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Kepler-62f: A Possible Water World
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| January 2, 2014
| Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 01/05/2014 7:42:47 PM PST by lbryce
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I find it really annoying about the way the media talks up the the discovery of possible Earth-like habitable planets as if they were a few hours space trip away. First is the breathless way they discuss it as if there might be a thriving civilization in which to exchange email or an instagram or two. Secondly, as a possible refuge from Earth when Global Warming drowns the planet in melted icebergs, then boils off the water leaving a globe of dust behind. The distance to any Earth like world boggles the mind in having to ovrcome the technological hindrances required even for the simplest decades or longer exchange of greetings. It's just a fantasy to ever think we could manage to seek out new life, new civilizations when you can hardly get there at least in less than a century or two with present technology.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:42:47 PM PST
by
lbryce
To: SunkenCiv
Your planet is waiting for you.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:43:22 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: lbryce
Every time we find out something new about our own earth, I reflect on how much they seem to know about planets 1200 light years away.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:46:38 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(ZERO is still zero!)
To: lbryce
a) Luminosity of this star is 0.21 of the Sun. Ice world, not waterworld.
b) We will NEVER know if the Creator made life there or not. Not in this life.
To: lbryce
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:49:36 PM PST
by
struggle
To: lbryce
And only 1200 light years away, too.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:52:39 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: lbryce
Maybe you think that it is a fantasy, but I believe there are others out there. Yes, I do believe in UFOs.
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posted on
01/05/2014 7:59:08 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(2014 the year of dead RINOs)
To: lbryce
you get it right? the godless leftists need nothing so much as the discovery of life on another planet to buttress their evolutionary, psuedo “scientific” claims about the “origin of species or life (really the mis-application of one method of inferring history by historical consensus, and absolutely not true, replicable popperian science). discovering life on another planet is the only way they can achieve any similitude to the replication of result required by true science.
they believe it would simultaneously “prove” their claims about evolution while refuting the Bible. it is one of the leftists’ “holy” grails and at the foundation of their belief system.
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:02:14 PM PST
by
dadfly
To: lbryce
Even if astronomers can confirm water on another planet outside of our solar system what’ll we do then? It’s not like we can just jump in our Millenium Winnebagos and check it out.
Why don’t we dedicate more of our time and resources finding water and possible life here in the Sol system?
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:03:47 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: lbryce
>> It’s just a fantasy ... with present technology.
The inevitable precursor to innovation.
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:06:12 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: lbryce
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:07:46 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: lbryce
Oh, I don’t know. If islam does not drag us back into the Stone Age or some other (most likely self-inflicted) calamity does not shut down the progress of our (Western) culture, in a few hundred years I bet we crack the “warp drive” problem. There actually is some serious science laying the groundwork now. The energy requirements are WAY beyond anything we can generate, but eventually we’ll get out there.
Alternatives include hibernation and automated exploration.
Bottom line: The human race just may make it to these exo-planets. Of course, if humans do, it will be well after we personally are all gone and dust...
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:08:56 PM PST
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: dadfly
I bet if we do find aliens, they celebrate things that looks a lot like our Christmas and Easter. After all, there is only one Creator. So if life is not unique to this ball of dirt (Earth), why would His grace be?
Now wouldn’t that make the libs heads explode? LOL.
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:11:45 PM PST
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: lbryce
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:16:16 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: dadfly
How would finding life on another planet refute the bible? The bible doesn't speak about life on other planets, or cell phones, or anti-biotics. It just doesn't apply.
/johnny
To: JoeProBono
I was surprised it took 11 posts for the first reference to one of the worst movies, EVER; and certainly about the biggest box office bust of all time.
To: struggle
what the heck was that?
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:48:32 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:49:22 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: lbryce
You were wise to add ‘at least with present technology’.
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:54:49 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: piytar
Shucks, we don’t even know if Efram Cochran has been born yet! Tapping the zero point field may be just in this decade.
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posted on
01/05/2014 8:59:06 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
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