.com/v7uvI2z.jpg
JUPITER could be inhabited by giant, kilometre-wide beings that thrive off the planet’s gasses, a world-renowned cosmologist claimed.
As Nasa’s historic Juno satellite prepares to deploy scientific equipment as it enters orbit of the massive gas planet, NASA experts have already predicted the discovery of alien life is a possibility for the mission.
However because Jupiter is a gas giant alien life would be very different from homo sapiens.
US Scientist Carl Sagan theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface.
He said on his TV show, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, that “vast living balloons could stay buoyant by pumping heavy gasses from their interiors or by keeping their insides warm.”
http://i.imgur.com/zOXlDI9.jpg
The 'Floaters' predicted by Mr Sagan
He added: “They might eat organic molecules in the air or make their own with sunlight. We call these creatures ‘Floaters’.
“We imagine Floaters kilometres across, enormously larger than the greatest whale that ever was – beings the size of cities.”
Naturally, he argues, with passive creatures there, there are bound to be predators, or ‘Hunters’ as he calls them, that prey on these massive beasts.
http://i.imgur.com/15czVNe.jpg
A herd of Floaters
He continued: “Hunters are fast and manoeuvrable, they eat the floaters; both for their organic molecules and for their store of pure hydrogen.
“But there can’t be many hunters, because if they destroy all the floaters, they themselves will perish.”
He theorised that organic molecules would fall from the sky which sustain the Floaters.
http://i.imgur.com/FvqN8hR.jpg
'Hunters' on Jupiter
http://i.imgur.com/xsumv0u.jpg
The molecules that fall from the sky
The whole point of the Juno mission is to learn more about Jupiter, the biggest planet in our Solar System, and its history, which will in turn help us learn more about life elsewhere in the Universe.
Mr Sagan, who died in 1996, said: “Biology is more like history than it is like physics.
“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
Juno finally completed its five year journey from Earth to Jupiter in the early hours of July 5.
Already the spacecraft has captured stunning images of its four moons orbiting it, as well as the eerie sounds of solar winds crashing into it at a million miles per hour.