"NASA Has A "Huge Announcement" To Make" 23rd of July


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NASA is set to announce the major discovery of a new planet by the Kepler Space Telescope tomorrow (July 23) at noon EDT (5 p.m. BST), and you can watch it live below.

 
Today we know that Earth is just one of hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy, itself just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies.
 
But while this knowledge might seem commonplace, it is rather incredible to remember that the first planet outside the Solar System was not discovered until 1992
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Sounds good now we have to see if theres any viable life forms on the foriegn horizon

 

 

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

Calling occupants of interplanetary most extraordinary craft

You've been observing our earth
And we'd like to make a contact with you
We are your friends

 

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Guess: a planet 0.8 to 1.5 Earth size in a stars Goldilocks zone, perhaps with water & oxygen traces in its atmosphere.

 

That would be what the smart money is on, can't imagine it being anything more than that with current technologies, not would it be worth the big announcement if it was less than that.

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Guess: a planet 0.8 to 1.5 Earth size in a stars Goldilocks zone, perhaps with water & oxygen traces in its atmosphere.

 

There's be no real point of having a press conference if it wasn't something special like that... Exo-planets aren't exactly rare to discover these days, after all.  But finding one that meets what we'd expect for life? That would be worth a presser!

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Not yet. Atmospheric traces yes, that's just well done transmission spectroscopy, but no surface readings. ISTM more resolution is needed for absorption spectroscopy.

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Not yet. Atmospheric traces yes, that's just well done transmission spectroscopy, but no surface readings. ISTM more resolution is needed for absorption spectroscopy.

 

I wonder if it's possible to detect signs of technology through that...

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"Earth 2.0" discovered.

 

Key points:

  • The Sun it orbits is 4% more massive and 10% brighter than our Sun
  • Earth 2.0 (or Keplar 452b) is 1.6 times larger than the Earth
  • It's a rocky world and in the 'Goldilocks zone'
  • Its orbit, 384.84 Earth days and 5% more distant than our planet 
  • 1,400 light-years from us

More here: http://www.iflscience.com/say-hello-earth-20-historic-kepler-discovery-suggests-we-are-not-alone

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Great news, but not really astounding. Confirmation of something we were pretty sure about.

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Yuss!! A few more years and we'll have completely f***d up this planet then we can just move on to the next like a kid with a broken toyset

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