[Culverin]

Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where liquid water can exist on the surface of the orbiting planet. Although additional observations will be needed over time to achieve that milestone, Kepler is detecting planets and planet candidates with a wide range of sizes and orbital distances to help us better understand our place in the galaxy.

NASA - NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2011/11-68AR.html)


Fingers crossed that this is going to be huge.
Please be huge >.<

[rsx]

Wasn't there a NASA news conference before about something? Something we thought could be mind-blasting?

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)

[twitchyzero]

Wasn't there a NASA news conference before about something? Something we thought could be mind-blasting?

probably nothing much like last time
http://www.revscene.net/forums/631667-nasa-astrobiology.html

[Ronin]

Those of you that saw this and are hoping to live on another planet in your lifetime are going to be disappointed... :okay:

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

Those of you that saw this and are hoping to live on another planet in your lifetime are going to be disappointed... :okay:

hey, people born in the late 1960's are supposed to be the first bi-centennials.

which would make us 1980's or some of these 90's kids here, the first... immortals? lol.

[StylinRed]

wasnt there an announcement on the news like yesterday? that they found a planet much much larger than earth that was habitable ?

something like that and it was 35million light years away or something

[nsmb]

inb4 OPs disappointed

[twitchyzero]

wasnt there an announcement on the news like yesterday? that they found a planet much much larger than earth that was habitable ?

something like that and it was 35million light years away or something

so if no mass relay this planet is useless to us

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091008131215/masseffect/images/b/bd/Mass_Relay_Loading_Screen.png

[TheKingdom2000]

wasnt there an announcement on the news like yesterday? that they found a planet much much larger than earth that was habitable ?

something like that and it was 35million light years away or something

That would be quite the discovery...
Now we just need to solve the whole distance problem. 35 million light years isn't a stone throws away =d

[dachinesedude]

Who the fuck gives that we find a planet million of light years away, someone invent warp speed first, then mind will be blown

[rsx]

wasnt there an announcement on the news like yesterday? that they found a planet much much larger than earth that was habitable ?

something like that and it was 35million light years away or something

Wasn't it 35 light years away?

'Superearth' Found 35 Light Years Away | The Mark (http://www.themarknews.com/articles/6725-superearth-found-35-light-years-away)

[GLOW]

Fingers crossed that this is going to be huge.
Please be huge >.<

i think i know what you're thinking...i'm hoping it too...

http://rayearlesgamehelp.info/Sfiles/SexVixns.png

[twitchyzero]

1.4 G's...if we ever settle there i'm sure the average lifespan will be 30 years for the first 1500 years there :whistle:

[GLOW]

Fingers crossed that this is going to be huge.
Please be huge >.<


i almost forgot...

that's what she said

:fullofwin:

[El Bastardo]

Humans might not be enthralled with the planet, as “just right” in HD85512b's case is near-paralyzing humidity and temperatures between 30 and 50 degrees Celsius, plus 1.4 times the gravity we experience here.

Like a Florida... where everyone is a midget

[StylinRed]

Keplers field of view

http://kepler.nasa.gov/images/mws/neighborhood21.gif
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/kepler-target-region-galaxy_946-710.jpg


sooooooo much to see that we likely never will :/

[Eatman]

Who the fuck gives that we find a planet million of light years away, someone invent warp speed first, then mind will be blown

we need this guy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/3/31/20060911012748!ZeframCochrane1.jpg

zefram cochrane

[twitchyzero]

okay so how do these spacecrafts confirm all that information from what I just presume to be only pictures taken?

[white_guilt]

probably won't be anything major. if it's catastrophic, they probably won't announce it. If it's awesome (i.e intelligent life) , they probably won't announce it. We as a species are not ready for either of those scenarios. Too many idiots on this planet.

[StaxBundlez]

hey, people born in the late 1960's are supposed to be the first bi-centennials.

which would make us 1980's or some of these 90's kids here, the first... immortals? lol.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qB6ZZj4UV5E/TjbDZLPU4bI/AAAAAAAAA4E/_u07IuXk-Iw/5468105_2_l.jpg

put their name to the test..

[Ch28]

This is what we should be working on building if we want to live off this planet.

http://theunknownstudio.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Battlestar-Galactica-ship.jpg

[Culverin]

I respectfully disagree.

