Kepler discovers more planets
NASA scientists today announced the discovery of two Earth sized planets, named Kepler 20E and 20F. The planets were discovered by the Kepler space telescope team. "The first of the two planets has a diameter just 3 percent larger than the Earth, which makes it the closest object to Earth, in terms of size in the known universe," said Francois Fressin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, during a conference call to announce the major discovery.
The two planets are believed to be too close to their sun and thus too hot to be habitable with temperatures ranging from 800 to 14
hundred degrees. Scientists speculate that Kepler 20F might have had liquid water at one time in its history and could have been habitable.
The Kepler science team says this is the first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the Universe.
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i NEED to go to the new planets, i need to suck them dry, enslave their races, steal their technology, bulldoze their lands, build tourist resorts, plant crops, import pests and open up heaps of garbage dumps, and tie them up in legal mumbo jumbo for a few hundred years. Basically just like we've done to earth, just like home.
This planet lasted the species 4.4 million years. There are an infinite amount of planets out there. Consuming the resources and moving on is not the worst thing in the universe.
Really? I read this article, nearly two weeks ago. This is current news. A day after I can understand. Two weeks I can not. Dear CNN, please visit Reddit daily. You'll get your information faster.
You seem to be another person not understanding the difference between 2 different discoveris. Discovering a planet in the habitable zone != discovering 2 planets near the size of Earth.
See the difference?
Two different stories. Two different discoveries. Two different dates.
Your confusion of Kelper 22B with Kepler 20E and Kepler 20F is embarassing.
This is the funniest post on here! Too bad there isn't a Like button on here. Absolutely hilarious!
The geeks are right. You are confused about two different discoveries. You will not be on the crews who go to any of these planets. Fool.
1400 degrees sounds like a nice summer day...let me know when they find aliens or when there's an asteroid headed towards Earth that's probably going to kill us all
Hate to burst your bubble there Kim, 1400 degrees is not a nice summers day, but Spring time!
They discovered microscopic life inside of a comet and there is an astroid headed for earth. it will hit off the west coast of Cali in 2036
Maybe little Kimmie would be interested if they named a newly discovered planet "Planet Kardashian".
AS I SAID THE THE SELF RIGHTOUS A55 H0LES BELOW:
IM NOT- BUT I CATUALY NEED TO WORK FOR MY MONEY ..........OHHO CONFERENCE CALL......"WE FOUND NOTHING"..........AGAIN.......LET THE WORLD KNOW YOU FOUND NOTHING.......WHO IS THE STUPID ONE HERE...........PREMADONNAS.........
Why not first remove your CAPS lock and stop yelling and people?
Would that be before or after he/she/it performs the spell check?
Then what are you waiting for? Pick up your mop and get back to work.
Just so you know, lead paint may be yummy, however, it is not candy.
Premadonnas huh? Haven't heard that since my jr high coach cussed out the few players who played football, yet didnt like to get dirty, go figure!
Madonna is quite the entertainer. I take it as a compliment that this poster thinks some of us could reach her level at some point. If I become as famous as Madonna though, I definitely won't let it get to my head and won't be such a prima donna.
Hey wait a second! Is this Milton?! Where's my red stapler?!!
So just so we are certain we have this.......announcing the discovery of 2 earth sized planets, the first time we have been able to detect planets this size, is 'finding nothing'?
I wonder how many people that commented on this watch the Big Bang Theory? I myself feel that we still know little about the moon and maybe we should concentrate on the moon. Something kind of like 'baby-steps', then eventually, maybe we as humans can begin to walk and find the planet that has life. By the way religion and science does not mix, you smart people should know this by now.
Just great...so while we spend the next 1000 years learning about the moon, as far as you're concerned, we should just cancel all other scientific research because we should be taking baby steps. Thank the stars that no one asked you your opinion, or we'd still be in the dark ages.
We already took baby steps and then a bigger step on July 20, 1969. Why would we not continue to grow?
I thought we took one giant leap
There are aliens looking at our planet too.. thinking they have just discovered something.. and probably even naming our planet.
Darned it! They finally found me.
They are looking at us. From earlier.....Breaking news intercepted from Kepler 20F and translated by Google ...."Planet known as Errff just discovered.3rd planet from its star. Way too cold to support life (-100 to 120 degrees F) and devoid of intelligent life.. Air may have at once been full of delicious steam but now all the water has unfortunatley condensed and now floods the surface"
Brilliant!!! Thank you very much!
Yah, and they are probably rolling on the floor laughing ther gastrojuices out. They are putting us on their "Most Stupid Planet Ever" comedy show, A guy sets fire to a 78 year old in an elavator, flying Hijacked planes into buildings thinking your gonna get laid forever. We cannot even lead our children more less be a Global Leader. CNN has captured the minds of most of America and the other are enraptured with Rush. We use to be so innovative, time for some major re-engineering here at home.
I wonder what happens after virgin #72?
Yes and if they are just 1000 years ahead of us in technology they might have even found a way to image the planet from that distance.
SCOTT ME UP BEAMIE !!!!
I have to laugh at the people who say we spend too much money on NASA. NASA's budget is about 0.6% of the Federal Budget. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $18 billion dollars. We GIVE more money than that to corporations, like Exxon, which are making record-breaking profits and pay very little taxes.
NASA deserves more money, not less. It is one of the things that we do as a nation that actually advances the human race, both in knowledge and in technology.
"The Kepler science team says this is the first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the Universe."
Boy, That wont make Copernicus very happy, he said Mars was a close to being a Earthg Size planet, and all he used was math.
It was implied without stating, extra solar planets.
looking up in the night sky and going 'look, a planet' does not count as 'detecting'
THEY FOUND NOTHING AND IF THEY DID FIND ANYTHING THEY WOULD NOT TELL US ....UNLESS OF COURSE IT WAS WATER – "OH YES WE HAVE FOUND WATER ....AGAIN......BUT NOTHING ELAS AS FAR AS THE SHEEPOLE ARE CONCERNED – YOU PEOPLE NEED A DOSE OF REALEATY AND CNN WILLL NEVER TELL US ANYTHING.................OMG WE FOUND A GEM.....BACTERIA.........AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Never forget that.
You've definitely eaten too many paint chips
If that is how you feel why are you even reading the article?
Based on your spelling mistakes, you clearly haven't done much schooling so it's obvious you do not understand science. Go learn a bit and then come back and make comments.
Don't drink and comment.
when is nasa getting shut down? this is a waste of money a failing leaderless america does not have!!!
If you believe that this is such a waste of money, how about agreeing to never use any technology that resulted from or benefited from the space program – starting with your computer, watch, internet, and cell phone. Then send me a letter via US Post Office to CNN to complain about wasted money.
Sorry, can't send a letter to CNN. Without Satellites, there would be no CNN.
If anything, NASA and other space agencies might be the MOST important thing that we could possibly spend money on. Eventually, an asteroid will hit this planet. That is a statistical certainty. One of two possiblilities can happen.
A) We spend money on the infrastructure to watch for and perhaps defend ourselves from said rock.
B) We yank money from it, and the species dies.
That's Near-Term.
Long-Term, the Sun's going to die and the Earth along with it. Space travel is the only way to survive.
American is failing because of short sighted morons like you.
There is a leader, you may choose not to acknoledge him, but you know he's there.. his name is jesus. 😛
The only Jewish man I'm going to worship was a man by the name of Carl Sagan. RIP, Carl.
Just a matter of time...
