Posted on 07/23/2015 10:17:08 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Earth mk2.
Actually we are probably Kepler-452b mk2 :)
Sounds like a good home for all liberals.
More likely it is Venus mk2.
XO-Planet Ping!.........................
There you go. 1500 light years out is basically right on top of us.
This again seems to establish our galaxy region alone likely is home to thousands of planets similar to earth. The universe could have hundreds of billions of earth like planets.
After watching Interstellar, I’m a little more pessimistic about space travel. Unless we have time-travelling descendants giving us a wormhole to travel to these places, we’re in for a loooong trip.
If you can get up to a decent fraction of the speed of light with time dilation it would take I believe one generation aboard the ship to reach this Earth like planet although it would thousands of years in Earth time.
Basically right on top of us. If Voyager was headed in that direction it would only take 26.6 million more years to get there.
NASA Budget time ping!
There should have been millions of ‘voices’ out there... billions and billions as Carl Sagan would say... And there’s not. Something doesn’t add up...
Btw. I was watching the NASA presser.
They said SETI had surveyed the system, but no radio signals detected...
See post 11....
Makes it easier for SETI to decide which stars to monitor.
Just a hunch but I’d bet a cup of coffee there are likely a whole lot of planetary systems scattered over the entire universe which are near duplicates of earth.
It would be pretty close to impossible to get actual radio signals from another solar system. By the time it got to us it would be so diffused that it’d be indistinguishable from background noise.
Sure we can “hear” stars and such, but what is the chance of an alien species putting that much power into a broadcast... not much.
A Dead World , last controlled by Liberals ?
They do not want to have anything to do with us.
Then again, we've only used them for 90 years, and will probably move most transmissions to closed circuit media soon.
So there may be only about a century long "window" of transmissions.
The Earth and Sun are younger so in about 6 billion years when our sun begins to die that exoplanet won’t be a viable habitat for earthlings. Secondly, it is estimated that in about 3 billion years the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda galaxy, so again will not prove to be a viable habitat for the human race.
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