Second Earth Found? Location Is Promising

FOX News ^ | December 05, 2011

[JPG]

Mr. Sulu, lay in a course for Kepler-22b, warp factor 9.

[oh8eleven]

Location Is Promising
Promising for who or what?
Only NASA could give a $hit, and then only so they can spend waste more billions of taxpayers' money.
How's that Mooslimb outreach thingy working out?

[RitchieAprile]

Real estate brokers pitching in for a space ride.

[Hot Tabasco]

Suggesting this little planet is the only one out of trillions which can support life or harbors life.

Only because it's in da hood.......

[Vendome]

I’m ready to move.

I’ll chip in for the moving van.

[sodpoodle]

***I wish these science writers would tone down the use of the term “earthlike” and its related forms.***

Lazy language;)

There are undiscovered life-forms in the deep oceans we cannot even imagine.

Without a moon there will be no tides and without humans no global warming;) Does that help?

[Proud2BeRight]

“Are you kidding? 600 light years away. do you understand what that means?”

Yes, A weekend get-away there will be out of the question.

[Vendome]

I’m ready to move.

I’ll chip in for the moving van.

[Don Corleone]

Lets go there. There isn’t any intelligent life here.

[af_vet_rr]

Funny how earthlings appoint so much importance to this tiny planet....Suggesting this little planet is the only one out of trillions which can support life or harbors life.

Yes, and it's a very arrogant belief in some ways that we are the only planet with life.

[steve86]

Are you kidding? 600 light years away. do you understand what that means?

Sure, a probe going a 100 times the speed of light only takes six years to get there.

[G Larry]

Ah....
A perfect location to transplant all Socialists and Communists from planet earth!
They can write once they’ve got it working up there.....

[cripplecreek]

JPL’s planetquest lists 687 known exoplanets and exactly 0 earthlike planets.

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

[Hot Tabasco]

Only NASA could give a $hit, and then only so they can spend waste more billions of taxpayers' money.

It's a given then, no NASA, no $hit, no money no exploration..........we're stuck here and you're happy.

[kennedy]

The most “Earth-like” planet ever discovered is called Venus.

It is almost exactly the same size and composition and relatively close to the same orbit. But for the lack of a magnetic field and a moon, Venus might very well have harbored life. Or not. Until we actually discover life on another planet, there is simply no way to tell if the evolution of life is commonplace in the universe or if it requires a million different conditions all occurring on Earth.

[af_vet_rr]

A lot of us care about this stuff, even if this is planet is out of our reach. America was at our best when we were a nation of explorers and pioneers. Now we are a nation of settlers.

We used the tools that God gave us to go to the Moon, and then we retreated.

[JPX2011]

Yeah, but are the Keplerites conservative?

[yup2394871293]

It’s mine. None of you can have it.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, as Aldous Huxley once speculated, maybe the Earth is hell of another planet. Have we at last found that planet?

[cripplecreek]

Agreed. God wants us to learn and strive.