Let's be clear on the Sun/stars expanding. When a star is in the "Main Sequence", which our Sun is now, after its birth and before its death phases, there is very little change in its size. If it does expand some, then it's outside gets cooler and it shrinks back. If it shrinks a bit, it gets hotter and expands back (all due to gravity). Thus it is self regulating, and this in no way is a cause for Global Warming. When a star dies, then it expands to become a Red Giant. At that point our Sun would swallow the Earth. It's about at half life, so it has about 4-5 billion years left.
Cold definately causes shrinkage, and hot definately causes erection.
Not to be a cynic, but I'd bank that we will have destroyed ourselves long before this becomes an issue.
Lighten up Leroy...and go rent Coneheads.....right Mindy? LOLOL
It's kind of eros a matic when the Sun swallows. That also causes some disturbances in the lower mounds.
That's 1.4 Ga-Zillion Days, the average house fly lives 35 days, wow thats a lot of flies.
Greetings earthlings. This is Belder from planet Remulak, also known as Kepler 20. You've finally found me.
Oh... kendo... where is Mork? Did you find his moisture missile? Where is the egg? Fly be free!
i hate you, we're coming to take over your planet, bwahahaha
I find stories like this fascinating. I would much rather read stories about exploration and new discoveries in a vast universe than reading about some of the trivial crap that we bicker about on our planet. Take a minute to find a quiet spot and look up at the stars as often as you can....this comment was not drug induced.
Alcohol?
Alcohol IS a drug.
Couldnt they have named it something cooler like, Mustafar, Coruscant or Geonosis?
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Sorry abut that I keep forgetting you Earthlings don't speak our language. We been living here on your Earth for some time now.Whats so hard about finding another planet like yours.They are common place thru out the universe. You Earthlings are sooooooooooo dumb.
Which Realm is that in? .... exactly?
Some where near the outter rim.
....vice the inner tunnel?
How about Kim Pung?
OMG.........WE FOUND NOTHING........LETS HAVE A CONFERENCE CALL.......AND A HIGHER SALARY..........SO I CAN GO BUY SOME HIGH HEELS.......GET REAL FOOLS.
Just because you purposefully choose to be ignorant, doesn't mean the rest of us do.
IM NOT- BUT I CATUALY NEED TO WORK FOR MY MONEY ..........OHHO CONFERENCE CALL......"WE FOUND NOTHING"..........AGAIN.......LET THE WORLD KNOW YOU FOUND NOTHING.......WHO IS THE STUPID ONE HERE...........PREMADONNAS.........
Sorry, but you do choose to be ignorant. And yelling about it doesn't make you look smarter.
what's yours – you asked "...WHO IS THE STUPID ONE HERE...........PREMADONNAS........."
I would say that the people who are;
-educated enough to be able to correctly spell "actually,"
-know that "prima donnas" is actually 2 words and can spell both of them correctly,
-know that a question mark (that's this symbol "?") follows an interrogative,
-are interested in the universe outside their own trailer park,
Those people are NOT the stupid people on this thread.
Every time you open your mouth 'what's yours', you get a bit closer to proving incontrovertibly that you are.
No – we found two planets millions of light years away. That in itself is an extraordinarily difficult task. It took years to find Osama Bin Laden and he was here on Earth. Too bad you can't appreciate how profound this accomplishment really is.
Is that you little Billy, Oh I forgot all the 7th graders are out on xmas break. Tell your mommy I will stop by same time and same place (your meth infested trailer) for my servicing next week. She could use some lipstick for x-mas.
How is an entire planet about the size of ours (previously impossible to spot) nothing? This is real news. You can go back to wondering what the kardashians are going to wear tomorrow and let the intelligent people get back to the real news.
Right...in this universe with millions of galaxies and zillions of planets we are the only creatures around. That would be a little extreme to believe.
Like the old saying goes "It would be an awful waste of space..."
Well, Personally I like the Idea of NASA. Think of all the money thats was thrown into space rather than Bankers and Lawyers on Wall St. or Used by Fannie or Freddie. Unless we need to relocate pronto, why the energy and monies in other planets. Let's us reverse model this and focus on US, we on Earth. Let's fix this planet before we go screw up another. The guy with the 100 scientist friends in Church, maybe they need to understand that God does not allow humanity to roll the dice twivce.
Really? The money is thrown into Space? So is the Space Shuttle going up with a cargo hold full of Greenbacks and dumping them into space? Last I heard that money is being spent here on Earth. That money (in the case of NASA) goes to American Scientists, students, universities, and private contractors.
Thats the point! Time now to repair Gaiea.
If we wait until we need to relocate in short order, we won't have the time to do it.
another candidate from the CNN blogosphere in need of 1st grade education
I wonder, if NASA were to detect a signal transmitting prime numbers across all of the hydrogen absorption bands, and that signal was, by parallax, determined to be 10 AU out and decelerating at 200 G, how many of you would call that a waist of money?
Ralf...you sounded intelligent until you used "waist" instead of "waste"......almost buddy!
I am profoundly dyslexic (lexdisic?). At work, I have people who's job it is to read every word I type and fix them. Play time, not so much.
lol....sorry Ralf, I'll let it slide next time!
I'm cracking up really bad...thanks bro.
Not a prob, I like it when people point out my spelling errors. One of these times, I might start getting it right.
Ralf, you sound like a dog barking to the wrong tree...lol
Dude...Hilarious!!
The real trouble for Ralf comes when his kids tell the teachers that he got them to leave out milk and cookies and write a present list to Satan.
Is that a money belt waist or a waste?
Five
SO IN OTHER WORDS THEY FOUND NOTHING......LETS JUST STATE THAT FACT!
2 – "KNOWN UNIVERSE" THATS NON SAYING MUCH CONSIDERING OUR EQUIPMENT RANGE RELEATIVE TO THE SIZE OF SPACE.......... – A CONGERENCE CALL – ARE YOU PREMADONAS SERIOUS!?!? – YOU FOUND ANOTHER MARBLE WITH NOTHING ON IT PEOPLE – REALY! – A BUNCH OV OVERPAYED PREMADONNAS!!!!!!
Try this for an order of operations.
1. Learn what you are talking about.
2. Comment on it.
I PROBABLY KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC THEN THE MASS OF SLUDGER LIKE YOU ON THIS BOARD – STOP ACTING LIKE THE INTELECT YOU DONT HAVE
I would add
3. STOP YELLING and
4. learn to spell to those...
@ whats yours, if you are so brilliant, please explain to me the difference between the Drake Equation and the Drake Equation as modified by Dr. David Brinn?
Ummm.... that would be prima dona....
BUT ARE YOU REALY THOR.............YEA NO...
Actually I think he's talking about Pat Benatar. She was the star pre-Madonna.
It's spelled Prima Donna. Two words. It means first lady.
Also, all caps and a ton of exclamation marks just makes you look stupid. Or, in simple terms that you can understand: Learn to grammar noob.
I LOVE HOW YOU 1DIODS LIKE TO MAKE UPO THESE BELIEFS BECAUSE YOU ARE 1D1OTS – "MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID" WOW – I WAS JUST REPLIED TO BY A NOBODY – AKE STUPID 1D1OT.......BTW THEY STILL FOUND NOTHING – MAYBE YOU ARE SOMEONE FROM THE OVERPAYED GROUP THAT HAS FOUND NOTHING.......
Dude, if you are going to troll, you have to be comprehensible. Gooblety gibblety glock just can't be taken as a serious insult.
This is what crack will do to you.
whats yours
I LOVE HOW YOU 1DIODS LIKE TO MAKE UPO THESE BELIEFS BECAUSE YOU ARE 1D1OTS – "MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID" WOW – I WAS JUST REPLIED TO BY A NOBODY – AKE STUPID 1D1OT.......BTW THEY STILL FOUND NOTHING – MAYBE YOU ARE SOMEONE FROM THE OVERPAYED GROUP THAT HAS FOUND NOTHING.......
