715 new worlds discovered

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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
 
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.
 
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...
 
Stunt said:
I still stand by my belief that if we find other lifeforms, it'll just be more humans :p
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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 said:
You have seen any alien movie lately, finding life equals death to humans
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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.
 
Stunt said:
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.
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So we are all gonna die from a lack of immunity to alien viruses during our invasion
 
Knowing humans and a bit of history, I think if we find alien life anywhere in the universe, it is most likely they that are going to in danger from us, not the other way around.
 
Depends on how the life form has evolved. They have discovered things living in what was used to be thought impossible for life. Titan is an ice ball I wonder what swims in those waters.
 
Ike_009 said:
So we are all gonna die from a lack of immunity to alien viruses during our invasion
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I doubt alien viruses could even affect us, they're probably evolved for whatever alien species may exist there :)

The Fermi paradox is really interesting to read up about, it's basically this:
Wikipedia said:
The apparent size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist.
However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it.
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So maybe life on earth is unique :)
 
addam said:
I doubt alien viruses could even affect us, they're probably evolved for whatever alien species may exist there :)

The Fermi paradox is really interesting to read up about, it's basically this:

So maybe life on earth is unique :)
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Thing is I doubt much is alien. Chances that we'll find a planet powered by a sun, which runs as ours does lends favour to the theory that the elements on said planet will be the same as here.
 
Stunt said:
Thing is I doubt much is alien. Chances that we'll find a planet powered by a sun, which runs as ours does lends favour to the theory that the elements on said planet will be the same as here.
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Yeah but evolution is basically just a serious of random mutations, the chances of that happening somewhere else would be so so so minute.
 
addam said:
I doubt alien viruses could even affect us, they're probably evolved for whatever alien species may exist there :)

The Fermi paradox is really interesting to read up about, it's basically this:

So maybe life on earth is unique :)
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I actually highly doubt that there is just us. Its very egotistical to think like that. The universe I reckon is infinite and with that comes an infinite amount of possibilities I mean you get sea creatures that don't get the sun but if they do see it it will kill them. Like these creatures that live right by volcanic trenches in the ocean.

For all we know there could be a huge galactic war as we speak.
 
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