WHOOPS - might want to try another planet
Haaaarcoooourt!!
Posted on 05/11/2015 1:42:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In recent years, NASA's Kepler space telescope and other observatories have discovered more than 1,800 extra-solar planets, with thousands of additional "candidate" planets awaiting confirmation. Current technology is nowhere near able to allow quick intergalactic travel, but if you somehow wound up on an Earth-size alien world, what would you experience?
Last year, scientists announced the discovery of Kepler-186f — the first Earth-size exoplanet found in its star's habitable zone, the region of space in a planetary system where liquid water (and, therefore, life) could exist.
"The star [Kepler-186] is about half the size and about half the mass of the sun, so it's dimmer than the sun," said NASA and SETI scientist Elisa Quintana, lead researcher of the group that discovered Kepler-186f. However, the exoplanet is only 32.5 million miles (52.4 million kilometers) from its star, whereas Earth is 93 million miles (150 million km) from the sun, she noted.
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That's only if you're wearing a red shirt.
Wow I should have read all the comments first.
The tricorder has a built-in translation device.
You only THINK they are speaking English.
However, the dancing green slave girls are quite fetching, are they not?
:’)
The massive amounts of radar we put out for weather and navigation are actually the strongest frequency we put out not overwhelmed by the Sun and Jupiter, barring the digital satellite uplinks, but those satellite broadcasts to an alien would be like an ultra-small lighthouse beam that isn’t even every day for many venues (like football games).
You can only count on two things here:
1) Gods creation is so large, it’s very probable there is other life in the galaxy and beyond.
2) As soon as said life is discovered, they will be registered to vote democrat.
And every planet, with very few exceptions, has a breathable atmosphere at a “shirtsleeve” comfortable temperature.
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