[SC_Pete]

Maybe we’ll lizards with big brains! Oh yeah—career politicians.

[Boogieman]

I predict we’ll eventually learn that none of them have life, and we’ll likely never visit a single one.

[Mr. K]

considering almost everything we see in our own backyard has a moon circling it, it is more likely closer to 100% of the suns have planets, and many of those planets have moons

[cripplecreek]

You realized what you’ve started?

[mountainlion]

There are about 140 unique properties of earth that make life possible. When I see a planet with two properties I am totally unimpressed.

[Triple]

22% seems like a very high percentage of sun like stars that have potentially life sustaining planets.

What percentage of stars are ‘sun like’? (If this number is small, it makes more sense to me.)

[cicero2k]

Per the report, the nearest alternate “earth” is 12 light years away.

The report asked the question: why are other intelligence just observing?

Oh, the Heisenberg name comes to mind again.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There are numerous Class M planets in the galaxy. Most of them have humanoid inhabitants. And these aliens all speak English. They also have attractive females who catch the eye of Captain Kirk.

[null and void]

For you to poo-poo and deny...

[skinkinthegrass]

science ping
thanks, for the post.

[hadaclueonce]

Sounds like another place that Obama can go to continue his, America was wrong in the past tour.

[Heartlander]

CLASSIC SCI-FI: THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT

[editor-surveyor]

>> “If the stars in the Kepler field are representative of stars in the solar neighborhood, then the nearest (Earth-size) planet is expected to orbit a star that is less than 12 light-years from Earth and can be seen by the unaided eye.” <<

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What an incredibly stupid statement!

[StormEye]

"But Marcy also cautioned that Earth-size planets in Earth-size orbits are not necessarily hospitable to life, even if they orbit in the habitable zone of a star where the temperature is not too hot and not too cold."

It doesn't matter if there are Earth sized planets suitable for human life around distant stars. Why? Because there is no way to get to them.

"Star Trek" is a fantasy. "Warp Drive" is a fantasy. Maybe someday these sorts of things may be invented. But the dumbed down, politically correct, Obama/Marxist-Democrat Party operated educational system now in effect America, doesn't produce the sort of minds necessary to invent such things. Hopefully the future will be different.

[mrsmith]

They find appropriate planets around 1/5 of the K stars and none of the G stars so they extrapolate that there are appropriate planets around 1/5 of the G stars...

Maybe they’re in the wrong line of work.