Breaking: Discovery of ‘Habitable’ Earth-Like Planet Announced

observer.com ^ | 07/23/15 12:20pm | Robin Seemangal

[ckilmer]

ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

“The increasing energy from its aging sun might be heating the surface and evaporating any oceans. The water vapor would be lost from the planet forever,” said Doug Caldwell, a SETI scientist assigned to the Kepler mission. “Kepler 452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years from now, as the Sun ages and grows brighter.”

So we're worried about minute increases in carbon dioxide WHY again?

[Seruzawa]

Newsflash. With trillions of stars in the universe or maybe quintillions, no one knows since, there are billions of inhabitable worlds.

[gaijin]

That photo is EXACTLY like the front cover of Popular Mechanics:

Huuuuuge draw, and then NOTHING but that photo and ONE paragraph on the story inside (for which there is no page number).

[cripplecreek]

Well its in the goldilocks zone and is a bit larger than earth but we really don’t know much more.

[DannyTN]

Send a seed ship.

[Moonman62]

So we’re worried about minute increases in carbon dioxide WHY again?

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So we can a have a more massive government to regulate CO2.

[brownsfan]

1,400 light years away? Ok, it’s mildly interesting, but it’s not “breaking”, it’s not even useful.

[SkyDancer]

Wouldn’t the water vapor just stay in the atmosphere? Where would it go?

[Ghost of SVR4]

1,400 light years away? Ok, it’s mildly interesting, but it’s not “breaking”, it’s not even useful.

Given that we are first seeing this planet as it was 1400 years ago, it might not even be around anymore for all we know.

[ryan71]

Really? Thousands of parameters, “just right”? No.

[Mechanicos]

Bad Science: There are over 100 unique conditions for life on earth. They like to take just 3 of 4 and imply its the equivalent of earth...

[b4its2late]

Unless we get a Star Trek ship and do a lotta warp speed burnouts.

[BlueLancer]

"Send a seed ship"

[Red Badger]

Only 1,400 light-years away..............We’ll leave tomorrow....................

[exnavy]

1400 light years away, no one alive today will ever see it.

[b4its2late]

Good point. Or they may already have had an Obama like leader that screwed up their planet and sent it into chaos.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well having watched Star Trek, we know there are numerous Class M planets throughout the galaxy. And they all have humanoid life, and the humanoid beings all speak English.

[Red Badger]

Well as soon as we invent a warp drive, Hyperspace drive, or find some Spice to bend space we’ll have a go..................