So first you say they found nothing and then you say they found a marble with nothing on it.
Better make your mind up which one you actually want to say is right.
What they found was that they can find earth-sized planets at that distance. Not too shabby.
This planet looks like Netu, from which I once escaped. However, I thought it was destroyed along with Sokar...hmmm... the Goa'uld are coming...
Loki.... my brother....
I thought Netu was the Tea-Party planet...
Aha! That explains everything. Bachmann has been using a sarcophagus to rejuvenate herself. Beware the Goa'uld!
Just another moon converted, this time to serve Lord Ba'al (as in bacce!)
Excellent SG references Jolinar (including your name, lol). The original cast is still the best cast of all the SG's. I wish SGU didn't suck so much early on that when it finally got good, it got canned.
Indeed, SGU was just getting great.
This was on NPR last week...ever heard of current events?
CNN is not current on events. Were you hoping/looking for current events on CNN? Bwuahahahaha
That was actually a different planet that is thought to be in the habital zone of its host star.
That was a different story entirely. Ever hear of paying closer attention?
There goes the neighborhood. Those silly Earthlings have found us.
You mean "destructive" earthlings?
I would imagine that if life has evolved on other planets, that it would be just as destructive and vilent as humans, some more so, some less, some peasceful and so on.
I agree with Brad. Throughout history, all living things have been violent in nature in order to survive (survival of the fittest, regardless of species).
Some species attack unforgivingly, others live in harmony when you would think they wouldn't. Been that way as long as we humans have been on this planet (40K years and going in our current evolutionary form?) and I'm sure it was that way for millions of years prior when other species were dominant on just this planet.
Given this, I'd say evolution and species on other planets are likely similar to us in that way. As long as they are carbon-based life forms dependent on food/water/air as almost all species on our planet are.
So this is breaking news?? So when there is an asteroid heading our way what is that called? Top Secret and a matter of National Security, right? load of crap!
Who said this was breaking news?
CNN did, in a banner at the top of the CNN home page.
1) No; 2) An asteroid heading our way; 3) No.
Or were you just talking to yourself?
Latest news ya derp, not breaking. Derps alive and well.
1. This is very important. If you don't understand why, please try educating yourself. Start with the drake equation.
2. There is no way any government could hide an asteroid that would hit the Earth. There are many amateur astronomers who love to track asteroids and are more than capable of doing the math to plot their path.
don't be so gullible please! you know damn well that if the gov wants to get rid of it for "National Security" it will get rid of it. asteroid Apophis in 2029. How do we know that this asteroid is really not going to hit us on that year? You trust the experts right? do you trusts an amateur? No I don't think so! All of these scientist are in the gov. pocket. Do you really think that we cannot come up with a cure to all of these diseases? If we can grow a penis, I think getting rid of these diseases is quite simple. As long as there is profit to be made there will never be a cure. EVER!!
I came in here with a breaking news banner. But anyways, I am well aware of the protocols and all the amateur astronomers out there. But let me tell you something you can discredit an amateur astronomer very easily with the simple fact that he is an amateur if it is a matter of National Security the gov, in order to keep us under control will ruin a name just to keep it quiet. What would you do if there was an asteroid coming in the next 10 years. would you pay your mortgage, would you even have a savings account. These are things that we must consider and demand from our scientific community. That if there is such a thing then we need to know.
You make the mistake of under populating your imaginary universe. Who is this He that will have his reputation destroyed for national security? There are MILLIONS of amateur astronomers that would be aware of this event .
Even if millions of amateur astronomers will be aware that does not make them an expert. All you need is 1 experts to discredit millions. and please do not tell me that if an expert is not offered a front seat into surviving he will not lie to the world to save his own a$$. Who is their main source of funding? Who controls most of the satellites? thank very much!
Satellites dont find "asteroids" and if someone found an asteroid it would be extremely difficult to hide that in this age of Twitter and Youtube. None of the governments would be able to cover that up. I think you watched the movie Deep Impact too many times where some gov guys kept a reporter from reporting the fact that an asteroid was on a collision course with us. There are too many eyes watching this time and any report of an asteroid could easily be corroborated by too many people.
However, I understand the gov want or need to cover up something like that until they had a plan to deal with it. Violence would skyrocket if people thought the world was going to end soon.
I understand that satellites don't asteroids. I am using a simple word as a reference so people can understand instead of using the name Observatory or radar telescope. Yes I have watched Deep Impact and you can say some of the ideas come from the movie which are quite possible. I won't go as far as saying that we are going to build a super tunnel or something like that cause that will give it away. But yes the possibility that the gov. would want to keep it quiet until there is a plan is quite possible and in fact is actually what they would like to do. They still going to want to collect taxes!! LOL
you cant discredit someone who says that if you yourself look through this telescope you will see it.
jeez you are a loon.
Look at the URL. This is a freaking blog, not CNN proper.
But life only exists on Earth. Read the bible, people. geez
Where does the Bible say "only on Earth?"
Listen, God created EVERYTHING. Even the pathetic simple minded questions are put into your head by GOD. Listen to him, he will set you free. Yeeee hawww!!! Got a bridge too!
There were no dinosaurs in the Bible either. Guess they never existed?
Actually, the Bible refers to "behemoth" and "leviathan", which many theologians believe were references to dinosaurs.
Seriously, where does it say that? And if it really does, guess what? It's wrong. Why? Because contrary to what bible thumpers would have us believe the bible was writen by flawed human beings, NOT GOD. Humans have a long track record of being wrong when they try to use a religious book to explain how the universe works.
Well, if you're going to bring up Christian mythology about where there is or isn't life, there is one sect of Christianity that believes in life on other planets: Mormons. Their god even lives on another planet. Maybe their mythology is actually closer to the truth than that of more traditional Christians.
tell me you didn't just say that
Your an idiot...
It doesn't say that anywhere in the bible. Contrary to what some Christians think, the bible doesn't present all the answers to life and the universe. It presents a roadmap for living right with God. Never says that we're the only ones.
You people aren't too hot at detecting sarcasm are you?
yeah, yeah – the world is flat too, okay? 😀
@31Mommy. I looked it up. Thanks. I do still have my doubts about the biblical mention of dinosaurs....with all the various species of dinosaurs why would the Bible just name one on land and one in the sea? The Leviathan is a "sea monster".
This is great news for science. It also gives the whiners and deniers something to whine and deny. I'll stick with the science bunch.
Most of the scientists I know (and that group numbers in the hundreds) will be in church Sunday celebrating Christmas. Most of the whiner/denier bunch that I know (a few dozen) will be washing their robes for the next Klan meeting.
Scientists in Church, The House of the Holy Oxymoron. Whiners at KKK meetings? Jeesh who attends the PTA and AA meetings? This has to be East Texas!
Genie! Get back in your bottle!
nASA is trying pretty hard to remain relvevant. We have identified more planets without a space program than when we had one.
Don't forget, these planets are being found by an ORBITAL telescope. Without a space program we would have a score of 0.
Where are you getting your facts from? Only eight planets have been identified without a space program. More than a hundred have been discovered because and by the space program.
The space program had nothing to do with identifying planets
Exactly how, KK, do you propose that the telescopes we discovered these planets with got into their orbits?
Those huge slingshots we were launching satellites with back in Galileo's day?
Houston..... we have a problem.
