Nobody mentioned the discovery of a planet similar to Earth?
 

It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday.

The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA?s Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the ?Goldilocks zone? of its star, Kepler 186 ? not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life.

?Kepler 186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,? Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA?s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said at a news conference on Thursday. ?It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.?



http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/sc...usin.html?_r=2

My nuts are a bit bigger and colder.

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

I was gonna mention it but 500 light years away makes it kind of a distant cousin, so......I forgot about it.

they will really enjoy in that shit

Like going into a 500 year old Hungarian castle and talking in English, they won't understand it.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D2NMTnNz9Q...pace-cadet.jpg

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

Now to put that in perspective, using today's technology:



I love this planet...

:stoned

ADG

Radio waves travel just about the speed of light so you're a little off by about 499,550 years.

500 light years is 500 years, not 500,000.
Radio would arrive in about 500 years.

Yes, that's what I said.

LOL reminds me of what weighs more
A pound of feathers or a pound of gold

So my nuts will get there 500 years?

mutt post some pics of hot teens, wtf is this planet shit

The future of porn(?)... :helpme

http://162.251.111.84/hd3dmonstersex.../119/2_935.jpg

:stoned

ADG

Probably because its 500 light years away.

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

these science cunts need to do a bit of outside the box thinking. All we need to do is slow light down, and everything will be much nearer, and reachable in a few hours/days.

It's mostly junk science.

This modern concept that all theories must revolve around Einstein being right are what holds science back. Anyone with alternative theories is "proven" wrong merely because they conflict with Einstein's theories.

Yup, that Einstein guy was a real dumbass. Take Matt26z's word for it :1orglaugh

They aren't proven wrong because they disagree with Einstein, they are proven wrong because nobody has been able to find a flaw in what Einstein has said about the speed of light. Until they do... his theory stands.

500 Lightyears means it takes light 500 years to get there and nothing exceeds the speed of light from point A to point B. That doesn't mean you can't get there in less than 500 years, it means you need to find a way to go there without traveling between A to B. Quantum Teleportation is the most likely precursor of interstellar travel and it has nothing to do with the speed of light.

Spectroscope

http://www.hulu.com/watch/617730
Start at around 29 minutes... or watch the whole thing.
It's very well done. Cosmos is the best nonfiction show on television by far:

By reading the spectrum of light produced and the dark lines between each band of light they can read which elements are present. They can't see what it looks like now, they can see what it looked like 500 years ago. Add in the orbit of the planet which they can track and the size, temp of the star etc which they can also track. From that and other data they extrapolate surprisingly accurate information (as has been proven by our readings of closer objects that we have verified).

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As always, thanks for the ignorant kook opinion.

Let me guess, Einstein was a Jew, so his so called science, 'Jew science' is probably a sham, part of some grand conspiracy?

Uh-oh...here we go with the Nikon vs. Canon discussion again. :1orglaugh

Refer to this: http://science.howstuffworks.com/question316.htm

Gas giants, like Jupiter, are much easier to detect.
Everything will continue to improve with time, today's instruments must be very good to determine an earth object in a specified zone.

It's not uncommon to refine findings where they are off by factors or even magnitudes.

Life is probably common in the universe, complex life is probably pretty rare and there's a fair chance it kills itself before moving into space; Thank god for people like Elon Musk.

My nuts vs her chin.

They can locate far far away planet but they can't find the missing MH370?

Klaatu Barada Nikto

because dvtimes is in vacation...

Wait, what? :eek7:eek7:eek7

a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far....suweet.,

He's upset that Einstein somehow is holding back the breakthrough scientific theories of thousands of conspiracy kooks that flunked high school physics - it's hard to take peer reviewed work seriously when your peers are all still living in their parents' garages at 48 years old with Cheetos caught in the beards they haven't trimmed since 1993

Kepler 186f may very well support life as we know it, perhaps even intelligent life.

Then again, maybe not.

Let us not forget that Mars and Venus lie within the ?Goldilocks zone? of our sun.

PBS had a great show on this topic just a few weeks ago.

Basically they watch a star and monitor how long it takes a planet to orbit it. The faster/slower the orbit the closer/further away. The closer to the sun the hotter and the further away the colder. This one orbits it sun at just the right speed to be an Earth like planet.

Does this mean it will have a McDonalds ??

Ouch... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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It's on Kepler 186f

Not 500,000 years, just about 422 years. If they reply, it will take 500 years not 500,000 to get back to us. But no problem, your reference is awesome.

http://setistars.org/uploads/star/im...in_contact.jpg

:thumbsup:thumbsup


Here you go:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/QuickGuide/

Basically, they can look at bright objects like suns. As a planet orbits the sun, the sun moves slightly due to the gravitational pull of the plan. This movement can be detected as color shifts known as the Doppler effect. Other ways of detecting planets can measure when a sun gets very slightly dimmer when a planet passes in front of it relative to us.

The currently do not have any photographs of planets but I read that a new generation of telescopes will be able to do it.


No, its real science.