New planets found

kennyc · 02-03-2011, 11:07 AM

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2011) — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0202133321.htm

From the Astronomy Picture of the day:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

kfran · 02-07-2011, 11:56 AM

Nice, a Goldilocks planet! Hope they find more and a way to get to them!

kennyc · 02-07-2011, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by kfran

Nice, a Goldilocks planet! Hope they find more and a way to get to them!

Well, therein lies the rub. Given our current technology (without some amazing breakthrough like warp-drive time-space wormholes or gateways) odds of every meeting or even communicating with an alien race are virtually non-existent.

kfran · 02-07-2011, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Well, therein lies the rub. Given our current technology (without some amazing breakthrough like warp-drive time-space wormholes or gateways) odds of every meeting or even communicating with an alien race are virtually non-existent.

I'm an optimist, I'm hoping some crazy scientist finds a way through the galaxy. I'm encouraging my boys to figure it out, and they have some great ideas (ok, they're only 5, but still)

Seriously, my theory is that if we take our temperature down to absolute zero, we will be able to disassemble ourselves, and then reassemble ourselves somewhere else when we warm up. If combined this with string theory, it actually might work.

HistoryWes · 02-07-2011, 01:12 PM

I find these extra-solar planets so fascinating. I remember my days in school, when there were only 9 planets (suck it Pluto!). Now we have a ton of them to learn about.

tubemonkey · 02-07-2011, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Well, therein lies the rub. Given our current technology (without some amazing breakthrough like warp-drive time-space wormholes or gateways) odds of every meeting or even communicating with an alien race are virtually non-existent.

Not to worry, the Vulcans will be making contact with us in a couple hundred years or so.

kennyc · 02-07-2011, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Not to worry, the Vulcans will be making contact with us in a couple hundred years or so.

Or time travelers.....but why would they bother with us?

02-03-2011, 11:07 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,872 Karma: 118716293 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	New planets found ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2011) — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun. ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0202133321.htm From the Astronomy Picture of the day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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kfran Karen Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: North Carolina Device: Kindle	Nice, a Goldilocks planet! Hope they find more and a way to get to them!

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