But Captain... I'm given her all she's got man!
she is coming apart at er seams she cant take this much longer ........ (my 1st marriage)
"The Kepler science team says this is the first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the Universe." Someone should tell them about Venus.
Venus is about 5% smaller than Earth. These planets are 3% larger.
They should also let them know that it isn't the first... I think Earth was the first one that we discovered.
Or Mars for that matter! However, I will accept that their comment was in regards to objects OUTSIDE of our solar system... I like your style though! 🙂
No, not Mars. That's would be the same thing as saying that our moon is the same size as Mars.
At one time it could have been habitable?? What, did it used to be much farther from it's sun than it is now? Or are they saying that ancient space beings had a much higher tolerance for heat than us Earthlings?
Sam, the sun expands as it gets older eventually engulfing objects. This will happen to us as well, the sun will expand and eat up mercury then venus and Earth will end up dying out before Venus is gone. Eventually Earth will be swallowed up or the sun will blow up before that.
So global warming really is a natural occurrence. I knew we didn't cause it.
A sun will grow overtime, thus it was likely habitable a long time ago and now that the sun is larger, it cannot sustain life.
we are actually looking at earth in the future through a time warp, and they say Global Warming is a Myth
Stars, including our own sun, grow in size over time. So it's totally possible that the planets weren't as hot as it used to be when its star used to be smaller. You need some Astronomy 101.
Over the course of a stars life the star slowly grows and eventually declines. In hundreds of millions of years, perhaps billions, our own star the Sun will expand and earth will no longer be habital.
So what everyone is saying here is that stars remain the same, or even shrink over time?
JIM! I'M A SURGEON, NOT AN ASTRONOMER!
Danger Will Robinson, Danger Will Robinson
Live long and prosper!
Let's see, you are a starving child in Africa. Do you really care if there is a plant such like earth's size out there?
Please sell the equipment you used to send this message and send the money to Africa. Hypocrite!
I had rather send my tax dollars. Oh, wait, that was spent on this silliness. Why must you resort to name calling?
No, what you really want to do is protest at abortion clinics in the USA.
What ??? !!
Lets say you are a starving kid in Africa; Do you care Americans eat far too much, drive cars and live in houses that are heated and cooled?
Why yes, I do care.
Cool, when you give up more food than you need to stay alive, your AC and your car, I will give up science.
Science is not the problem. Which science is the problem. Too many Star Trek fans with pipe dreams is maybe also the problem.
I would not call, attempting to answer the biggest question in human history a pipe dream. I would call it the most important thing done by humanity to this day.
Terry, I think you took a wrong turn when you were looking for the religious "news". This is about science.
Who said anything about religion? Is compassion for follow man only based on religion? You guys are all apparently children and have seen too many space movies. Grow up a little please.
derp derp derp
Probably not, but of course, they're not on CNN.com reading this article either, so what's your point?
Lets see, you are a starving child in Africa, and the church has said that using birth control is a sin, and you get aids, would you care that ignorance just killed you? Your argument is that basically there should be no advancement and no one should strive to do or understand anything, if there is a starving child on this planet. Wouldn't that apply to the time it took you to read this article? Couldn't it have been put to better use?
I'm more interested in new planets than African kids or even yourself.
Yes.
And here we see the main difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives believe people should give their money to causes they deem worthy, liberals believe the money should be taken from the people, by the government, then given to causes the government deems worthy. Sorry, but it takes more true kindness and thought to do the former.
Government consists of people and is a cause many people deem worthy. False dichotomy is a bad trap to argue from.
jk – the fact that you view government as a cause is sad and scary at the same time; and obviously there are many others like you.
In general I would agree however our government has grown too large , become too inefficient and wasteful, and has by and large lost it's sense of accountability. It boils down to people being flawed... i'd rather keep flaws on the individual level than the governmental as much as possible. The Federal Government belongs here in space exploration, environmental regulations, defense and not too much else.
It really isn't an either/or thing. We actually do have resources to do both we just don't consider starving children a priority.
Right. Because pumping money into Africa will save it from itself, right? How can you be so naive?
We are not given free food nor free housing in the US either. We earn everything, by daily working our a $ $ off. If africans would stop procreating like rabbits and start working, they would achieve exactly the same. There is no reason why the US has to give up Science just to keep helping other countries and continents more than already has been done. Every country is responsible for their own fate and progress.
Ignoramus:
You do realise Africa is the leats populous of the "notable" continents do u? It didn't achieve that by the inhabitants breeding like rabbits. Give back the resources you stole from us then before you start spewing off your bile...
Terry, the complete idiot.
A lot of people don't want to fund basic science, but they're all too happy to enjoy the material benefits that usually eventually flow from scientific discoveries.
Thankfully our pursuit of scientific advancement isn't beholden to the whims of starving African children.
Nanoo, Nanoo!
Hey! Thats the planet the GOP lives on!
What? No way! What are the odds?
I'd imagine 1 in 2 odds. Given there are billions upon billions of planets upon billions of galaxies. Most likely within infinite amount of dimensions.
It was just a matter of time. They will find them everywhere now that they know how to find them.
Keep looking theirs another one in that area similar to those two. There should be an halo around it show the amount of oxygen in air plus a green all over the surface.
So they see a rock about the size of earth...........Break out the booz..
The point is, by finding one so quickly it boosts our estimates of the total number of Earth sized objects. The more Earth sized objects, the greater the number of Earth sized objects that are the right distance from their stars to have liquid water. The more planets with liquid water, the more life. With our current technology, it is very hard to find an Earth sized planet that is not close to the star. That will soon change.
The invaders are coming.
Do you think that the dog will evolve seriously, like the simians here on earth, on other earth like with dog like critters, Aggh I get it "Planet Purina"
One more step away from the notion that earth and human life are central to all of existence.
everybody knows that
Not in Texas they don't
No they do not.
When you have found life and not just speculation let me know.
Your just so naive Matt, your obviously a closed minded person. Your opinion means nothing. You think news of aliens will come out right away....think twice.. You know what that could do to society/ other values.
Another step? and another and another... the belief that there is other life in the universe (in the absence of any evidence) is less credible than the belief that there is no other life in the universe. So we are expected to keep the charade going simply to disprove the Bible? I'm sure there are some who truly just want to explore and discover, and that is fine, but the majority I believe think they will have their dis-belief in God vindicated if they can only discover a single cell somewhere out there.
Spoken like a true closed minded religious slave.
What are you talking about? No one is trying to have their dis-belief in God vindicated, the very fact that it is DIS belief leaves it without need for vindication. I'm not looking for vindication in my lack of belief in Santa Clause. By the way, I do believe in God just not your puny one.
We don't need to prove your God doesn't exist. There is no evidence that he exists therefore he doesn't. Just like unicorns and faeries.
We do have evidence that there is life in the Universe – we are here. It would be absurd to think that out of 100 billion galaxies each with 100 billion stars only hours has a planet supporting life.
Finding other life in the universe would be the greatest discovery in the history or our planet.
Funny how those of use without religion find the universe so much more awesome and awe inspiring that you drones with the your closed minds and your primitive beliefs.
your mom goes to college
And people complain about money spent on science. Jeez!
"The two planets are believed to be too close to their sun and thus too hot to be habitable with temperatures ranging from 800 to 14 hundred degrees."
Oh, just put a little sunscreen on.
talk to the left because you just ain't right.
The "first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the Universe"???
Really? What about Venus?
Extra solar.
The universe includes our solar system. Heck, it's not even capitalized.
Perhaps we will find the home world of Xenu, therefore finally proving Scientology is the one true religion....
