Posted on 03/25/2014 10:32:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
The host star hasn’t been named but was identified as an M1 dwarf M dwarfs make up 70% of stars in the galaxy and are smaller than our sun Nasa astronomers found a total of five planets orbiting this unnamed host The outermost planet sits in the star’s habitable zone and may have liquid water on its surface This so-called goldilocks planet is believed to be 1.1 times the size of Earth Until now, the most Earth-like planet was Kepler-62f - 1.4 times the size Details of the new star system are due to be announced later this year
The hunt for alien life has been given a boost after scientists discovered a habitable planet almost the same size as Earth.
Astronomer Thomas Barclay from Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in California made the discovery using data collected by the Kepler space telescope.
The unnamed planet was found orbiting an unidentified star in its so-called Goldilocks zone - a region around the star that emits just enough energy, light and temperature for liquid surface water to appear.
Mr Barclay made the announcement during the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System conference in Arizona.
Using the Kepler images, Mr Barclay said he believes he has found a new star system consisting of five planets orbiting an M1 dwarf star.
M dwarfs are stars that are much smaller and dimmer than Earth’s sun, and aren’t bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
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To quote Becker and Fagen... Any world that I’m welcome to, is better than the one I come from.
Hmmmmmm................
Be sure that is the right logo!
I would bet that the US, RUSSIA and China et al have infrared detection satellites that probably did locate it, they just didn’t say anything.................
THAT was just about my first thought also!
Hey, fiction or not, it makes more sense-go there and get a colony up and running while warp drive or whatever is researched here-at the very least it shortens the distance by a few 10000 miles...
One of my favorite authors-I was given my first Heinlein book at 10-11 by a cousin, and was hooked. I don’t remember the title, but I do remember the plot-an MD with a troubled marriage and a mid-life crisis is on a fishing/hunting trip, stumbles on several humanoid aliens wakening from hibernation, throws in with them, etc...
I seem to remember a twilight zone movie where astronaut’s landed on a planet that looked like earth on the other side of the sun but was never seen because of the same orbit as earth.
Planet X? Of course, something like Voyager would have seen it.
You can bet we do and the super computers and AI programs to analyze the data.
The *spook* tech is probably well beyond my imagination now and I knew a little bit about such, back in the day :)
Could be nobody wants to show their hand on what they can do in too obvious or quick a way.
And then you have to remember we have an idiot in charge to boot, who wants this stuff to occupy the news cycle rather than *other* things.
Until we develop the capability to communicate with societies of bees, we can forget about conversing with aliens
“I said ‘BUZZ’, d*m*t!”
Well, that must mean it is a super-high clearance secret, or the “discoverer” isn’t really sure about what he has found...
It was called “Journey to the Far Side of the Sun” aka “Doppelganger”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/
I especially love his Lazarus Long series....................
In the “Firefly” universe, astronomers discovered a possibly inhabitable multi-star system in 2020, with discoveries in the following years of dozens of habitable worlds.
In 2030, ways to alter and control gravity were discovered. That year, it was also announced officially that Earth’s biosphere would not support humanity within 100 years.
By 2048, technology had developed to the point that a mass evacuation to the new start system was deemed the only possible way for mankind to survive. They built enormous ships with tech that allowed them to reach one-third of the speed of light. It still took them over 100 years to reach the new system....but they did and humanity thrived.
In reference to your post, they didn’t develop warp drive. It was based more on the “Project Orion” tech than anything else.
Oh...according to the sources for the “Firefly” universe, the last exodus ship left Earth-That-Was in 2100. IN 2110, the last telemetry from Earth ceased...they assume that the population went to zero.
Moon? Gotta have a moon for all the know reasons in atmosphere formation etcetera.
“And just how do they ascertain a “habitable zone”? There are many very narrow variables necessary to sustain life here on earth. What is the termperature there? The atmosphere?, the gravity? The level of radiation? The tilt of the planet on its axis? etc. etc.”
I wonder if people who have spent their entire lives dedicated to this field of study would think of questions like this or even better, more technical ones.
If they did it would be a pretty obvious thing to address them. Unless, of course they were just looking for headlines, government funding and requests to speak at conventions and symposiums. In which case they would avoid these obvious questions as much as possible.
Not everything is a conspiracy to defraud.
But many things are nowadays, especially when there are millions of dollars in research grants at stake.
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