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NASA’s TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its First Earth-Size World in “Habitable Zone”
Scientific American ^ | January 7, 2020 | Mike Wall

Posted on 01/09/2020 10:30:28 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 01/09/2020 10:30:28 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

We hear you the 1st time :-)


2 posted on 01/09/2020 10:30:54 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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This article has a lot more info and more scientific stuff than Popular Mechanics..................


3 posted on 01/09/2020 10:32:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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The thing I find funny about this is that if it were circling some other star, Venus would be identified as “earth like” by this satellite and Nasa.


4 posted on 01/09/2020 10:33:22 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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True, but until they can study the light passing thru the planet’s atmosphere they cannot tell us what kind of gases are there.............................


5 posted on 01/09/2020 10:34:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Oh ok only 101 Light years.


6 posted on 01/09/2020 10:34:34 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)
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Literally next door!.................


7 posted on 01/09/2020 10:34:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Yeah,, I’m sure we will get that FTL drive on line soon. Wait what we can’t even get or own Astronauts to the ISS.


8 posted on 01/09/2020 10:37:42 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)
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And the funny part is that Mars and Venus have the same percentage of CO2 in their atmospheres, but we are only seriously thinking about sending manned spacecraft to one of them. ;)


9 posted on 01/09/2020 10:37:49 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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I have to sway this, because the way the world is evolving under Trump is so amazing, that you have to think it’s pre-ordained. He is speaking a philosophy to all people of the world, that they should be free, happy and productive and live the good life. I think you can hear that when he speaks like yesterday to Iran, and in the past to NK and even China...and at the same time, he pushes back against the Bolton’s around him.

THIS IS WHY, I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE EXTRA-TERESTRIAL CONTACT WHILE HE IS PRESIDENT.


10 posted on 01/09/2020 10:39:34 AM PST by nikos1121
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The thing I find funny about this is that if it were circling some other star, Venus would be identified as “earth like” by this satellite and Nasa.

Correct, Venus and Mars are both in the 'habitable zone' for planets.

This rock goes around it's parent sun every 37 days......not much chance of a stable atmosphere and it would be a gravitational nightmare.

11 posted on 01/09/2020 10:40:46 AM PST by Wizdum
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Well, a surface temperature of 900° F and the pressure is 93 bar (9.3 MPa), roughly the pressure found 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth, might have something to do with that.........


12 posted on 01/09/2020 10:42:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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It’s right around the corner!..............


13 posted on 01/09/2020 10:44:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Related. I’m thinking it’s just us, Pa...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/earth-may-be-a-1-in-700-quintillion-kind-of-place

https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/odds-were-only-technologically-advanced-species-universe-are-extremely-low-180958975/

https://manyworlds.space/2019/06/14/exoplanets-with-complex-life-may-be-very-rare-indeed/


14 posted on 01/09/2020 10:47:17 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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a stone’s throw


15 posted on 01/09/2020 10:50:58 AM PST by C210N
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Yeah. I like to call it out to climate alarmists. It’s not CO2 that makes venus hot. It’s atmospheric pressure.

Same with Jupiter.


16 posted on 01/09/2020 10:52:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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That and Sulfuric acid clouds...............


17 posted on 01/09/2020 10:53:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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C’mon man, almost every planet Enterprise visited had breathable air and all the aliens spoke English.

Find one of those, these planets seem to be duds! /s


18 posted on 01/09/2020 10:57:25 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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With the billions and billions and billions of planets out there, find one just like earth or don’t bother me.


19 posted on 01/09/2020 10:58:42 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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And they could get there in less than an hour!...............


20 posted on 01/09/2020 11:02:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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