Kepler-22b

[rasterbee]

Jesus christ guys, all three of you wrote friggin' essays while I was gone.

[deadlysage]

Jesus christ guys, all three of you wrote friggin' essays while I was gone.

we don't sleep. what better way to use our time. =)

[GreyWind]

Nasa has confirmed the Kepler spacecraft's discovery of its 1st alien world which has the possibility to sustain an average surface temp of 72 degrees and has the ability to allow liquid water to exist. This potentially habitable alien world orbits a star very much like our own sun. Kepler-22b is located apprx 600 light years away with a radius 2.4 times that of our Earth.

According to scientists, the $600 million Kepler observatory was initiated specifically to 'hunt' for Earth-size alien planets where liquid water, perhaps life, might be able to exist. Since Kepler 1st set out upon its quest, there has been 1,235 planet candidates (54 in the habitable zone - a just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist & 68 that are roughly Earth-size).

Of the 2,326 candidate planets Kepler has found so far, 207 are apprx Earth-size. 680 are a bit larger, putting them in the 'super-Earth' category. 48 of which are within habitable zones of their stars. Over 24 of the potential exoplanets have been confirmed, but Kepler scientists estaimated that at least 80% of Kepler's discoveries should end up being the real deal.

This is cited as a major milestone of finding Earth's twin. o.o

Now, this all being said...it would be grossly egotistic and assumptious for any of us 'Earthlings' to think we could possibly be the 'only' living social structure in our solar system.

What say you? Do you feel we are getting closer to finding 'other' life forms? What happens if/when we do 'make contact'? Who's willing to play planetary hop scotch and try out this new world once determined life can be sustained upon a planet such as Kepler-22b?

i volunteer for the suicide mission to the new planet.

[deadlysage]

Since we are currently discussing the possibility of alien existing, I thought I would add this into the conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7c9Z...eature=related

A summary of this video.

It is supposed to be a soft tissue fossilized many many years ago.
However, the supposed fossil is not a complete form, so a mirror is used to make an identical hemisphere, forming what they now claim as a facial structure of supposed alien creatures. According to this, they have collected many type of species of alien fossil.

I am not buying this, but it warrant my curiosity.
I am confident with he intellectual level of this forums, i would read a very different opinion from mind and could shed some light into this new supposed claim of discovery.

The mirror method was also use on the mars supposed face.
If they put the mirror on 1 side to create an identical hemisphere, the face resembles an ape, if the mirror was move to the other side, it was supposed to look like a lion.
TO ME, THIS IS JUST AN ILLUSION.

After carefully reviewing more of this independent person's supposed discovery. The more I realize he is a looney =)

There seems to be a flood of this type.
It is entertaining to say the least, despite it being a hoax.

[rasterbee]

Someone red rep GreyWind for me for quoting the entire freaking first post to only say one inane, non-comedic thing please.

[Mistress Kitti]

*siiigh* And this discussion was going SO good too!

[Victoria123]

No idea ?? You must be joking
8 years of Univ. I have a very good idea actually. Go read some books.
Special Theory of Relat, then General Theory, and Quantum. Thats d basic 2 years. And Im NOT joking.

True, slow acceleration yeah whatever. But slow deceleration just messes that all up. It won't get you anywhere fast because as soon as you get up to speed you'll have to throw on the brakes basically.



You don't really understand what time is and how it relates to the distance and speed. Time does not slow down for you when you move faster. Your time is your time, it doesn't change. 1 second is 1 second for you. You will age just as quickly. When traveling at those speeds, yes 1 second for you is "longer" than 1 second on Earth. The comparable measurements of time is what changes. Time is only a measurement created by humans, so when you're on Earth time will move faster when compared to time on the space ship. It's not that time is literally moving slower on the space ship, you will just be moving faster than what we understand and are able to do concrete math with and justifiably explain. We can do all sorts of tests at the molecular level but none of it relates to what would actually happen to a human traveling faster than the speed of light because we have no frickin' clue what will happen. Maybe in another thousand years.




You honestly have no idea what you are talking about. You are just repeating plot themes from sci-fi and mixing them with unprovable and wildly hypothetical physics theories.

A proof of this is that particles such as mesons survive 'long' trips when they should have disintegrated coz its longer than their lifetime. But they DO arrive, confirmng that even people travelling at high speeds can reach long distances in shorter times. Of course if they try cming back , they see Earth Very old. Remember the twins paradox ??

Michio Kaku is good too for reading

[Alusair]

No idea ?? You must be joking
8 years of Univ. I have a very good idea actually. Go read some books.
Special Theory of Relat, then General Theory, and Quantum. Thats d basic 2 years. And Im NOT joking.

Special Theory of Relativity. General Theory. Quantum Theory. What do all three of these have in common? Theory. Theory is not definite fact. Wormholes are not proven to exist. We've never ridden black holes like ocean waves, or whatever you were suggesting earlier. If we're going to use unproven possibilities as definite methods of practical space travel, then we may as well simply use quantum teleportation and save the effort of actually traveling at all.

[Victoria123]

My friend. Those are some of the most basic laws since the 1920s. They are proven, nobel prizes awarded, atomic bombs and accelerators built. And I repeat partof the undergrad curriculum. The describe x rays we see from neutron stars slowing atomic clocks microelectronics using quantum tunnelling..,


.

[Alusair]

If they're laws, why are they still called theories? And if wormholes do exist, can you show me official documentation of discovered ones in our universe, and perhaps documentation of them indeed being used to transport objects over a large distance? After all, if they're proven laws and not just theories, there should be field data to back this.

Also, if things like the Theory of Everything are the most basic of scientific laws (despite not yet being exactly defined), what's the more advanced laws?