715 new worlds discovered

[James]

NASA on Wednesday announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission.

A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth.

"What we have been able to do with this is strike the mother lode, get a veritable exoplanet bonanza,"...read more here: 715 new worlds discovered

[blaaislaai]

There are probably millions more much further than that. Just really hope they can find some form of life on another planet, such as "aliens"
I am very interested in these kind of things and frequently follow these kind of stories.

[Tom]

Im really intrigued in the other planets they keep discovering... The advances in telescopes over the last 50 years really is incredible... It always makes me wonder if we do find another planet with life forms on it, do they know about us?

Also a crazy thought is that with the speed that light travels we are technically seeing the past... It really messes with my mind that some stars we see could have burnt out already, and its just because the light is still "travelling" towards us that we still see it...

[Dohc-WP]

and let me guess not 1 of those 715 planets are located in a goldilocks zone

[Tom]

and let me guess not 1 of those 715 planets are located in a goldilocks zone

Whats a goldilocks zone

[Dohc-WP]

Whats a goldilocks zone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_planet

[Stunt]

I still stand by my belief that if we find other lifeforms, it'll just be more humans

[blaaislaai]

I still stand by my belief that if we find other lifeforms, it'll just be more humans

Hopefully.

If indeed the case, will they be more technologically advanced? Still stuck in the stone age?

Really hope they find some proper life on another planet before we are all dead

[Ike_009]

Really hope they find some proper life on another planet before we are all dead

You have seen any alien movie lately, finding life equals death to humans

[Stunt]

You have seen any alien movie lately, finding life equals death to humans

It's the innate fear that humans have of anything they don't understand. I often think we'll end up being the invading aliens with all this talk and endless pursuit by some of finding inhabitable worlds.