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Scientists pleasantly surprised by number of Earth-size, distant planets
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| 2/19/11
Posted on 02/20/2011 4:36:39 PM PST by KevinDavis
Where might extraterrestrials live? The first step is figuring out what other planets out there have conditions like our own.
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope are working hard to find candidates for inhabitable planets. So far, it seems that for approximately every two stars in the galaxy, there is one possible planet, NASA's William Borucki said Saturday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: scientism; space; xplanets
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:38:00 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
To: KevinDavis
We are not alone!
But we are being left alone.
Probably because we have not matured enough to become civilized enough to be welcomed by the other civilizations.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:41:39 PM PST
by
jimfree
(In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
To: KevinDavis
Pleasantly surprised implies an agenda. This is not science.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:43:28 PM PST
by
rsobin
To: KevinDavis
To serve man.
It’s a cook book!!!
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:44:13 PM PST
by
Drango
(NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
To: KevinDavis
"Save the Earth, it's where I keep all my stuff"
"Earth First! We can log the other planets later"
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:45:20 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
To: rsobin
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:46:13 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: KevinDavis
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope are working hard to find candidates for inhabitable planets.My gosh! This is fantastic news!
Hopefully we'll throw gobs and gobs of taxpayer money at this.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:46:23 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Aroostook25
To: KevinDavis
So far, it seems that for approximately every two stars in the galaxy, there is one possible planet, "So far", "it seems", "possible". (sigh). Don't you just love the hard and fast concreteness of science. Oops. I mean, "science".
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:49:08 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: rsobin
Oh? do tell...
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:50:29 PM PST
by
starlifter
(Pullum sapit)
To: Texas Eagle; All
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:51:30 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
To: KevinDavis
Where might extraterrestrials live? The first step is figuring out what other planets out there have conditions like our own. It always bugs me that they always assume that a planet has to be "like our own" to support life. If one is to assume that we evolved to thrive in the conditions that we have here, then one needs to assume that some other lifeform could just as easily evolve to thrive in any sort of conditions.
That said, I think we're the only ones around. If we did evolve out of random conditions, then there should be nearly an infinite number of other places where the same thing happened... and surely we would have found some evidence of that somewhere by now.
To: KevinDavis
So???So, how much money does NASA want?
Or, better put, how much of my grandchildren's and yet-to-be-born great-grandchildren's money does NASA want?
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:55:04 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Aroostook25
We may be the only civilization.
In my opinion finding alien intelligence is actually a bad thing. Better to find a planet teeming with life no smarter than a chicken. We need to find life we can eat, air we can breathe, and water we can drink.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:55:19 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Texas Eagle
"So far", "it seems", "possible". (sigh). Don't you just love the hard and fast concreteness of science. Oops. I mean, "science". Planets have been detected around other stars. Whether every other star has a rocky ball orbiting it in the life-comfort zone is conjectural, but it's not an illogical conjecture.
It is far more logical than the "science" offered up by the "Jesus rode a dinosaur" types.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:57:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: cripplecreek; All
or we spread life throughout the universe and modify the human race to survive on different planets that is not like Earth.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:59:00 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
To: rsobin
I've learned to remember that science articles are generally comprised of the words of science reporters, not of the scientists themselves. I see nowhere in the article a scientist declaring himself the be "pleasently surprised"
It looks like spin from a reporter.
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posted on
02/20/2011 4:59:47 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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