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MEAT
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"New habitable planet found: who's staying who's going?"


  

          

Can we vote some people off this island?


What we know about Kepler 452-b:

* It's the smallest exoplanet discovered to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a G2-class star, just like the Earth and the Sun.
* Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger in diameter than Earth and is considered a super-Earth-size planet.
* It's likely rocky.
* While Kepler-452b is larger than Earth, its 385-day orbit is only 5 percent longer.
* The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun.
* Kepler-452 is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun, has the same temperature, and is 20 percent brighter and has a diameter 10 percent larger.
* The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.

Amazing stuff. Here's a reference gif.(http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fig6-surfacetemperaturevsenergy.gif)

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New habitable planet found: who's staying who's going? [View all] , MEAT, Thu Jul-23-15 01:42 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
wowee.
Jul 23rd 2015
1
Probably. White man keeping that info to himself though.
Jul 23rd 2015
2
      it will be incredible when one of these deep space probes...
Jul 23rd 2015
3
           Yep
Jul 23rd 2015
5
                there's no maybe a bout that.
Jul 23rd 2015
12
You think theres life there that is like us but just older?
Jul 23rd 2015
4
Would be interesting.
Jul 23rd 2015
6
      What would be crazy if we discovered one of their telescopes
Jul 23rd 2015
7
IT'S A TRAP
Jul 23rd 2015
8
fast-forward to us on a planation talking about "they done got us again"
Jul 23rd 2015
9
      not funny.
Jul 23rd 2015
10
      and not far fetched
Jul 23rd 2015
16
      it's literally the most far fetched thing possible.
Jul 24th 2015
27
           lmao
Jul 24th 2015
28
           Oh you think so?
Jul 24th 2015
29
           lmao
Jul 24th 2015
31
           LOL
Jul 24th 2015
32
      unless Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are funding the trip, there's
Jul 24th 2015
33
      If white folk think we sub-human, you KNOW they think we sub-alien
Jul 23rd 2015
13
How is this NOT the headline news on Huffpo?
Jul 23rd 2015
11
Came out a few hours ago and huff po is trash.
Jul 23rd 2015
14
Cygnus is where ancient cultures have said their deities came
Jul 23rd 2015
15
Light speed is 186,000 miles per second...
Jul 23rd 2015
17
lol ikr..folks acting like we can actually get there..ever
Jul 23rd 2015
18
But what happens if you travel faster than light?
Jul 23rd 2015
19
How close do you think we are to achieving that?
Jul 23rd 2015
20
will never ever happen
Jul 23rd 2015
21
RE: But what happens if you travel faster than light?
Jul 23rd 2015
23
I remember them saying sunlight gets to Pluto in about 4 hours.
Jul 23rd 2015
22
some of the light/stars we see are actually burned out by now
Jul 23rd 2015
24
      Good point...we'd get there & the party would be long over.
Jul 23rd 2015
25
Anyone ever write any sci-fi about seeing another civilization we can't ...
Jul 24th 2015
30
If we send a message at the speed of light to them at 1400ly away
Jul 24th 2015
35
      Gotdamn
Jul 24th 2015
49
how do scientists even calculate this shit?
Jul 24th 2015
38
      You'd be surprised. It's a pretty simple measurement these days.
Jul 24th 2015
48
           having a hard time visualizing this set up
Jul 24th 2015
50
           Look up "Fizeau-Foucault apparatus" on Wikipedia.
Jul 25th 2015
51
           I found a pic of President Obama's reaction to this breakdown...
Jul 25th 2015
52
RE: New habitable planet found: who's staying who's going?
Jul 24th 2015
26
the Kepler Telescope has been doing amazing things
Jul 24th 2015
34
reminds me of this ep of The Outer Limits
Jul 24th 2015
36
that was a George Clinton hosted TZ-like short lived series in 90's
Jul 24th 2015
39
Cosmic Slop! Shit had me shook for a minute
Jul 24th 2015
40
      yeah, that was it..and that ep would end up true too probably
Jul 24th 2015
41
I remember that episode
Jul 24th 2015
42
RE: wait, what?!
Jul 24th 2015
43
RE: wait, what?!
Jul 24th 2015
44
      oh wow! wtf.
Jul 24th 2015
46
That was a Derrick Bell short story first "Space Traders"
Jul 25th 2015
53
see ya, fellas. nm
Jul 24th 2015
37
Can't we shave off a thousand light years for this trip
Jul 24th 2015
45
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12862...
Jul 24th 2015
47
there is no point in going anywhere really.
Jul 25th 2015
54

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