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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jul 23, 2015 8:13:18 GMT -5
NASA News Audio Kepler Discoveries Update TODAY: Noon EDT The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years -- another Earth. www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html |
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 23, 2015 9:12:46 GMT -5
My inner science geek just got heart flutters.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 23, 2015 9:22:25 GMT -5
I cannot open the link on my tablet but will later today open it on my PC.
Astonomy fascinates me. Always excited to read and view new discoveries beyond my neighborhood.
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jul 23, 2015 12:29:43 GMT -5
Damn it. Lost my post. www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earthNASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone -- the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet -- of a G2-type star, like our sun. The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030.
"On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most closely resemble the Earth and our Sun," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “This exciting result brings us one step closer to finding an Earth 2.0." |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 23, 2015 12:36:24 GMT -5
I wonder if Kepler-452b has intelligent life and if it does, do they have an equivalent of our Kardashians.
...On second thought, having their own version of the Kardashians does not equate intelligent life.
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 23, 2015 14:26:18 GMT -5
I wonder if Kepler-452b has intelligent life and if it does, do they have an equivalent of our Kardashians. ...On second thought, having their own version of the Kardashians does not equate intelligent life. Maybe they're more advanced than us and have figured out a way to be Kardashian-free. |
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jul 23, 2015 14:29:42 GMT -5
I wonder if Kepler-452b has intelligent life and if it does, do they have an equivalent of our Kardashians. ...On second thought, having their own version of the Kardashians does not equate intelligent life. Maybe they're more advanced than us and have figured out a way to be Kardashian-free. Hell, it'd be worth meeting aliens for that!* * I do think there's alien life out there but I'm not sure it's beyond slime and simple organisms. |
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Post by Jaguar on Jul 23, 2015 14:29:48 GMT -5
And isn't Kepler sort of disabled at the moment ?
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jul 23, 2015 14:36:24 GMT -5
I'm not willing to spend a lifetime trying to get to a "maybe" Earth although there are people who would.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 23, 2015 16:38:09 GMT -5
I wonder if Kepler-452b has intelligent life and if it does, do they have an equivalent of our Kardashians. ...On second thought, having their own version of the Kardashians does not equate intelligent life. Maybe they're more advanced than us and have figured out a way to be Kardashian-free. There is that. Maybe the leaders of the planet Zanti sent their 'Kardashians to Earth for us to destroy for them.  |
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 23, 2015 16:45:19 GMT -5
Maybe they're more advanced than us and have figured out a way to be Kardashian-free. Hell, it'd be worth meeting aliens for that!* * I do think there's alien life out there but I'm not sure it's beyond slime and simple organisms. Based upon the estimated number of stars in our galaxy (200 to 400 billion) and the estimated number of galaxies in the universe (100 to 200 billion, with some scientists even estimating up to 500 billion, I would imagine there are easily hundreds of thousands of planets with intelligence life equal to or greater than our own. The odds are in favor of that. |
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 24, 2015 6:48:23 GMT -5
Hell, it'd be worth meeting aliens for that!* * I do think there's alien life out there but I'm not sure it's beyond slime and simple organisms. Based upon the estimated number of stars in our galaxy (200 to 400 billion) and the estimated number of galaxies in the universe (100 to 200 billion, with some scientists even estimating up to 500 billion, I would imagine there are easily hundreds of thousands of planets with intelligence life equal to or greater than our own. The odds are in favor of that. I agree. I just hope we continue to fly under the radar, though. I agree with Stephen Hawking when he said if we got visited by another species it would not go good for us, kind of like what happened to the native Americans when the Europeans showed up. Our technology would be so inferior to the technology of another civilization that had mastered long distance space travel that we would end up being road kill, especially if they were interested in our planet for their own uses. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 12:32:54 GMT -5
Based upon the estimated number of stars in our galaxy (200 to 400 billion) and the estimated number of galaxies in the universe (100 to 200 billion, with some scientists even estimating up to 500 billion, I would imagine there are easily hundreds of thousands of planets with intelligence life equal to or greater than our own. The odds are in favor of that. I agree. I just hope we continue to fly under the radar, though. I agree with Stephen Hawking when he said if we got visited by another species it would not go good for us, kind of like what happened to the native Americans when the Europeans showed up. Our technology would be so inferior to the technology of another civilization that had mastered long distance space travel that we would end up being road kill, especially if they were interested in our planet for their own uses. Good chance we could be mistaken for bacteria or other non sentient indigenous life form. Depending on life form construction, or lack of. We might not even be able to perceive their presence, and visa versa. |
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