Earth's Cousin??

http://www.space.com/25530-earthsize-exoplanet-kepler-186f-habitable-discovery.html

4/17/2014 2:17:48 PM

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"Earth's Cousin??"

HOW IS PLANNET FORMED???

4/17/2014 2:37:53 PM

PICTURE BITCHES!

4/17/2014 2:52:41 PM

Oh snap, how did ya momma get out into space!?

4/17/2014 2:53:55 PM

time to send a probe with an American flag to that bitch, conquer their womens, and steal all their oil

4/17/2014 2:54:28 PM

and drop some Christianized-Democracy on them.

4/17/2014 3:20:17 PM

why do Earth and Kepler-186f love Halloween?







PUMP-KIN

4/17/2014 3:21:52 PM

A spaceship going 100 times faster than anything that's ever been built by man would take about 86,000 years to get there from here.

4/17/2014 4:04:30 PM

Meanwhile, on Kepler-186f:

"Kepler-186f's cousin found 490 light years away!"

4/17/2014 4:12:44 PM

^ ha awesome

yeah, at the speed of light, 500 lights years :-\

We'll get there though... some day. I feel FTL travel is possible.

But... 500 lights years away isn't long at all in cosmic time, we've been getting radio waves from them. For all we know, they've been trying to contact us for at least 500 years...

4/17/2014 4:17:59 PM

As exciting as this is, it is pointless as we will never know for sure if life exists there or not. We will never get there.

4/17/2014 4:51:02 PM

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"I feel FTL travel is possible."

As strongly as you do for Baja's independence?

couldn't resist

4/17/2014 4:51:05 PM

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"yeah, at the speed of light, 500 lights years "

You mean 500 years, right?

4/17/2014 4:53:59 PM

Found? I didn't even know we had lost an earth size exo-planet

4/17/2014 4:56:09 PM

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"why do Earth and Kepler-186f love Halloween? PUMP-KIN "

OMFG

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"As exciting as this is, it is pointless as we will never know for sure if life exists there or not. We will never get there."

that is a very narrow viewpoint, and within most of our lifetimes, we WILL have the technology to determine this by analyzing the atmospheric compositions of planets like this.

4/17/2014 4:59:12 PM

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"Meanwhile, on Kepler-186f: "Kepler-186f's cousin found 490 light years away!""

4/17/2014 4:59:41 PM

What I meant was knowing by being there, or at least by directly seeing critters walking around.

We won't get there.

And we won't be able to see the surface from here, and I mean actually see, as with an optical telescope or binoculars, not seeing x-ray signatures or something like that.

4/17/2014 5:05:54 PM

we will never see an electron such a pointless discovery.

4/17/2014 5:08:20 PM

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"We will never get there."

Not necessarily. There is a lot of stuff in space we don't know anything about or have any clue how to explain. Wormholes and stuff.

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4/17/2014 5:18:08 PM

Hey here's an idea .. Why don't we take care of our own planet before we decide to go fuck up another one?

4/17/2014 5:49:32 PM

I've got a wormhole for y'all.

4/17/2014 10:05:28 PM

4/18/2014 8:22:07 AM

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"Hey here's an idea .. Why don't we take care of our own planet before we decide to go fuck up another one?"

Nah, we're like a redneck family that tears up one trailer for a few years and then just goes and buys another one. Kepler-186f will be our new single wide in a couple 1000 years.

4/18/2014 8:49:23 AM

this is kinda cool

4/18/2014 9:04:15 AM

[But... 500 lights years away isn't long at all in cosmic time, we've been getting radio waves from them. For all we know, they've been trying to contact us for at least 500 years...[/quote]

Probably not. The distance is so great any sort of detectable radio signal would have to be beamed straight at us. Diffuse stuff like TV and radio and whatnot won't go that far away and still be noticeable. And then we'd have to be listening straight at them or vice versa to pick it up

4/18/2014 9:24:50 AM

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"time to send a probe with an American flag to that bitch, conquer their womens, and steal all their oil"

4/18/2014 9:33:18 AM

130 days per year, lol.
Their hottest women are probably like 65 years old.

4/18/2014 10:15:09 AM

Could be tidal locked... Might not have a moon... Maybe it has rings? Could human life even thrive on a tidal locked planet...

I wonder though what other information about the planet is conveyed by looking at the light from the host star.

Has anyone looked for a shift that a rotating planet would impart on light bouncing off if it? Could "terrestrial" radio transmissions cause spectral changes in the suns light (via interefernce) that we could then pick up?

4/18/2014 10:54:02 AM

evolution could have taken a whole different turn on that planet

maybe the reptiles ascended to intelligence, perhaps the insects, or maybe even something close to our plants

just waltz around Wikipedia a little, its all there and more


if it doesn't have plate tectonics, or a moon the same proportion as ours, that could make a huge difference

I could make this post a mile long and not cover it all

4/18/2014 12:16:23 PM

keplar 186f is so basic

4/18/2014 12:17:12 PM

I am excite.

4/18/2014 12:23:16 PM

maybe they will tell us the answer to the Fermi paradox

4/18/2014 12:24:32 PM

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"Could human life even thrive on a tidal locked planet..."

Depends on the planet but assuming all other conditions are good then definitely. There would be a thin strip along the day/night boundary that would be comfortable. The middle of the side facing the sun would probably be a desert (but also great for solar power) and the middle of the dark side would probably be a constant tundra but humans could even comfortably live in both of those places with the right technology.

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"evolution could have taken a whole different turn on that planet"

As corny as it sounds, the Mass Effect series actually did a really good job of describing this. There are dozens of different intelligent alien life in the ME universe and when you go read the descriptions of their homeworlds, it details how each one is different from Earth and what the evolutionary differences are that led to the current beings. Really interesting stuff.

4/23/2014 9:54:23 AM