[2ndDivisionVet]

Is this as big as it sounds?

[cableguymn]

I don’t know. but they wrongly assume that conditions would have to be earth like for life to live.

I call BS on that.

They would only have to be earth like for US to live there.

[AlexW]

“Is this as big as it sounds?”
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What is so big about it?
It is only logical that there are other “earth like” planets
in the universe.

Before one gets al excited and thinks this explains ET and
all the UFO tails on Kook to Kook, keep in mind that EVEN IF
they could travel the speed of light, it would take them 600 years to just get here.

Even as far back as the mid fifties it was “speculated” that
a planet could exist as close as 11 light years away.
Radio enthusiast were told to listen for signals, as it had been 22 years since high powered TV transmissions had started.
The theory was that 11 years for those transmission to get there, and 11 years for them to try a return signal.
Of course, it was all for naught.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist

Liquid water is assumed to exist under a crust of ice on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, as well as other gas giant moons. The opportunity to check for life on these moons is obviously far better than on a planet orbiting another star.

Is this as big as it sounds?

Personally I don't think so - it always stood to reason that there would be thousands if not millions of earth-sized planets in earth-sized orbits around Sol-sized stars in our galaxy alone, simply because there are so many stars in our galaxy and planets don't appear to be unique to our system. Unless we have a way to inspect the planet at close range for life (and we don't), what's changed?

[annieokie]

THis is just WONDERFUL, so wonderful it is almost to great to explain.

I see in this new planet, the PERFECT placeto send the OCCUPIERS. Send them all for a free ride off to "IDOCRACY WORLD". They want "FREE", well give them FREE, they can now OCCUPY a whole new world, No round trip tickets. Let them OCCUPY to their sweet little hearts content. Send Peanut Butter.

Let's not waste time, sign them up NOW.

[hope]

Revelations 21:1
And then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

[ExCTCitizen]

We better get Mr Spock and Star Trek to visit Kepler. Hope there’s intelligent life on it — there isn’t any in Washington!!! :-)