NASA spots 54 potentially life-friendly planets ("Goldilocks zone" candidates)

Yahoo ^ | 2/2/11 | Seth Borenstein - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, including more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.

In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has spotted 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly, 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be hospitable to life — that is, not too hot or too cold, Kepler chief scientist William Borucki said.

[zeugma]

>They’re getting closer and closer..2,000 light years away.. *-]<

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Not to worry — we’ll find a way to travel faster than the speed of light.

I certainly hope so.  We'll either need FTL travel or zero point energy to cross the distances between the stars. Without one or the other, I just do not see how space travel could be possbile. I do not believe it is our destiny to live and die on this little blue marble.

>They’re getting closer and closer..2,000 light years away.. *-]<

.
Not to worry — we’ll find a way to travel faster than the speed of light.

I certainly hope so.  We'll either need FTL travel or zero point energy to cross the distances between the stars. Without one or the other, I just do not see how space travel could be possbile. I do not believe it is our destiny to live and die on this little blue marble.

[Bullfrogg]

I like them all!

[GlockThe Vote]

I like em thick like that.

[darth]

The perps you are thinking of ref AGW and islamobuttkissing are political appointees and senior exec service bureaucrats.

Down in the trenches are a bunch of dedicated civil servants, scientists, and engineers. Most are Republicans which is why Obozo wants to scrap the manned space program.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here’s why they probe us;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7sBTHtcLU

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2/2/2011. Thanks NormsRevenge.

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