Topic: More than 1,200 new planets that could hold life found - page 10. (Read 7395 times)

Believe we need to drink grape Kool aid when the next comet comes by so we can catch a ride through the cosmos.
Anyone else pumped or what?

The exploration of space seems inevitable now maybe not in any current generation alive but very soon.

Why the hell US spends a lot of money and effort on descovering the space ? I do not see any benefit from knowing that there may be planets like earth! It won't do anything for me

What would be, once we solve the technical issues of surviving crossing the cosmos, the political system most compatible with space exploration and colonization?


 

Thats a great discovery. Hope more such discoveries in future.

I hope it will our nation prosper from poverty.

Who cares? We cant go there and they cant come here.

Sane enough to know we all are crazy.


Should be "life forms."


But it is only a guess that there is life out there.

We are running out of time with the financial bubbles. If the banking industry crashes, it will take hundreds of years to recover to the point where we get back to the moon. Bitcoin is simply an attempted preparation to help us get through the misery of the coming $crash.



Government is the one who is deceiving you about how close we really are to a crash. If people got scared and took their funds out of investments today, the crash would be in full swing tomorrow.

You would have to be crazy to believe that we are the only lifeform in the whole universe.
The next planet that can support life maybe lightyears away and not as advanced as our race but we will find proof one day im sure of that.
What I am not sure about is will the government who finds this new lifeform actually tell the people.

Nanocraft speed is not something that we can use in craft large enough to carry people and their life support. There is one major reason for this. We haven't really invented any force field to protect a craft from all the interstellar dust and meteor particles. One speck of dust would completely wipe out any vehicle at those high rates of speed.

The calc to use in these figures is something that we have been trying to find out for a long time now. This calc is what astronomers and cosmologists are looking for. So far, more than 99% of this information in factual form has eluded us.

Well I don't know if you guys have heard but it should soon be possible to reach Alpha Centauri in around 20 years. Right now it would take our fastest spacecraft over 30,000 years to get there.
Ok I admit it's not actually as awesome as I make it sound, it's only a 'nanocraft' that would be able to achieve this feat, not a regular spacecraft carrying people. Still, I think it's a massive breakthrough jumping from 30,000 years to only 20. The nanocraft would be travelling at 20% of the speed of light. But there's more good news, it would cost only about as much as an iPhone to mass produce 
Here's the video presentation:

http://www.space.com/32548-20-percent-light-speed-to-alpha-centauri-nanocraft-concept-unveiled-video.html

You can actually solve this puzzle by yourself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Drake equation:
N=R*×fp×ne×fl×fi×fc×L
    R* = the average rate of star formation in our galaxy
    fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
    ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
    fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point
    fi = the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations)
    fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence
    L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space
Sara Seager modified equation:
N=N*×FQ×FHZ×FO×FL×FS
    N = the number of planets with detectable signs of life
    N* = the number of stars observed
    FQ = the fraction of stars that are quiet
    FHZ = the fraction of stars with rocky planets in the habitable zone
    FO = the fraction of those planets that can be observed
    FL = the fraction that have life
    FS = the fraction on which life produces a detectable signature gas

Too intelligent to trade at all. No need for money. Rather, give in love... every one of them. Besides, no income tax that way. No government needed. Good planets. No space flight needed or wanted, nor contact from silly earth beings.

I wonder how many thousands or millions of planets have there been that have come and gone before our time which were able to support life similar to ours. I also wonder if any of those planets had beings intelligent enough to have created something like bitcoin...

The US space agency has just announced the discovery of the new "exoplanets" which are considered as similar to Earth due to their distance from the star they orbit.

Timothy Morton, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey, said: "We have discovered 1,284 new planets - the most explanets ever announced at one time."

It more than doubles the previous amount of exoplanets found by the Kepler Telescope, taking the total number to 2,325.

It comes after NASA said they now also believe every star in space has at least one planet orbiting it, further increasing the chance of life evolving somewhere.

Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said: "The Kepler specialist telescope is the first capable of detecting call rocky planets in the habitable zone of their parent star.

"When launched we did not know if exoplanets or rocky exoplanets were rare and we now know they are extremely common and most stars have at least one planet orbiting.

"Our research is on just a fraction of possible exoplanets and knowing this is the first step in answering the question if we are alone in the universe."

Among the new discoveries are also a further 100 grade A rocky exoplanets which are the most likely for life to begin just like Earth.

And of these 24 were found to be of a similar size to Earth and distance from their stars in the so-called Goldilocks habitable zone, making them the most likelyy candidates for life.

Combined with 12 already found by Kepler researchers, there are now 36 of the Earth-like planets and a further 12 possible ones awaiting verification.

It was previously believed that many stars were out there alone, meaning the odds of other Earth-like planets with the right conditions for life to start are much higher than ever believed.

The information has come from astronomers researching swathes of data from the Kepler Telescope mission.

Initially more than 4,600 possible exoplanets were found and the 2,325 are those which have now been confirmed as definite exoplanets.

NASA made the major announcement about the latest findings from the Kepler research at a press conference which started at 6pm.

A NASA spokesman said: "When Kepler was launched in March 2009, scientists did not know how common planets were outside our solar system.

"Thanks to Kepler’s treasure trove of discoveries, astronomers now believe there may be at least one planet orbiting every star in the sky."

Kepler completed its prime mission in 2012, and collected data for an additional year in an extended mission.

In 2014, the spacecraft began a new extended mission called K2.

K2 continues the search for exoplanets while introducing new research opportunities to study young stars, supernovae and other cosmic phenomena.


http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/668945/NASA-Chance-of-life-being-out-there-boosted-as-every-star-has-at-least-one-planet


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