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NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday[W:19]

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On Wednesday, February 22 at 1pm EST (6pm GMT), NASA is going to hold a news conference to announce a major finding relating to planets outside the Solar System.

Scientists from all over the world are arriving at NASA today, in preparation for this major announcement, which at this time is still being kept secret. The rumors, which are flying around the upcoming announcement, include finding more than 60 planets in nearby systems which could harbor life, and actually finding life on a nearby planet. However, we will not know until tomorrow's announcement.

The announcement will be live on NASA TV at Noon, central time.

NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday | IFLScience
 
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Scientists from all over the world are arriving at NASA today, in preparation for this major announcement, which at this time is still being kept secret. The rumors, which are flying around the upcoming announcement, include finding more than 60 planets in nearby systems which could harbor life, and actually finding life on a nearby planet. However, we will not know until tomorrow's announcement.

The announcement will be live on NASA TV at Noon, central time.

NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday | IFLScience

Fake news?
 
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Fake news?

No, NASA is advertising this announcement. It should be noted that NASA's announcements tend to be lots of hype around things that are generally not very exciting or sensational to lay people though.
 
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No, NASA is advertising this announcement. It should be noted that NASA's announcements tend to be lots of hype around things that are generally not very exciting or sensational to lay people though.

Yep, probably the same thing it always is. We discovered something that we know almost nothing about, its more a theory, and in any case its so far away and doesnt affect your life. Can we have 10 billion to study it?
 
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No, NASA is advertising this announcement. It should be noted that NASA's announcements tend to be lots of hype around things that are generally not very exciting or sensational to lay people though.

This announcement is not going to be run of the mill. Scientists from all over the world will be attending this one.
 
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No, NASA is advertising this announcement. It should be noted that NASA's announcements tend to be lots of hype around things that are generally not very exciting or sensational to lay people though.

Yeah but they're exciting to us space nerds.
 
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Yeah but they're exciting to us space nerds.

I expect that the announcement will be either that there are more exoplannets in the "goldilocks" zone than previously thought or they've discovered an exoplanet that might harbor life. Neither of which is particularly exciting to me considering that none of us will be alive by the time the technology is developed to travel to these planets and verify.
 
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this is either 'fake news' or they have located tRumpzilla orbiting Uranus .........
 
Re: NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday

Scientists from all over the world are arriving at NASA today, in preparation for this major announcement, which at this time is still being kept secret. The rumors, which are flying around the upcoming announcement, include finding more than 60 planets in nearby systems which could harbor life, and actually finding life on a nearby planet. However, we will not know until tomorrow's announcement.

The announcement will be live on NASA TV at Noon, central time.

NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday | IFLScience

I hope it's aliens I hope it's aliens I hope it's aliens I hope it's aliens! Lol no but seriously...I hope it's aliens.


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Re: NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday

Scientists from all over the world are arriving at NASA today, in preparation for this major announcement, which at this time is still being kept secret. The rumors, which are flying around the upcoming announcement, include finding more than 60 planets in nearby systems which could harbor life, and actually finding life on a nearby planet. However, we will not know until tomorrow's announcement.

The announcement will be live on NASA TV at Noon, central time.

NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday | IFLScience

Its probably a spaceship full of elephants thats gonna drop an asteroid on earth...
 
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this is either 'fake news' or they have located tRumpzilla orbiting Uranus .........

'Ya know, just once I would like to post a science thread without someone trying to turn it into a political food fight.
 
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LOL .......... good luck with that on a political debate web site ..........
 
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LOL .......... good luck with that on a political debate web site ..........

It can be done intelligently, or it can be done dumbly. Your post was done dumbly, because what you posted has absolutely nothing to do with the topic. Had you posted something like Trump wants to cut funds for NASA, or something else along those lines, I would have no problem with it. But trolling is trolling, and that I have a problem with. So I respectfully ask you to stick to the topic.
 
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Re: NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday

Scientists from all over the world are arriving at NASA today, in preparation for this major announcement, which at this time is still being kept secret. The rumors, which are flying around the upcoming announcement, include finding more than 60 planets in nearby systems which could harbor life, and actually finding life on a nearby planet. However, we will not know until tomorrow's announcement.

The announcement will be live on NASA TV at Noon, central time.

NASA To Announce A Huge Discovery Outside The Solar System This Wednesday | IFLScience

I predict a 0.0% chance that NASA is announcing that they found life outside the Solar system. My guess is this is going to be an announcement that the exoplanet search has been far more successful than previously thought.
 
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Either way, excited to see what NASA has to say.
 
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I predict a 0.0% chance that NASA is announcing that they found life outside the Solar system. My guess is this is going to be an announcement that the exoplanet search has been far more successful than previously thought.

Yea, I think that's going to be the direction of the announcement too. Not just exoplanets, but exoplanets that are the size of earth, and in the Goldilocks zone, maybe with an atmosphere or water detected.
 
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Trump's hair has been signalling its kind for years. Now that he is President, it was able to infiltrate SETI and use its facilities to signal a fleet that has been shadowing Pluto for decades, so as to avoid detection. The invasion is coming.



Invest in hedge trimmers!
 
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Yea, I think that's going to be the direction of the announcement too. Not just exoplanets, but exoplanets that are the size of earth, and in the Goldilocks zone, maybe with an atmosphere or water detected.

Ok. Then we get to sit on that information for potentially a few hundred years until we have the technology to send a probe. Hooray.
 
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Ok. Then we get to sit on that information for potentially a few hundred years until we have the technology to send a probe. Hooray.

Relax, we're going to Mars soon.
 
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Yea, I think that's going to be the direction of the announcement too. Not just exoplanets, but exoplanets that are the size of earth, and in the Goldilocks zone, maybe with an atmosphere or water detected.
It's not a bad hypothesis, but with what? The Kepler? Is it sensitive enough to pick up atmospheric signals on an earth sized planet? How close would such a planet have to be?
 
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