Space is dangerous. We better venture out protected.
macross op HD - YouTube

[corollagtSr5]

gliese 581g
The Importance of Gliese 581g - YouTube

[CP.AR]

anyone care to board my ship? i got extra cabins. PM for details
http://www.deviantart.com/download/127705380/Prologic9_Enterprise_D_by_davemetlesits.jpg

[Integgyy]

1.4 G's...if we ever settle there i'm sure the average lifespan will be 30 years for the first 1500 years there :whistle:

who cares, people who've always wanted to train like super saiyans can finally do so. :devil:

[Ronin]

hey, people born in the late 1960's are supposed to be the first bi-centennials.

which would make us 1980's or some of these 90's kids here, the first... immortals? lol.

http://twilightswarden.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/highlander_macleod.jpg

anyone care to board my ship? i got extra cabins. PM for details
http://www.deviantart.com/download/127705380/Prologic9_Enterprise_D_by_davemetlesits.jpg

Ten Forward will be a strip club.

[optiblue]

Lol. There's probably millions of habitable planets out there for humans, but we will never see them in this lifetime! Just enjoy life on earth! The increased
or decreased gravity would make 95% of the population dizzy anyways.
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[Ulic Qel-Droma]

http://twilightswarden.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/highlander_macleod.jpg



Ten Forward will be a strip club.

strip club?

lol, i'll be in the holo deck with my harem of 5000 concubines.

[Harvey Specter]

Hopefully in our lifetime we discover a planet with other forms of life.

[rsx]

what was the press conference about? planet orbiting a binary star?

[murd0c]

NASA - NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html)

The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars -- 200 light-years from Earth.

Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not thought to harbor life, but its discovery demonstrates the diversity of planets in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler-16b, by observing transits, where the brightness of a parent star dims from the planet crossing in front of it.

"This discovery confirms a new class of planetary systems that could harbor life," Kepler principal investigator William Borucki said. "Given that most stars in our galaxy are part of a binary system, this means the opportunities for life are much broader than if planets form only around single stars. This milestone discovery confirms a theory that scientists have had for decades but could not prove until now."

A research team led by Laurance Doyle of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., used data from the Kepler space telescope, which measures dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, to search for transiting planets. Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where liquid water can exist on the surface of the orbiting planet.

Scientists detected the new planet in the Kepler-16 system, a pair of orbiting stars that eclipse each other from our vantage point on Earth. When the smaller star partially blocks the larger star, a primary eclipse occurs, and a secondary eclipse occurs when the smaller star is occulted, or completely blocked, by the larger star.

Astronomers further observed that the brightness of the system dipped even when the stars were not eclipsing one another, hinting at a third body. The additional dimming in brightness events, called the tertiary and quaternary eclipses, reappeared at irregular intervals of time, indicating the stars were in different positions in their orbit each time the third body passed. This showed the third body was circling, not just one, but both stars, in a wide circumbinary orbit.

The gravitational tug on the stars, measured by changes in their eclipse times, was a good indicator of the mass of the third body. Only a very slight gravitational pull was detected, one that only could be caused by a small mass. The findings are described in a new study published Friday, Sept. 16, in the journal Science.

"Most of what we know about the sizes of stars comes from such eclipsing binary systems, and most of what we know about the size of planets comes from transits," said Doyle, who also is the lead author and a Kepler participating scientist. "Kepler-16 combines the best of both worlds, with stellar eclipses and planetary transits in one system."

This discovery confirms that Kepler-16b is an inhospitable, cold world about the size of Saturn and thought to be made up of about half rock and half gas. The parent stars are smaller than our sun. One is 69 percent the mass of the sun and the other only 20 percent. Kepler-16b orbits around both stars every 229 days, similar to Venus’ 225-day orbit, but lies outside the system’s habitable zone, where liquid water could exist on the surface, because the stars are cooler than our sun.

"Working in film, we often are tasked with creating something never before seen," said visual effects supervisor John Knoll of Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd., in San Francisco. "However, more often than not, scientific discoveries prove to be more spectacular than anything we dare imagine. There is no doubt these discoveries influence and inspire storytellers. Their very existence serves as cause to dream bigger and open our minds to new possibilities beyond what we think we 'know.'"

[skyxx]

Find the rest yourself.

Antimatter: The Future is Now [1 of 5] - YouTube

[tamazoid]

Lol, if we can use worm holes one day, then maybe we can travel far away...

Worm Holes - YouTube