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Astronomers to Earth: You've got some newly found near-twins

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.Astronomers announced Tuesday that depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold "Goldilocks Zone" for liquid water to form.
These planets are likely to be rocky like Earth, and not gas giants or ice worlds. They get about the same heat from their star as we get from the sun, according to the latest results from NASA's planet hunting Kepler telescope.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2fcd86deef1d4e63849ea03f67bd66a7/astronomers-earth-youve-got-some-newly-found-near-twins

There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...
 
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...

As long as they have wifi, I'll pack my bags.
 
As long as they have wifi, I'll pack my bags.

I would wait a bit. I hear their behind on their Network technology.

56k dial up on Windows 95.

Its allot like the 90s I hear
 
I wonder what will happen when we eventually bump into another alien civilization. We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it. What happens when we do find them or they find us? It would put a lot of religions under scrutiny if they've never heard of any earthly gods.
 
I would wait a bit. I hear their behind on their Network technology.

56k dial up on Windows 95.

Its allot like the 90s I hear

Really? A clinton in the White House and a prospering middle class beats youtube any day of the week. Beam me up, Scotty.
 
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...

Still no reason to believe life exists there.

We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it.

:lamo
 
Baffled as to this 'Breaking News' even tho it's a new article.

I posted this in the 'Science' Section more than a Year ago.
11/6/13
http://www.debatepolitics.com/scien...ns-far-off-planets-like-earth-dot-galaxy.html
Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...ets-that-could-be-like-earth.html?src=me&_r=0

The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday. Astronomers reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, based on a new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

One out of every five sunlike stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold
— where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water, according to a herculean three-year calculation based on data from the Kepler spacecraft by Erik Petigura, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. [.....] “It seems that the universe produces Plentiful real estate for life that somehow resembles life on Earth,” ...
And that's just in Our galaxy.
40 Billion Planets x 200 Billion Galaxies = 8 Trillion Earth Like Planets.
 
I would wait a bit. I hear their behind on their Network technology.

56k dial up on Windows 95.

Its allot like the 90s I hear

Still better than North Korea.
 
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...

Are they like Mars or Venus?? Do they have a large moon to stabilize their atmosphere?? Does their solar system have enough gas giants to protect them from too many comets/asteroid impacts while allowing enough for water to accumulate??
 
Baffled as to this 'Breaking News' even tho it's a new article.

I posted this in the 'Science' Section more than a Year ago.
11/6/13
http://www.debatepolitics.com/scien...ns-far-off-planets-like-earth-dot-galaxy.html
Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...ets-that-could-be-like-earth.html?src=me&_r=0


And that's just in Our galaxy.
40 Billion Planets x 200 Billion Galaxies = 8 Trillion Earth Like Planets.

I am going to guess it is breaking news since the discovery of these particular planets is new. Your thread was about the potential. Actual planets is not the same as potential planets...
 
I wonder what will happen when we eventually bump into another alien civilization. We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it. What happens when we do find them or they find us? It would put a lot of religions under scrutiny if they've never heard of any earthly gods.

I think the more relevant question is what do they taste like?
 
Are they like Mars or Venus?? Do they have a large moon to stabilize their atmosphere?? Does their solar system have enough gas giants to protect them from too many comets/asteroid impacts while allowing enough for water to accumulate??

Get your priorities straight, man.

You forgot to ask whether they have coffee.
 
Strange that astronomers are fired up about looking for life around the galaxy. There is plenty of it around here.
 
There ya go libs...A planet all your own...Good luck...:lol: Just kidding....However, this is really cool...

LOL. Well, we'd have to build an 'Ascension' like spacecraft and bundle them all in there. Come to think of it, a splendid idea! :mrgreen:
 
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.
 
Still no reason to believe life exists there.



:lamo

Every reason to believe it. Just as much as here.

As the article says, the conditions exist that life here on Earth could have developed so there's every chance that life did so on those. If you observe life on Earth, life has developed, against all odds in and with amazing adaptations, in every single extreme environment that exists, except a vacuum.
 
I am going to guess it is breaking news since the discovery of these particular planets is new. Your thread was about the potential. Actual planets is not the same as potential planets...

Yea, kinetic planets. LOL.
 
Every reason to believe it. Just as much as here.

As the article says, the conditions exist that life here on Earth could have developed so there's every chance that life did so on those. If you observe life on Earth, life has developed, against all odds in and with amazing adaptations, in every single extreme environment that exists, except a vacuum.

If you say so. I'll stick to reality.
 
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.

And since when did that ever stop us.. ;)


Tim-
 
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.



:roll: :beam: :aliens3:
 
Are they like Mars or Venus?? Do they have a large moon to stabilize their atmosphere?? Does their solar system have enough gas giants to protect them from too many comets/asteroid impacts while allowing enough for water to accumulate??

I'll go check. Be right back.
 
Given our lingering colonial values, I hope we don't find ET anytime soon, unless they are equal to or greater than us. Humans are not mature enough as a species to treat other life with respect and care.

And keep in mind what Stephen Hawking says when a more advanced culture comes calling. Ask the Native Americans what they think of Manifest Destiny.
 
I wonder what will happen when we eventually bump into another alien civilization. We're getting closer and closer every year to finding a planet with intelligent life on it. What happens when we do find them or they find us? It would put a lot of religions under scrutiny if they've never heard of any earthly gods.

Still no reason to believe life exists there.



:lamo

I don't think there's any reason to laugh at him for it, but you're right, Paleocon, that there is absolutely no reason to think that there is any other life in the universe. It is unscientific and purely wishful thinking.

It is fallacious reasoning to think that vast number of planets means there is a high likelihood that one of them contains life, when we have no idea what the likelihood is that abiogenesis might occur on a given planet. It is equally possible that life on Earth is unique.
 
I don't think there's any reason to laugh at him for it, but you're right, Paleocon, that there is absolutely no reason to think that there is any other life in the universe. It is unscientific and purely wishful thinking.

It is fallacious reasoning to think that vast number of planets means there is a high likelihood that one of them contains life, when we have no idea what the likelihood is that abiogenesis might occur on a given planet. It is equally possible that life on Earth is unique.

Odds say otherwise. Trillions of stars, billions of planets, the conditions for life are more than likely to occur on more than one little insignificant planet.
 
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