Exciting Hints from the Hunt for Habitable Planets

Desert News ^ | 08/07/10 | Joe Bauman

[KevinDavis]

NASA announced some preliminary results of studies by its Kepler probe on June 15: the probe's camera chips had pointed out 706 potential planets in its first 43 days of operation. Though NASA has been issuing cautionary comments, this is thrilling.

These are in addition to five planets that were announced earlier by the project, places where life seems extremely unlikely.

[KevinDavis]

Dear lord, all I ask for is a new home in Alpha Centauri...

[KevinDavis]

[17th Miss Regt]

There goes the neighborhood!

[Candor7]

Reading the article and the way the Kepler prob works, it will take a few more years before the more likley habotable planets are detected,. This is beccause the more habitable planets are arth distace from their stars, and eclipse their star but once a year.Kepler needs two such eclipses to notice.

Most of the early data is from planets close to their stars, whipping around them rather quickly, and providing multiple eclipses.

Nasa just wants to find a Muslim planet anyway, thats the PR, maybe Dune or a similar planet.We can send them all off
ASAP.

[SampleMan]

Let's pick one for the commies, pack them up into giant space-projects welfare ships, and send them on a one way trip. They can then run each others lives without protest and preserve their new planet in its pristine condition. A real workers (slackers) utopia.

They won't make it halfway before some of them decide to riot and burn their own living quarters in protest.

Ah, what a beautiful thought.

[paulycy]

I’m moving to the Big Rock Candy Planet.

[SampleMan]

I can't believe that NASA is wasting money like this on something that has nothing to do with its primary mission.

Seriously, has this made even one muslim feel better about themselves?

[Willie Green]

Dear lord, all I ask for is a new home in Alpha Centauri...

For interstellar travel of distances less than 10 light years,
Amtrak's Space Train is more fuel efficient than a starship, yet more spacious and comfortable than your personal capsule.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

I doubt there is life as we know anywhere else in the universe.

The Copernican principle is false.

[GeronL]

bump

What is wrong with Proxima Centauri. Is it too ghetto for you?

[KevinDavis]

LOL!!!

[GeronL]

Little green four-fingered aliens in da hood, dawg

:)

[KevinDavis]

That is the problem.. I don’t like little green four fingered aliens...

[GeronL]

lol

[DownInFlames]

The ET’s are going to love us. Brining more trailer trash from Earth to one of their neighborhoods.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There are 100-billion stars in the Milky Way, some galaxies have over a trillion, and there are at least that many galaxies in the universe.

Of course there is other intelligent life in the universe, but we'll never find them, and they'll never find us.

[UCANSEE2]

If you don’t know of this website, (looks like you do), then you probably will like seeing it.

http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm

[UCANSEE2]

I doubt there is life as we know anywhere else in the universe.

That "as we know" part is a real stickler.

Now.... life .... exists everywhere else in the Universe.

When we look in the sky and see the stars, every single one of them is life. They are the source of life for whatever surrounds them.

Our 'star' is the source of life. It is life.

What 'grows' as a result of that light, that source of life, is another story.

We have yet to find and understand all the forms of life that exist on the Earth.

I would like to see us do that before we have the audacity to think we would recognize 'life' on a planet in a system so far away we can not conceivably get there.

[Bratch]

How 'bout green Orion slave girls?

[UCANSEE2]

Your coach awaits.