The FSM does not approve of your foolishness. No marinara for you!
Spaghetti! It's what's for dinner!
Great job.
Keep those discoveries coming.
I hope we see an earth-sized planet with liquid water in the next decade.
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That will take more time due to the fact that a smaller planet, further from it's host star, will take longer to exert a noticeable wobble in said star or occult it to provide the necessary dip in observable brightness. That is why most of the planets we are finding are very close to their stars.
Has anyone considered that maybe the reporters or scientists are making this stuff up just to keep their jobs? Ministers and preachers do it all the time!
The difference with science is, scientists share their data. Some data is faked, however, there are many tests for such. The fundamental key to science is, you try to disprove it. You get far more credit for disproving a test or a theory than you do for putting one out.
oh jeez. no, their jobs are their jobs, they do not lose them because they do not discover something, after all the serach is part of the process.
I resist any of them calling a planet "Earth like" unless they are 100% sure it has liquid water oceans, dry land continents, N/O2 atmosphere, etc.
Have you ever considered studying science before jumping to silly conclusions? These are real findings, in the near future we may even detect signs of carbon life forms. You are not the person I would want them to talk to first should we find means of communicating.
Google seti@home and start searching for life.
Unlike the stuff you read on the Internet, the scientific reports about newly discovered planets are vetted by the Global Scientific community. Before a finding is announced, the information is confirmed by other teams such as the Australians or Europeans for example. Unless it is some kind of global conspiracy, and I hear the comments coming, I rather doubt that this is made up to keep anyone's job.
The Illuminati will silence you... 😛
Funny how there are so many comments here about how this is a waste of money and that they should focus on other things rather than space. Do you not see the importance of this? There is a whole existence out there other than the planet earth. What if people never thought exploring other lands and finding there existence of any importance? Wow people, you need to get up off the couch and broaden your horizons.
People don't like what they can't understand. It is called stupidity. It can be cured.
I am not sure it is cureable.
Sorry, ignorance can be cured. Stupidity is forever.
As a nuclear repair department head..... you can't fix stupid.
Yes, stupidity can be cured. Darwin came up with the best solution. It just takes quite a few generations.
It is also called religion
They also don't realize how little money is being spent for great discoveries like this. The Mars Rover, The ISP, Hubble, Kepler, etc. All of this is being accomplished with just 0.6% of the national budget. Imagine the great discoveries we could be making if we quit starting pointless wars and instead used that money towards scientific research.
or education!
how mush we spending on war and religion funding /tax breaks ?
You mean like what happened when the Spanish found South America ?
Someday we'll build a telescope powerful enough to see the microscope looking down at us.
LOL That will be the day!!
Awesome! Well said!
Caught with our pants down, no less.
Dont forget that even if we do find a perfect planet that can support life, there is a good possibility that the planet could have died a couple billion years ago. Astronomy 101: the light from stars took billions of years to be seen in our night sky.
Actually they both are orbiting a planet 1000 light years away which means the light took 1000 years to get here.
Never heard of planets orbitting other planets. And I wasnt talking about these two planets; rather, the possibility of finding other planets. But I get your point, and Im sure you get mine.
Planets do orbit planets. They are called moons.
Yep...got me in a typo...I admit it. fell better now?
even that had a typo. FEEL better now. Need to type slower.
The point is, finding fuel for the Drake Equation. The more we know about the number of planets and their properties, the more we know about the frequency of life.. (How much there is and how far apart.)
Since we like to donate drones maybe we could send one to Keplar and see if they have weapons of mass destruction since there is such a shortage of them round here!
Don't laugh, but the Pentagon is actually PAYING money (funding) for them to see if these planets have any WMD's.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, Josh. I tried not to laugh, but that was such a funny comment that I couldn't help myself. You're killing me ...
I knew it was just a matter of time before the bible nuts started showing up on here spouting their drivel. What an embarrassment to our civilization it would be if aliens came here and the first thing they saw was some evangelical christer lunatic berating him(it) for not knowing what the @#$% he's talking about.
I am not religious but I find it hard to even remotely possibly care what someone whose called "religion_is_for_the_weak" thinks.
As an agnostic, saying "Amen" to your post may seem somewhat ironic, but please take it in the spirit intended. 🙂
I won't pay attention to the ramblings of someone who improperly uses the possessive "whose" instead of the contraction "who's". FYI Jesus is dead.
I had a talk with God today.
I asked him if he was real.
He said "no".
I'm good.
jonjo!! can just imagine what your fart smells like
Waste of money. No reason for this research. Go read Asimov or something.
You're an idiot. You do realize NASA is only 0.6% of the budget don't you? We spent 700 Billion dollars on pointless wars in the Middle East, that my friend is whats called a waste of money. Scientific research and space exploration don't get nearly enough money.
So nice to see someone here with an open mind who sees the importance of exploration. I am wondering where most of these people leaving such negative remarks came from?!
right on brother !
So says jacktors, as he types away on his personal computer, a direct result of research done for the space program...
We spent more in the first month of the Libyan war than we'll spend on the Kepler project for the next 3 and a half years and that was our cheapest war.
**** Julie
So nice to see someone here with an open mind who sees the importance of exploration. I am wondering where most of these people leaving such negative remarks came from?!
John Boehners office.
Why aren't they looking at the Zeta Reticuli system in the Milky Way where rumors of "advanced civillizations abound. At least point the thing in the right direction!!
They have checked. No planets. They thought they had a "Hot Jupiter" however, that was just the star being unstable.
UFO nutters are not a good source of astronomical insight.
That is quite true.
Hi Leif,
It's not UFO nutters, but the actual ancient people who said where there "God" told them where he/ she came from. There are stone carvings from the ancient Samaritains, American Indians, Mezo American Indians, India, and Egyptians that claims this.
The human race is going to be in shock
when it finds out the true nature of "man" .
We are not alone.
Hi MVK. You cannot supply a reputable source for that claim. The ancient astronaut nutters are just as bad as the ufo variety. It's lot's of speculation based on their desire to sell books to a gullible public. It's called pseudo science. Leave science to real scientists, not to quacks.
To GroundZero :- In fact, it will even be a bigger shock to all those unbelievers when they find out that God does exist. 🙂
too hot for life – umm. can we send boehner and the republicans there to investigate it a little more? that may be useful to us here on earth – like in 2012.
Can't. Democrats spent all the money.
not a problem – we'll do a 10 minute fund rasier and get it covered. so ask them to start packing.
There was money left over after the war(s)?
Democrats had to spend all of the money
to keep us from going down the toilet after eight years of Bush.
Zing !
Your turn.
Since Democrats are hell bent on destroying the world... why don't they go to one already destroyed.
i think that's where the republicans came from. they couldn't agree on a vote to go to mars or here, and thinking they were civilized, we took them in.
Politicians-the fookin' prawns of the Earth.
It's the Republicans who are hell bent on destroying this world. They are quite happy to fiddle while we strip the Earth bare
and further destroy our environment. One day there will be too many people, not enough resources, and then the real fun will begin. The Republicans don't care as long as they can make a buck.
Sorry Chris, we are too busy trying to fix the mess the republicans left us.
Republicans are just not paper trained and they poop all over the planet.
Bad dog.
Lougeee - yes. we found it in their off-shore bank accounts.
mack!!! maybe u find ya daddy there
oh yeah they can speculate that there was water there before. Well i'm going to speculate something too. I just ate two fajitas with black beans and guacamole. I'm going to speculate that I'll be in the toilet soon. 😀
Hell I'm going to give you concrete evidence. I just went to the toilet. Now Speculate!!!
