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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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NASA just discovered a surprisingly close Super Earth

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You know that old ecoactivist bumper sticker about fighting to save this planet because “There Is No Planet B”? Well, in the tradition of bumper stickers that turned out to be false (including “My other car is a Porsche” and “Al Gore 2000”), there may be a Planet B after all.

NASA has just announced the discovery of a new super-Earth that could be both habitable and accessible. The agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS (a powerful orbiting telescope that scouts the sky), spotted three previously unknown planets circling a nearby star in the Hydra constellation. One of those planets, called GJ 357 d, could be a Planet B for humans when this world gets too hot and too flooded to support life.

GJ 357 d is about six times larger than Earth and orbits a dwarf sun called GJ 357, much smaller than our own, making the journey around the sun in just 55.7 days. The international team of astronomers that discovered the planet said in a news release that it could “provide Earth-like conditions.” But don’t start buying plastic water bottles, throwing glitter, burning coal, and huffing CFCs to celebrate humanity’s new home yet. GJ 357 d could be Earth-like, but only if it has a thick enough atmosphere to envelop the planet.

“If the planet has a dense atmosphere, which will take future studies to determine, it could trap enough heat to warm the planet and allow liquid water on its surface,” Diana Kossakowski, a member of the team that discovered the planet, said in a press release. Without an atmosphere, the planet would have an equilibrium temperature of 64 degrees below zero, according to NASA, which would make it “more glacial than habitable.”

Still, if the atmosphere is sufficient to warm the planet enough to support liquid water, it could be the most promising Planet B out of the 4,025 planets tallied so far outside our solar system. Plus, it’s one of the closest of the 45 exoplanets confirmed to date, a mere 31 light-years away. (Of course, we’d still need to invent the technology to get us there.)


“With a thick atmosphere, the planet GJ 357 d could maintain liquid water on its surface like Earth, and we could pick out signs of life with telescopes that will soon be online,” Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and an associate professor in astronomy, said in a statement. “If GJ 357 d were to show signs of life, it would be at the top of everyone’s travel list—and we could answer a 1,000-year-old question on whether we are alone in the cosmos.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90384802/nasa-discovers-super-earth-gj-357-d-which-may-support-life
 
So... will we find Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons?
 
bcr229 said:
So... will we find Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons?
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Surprise - Ferengi!

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Article said:
NASA has just announced the discovery of a new super-Earth that could be both habitable and accessible.
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Great... so humans can go destroy that new planet as well
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I really hope we don't expand beyond our Earth for the sake of the galaxy
 
If we ever get there it will be our replacements on earth. They will talk about us as one of the early men that advanced basic fire and hand tools. About how archaic the hardware was we used to find new planet. They will laugh at how we discussed the planet on some basic thing they called the internet. They will talk about how we had to grow food from the ground and depend on animals for meat. They will wonder how we lasted so long being weak with limited intelligence.

I think it would be cool if it was in the stages of our earth 100 million years ago
 
The way things are going, I am doubtful that mankind will ever be able to cooperate enough to launch such a large scale project that such a trip would require from us on a planetary level. Even if the technology is ever developed to make such a long term trip even feasible, humans will still be humans.
 
The presence of a super-earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf does not mean that there are living organisms, plants or bacteria on it. At the beginning of their life cycle, red dwarfs are much brighter and hotter. Even if the exoplanet initially had conditions suitable for life, it might already have become too hot by the time life could theoretically arise there.
 
JColt said:
You know that old ecoactivist bumper sticker about fighting to save this planet because “There Is No Planet B”? Well, in the tradition of bumper stickers that turned out to be false (including “My other car is a Porsche” and “Al Gore 2000”), there may be a Planet B after all.

NASA has just announced the discovery of a new super-Earth that could be both habitable and accessible. The agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS (a powerful orbiting telescope that scouts the sky), spotted three previously unknown planets circling a nearby star in the Hydra constellation. One of those planets, called GJ 357 d, could be a Planet B for humans when this world gets too hot and too flooded to support life.

GJ 357 d is about six times larger than Earth and orbits a dwarf sun called GJ 357, much smaller than our own, making the journey around the sun in just 55.7 days. The international team of astronomers that discovered the planet said in a news release that it could “provide Earth-like conditions.” But don’t start buying plastic water bottles, throwing glitter, burning coal, and huffing CFCs to celebrate humanity’s new home yet. GJ 357 d could be Earth-like, but only if it has a thick enough atmosphere to envelop the planet.

“If the planet has a dense atmosphere, which will take future studies to determine, it could trap enough heat to warm the planet and allow liquid water on its surface,” Diana Kossakowski, a member of the team that discovered the planet, said in a press release. Without an atmosphere, the planet would have an equilibrium temperature of 64 degrees below zero, according to NASA, which would make it “more glacial than habitable.”

Still, if the atmosphere is sufficient to warm the planet enough to support liquid water, it could be the most promising Planet B out of the 4,025 planets tallied so far outside our solar system. Plus, it’s one of the closest of the 45 exoplanets confirmed to date, a mere 31 light-years away. (Of course, we’d still need to invent the technology to get us there.)


“With a thick atmosphere, the planet GJ 357 d could maintain liquid water on its surface like Earth, and we could pick out signs of life with telescopes that will soon be online,” Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and an associate professor in astronomy, said in a statement. “If GJ 357 d were to show signs of life, it would be at the top of everyone’s travel list—and we could answer a 1,000-year-old question on whether we are alone in the cosmos.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90384802/nasa-discovers-super-earth-gj-357-d-which-may-support-life
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using this line of reasoning many planets could be habitable and accesible...as long as we invent the technology to live there and get there first.


Its probably more likely that we will all end up on a planet ruled by apes before we can travel to this new Planet B
 
sschind said:
Its probably more likely that we will all end up on a planet ruled by apes before we can travel to this new Planet B
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Too late, It already is!
 
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