Kepler 22b

UrbanMasque · Don't Feed Him Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 5284

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

As far as I'm concerned, this is all the evidence I need to confidently say that our existence is not unique. We are one of probably many instances of life. Time to evolve people.

Thoughts?
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Bretimus_v2 · The Japazillian Dynasty Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 8303

The "uniqueness" of our planet never factored into my belief in God.

Nevertheless, this is actually a really cool discovery when you consider that now we have a fallback planet and no longer have to worry about taking care of this one. Project Wall-E can begin.
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UrbanMasque · Don't Feed Him Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 5284

Sorry if that's how that came off - it wasn't meant to insult.

I meant lets shift our priorities a bit and spend money things that matter.

But also, we can say with some certainty that life probably exists outside of here.
I wonder what their porn is like.
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Bretimus_v2 · The Japazillian Dynasty Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 8303

Oh, sorry, I've come to know you as the maker of religion topics. You know I've got nothing but love for you. Hell, I let you play with my kids.

I think that it's unfortunate that at this point we have so much work to eventually get around to even visiting other planets.

On a side note, Mars Rover 2. I was watching their landing sim for that. That things is a lot cooler than the reverse airbag method.
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Paradox · Temporal Mechanic Joined: 19 Mar 2002 Posts: 5119

Awesome discovery towards habitable zone planets, but still no real details about this one other than its location and size. Could be a barren water-less rock or swathed in methane. Hopefully further research will tell us what it's made of and its properties.

At 600 light years away though, humans may never see it unless we find a way to crack FTL.
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danielrbischoff · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 7375

aaaannnnnndddd thread. You have no idea how tempted I am to lock it after used's input.

Daddio · I Drank What?! Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 583

it's a sad day when people can't simply discuss the stars and beyond without it going south.

why bother paying attention to that which we stare up at, when we can't physically kick it in the nuts and steal its lunch money.

lets just keep looking inward, because that has done us so well to date.
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Rakon · In Transit Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 3439

Bretimus_v2 · The Japazillian Dynasty Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 8303

Sounds like it would require some serious flexibility.
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madster111 · The Original Pie Lover Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 5807

The universe currently has an approximate size of 'infinite' because we have no idea how truly big it is.

Because of this, there's a chance that there is life somewhere else in the universe identical to ours in almost every way, let alone just other 'life' or sentient life.
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UrbanMasque · Don't Feed Him Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 5284

Longo_2_guns · Ruler of the Queen's Navy Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 14056

We also find black holes 10 billion times the size of our sun. Which is pretty fucking scary.

More scary? A black hole that produced 10 sons. And I've found a few of those before too.
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MattAY · Posh B**tard Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 10829

^ More scary? There's a black hole machine on Earth that has a 1 in 50 million chance of destroying the universe!

Sure there could be a second Earth...but for God's sake, they dont even know if it's solid, liquid or gas. But spending shedloads of money on shit like a black hole machine with other crap going on...when I would also like to add - I dont give a fuck.
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madster111 · The Original Pie Lover Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 5807

Also, didn't we already do FTL and it just flew under all the major news networks radar?

Alright so it was just some tiny little shit and it was barely faster than light, but still.

FTL within 100 years so we can go check out these planets, plz.
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intoTheRain · Doesnt Like to Get Wet Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 3203

Ill give 100 bucks and a game of your choice to the first person to figure out how to efficiently bend time and travel through a wormhole to kepler-22b

Very glad this topic was posted, as this stuff fascinates me. Kudos Urban.

There may not be life on this planet, but to find a planet so similar to ours in such a miniscule area of space just makes me that much more certain there is intelligent life out there. I say intelligent because I'm pretty much positive myself life of some form does exist somewhere.

Lethean · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:37 am Post subject:

I was pretty stoked to hear this news but any colonization or travel missions won't be happening in our life times. To travel 600 or 700 light years when we have no faster than lite travel method would take, well....A very long time.
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Bretimus_v2 · The Japazillian Dynasty Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 8303

intoTheRain · Doesnt Like to Get Wet Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 3203

UrbanMasque · Don't Feed Him Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 5284

^I have no problem getting into cryostasis - the only issue is in that time, our society may have developed a way to get there and would be there ready and waiting to meet us by the time we got there 600 light years later. OR that planet that we see may only be a facade - because once we get there we discover that its essentially mars. OR even we get there and all goes well but we are now the last humans in the universe because humanity has wiped each other out and destroyed ourselves. All of thes possibilities sound AWESOME!

If were lucky we'll get some superman type effect from their sun, which is kind of unlikely given the fact that it si almost identical to our sun except a bit dimmer.
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