Posted on 03/25/2014 10:32:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nasa's California Ames Research Centre used data taken from the Kepler space telescope to discover a total of five planets orbiting an unnamed M1 dwarf star, stock image pictured, with one said to be around 1.1 times the size of Earth. This planet sits on the outer edge of its star's habitable zone
XOP-PING.................
Bttt
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 wouldn’t hop up and down yet shouting that we’ve found a second Earth. There are other factors, like our own Moon, that contribute greatly to habitability.
Does Bekin or Mayflower run that route? I’m ready!
If NASA has found a new “Earth”, can we (please) send all the Muzzies there?
We’ll just have to go and take a look-see.................
There are so many factors necessary for life on earth that even giving them a generous 1 in 10 chance of occurring,
the resulting odds are higher than the estimated number of stars in the universe.
They can find a planet billions and billions (a little Carl Sagan lingo) of miles away but can’t locate an airliner on the earth..................
Why would you want to pollute it?..............
I'll wait for one of these................
Stock image? Do we actually have a photo of any star besides our own that shows anything more than a point?
So I wonder if this Earth-like planet in the Goldilocks zone is more like Mars or Venus.
Do we actually have a photo of any star besides our own that shows anything more than a point?
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100106.html
OK, let’s get exploration going, and start with terraforming (if needed) and immediate colonization.
I’ve said, “I want off this planet” so many times in response to the sheer idiocy of lieberals, Communists and Muzzies so many times that someday I’m going to have to follow through on it.
This is the biggest unknown variable (how many planes have conditions capable of sustaining life) in the Drake Equation which calculates how many planets have (or have had) intelligent life.
Goldilocks will have to make her own porridge.
Two words: Tidally. Locked.
Two more: Flare. Star.
Nothing "Goldilocks" about that.
Scientists will never find another Earth in this galaxy, I predict, because they are so exceedingly rare, there might not even be another one in the Local Group. And if they do, we will never be able to go there.
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