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Astounding number of Exoplanets

tigermud

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http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/slew-of-new-exoplanets-found/

NASA has provided an update on the Kepler Space Telescope's search for exoplanets and the total number of new worlds discovered is staggering.

The space agency announced that, since their last briefing on the landmark device, Kepler has found an astounding 219 potential new planets, including a tantalizing ten which could harbor life.

These ten alien worlds, NASA says, are all planets thought to be around the size of the Earth and also reside in an orbit, known as the Goldilocks zone, that is believed to be the ideal spot for water, and thus life, to exist.

Taking into account Monday's Kepler update, the telescope has now spotted a jaw-dropping 4,034 exoplanet candidates, of which more than half have been confirmed.

Additionally, the ten new Earth-like worlds in the Goldilocks zone puts the total number of such exoplanets to be discovered at a whopping 50 with 30 of them confirmed.

Researchers working with the Kepler data marveled that the considerable number of exoplanet discoveries has provided them with a tremendous understanding of how planets form.

It's also allowed them the ability to correctly anticipate what type of exoplanet they may find orbiting stars of different sizes.

With a new exoplanet-hunting mission from the space agency set to launch in 2018, there's no doubt that the number of new discoveries will surely skyrocket in the years ahead.

Whether the search ultimately results in finding an elusive world that harbors intelligent ET life remains to be seen, we're keeping out fingers crossed.
 
Agree to some extent... the distances involved mean it's easily possible to miss or have missed the window of time in which intelligent extraterrestrial life would have sent signals we'd be receiving now.

Given our own history, it may be the norm that once a society industrializes it inadvertantly commits suicide by destroying its own habitat. so we'd have to hope for a signal sent, just reaching us now... from alien civilizations that may very well have gone extinct in the time it took the signal/sign of their existence to get to Earth.

Would be pretty shitty if intelligent extraterrestrials made contact while Trump was president.

He's immediately demand they stay at Mar-a-Lago and over-bill them for the privilege, while bragging about his airplane, and asking for a donation to the Trump Foundation. They'd be like "What the fuck is wrong with this planet?"
 
Would be pretty shitty if intelligent extraterrestrials made contact while Trump was president.

He's immediately demand they stay at Mar-a-Lago and over-bill them for the privilege, while bragging about his airplane, and asking for a donation to the Trump Foundation. They'd be like "What the fuck is wrong with this planet?"



They would undoubtedly do something to annoy Putin's puppet and he would then trash them on twitter and sign several executive travel ban orders on all non-Christians from other planets, except those from planets he has intergalactic business ties with.
 
What if aliens show up, and some of them are Hindu? Like they have a bunch of weird alien religions that don't match any of ours, but both planets have Hinduism; exactly the same. (I picked Hindu for no particular reason.)
 
Maybe they will be wearing magic underpants which will permit protection and filter out from airborne pollutants, bacteria, and viruses, that we earthlings have developed natural antibodies/immunity to, and named their home-planet (translated) as Kolob. Of course we would be in danger of contracting any of these aliens own toxins and diseases, if they happen to be carriers or transmitters, of which we most likely would have no antidotes or antivenins.
 
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