A diagram comparing our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first 'habitable zone' planet discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Kepler-22b, the most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. Kepler-22b joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface - among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth.
Photo Illustration/Ames/JPL-Caltech/NASA/Reuters
To: Red Badger
Okay all you seniors....Florida is out....This is where they’re shipping you!!
To: Red Badger
They don’t know what’s there NOW !
All they know is what WAS there in the earth year 1411. Columbus hadn’t even sailed to America yet.
To: Red Badger
While I find discoveries like this to be quite interesting, I find the expense to be stupid and a huge waste.
We'll never get there.
4 posted on
12/06/2011 6:51:06 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Red Badger
We are almost thereAre we there yet? I have to go to the bathroom!
5 posted on
12/06/2011 6:51:15 AM PST by
frithguild
(Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
To: Red Badger
This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history, It's also a significant discovery supporting Darwin's theory of evolution.
To: Red Badger
One small problem. This planet is 620 light years away. It will take generation in space travel and a new generation of spacecraft to achieve star travel.
To: Red Badger
It sounds like a LOVELY place for all the libs to start setting up and working on their ‘utopia’. They won’t drill, allow motorized vehicles of any kind, no incandescent bulbs, and on and on. I personally vow NOT to interfere with my conservative principles. It will be THEIR PLANET to manage as they see fit. They can even allow illegal immigration from other nearby planets, if they so choose.
We conservatives will stay here on the ‘polluted’ Earth with our nasty cars, nuclear plants, oil rigs, industry, farms, jobs, guns, the American Flag, and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
16 posted on
12/06/2011 7:12:00 AM PST by
Mich Patriot
(I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. Ronald Reagan)
To: Red Badger
28 posted on
12/06/2011 7:57:33 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg
Cool.
They need to invent warp drive already.
37 posted on
12/06/2011 6:01:16 PM PST by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
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