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Posted on 04/17/2014 11:51:49 AM PDT by lbryce
NASA will hold a live news teleconference on Thursday, April 17, at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PT/1800 GMT) to unveil a new discover by the Kepler space telescope, which hunts alien planets beyond our solar system. Full Story: Found! First Earth-Size Planet That Could Support Life, Gallery
Video: New Earth-Size Planet Could Have Water
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Top Story: Found! First Earth-Size Planet That Could Support Life
Video: New Earth-Size Planet Could Have Water Earth-Size Planet Kepler-186f, a Possibly Habitable Alien World (Gallery) Exoplanet Kepler-186f: Earth-Size World Could Support Oceans and Life (Infographic)
From SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak: Cousin of Earth: Planet Kepler-186f May Be Habitable for Life (Op-Ed)
The 7th symbol (originating location) is ^
But it will still do you no good if there isn’t a gate there as well....................
So,..find the gate.
There’s one there somewhere. There always is.....................
space.com adds hype to NASA’s hype. space.com always includes an artist’s concept, that is amusing but useless.
I understand how NASA finds exoplanets (there are other methods, but you’ve explained the most common), and the method is loaded with the potential for errors.
I also understand that “habitable” only means that the surface temperature of the potential exoplanet has the potential to have liquid water. Both Venus and Mars are in that zone as well, and they meet the criteria of “earth-sized” as well.
This exercise will simply narrow the stars that should be examined as better technology becomes available.
IMO, NASA could have spent the money better. But they need to make headlines.
That planet could possibly support lifeforms beyond single-cell organisms. But how far beyond single-cell organisms?
Enlarge the picture and you can see clouds, sea, and land just like earth. I wonder if that’s where UFOs come from. If so, I always wandered what kind of society and government they would have if there was intelligent life on another planet..
there are way too many qualifiers to this. it’s not fact. it’s masturbatory speculation. so many “could’s” I find it hard when this passes for genuine science news of actual discoveries.
could, may, might, maybe, potentially, imagine, possibly, - this is all what makes up these bombshell “science” stories today.
Beware. It is the planet KLINGON!!!
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I haven’t seen any NASA pontifications of mermaids, champagne or gardens of Edens. Lots of ifs and maybes though. Slight correction, I think this exoplanet is 490 light years away, but thats nit picking. We’ll never get their wether its 40 or 490, except for the hopes of true believers in space folding, warp drives or artificial wormholes.
While SETI can listen, if it’s an older system, we’ll probably not hear anything IF intelligent life developed, but if we use Earth as an example, I doubt there will be intelligent life. I expect however some nice single celled creatures or maybe a slim mold ( not Bill Clinton ) or some rudimentary scrub plant life ( Not Joe Biden ).
The push will be for a new big and shiny space telescope array, which I don’t have a problem with. Go for it and look, can’t hurt.
As far as Muslims in space, can’t happen. Some Imam put out a Fatwa saying no to space travel....we’re stuck with them till we can leave the planet ourselves via space folding, warp drive or artificial wormholes.
Live long and prosper.
“Cap’n! It’ll take us 500 years to get there, even at warp speed!”
“We don’t 500 years!”
“I’m givin’ it all she’s got!”
“That won’t do; we’ve got to get there faster!”
“Aye-aye, Cap’n. We’ll be there after the next ad break.”
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