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WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.Astronomers announced Tuesday that depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold "Goldilocks Zone" for liquid water to form.
These planets are likely to be rocky like Earth, and not gas giants or ice worlds. They get about the same heat from their star as we get from the sun, according to the latest results from NASA's planet hunting Kepler telescope.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2fcd86deef1d4e63849ea03f67bd66a7/astronomers-earth-youve-got-some-newly-found-near-twins
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...
As long as they have wifi, I'll pack my bags.
I would wait a bit. I hear their behind on their Network technology.
56k dial up on Windows 95.
Its allot like the 90s I hear
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...
We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it.
And that's just in Our galaxy.The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday. Astronomers reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, based on a new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.
One out of every five sunlike stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold — where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water, according to a herculean three-year calculation based on data from the Kepler spacecraft by Erik Petigura, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. [.....] “It seems that the universe produces Plentiful real estate for life that somehow resembles life on Earth,” ...
I would wait a bit. I hear their behind on their Network technology.
56k dial up on Windows 95.
Its allot like the 90s I hear
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...
Baffled as to this 'Breaking News' even tho it's a new article.
I posted this in the 'Science' Section more than a Year ago.
11/6/13
http://www.debatepolitics.com/scien...ns-far-off-planets-like-earth-dot-galaxy.html
Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...ets-that-could-be-like-earth.html?src=me&_r=0
And that's just in Our galaxy.
40 Billion Planets x 200 Billion Galaxies = 8 Trillion Earth Like Planets.
I wonder what will happen when we eventually bump into another alien civilization. We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it. What happens when we do find them or they find us? It would put a lot of religions under scrutiny if they've never heard of any earthly gods.
Are they like Mars or Venus?? Do they have a large moon to stabilize their atmosphere?? Does their solar system have enough gas giants to protect them from too many comets/asteroid impacts while allowing enough for water to accumulate??
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...
Still no reason to believe life exists there.
:lamo
I am going to guess it is breaking news since the discovery of these particular planets is new. Your thread was about the potential. Actual planets is not the same as potential planets...
Every reason to believe it. Just as much as here.
As the article says, the conditions exist that life here on Earth could have developed so there's every chance that life did so on those. If you observe life on Earth, life has developed, against all odds in and with amazing adaptations, in every single extreme environment that exists, except a vacuum.
If you say so. I'll stick to reality.
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.
Are they like Mars or Venus?? Do they have a large moon to stabilize their atmosphere?? Does their solar system have enough gas giants to protect them from too many comets/asteroid impacts while allowing enough for water to accumulate??
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.
I wonder what will happen when we eventually bump into another alien civilization. We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it. What happens when we do find them or they find us? It would put a lot of religions under scrutiny if they've never heard of any earthly gods.
Still no reason to believe life exists there.
:lamo
I don't think there's any reason to laugh at him for it, but you're right, Paleocon, that there is absolutely no reason to think that there is any other life in the universe. It is unscientific and purely wishful thinking.
It is fallacious reasoning to think that vast number of planets means there is a high likelihood that one of them contains life, when we have no idea what the likelihood is that abiogenesis might occur on a given planet. It is equally possible that life on Earth is unique.
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