Probably a good guess. Don't forget to courtesy flush.
When stars get older and start running out of fuel, they burn hotter. If a planet is orbiting an old hot star, it is not hard to guess that when the star was cooler, the planet was cooler too.
I know exacly what you mean. So when you eat hot sause then it is not hard to guess that your a$$ will be burning soon right?
Stay classy, Jonjo.
Ok. We've proven out the tech to detect earth sized planets. I'm hoping we'll get off our butts and start coming up with tech to get to those earth sized planets.
Where's Zefram Cochrane when you need him...
Waiting for Will Riker to time-travel back and tell him how to "invent" it.
Kepler-20 is a G-type star and is slightly cooler than the sun. It's about 1000 light years away. Conclusion, there are Earth size planets everywhere.
Does it really even matter when we can't even get to Mars?
um.... I thought we already made this discovery. Whats the big deal here? also, if we can't see the planet, how can we know what the size of the planet it is? Basing on the "wobbling" of a sun does not emanate any confidence that these guys know what they are talking about.
That you do not know how they measure suggests that maybe I have more confidenence that these experts know what they are doing than in your comment.
Agreed. I have followed this "wobble" theory since its inception. I have the same question. If we measure the size based on the wobble, whats to say that there aren't other planets pulling the opposite direction from the other side of the star and thus affecting the wobble in a contracoup fashion? Wouldn't that spoil the calculations? I think yes and I think that this is a terribly obvious oversight by these researchers.
It measures dips in brightness, not an actual physical wobble. A planet on the opposite side of the sun would not affect its brightness.
I agree, what's the big friggin deal, we're obviously not on the only planet in the universe. One's bound to be our size. Wake me when they find one with life!!!!
It's not a guess. The planet's size is calculated using scientific principles that have been vetted over hundreds of years. Using the mass of the sun in a planetary system, along with the planet's orbital period, the amount of light blocked by the planet on its transit of its star......the size and mass of the planet can be calculated.
People obviously smarter than you know what they're talking about
Oh really, are you an astrophysicist? Have you legitimately studied the magnitude of the errors involved that you can authoritatively say that?
Actually, yes. And I can.
I'm guessing these people are a whole lot smarter than you are. I are looking at a lot more than a stars wobble. They are also looking at how much light the planet blocks from the star and the frequency to determine size and distance form the star.
How dare you question the NASA priests!!!
Burn this heretic!!
I love it when I start a good argument. I will concede that NASA folks are smarter than I am, but that doesn't mean they are correct. Seriously though, scientists have been saying they have discovered planets before using this "wobbling" technique for a long time now. Why is this breaking news today? Also, can someone explain to me how they can speculate that it may have had water at one time? Instead of wobbling does the sun jiggle? -Just kidding guys.
@Soup849
Sun "wobble" helps to detect the total mass of the object pulling on the sun. But, when that planet crosses between the star and the telescope(kind of a rare occurance considering angles), they can measure the amount of light lost while it crosses and can determine the size of the planet.
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Add it together and you get the earth-like size, and earth-like mass. The math is pretty accurate.
Pretty interesting! Have we done the same testing on the planets in our own solar system? I'm sure it would be on a much different scale, but do the same rules apply. Also, how would we tell if it had water on it or not?
"The Kepler science team says this is the first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the Universe. "
they mean BESIDES Venus and Earth, right? because we've known about those for Millennia.
I'm not sure looking up in the sky and going 'hey look, a planet' counts as actual 'detecting'
I'm guessing that you haven't really read the papers lately, but there are planets outside of our own solar system that are not known to us. Clearly, that is the context that the statement you quoted was made.
i found habitable conditions on uranus last night.
This IS Ceti Alpha 5!
Khaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.khaaan.com/
Breaking news intercepted from Kepler 20F and translated by Google ...."Planet known as Errff just discovered.3rd planet from its star. Way too cold to support life (-100 to 120 degrees F) and devoid of intelligent life.. Air may have at once been full of delicious steam but know all the water has unfortunatley condensed and now floods the surface"
First website to sell real estate on the planets probably arrived on the Internet 2 seconds after the announcement.
May be we can send all the librals there.
Hmmm...maybe you ignorant repugs can learn how to spell "liberal". Duh!
hehehe, you took the bait... you know libral = lineral, and I typed 1 letter less. BTW, R U a libral?
Only if Joe can learn how to spell liberal...
hehehe, you took the bait... you know libral = lineral, and I typed 1 letter less. BTW, R U a libral 2?
Conservatives would never be able to muster up the government funding to make it possible.
R U a linbral?
let's send the conservatives instead.. they all believe in going to hell anyways. a planet like these would make it a reality for them
Sorry, the Republicans have already declared war
when they found oil.
Maybe you should stop listening to Sean Hannity and go to the library.
He, he. You cannot spell...so don't try to play off your inner Palin by claiming to have any intelligence. You've already proven otherwise by requesting that the most intelligent people, the "liberals" be sent away.
Anyone watching the political games being played by the House Republicans this week would know that it is the Repubs who need to be sent to these planets, ASAP. Wake up, tool.
More fuel for the Drake Equations!!! Bring it on!
Still too many unknown values, but I quite agree–the more data, the better!
okay so when do we move?
A new vacation hot spot.
The odds that we are the only life as we know it in the universe has been reduced to zero. It maybe another 100 to1000 years before we meet our neighbors though. Doug.
Do you have any idea how annoying that is when you put your name after a post? Stop it!
Doug,
I agree with your statement that other life is probably out there. The question still remains as to if it is intelligent. How old is the earth 4.2 billion years? How old is man kind 10,000 – 200,000 years? In this time frame we have only be probing space for 50 years. Mankind may kill its self off before we meet ET. Im sure intelligent life has existed before but the question is are they living now durning our special time.
The good news: gravity is similar to Earth, so we'd weigh about the same. The bad news: your skin will melt off and your bones turn to ash in seconds.
so we would weigh a lot less. 😛
Whoa.. 800 to 1400 degrees? Make sure you bring your sun block...
Send Snooki and her SPF Infinity...
"Scientists speculate that Kepler 20F might have had liquid water at one time in its history and could have been habitable."
Really? My 2 year old could have speculated that. What evidence whatsoever is there that this planet "might have had liquid"... it's next to its sun and dry as a bone.
My guess, the type and age of star that it orbits. When stars get older and start running out of fuel, they burn hotter.
I hope we can get there some day so we can destroy it like we're doing to this one!!! No not really...but an actual picture would be cool though.
To John B :- You will not find another one like the Earth is (period)
I'm just guessing, but I think they can usually tell that a planet "had" water by errosion. Usually, planets have veinous canyons on their surface that indicate that water used to exist. I don't know how they know it was "water" however.. I suppose it's perfectly possible that it could have been some other liquid.
They didn't actually see the planet. They saw a dark spot and some very slight wobbling of a distant star. No actual images similiar to that of Mars.
LOL @ they saw erosion. Even spectral analysis wouldn't help in this case.
they will start pooping like popcorn's in coming years ... it's so awesome to be witness of all upcoming discoveries. Hope that humanity will open eyes soon, drop our differences and see how ridiculous war's and religion's are . If we invest money ,time and human/natural resources into science for good , we can reach the stars ... If not we will annihilate each others and we'll be forever gone . The choice is ours. Down with dumb,perverted ,greedy politicians and religious leaders. It's time to change our future ...
Peace and love too all of you !
