NASA discovers first-ever Earth-sized planet

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@ Guest above with the 3 links.



I'm confused. The universe is vast. Are you trying to say there's no chance of life out there? So we are special snowflakes? ****. Kindergartner teachers are correct. Everyone is a special snowflake.



Anyways, the only method that quantified such things at the moment is the Drake Equation. But as expected, the results vary a lot. However statistically we can't deny the existence of other life forms out there. They may not be advanced but there could be something as Stephen Hawking had talked about before.

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I'm saying you can't use statistics or the word probably when you talk about the odds of life. The odds of life forming anywhere is an unknown and can only pulled from someone's ***. I believe there is life outside of earth. I actually believe earth life was seeded from outside. I can't say probably.

 

[Guest]

This information usefull if we have technology for explorer to there. Much information about earth-like not balanced with transport technology

 

[Yynxs]

Sent link to a friend of mine. He tends to see clearly. He said:

What **g ***** wrote this article?

In comparison to Earth, Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger in its diameter..........

Moreover, it has the same temperature as Earth, is 20 percent brighter, and suggests a diameter 10 percent larger than ours.

Good question. Wonder which diameter it is?

 

[JonnDoe]

500 LY away, yeah, good luck getting there. It would take New Horizons 10,6 million years to get there.

Imagine this, should we get enough telescope resolution to even see an actual civilization there (lights and all, it would be easy to recognize it), even sending a message and getting an answer would require at least a thousand years. I doubt any of our successors would even remember the message being sent.

Let's face it, the Universe is made in such a way that no single planet can provide a civilization with enough material to get to other star systems. This would also answer the ubiquitous Fermi paradox... Why aren't the oldest civilizations ruling the galaxy by now ? Because they can't. My 2 cents...

Until 5 years from now FTL becomes a thing and we go there in a weeks time?

If there was other intelligent life around we'd have seen glimpses of it by now.

Well their Is Intelligent life why else would they avoid us, I would.

 

[Peter Farkas]

Twice the gravity of Planet earth huh?

Elcor Home World?

You Mass Effect fans know what I'm on about

Lol... that was my first thought reading this too...

 

[captaincranky]

Heavy gravity planet huh? Are they absolutely sure this isn't Krypton?

 

[Guest]

While you guys debating whether we are alone in universe or not, a couple years ago, Canadian ministry of defense stated in their disclosure during special hearing that Earth has been visited by several race of extraterrestrial lifeforms.

 

[Guest]

And then Ridley Scott's films come in to life....

 

[BrianMontanye]

I don't care what another people think but earth is make for us , not other planet, EARTH is a beautiful planet but man have destroy it. anyway the END of this system is about to END soon .

I'm not sure where you got the idea earth was made for us. We are a consequence of the conditions present on the planet. If it were made for us, why did it take 4 billion years to make it habitable for us?

 

[agb81]

I know that we as a civilization "eventually" are going to get faster means of transport, but we're still relying on fossil as of today.

Being a little more realist, I'd settle for a 0.5 c plasma drive or similar that would get us to proxima centauri in 8-9 years. That's a milestone I hope to see achieved in my lifetime.

Wormholes, in my uneducated opinion, are really far away from us technologically.
Hell, we're still in diapers regarding quantum physics.

 

[Mister_K]

Statistically speaking, we'll probably be wiped out by a space rock before that happens. Though, I suppose that is a departure of sorts.

How come? Are we going to get wiped out within next 200-300 years? The only thing that can kill us now is some large supernova, neutron star or most likely, our selfs with all these bloody wars ...

 

[davislane1]

How come? Are we going to get wiped out within next 200-300 years? The only thing that can kill us know is some large supernova, neutron star or most likely, our selfs with all these bloody wars ...

Because large space rocks like to crash into planets. Such a collision could happen today at noon or 5,000 years from now, not unlike a gamma ray burst.

I'd bank on the rock over war. Mutual destruction is always disadvantageous to the other side because of the 'mutual' part.

 

[Mister_K]

Because large space rocks like to crash into planets. Such a collision could happen today at noon or 5,000 years from now, not unlike a gamma ray burst.

I'd bank on the rock over war. Mutual destruction is always disadvantageous to the other side because of the 'mutual' part.

We have technology which detects these threats, whether they are made public or not is another matter, however space rocks depending on size would not be an issue. We also have a giant protector called Jupiter.

It's not going to happen, we are more likely to destroy our selves than be destroyed by a catastrophe cause by a space rock.

Statistically speaking, there is no chance.
Theoretically, a giant Alien civilization could destroy us tomorrow afternoon at 5.

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If we can live past these 100-200 years, we will never go extinct (until the Dark Era of the Universe, at which point we will create our own or jump to one).

 

[davislane1]

We have technology which detects these threats, whether they are made public or not is another matter, however space rocks depending on size would not be an issue. We also have a giant protector called Jupiter.

It's not going to happen, we are more likely to destroy our selves than be destroyed by a catastrophe cause by a space rock.

Earth already has a history of being smacked by large rocks. Experiencing a significant to extinction-level impact in the future is a statistical certainty. However, to date, mankind has never succeeded in wiping itself out via warfare.

It is also relevant to point out that the creation of evermore powerful and efficient weapons has not resulted in the toppling of civilizations. Rather, it has increased the prevalence and duration of cold war and war by proxy. Stated otherwise, mankind wiping itself out via warfare directly contradicts mankind's history of warfare.

Pandemics, on the other hand...

 

[sauerkraut17]

Because large space rocks like to crash into planets. Such a collision could happen today at noon or 5,000 years from now, not unlike a gamma ray burst.

I'd bank on the rock over war. Mutual destruction is always disadvantageous to the other side because of the 'mutual' part.

We have technology which detects these threats, whether they are made public or not is another matter, however space rocks depending on size would not be an issue. We also have a giant protector called Jupiter.

It's not going to happen, we are more likely to destroy our selves than be destroyed by a catastrophe cause by a space rock.

Statistically speaking, there is no chance.
Theoretically, a giant Alien civilization could destroy us tomorrow afternoon at 5.

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If we can live past these 100-200 years, we will never go extinct (until the Dark Era of the Universe, at which point we will create our own or jump to one).

Jupiter is also known for pulling space rocks out of their natural orbit and hurling them inwards towards the Sun. There is nothing stopping one of those from flying directly into our orbital path as the Sun pulls them in. Also, while we are able to detect most and track them, we do not currently have a method to prevent a collision. While most people solely focus on larger, mass impact objects (which are the ones we can detect and track might I add), we could also experience heavy bombardment of numerous smaller objects that could effectively result in the same type of catastrophe situation.

Simply put, the 'universe' could wipe us out at any second and there is not a darn thing we can do about it.

 

[Gaara]

That was incredibly painful to read...

dude as you can see English is not my first language, but I don't see anybody complying about it , only you are the only one. I will love to see you trying to write something in my language

 

[Burty117]

dude as you can see English is not my first language, but I don't see anybody complying about it , only you are the only one. I will love to see you trying to write something in my language

I don't know what your native language is.