Second Earth Found? Location Is Promising

FOX News ^ | December 05, 2011

[crz]

Planet Goreon. Less send Gore up to find out if there is actually life there. He is fat enough to last the entire trip.

[Iron Munro]

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

It means that all they really know is that Kepler-22b (or something) was there 600 years ago.

[presidio9]

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

Unless you cling to the irrational belief that we were created in Someone's image and put here, that is.

[mikrofon]

The host star lies about 600 light-years away from us . . .toward the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus

Vegan ET's?

[kennedy]

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

No weekend trips?

It's well into the 21st Century and I still don't have a flying car. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for warp engines.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I think there is an equation used to predict the number of Class M planets in the galaxy. Then again, I haven’t seen a Trek classic episode in a long time, and may not be remembering correctly.

But as far as possibility of life elsewhere, we shouldn’t limit ourselves to carbon based life. There was one Star Trek episode which had a silicon based life form.

[presidio9]

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

Actually that might be a question better posed to Mitt Romney, and he supporters are no longer welcome on this website.

[Antonello]

I doubt very much that this ‘Kepler-22b’ call itself Kepler-22b. Would you?

I wonder what they call us....

[presidio9]

There was one Star Trek episode which had a silicon based life form.

"The PAIN!!!" - Mr. Spock, speaking for the horta.

[MeganC]

‘Earthlike’ doesn’t include the crushing gravitational field this planet would have.

[Jack Hydrazine]

If I name-it-and-claim-it or blab-it-and-grab-it does that mean I get to own it? I can start selling property there! I’d call it Planet FreeRepublic where only conservatives are allowed.

Send in your application and down payment now while prices are still low!

[cripplecreek]

I think there is an equation used to predict the number of Class M planets in the galaxy.

The Drake equation.

[Hammerhead]

Its still shorter than my weekday commute here in Northern VA.

[cripplecreek]

2.4 times the mass of earth would make my skinny butt a heavy boy. Just guessing but I think I would weigh some 400 lbs there.

[vbmoneyspender]

This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life . . .

My prediction is that life will be found in the crust and/or mantle of any rocky planet that has internal heat. If such a planet has deep oceans, then that will provide sufficient protection for life to move from the crust to the oceans. And if a planet has a sufficiently robust atmosphere, then that will allow life to eventually colonize land.

[onedoug]

God thinks it´s important too.

[Texas Songwriter]

.....artist's conception....Kepler was not photographed so much as implied...

water could exist....

a quest for alien life.....

...supports the idea of a universe suffused with life...

....suggests a pleasing, balmy surface temperature

THIS IS A MILESTONE.

This reads like a Marvel Superman comic book. It is not suffused with science and fact. It is simply imaginings.

[Revolting cat!]

Sign me up if their babes looks like this!

[airborne]

Muslims have claimed the planet as a holy site, and are outraged that infidels are drawing pictures of it!