Earth-like planet found in Kepler 22 system

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Ill race you too it lol first come first serve.:D

Anyone know how far this thing is,anyway that its even ever possible to get there in one persons lifetime?

Maybe we should make babies in the spaceship and they can continue onwards lol
 
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Ill race you too it lol first come first serve.:D

Anyone know how far this thing is,anyway that its even ever possible to get there in one persons lifetime?

Maybe we should make babies in the spaceship and they can continue onwards lol
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600 Light-Years Away... in other words... very, VERY far away.
 
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no man, all it says is the planet orbits the right distance from its sun. (in the habitable zone)
Similar Mars, Venus (and Earth)
There's no life on Mars & Venus so ????

The planet has 2.4x the radius of Earth so it's actually closer to being a gas giant (Jupiter & Neptune) than to Earth.
Sadly we don't have anything of that size (in our solar system) to compare it to. (in between us and the really big gas giants)


& even if it does/did contain life it's still a useless argument as we'll never meet them and they'll never meet us.
It's just too far.

I guess all the aliens that keep making those crop circles are living in the "hollow earth" after all.
LOL.
 
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Hell no!Poor aliens if theres any life on that planet!
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True, and what happens if they named it something else than the Kepler-whatnot system ? Our politicians will see it as blatant racism and consequently a threat to humanity.

Anyway, at 6000 trillion kilometers (1 light year = just under 10 trillion km) it's impossible to get there. Like in physically impossible even in your wildest imagination. Most people thought it was pretty spectacular that the voyager got 13 billion km away from earth.
 
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If my math is correct it will take 190 years if you are travelling at 1 000 000km per second.

warp speed much ?
 
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bubbatentoe said:
no man, all it says is the planet orbits the right distance from its sun. (in the habitable zone)
Similar Mars, Venus (and Earth)
There's no life on Mars & Venus so ????

The planet has 2.4x the radius of Earth so it's actually closer to being a gas giant (Jupiter & Neptune) than to Earth.
Sadly we don't have anything of that size (in our solar system) to compare it to. (in between us and the really big gas giants)


& even if it does/did contain life it's still a useless argument as we'll never meet them and they'll never meet us.
It's just too far.

I guess all the aliens that keep making those crop circles are living in the "hollow earth" after all.
LOL.
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I think part of the argument is that there could be life there proving we not alone, the other part is that it could be habitable by humans in the future if we ever figured out a way to get there...
 
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bubbatentoe said:
no man, all it says is the planet orbits the right distance from its sun. (in the habitable zone)
Similar Mars, Venus (and Earth)
There's no life on Mars & Venus so ????

The planet has 2.4x the radius of Earth so it's actually closer to being a gas giant (Jupiter & Neptune) than to Earth.
Sadly we don't have anything of that size (in our solar system) to compare it to. (in between us and the really big gas giants)


& even if it does/did contain life it's still a useless argument as we'll never meet them and they'll never meet us.
It's just too far.

I guess all the aliens that keep making those crop circles are living in the "hollow earth" after all.
LOL.
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Actually jupiter is over 300 times more massive than earth. And mars and Venus are not in the "habital zone ".
 
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bubbatentoe said:
The planet has 2.4x the radius of Earth so it's actually closer to being a gas giant (Jupiter & Neptune) than to Earth.
Sadly we don't have anything of that size (in our solar system) to compare it to. (in between us and the really big gas giants)
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Planet much bigger than the Earth != gas giant.

There are several big rocky planets, like Earth (not necessarily habitable), that have been discovered by the Kepler telescope, some 5 times larger than the Earth.
 
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I Know this might sound dump but why are we search for other planets & life outside our world? We as humans can't even live in harmony with ourselves, imagine if we meet up with a totally different species that has a similar IQ to an average human being!??.....inter-planetary wars or something??
 
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maxzino said:
I Know this might sound dump but why are we search for other planets & life outside our world? We as humans can't even live in harmony with ourselves, imagine if we meet up with a totally different species that has a similar IQ to an average human being!??.....inter-planetary wars or something??
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Our IQ only affects how effective we are at war, it's our violent and egotistical nature (non-IQ related) that makes us want to war.
 
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Actually jupiter is over 300 times more massive than earth. And mars and Venus are not in the "habital zone ".
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And the planet has a year of about 290 days and an average temperature of 22[SUP]o[/SUP]C. I think a key question is: does it have H[SUB]2[/SUB]O?

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