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ha ha .. you said pooping
🙂
Size matter? Why?
size always matters
Because if we are hoping to find life that has anything in common with us, then it probably has to come from a planet much like ours. If a planet is say twice the diameter of Earth, its going to be a very different place than our Earth, even if it has similar temperatures and free oxygen in the atmosphere.
bigger planet=stronger gravity= less chance to harbor life as we know
Gravity. Your relative mass could crush you in the wrong environment.
Gravity is related to mass + they need to be in habitable zone.
Several reasons, for a planet to support life like our it would have to be similar to ours. Our planet is of a certain size and distance from our sun, it has a large metallic core that generates a large magnetic field and it has a large moon that stabilizes our axis.
Without any one of those things, not to mention water, similar atmosphere, etc then anything resembling complex life would be vastly different.
Besides, if it won't support OUR life then how can we ship all of our teatards there without killing them.
to Richard A. Johnson. Size matters? Size matters depending if we plan to land on a planet that 10x the size of the Earth or not. Let's say there is a habitable planet out there that is 10x the size of Earth. Human would not be able land on this planet. Gravity would crush humans. Also it would be a real discovery if we discover life on other planet that is 10x larger than Earth. if the living creatures resembled us on this planet, we would call them Super Humans. These Super Humans may have hard time to live on Earth due to gravity and vice versa. I hope you get the picture 🙂
This is cool, but I wish NASA could come up with better names than Keppler 20E and Keppler 20F.
The Keppler 20fians are a proud race and are insulted at your suggestion that their name is poor.
Did u know that God named every single star of His creation? That is a fact of life. 🙂
NASA just gives it a number desigation as part of the cataloging process.
Many times amateur astronomers or school kids submit the names that eventually get officially adopted. So, if you have a cool name, send it in. You never know, it might get selected.
They did... "Kepler" is way better than "Keppler". How could you make that mistake TWICE in your post when the name is in the subject of the article directly above?!?
Good to see that the spelling Nazis are on duty...
just about everything ever discovered or created has been designated an eponymic name. In other words things are always named after the person who discovered them or created them. Streets, towns, countries, you name it. Whats so wrong about naming these things after a famous astronomer? I think the names of Greek and Roman gods are pretty much used up
The Kepplerians have just declared war.
Gee, thanks for info like, where it is, how far, etc.
Second star on the left, then straight on till morning.
in space,.. long ways away
Planning a weekend getaway?
like far-out man.
I these planets are in the same solar system as the other "Earthlike" planet that they announced earlier this month, I think it's like 600 light years away or something like that.
NaNu Nanu Earthlings .... welcome to my home. The deflector shields ae up. We are not that hot as NASA says.
No Kardashians, no Tebows, and no lawyers on our planet.
Welcome EARTHLINGS ( now sent us some gold will ya? )
why is this breaking news?????? these planets are being toasted alive.... the previous one that had close to the earths climate was more newsworthy cept of course it was larger than earth cuz the SIZE matters somehow
It is news because it is a MIRACLE they found anything at all.
because it shows how they can detect rocky planets that are earth sized or even smaller now instead of just the hulking great gas giants.
Size does matter. Its about density, and gravity. When the day comes that we develop the technology for interstellar travel we need to be able to go to a planet close to our size so that it does not effect our bodies negatively. Too much gravity and it would be like weighing 500lbs here on earth. Your joints would fail. Thats why you see massive bone loss in Astronauts who spend a lot of time in 0 G. Trust me, no matter what your wife says.... Size matters!
Too much gravity and you'd simply have a heart attack.
Those are first earth sized planets ever discovered ...
It is easier to find a bigger planet than a smaller one. More importantly, it is much easier to find a planet that is close to it's star than one that is far away. If we can see these two that are close up, there are probably many more that are farther out. This gives us much more data for the Drake Equations.
Size matters in the sense that this is the first time that a planet this small has been able to be detected around another star.
The size matters for a number of reasons. One, the smaller ones are far harder to detect. Try holding a BB in front of a mercury vapor lamp and see how well you can see it from 2 miles away.
Second, even if the planet has water, if it is too large, the significantly increased gravity would mean life would be adapted differently. Plus, if we were ever able to get there, it would make living there pretty difficult for humans.
It's newsworthy due to the small size of the planet, I believe this is the smallest we have detected.
Previous discoveries have been Jupiter-sized planets.
Going forward, we will see a bunch more planets being discovered as we can detect smaller and smaller planets.
This is newsworthy because it is a technical challenge to detect planets that small at such great distances. It requires indirect measurement and many observations over an extended time to detect these things. Surf the net to find articles about planet detection, and you'll see why it is such a challenge.
Bam Bam, go play with pebbles,
the adults are busy.
Well, it does suggest that detection is improving. If we can see planets as small as Earth, then we have a better shot at finding another planet that would theoretically be close enough of a match to ours that we'd be able to have great expectations for finding life.
In route to a mass tease. Eventually, an earth like planet with water in the habitable zone will be discovered and it will be hundreds of light years away, millions of years travel time.
You're right–we can't travel there. But does that mean that knowing they are there is useless?
{Yawn}...these fools (atheistic scientists) keep trying to search the cosmos to find answers to life when all they need to do is open their Bible. Oh wait, we can't do that...it's better to dream up imaginary (unproven) theories like macro-evolution in order to suppress the obvious signs of creation science. CNN is the central hub of this scientific non-sense. People spend hundreds of years to discover what the Bible already states.
youre the fool. Beliving in God while using SCIENCE to spout your bull.
YOURE USING SCIENCE.....wheres your God now?
The only reason science exists is because God created natural laws that allow for repeatable experiments to take place. And, the logic you use to come up with your scientific philosophy is yet another "proof" for the God you deny. Wake up, moron. Science has already proven that time, space, and matter had a beginning. Did they create themselves? Let me get this straight...at one time nothing existed and it somehow created itself into everything that exists. Wow, brilliance.
lol mike, you claim that as 'proof' and then claim that he is the moron? too funny.
Hey Mike here is the quote of the day for you; "People who don't value Science, value ignorance."
If there is no God then how do you think? You're just molecules in motion. Your thoughts are predetermined chemical explosions. There's no logic or reason in the periodic table. All you "scientists" use your God-given attributes to argue that God doesn't exist. And we're idiots? Funny stuff...
Mike – the reason people are mocking you is because you are using a weak argument to prove your point. You can't assume what you're trying to prove. Also, don't make the mistake of tacking God on to the end of a scientific explanation.. it "dies the death of 1000 qualifications". I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. Just put a little bit of thought into what you say. You're asserting your beliefs as fact.. people aren't gonna take you seriously.
". . . imaginary (unproven) theories. . . " Kinda like the Christian bible, innit?
Your head is filled with nonsense. Grow up.
{Yawn} The Bible, hand picked folk-tales.
{Yawn}...these fools (religious followers) keep trying to search their playbook (bible) to find answers to life when all they need to do is open their minds. Oh wait, we can't do that...it's better to dream up imaginary (unproven) theories like Virgin birth, resurrection, and transubstantiation in order to suppress science. Religious fanatics are the central hub of this non-sense. People spend hundreds of years looking for answers in a book of fables written by men who wanted control over the masses.
@Jason – If I wasn't already married, I might ask you. One of the best responses I've read in a long time.
... and men trying to control women.
"People who don't value Science, value ignorance."
Bravo!
So glad the Bible went over all of this. You should be a millionaire for amazing insight! NOW STFU and let the adult get back to talking. Thank you.
You STFU Len...you beacon of reason. Your mindless theories have no fact whatsoever yet you somehow claim science can tell us everything. It's amazing how science (which only measures the natural world) can somehow prove for a fact that the supernatural doesn't exist. You, my friend, are the poster child for ignorance.
What? The bible says there's no life outside our own planet? I must have fallen asleep during bible school. BTW, nowhere in the bible does it say life does not exist outside our own planet, bible freak. BTW, tell your "god" to fix this crappy planet he made & fix the people running it.
The bible stated there were earth size planets in that area,... really??? where did it state that,...
creation science is an oxymoron.
How do you know these scientists are atheists? Meanwhile, your "creation science" comment is so funny, I may hyperventilate. But please, you continue to enjoy that fairy tale concoted by your ancestor cultists.
Holy crap Mike, you blew my mind. Now take that gun and blow your own.
I love reading about fairy tales from this so called 'bible'.
Darned tootin! We's oughtter git all that Darwan ape-man monkee bizness noncents outta are skools! Stuped teachhers dont teach them kids nuthin' but how's to put on a condim! Then we gets kids humpin' each other like bunnys, write their in the skool hallway! It sick, is what it is! Get back to teachin' REAL Sceince in skool! Ain't no sucha thing as ATOMS, neither! Wood is wood is wood, no matter'n how much ya chop it up! Have you ever been choppin' wood, and got down to ATOMS? HA ! Case closed !!
You have to be born smart and invest great effort if you want to understand physics but any idiot can read a bible and claim the spirit has entered them.
God is science, and science is God...and I think this is wonderful news! However, the bible is a man-made fairy-tale.
LOL!! I can see, Mike, that your tongue is planted firmly in your cheek.
You are close, its actually his head up his a ss
I want to know where all of the angels have gone? I have heard, seen pictures, and read about them but I have not seen one in my life time. Any suggestions where to look,,,,perhaps outerspace?
you are an idiot.
Me????
Yes. A book written thousands of years ago by goat herders, prior to the existence of electricity, telescopes, etc., has all the answers we will ever need!? Why don't we just all go hide under a rock and wait to die then?
The Bible is supposed to be a story that inspires hope. Listening to Evangelicals like you talk about it as fact makes me feel completely hopeless. I'm glad you're not my preacher...
Mike,
God has just installed a "smite" button on his keyboard.
You are first.
Wowwwww. It's people like you who remind me how extremely lucky I was to be raised without religion. Most of us read and comment on these stories because we are interested and fascinated. YOU comment on these stories simply with the self-absorbed goal of ruffling feathers. Does Jesus tell you that being an egotistical, hypocritical snob will put you on the path to heaven? Keep bad-mouthing everyone you possibly can... maybe you'll go to "hell" and realize it's exactly like that scorching earth-sized planet you read about. 😉
If scientific discoveries are so 'yawn' and misguided in your mind then why are you burrowing around in a NASA cosmological report?
Could it be the insecure religious sheep's need to discredit that which threatens them? Who are you trying to convince that science is wrong ... Us or you? Hey ... don't believe in evolution? We agree ... I don't believe you've evolved either, you squeaking fearful chimp.
I never understand how literate and semi-intelligent people just believe in ANYTHING. For example, I believe that the Swingline stapler on my desk is God. If I write that down, will tools/fools believe me 2,000 years from now?
Sadly it doesn't take 2,000 years. A short homely sociopathic Korean retard has just become a God two days after his passing.
Truly they fool you by walking upright.
I am writing the Smurfy bible.
Pappa Smurf demands smurfberries
or you will go to smurfy hell.
He will torture your little blue butt.
A smurf is, as a smurf does.
Smurf the other smurf.
Be right back....working on Smurfette.
"it's better to dream up imaginary (unproven) theories like macro-evolution in order to suppress the obvious signs of creation science." Yes, and believing in talking snakes, burning bushes that talk, and that a guy lived inside the belly of a whale are way more believable lol
Amen. Tee he he. 🙂
And the Bible passage saying this planet exists is....?
The first couple of chapters in Genesis gives you the answer in more details than we can all comprehend. 🙂 The answers are in the 66 Books of The Bible. The others don't even come close. 🙂
Satire has its limits, and I fear you have exceeded them. Your post is neither as interesting as "Brave New World," nor as light-hearted as "A Clockwork Orange."
Nor as useful as "A Modest Proposal."
{YAWN}....
I'm sorry...
Did you say something Mike?
Wake me when it's something intelligent.
So these are the first Earth-sized planets in the universe...other than Earth, right?
Yes, but they are nothing like Earth in terms of the planetary conditions.
So..........size matters?
If you have to ask, MINE IS WAY BIGGER.
Its not the meat, its the motion.
Duh
its not the size of your rod that matters its the way you wiggle your worm
With the deployment of the JWST (James West Space Telescope) these planets will be directly observable and land/water information/photographs allow NASA to determine if potential life is or was present.
Wrong.
JWST will not be able to see planets, they they have very small (angular) separation from their stars, and are very dim in comparison. Two proposed missions that will likely be the first to collect reflected light from the surface of a planet are Terrestrial Planet Finder and New Worlds Observer
Republicans could live there, after all, they are the "party from hell."
Democrats couldn't see or hear about it because they got their heads up their @sses
You have to be carefully taught............
Yay
Democrats couldn't see or hear about it because they got their heads up their @sses
Very sad and childish.
Seriously, man, let it go. Can't you be excited about a discovery without the idiotic urge to rant?
To :: All those of us with a brain
Can we agree that if we find another habitable planet we live anything "god" on this one before we head there?
Ok AL. We'll LIVE God here once you learn how to spell LEAVE...
Yet another sterling product of public education, I see?
Yet another sterling example of why I usually do not refer to myself as an agnostic in public.
People like you give other irreligious folks a very bad name.
I thought we were standing on the first Earth sized planet discovered. My only question, does it have intelligent life?
I'd not call 1/3 of the bipeds on this one "intelligent", and I'm being generous.
The two planets are believed to be too close to their sun and thus too hot to be habitable with temperatures ranging from 800 to 14
hundred degrees. So why is it news? I've scattered rocks approx the size of earth throughout the universes - note that is plural, universeS!.
Planets near their stars are easy to find. If we can find two that are near their stars, there are probably many that are in the Goldilocks Zone.
At least they are now proven to exist. Just need find some habitable ones for when we need to inevitably ditch our own.
When you find an "earth" life filled planet, then put it to the news.
Current techniques are incapable of getting anywhere near enough information to determine if a planet actually has life or not. It might be decades before we can look at a planet the size of the Earth 50 light years away and even tell if it has an atmosphere.
The more we search, the more we find out, and the more questions it creates. Eventually, the unbelievers will know that there must be a greater than life out there who has in fact created us all ... for a reason. 🙂
Hey CNN,
Thanks for letting us know, but could you ask NASA to give us the head up if happen to find a planet with functional Congress?
thanks
That would be nice.
Great question! But what can CNN answer...
I think I would start believing in god before i started believing in a functional congress.
Hey CNN, that story was published hours ago on the British tabloid The Sun. Does NASA inform the foreign press first ?
In before the political/religious highjack comments:
This is an Awesome Find! Hope we get a true "Earth Twin" candidate soon.
AMEN!
You look up in the sky late at night and it IS even more awesome. That alone should tell you something about yourself and everything else around you ... lest you are blind, and don't understand what you are seeing. 🙂
Great! Who ever gets there first gets to be GOD! I'm going to start writing my bible now!
I'll be your demi-god. I'm the deity of pimpin'. Ladies, ya heard?
You could start it out by explaining how stupid you are.
Cool.
and the comment board goes crazy with... boredom
Thats why im here, extreme boredom....
Perhaps then, there is no hope for u and many others like u who persist on not seeing the Light of this World. 🙂