Posted on 07/23/2015 11:38:14 AM PDT by ckilmer
“Bad Science: There are over 100 unique conditions for life on earth. They like to take just 3 of 4 and imply its the equivalent of earth...”
As I read the article the scientist said to the effect that it was probably devoid of life and water.
Oh, we can see it. We just can’t get there from here.....................
Blasted into space from their sun’s radiation over millenia.....................
Wow! What an amazing coincidence, the Kepler spacecraft found the only “habitable” planet, Kepler 452-b!
Artist impression of the surface of the Earth-like Kepler 452b
1400 light years? Time to pack up and head there in the Hyundai. B-)
I know who we can send! Doesn’t everyone...?
I would have thought the gravitational pull would keep the vapor around the planet.
Exactly mount that on a ship.
Seeds, spores, bacteria, anything that might be needed to help the planet become hospital for man.
Unfortunately the Speed of Light severely limits the transition time.......................
The radiation from their sun breaks apart the water molecules into gases of hydrogen and oxygen.
A constant pressure form the radiation will eventually strip molecules and atoms form the planet’s atmosphere, one at a time.
http://gizmodo.com/5882517/did-you-know-that-earth-is-getting-lighter-every-day
“1,400 light years away? Ok, its mildly interesting, but its not breaking, its not even useful.”
1,400 (light) years...
NASA muslim outreach....
Koran fragment in America reported yesterday to be just about that old....
Pedophile Muhammed right around that time, too.
Might be interesting to Hussein’s unintelligent media whores and “chosen” people....
Has anyone seen the SS Botany Bay lately....
KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give me more funding and I'll keep repeating that statement.
Hmm lets send Sheila Jackson Lee. Send her at voyager speed (39,000 mph) she should get there in about 24 million years.
Cause the Sun don't cause no global warmin'. Didn't you get the memo?
The most “Earth-like” planet ever discovered is almost exactly the same size and mass as Earth and orbits at the edge of the “habitable zone” of an identical star.
It is called the planet Venus.
I strongly suspect that most “Earth-like” exoplanets are actually far more “Venus-like.”
Size, mass and orbit in the “habitable zone” of a star are only three of an infinite number of factors that have to all coincide for a planet to be even potentially habitable for microbes and bacteria. Other big factors include a solar system containing significant amounts of the full range of heavy elements, a planet with a liquid metal core that generates a significant magnetic field, a relatively large moon to generate tides and block some of the near planet asteroids and comets, large gas giants in the outer solar system blocking most of the rest of the asteroids and comets, no stars going super-nova within 100 light years and spitting out significant amounts of x-rays and cosmic radiation, etc., etc.
“Well as soon as we invent a warp drive, Hyperspace drive, or find some Spice to bend space well have a go..................”
As I watch the United States decline, I am more than pessimistic about mankind’s future. We’ve scaled down our space program, and we’re cranking out generations of lazy, stupid citizens.
It seems to me the only thing humans are really good at is killing each other. The only way we’ll invent some kind of faster than light travel is purely by luck of having an underfunded genius making the discovery.
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