Posted on 07/26/2010 5:45:23 PM PDT by KevinDavis
SCIENTISTS are celebrating the discovery of more than 700 suspected new planets - including up to 140 similar in size to Earth - in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.
Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought.
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Not beelions like Carl Sagan said?
And now we know why Obama wants to end NASA’s manned space flight missions.. His Marxist dictatorship will need as many slaves as it can find.. He’ll not want ANYONE to leave. We’re STUCK here on Earth.
Now all we have to do is talk to them.
Seriously though, they are a long way off from confirming any of the probable hits. That number could go way down.
Sweet!
Kepler was a brilliant mission idea that appears to have been very well executed.
Bullcrap. ‘Habitable’ doesn’t mean a bunch of hot Jupiters or pitiful little rocks orbiting flare stars, like we’ve seen of extrasolar planets thus far. There have been NO terrestrial extrasolar planets found, and certainly none in the circumstellar habitable zone of a stable yellow G2 star. ZIP, ZERO, NADA. Perhaps one will be detected, but if you believe astronomers Ward and Brownlee (and I do, read their book “Rare Earth”), Earth is the ONLY planet of its kind in the galaxy, or even the Local Group, or maybe in the entire universe.
Fermi paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Zoo hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
Wow! signal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Exotic Civilizations: A Possible Answer To Fermi’s Paradox
http://astranaut.org/library/exotic-civilizations-beyond-ka.php
Drake equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Fleeing from Liberal Tyranny, the last Battlestar America leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest..
Class M?
“Hi, I’m with Centauri 21 Real Estate. Can I interest you in a lovely timeshare near a binary system?”
Yeah, I have some hope and change to sell you...
People like you have been proven wrong...
What type of property I can get with no down payment???
Only humans that assign high self importance to themselves, with a flat earth beliefs would buy earth is the only planet in the universe that harbors life. I don't subscribe to those dark age ideas.
“Only humans that assign high self importance to themselves, with a flat earth beliefs would buy earth is the only planet in the universe that harbors life. I don’t subscribe to those dark age ideas.”
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Obviously you’re not much on reading God’s word.
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