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Title: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Hernandez on July 23, 2015, 07:38:03 pm: (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/kepler186f_artistconcept_2.jpg?itok=DK4vTrXr)

The Kepler Spacecraft was launched in 2009 with the specific aim of locating exoplanets. That is, planets with similar attributes to Earth and a safe enough distance from a parent star to sustain life.

When it's not snapping the first ever pictures of Pluto or scouring Mars for skeletons and pyramids, NASA is exploring the depths of space for life-supporting planets.

Now the space agency has put out a statement saying it will hold a press conference to reveal: "new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope".

The announcement will take place at 4pm on Thursday, July 23 and could involve the discovering of a second Earth that potentially supports life.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Pandalink on July 23, 2015, 08:04:20 pm: That's neat, but it'll take countless millenia to get there with current propulsion technology.

We need more thrrrust (also a method to break the currently understood laws of physics).
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Exterminator on July 23, 2015, 08:18:47 pm: Quote from: Pandalink on July 23, 2015, 08:04:20 pm
That's neat, but it'll take countless millenia to get there with current propulsion technology.

We need more thrrrust (also a method to break the currently understood laws of physics).

In theory, wormholes could help us propagate gigantic distances. The only problem is that we may never have the ability to actually create one.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Gandalf on July 23, 2015, 08:54:29 pm: NASA is currently working on a test of an idea that bends spacetime around the objec, this might lead to interstellar travel at some point in the future.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Manoni on July 23, 2015, 08:56:44 pm: (http://files.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/itsatrap.jpg)
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: LeHott on July 23, 2015, 09:31:45 pm: Who is this NASA?
Some guys copying AASA, I guess?
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Que on July 23, 2015, 09:52:04 pm: Technology is fantastic, so is the smartness of the humanity, if it's used right.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Archie on July 23, 2015, 10:25:10 pm: Quote from: LeHott on July 23, 2015, 09:31:45 pm
Some guys copying AASA, I guess?
:lol:
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Pandalink on July 24, 2015, 10:52:09 am: Also this planet has like twice the gravity of earth.

so don't skip leg day
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Spike. on July 24, 2015, 11:49:26 am: Quote from: LeHott on July 23, 2015, 09:31:45 pm
Who is this NASA?
Some guys copying AASA, I guess?

:rofl:
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: jannik852 on July 24, 2015, 12:32:15 pm: How long did it take the Kepler? 7 years?
I am really excited about this as it is confirmed by NASA as the first-near-earth that might be habitable.
Another 20 years and we got 2 earths to take care of :bananarock:
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Jay42 on July 24, 2015, 01:16:18 pm: Quote from: jannik852 on July 24, 2015, 12:32:15 pm
How long did it take the Kepler? 7 years?
I am really excited about this as it is confirmed by NASA as the first-near-earth that might be habitable.
Another 20 years and we got 2 earths to take care of :bananarock:
I think 1400 light years.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Pandalink on July 24, 2015, 04:42:50 pm: Unless we can find some way around the theory of relativity, it will take a huge amount of time (from the perspective of people on Earth) to get there, even if we are able to travel at approximately light speed for a significant portion of the journey (and even then it will take the craft over 1400 years from the perspective of the astronauts).

science is a bitch
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Trevor. on July 24, 2015, 06:23:33 pm: Quote from: LeHott on July 23, 2015, 09:31:45 pm
Who is this NASA?
Some guys copying AASA, I guess?

lol
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Aiden. on July 24, 2015, 06:37:54 pm: NASA conformed end of the world in 2014, What happened? Nothing.
They must be found a big BOOB :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Pandalink on July 24, 2015, 07:41:10 pm: Quote from: J3rry on July 24, 2015, 06:37:54 pm
NASA conformed end of the world in 2014, What happened? Nothing.
wat
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Exterminator on July 24, 2015, 07:46:58 pm: Quote from: jannik852 on July 24, 2015, 12:32:15 pm
How long did it take the Kepler? 7 years?
I am really excited about this as it is confirmed by NASA as the first-near-earth that might be habitable.
Another 20 years and we got 2 earths to take care of :bananarock:

Umm.. no and no.

The planet is in the 'habitable zone' of it's own sun. This by no means is an indication that it is habitable. The habitable zone is a particular range of distance from the sun, between which life could originate and sustain itself with a high probability of success.
The photo you see up there is an artist's rendition. The planet does not actually look like that. At all. It just looks like a tiny white dot, there is no way of knowing what it actually looks like up close. We know that it's diameter is 60% more than the earth's. We know how far it is from it's sun. We know how big it's sun is. That's about it. For the most past, it may have a atmosphere of toxic gases or may be composed of solid diamond. Statistically speaking, it's neither.

The only reason the planet is even remotely interesting is the fact that it both lies in the habitable zone of it's sun and that it is having about the same size as the earth. This is evidence in the direction that the earth was not an anomaly.

Quote from: J3rry on July 24, 2015, 06:37:54 pm
NASA conformed end of the world in 2014.

Yes, and the Eiffel tower in Paris is made of bread.
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: ~Legend~ on July 26, 2015, 05:59:25 pm: It's interesting that a few planets have now been found with a few properties similar to Earth. This one is meant to be the most alike to date, but a shame that it is a little beyond our reach. :)
Title: Re: NASA announcement live: 'Earth 2.0' planet Kepler 452b discovered by Kepler Tele
Post by: Spike. on July 26, 2015, 06:10:12 pm: Quote from: Manoni on July 23, 2015, 08:56:44 pm
(http://files.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/itsatrap.jpg)

:gand: