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mapuc
07-22-15, 07:17 PM
First some words from me-I said to my self I'll stay low on posting things about space and conspiracy about space

When I read this article in IFL I said to my self-I have to post this here.

http://www.iflscience.com/nasa-announce-major-new-planet-discovery-kepler-tomorrow-and-you-can-watch-it-live

Markus

Rhodes
07-23-15, 04:52 AM
I liked this comment:

"I bet they finally found waldo!" And thought of this one: They finally found our overlord, Cthulhu! All hail!

http://img12.deviantart.net/d478/i/2009/106/a/4/cthulhu_by_blizzard67.jpg

Gargamel
07-23-15, 07:17 AM
I believe I've been reading they have begun to be able to get spectrometry of atmospheres of exoplanets. Maybe they found one with similar conditions to Earth.

Which would be very cool, considering one thing I read yesterday stated there are no known naturally occurring processes, other than life, that create Oxygen (In a free gaseous form). I haven't checked in on that, but off the top off my head I can't think of any process that would, other than plant respiration.

So if they were able to get a spectrometry of an atmosphere, and it showed oxygen in sufficient quantities, then that would imply a really damn good chance of life.

Gargamel
07-23-15, 07:19 AM
<Thread tangent>

One thing I HATE about the IFLS site is the ad system they use, it's nothing more than click bait bull dung that is everything IFLS is opposed to.

</tangent>

Jimbuna
07-23-15, 09:23 AM
The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?

Schroeder
07-23-15, 09:37 AM
The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?
Neither nor or do you think Adolf the Small would build his hidden bases on foreign cheese? It's German cheese of course and any other claim is pure propaganda.:huh:



:O::D

ikalugin
07-23-15, 10:09 AM
Secretely I wish it would be about NASA developing the FTL drive physics and sharing the basic principles. Then we could have another space race.

Jimbuna
07-23-15, 10:26 AM
Neither nor or do you think Adolf the Small would build his hidden bases on foreign cheese? It's German cheese of course and any other claim is pure propaganda.:huh:



:O::D

I can't think of a German cheese without a Google search :oops:

Schroeder
07-23-15, 10:38 AM
I can't think of a German cheese without a Google search :oops:
There are some but I don't think there is one that would look like the moon. But that is just part of keeping the bases secret as no one would expect the moon to be of German cheese.:shifty:

AVGWarhawk
07-23-15, 10:59 AM
I believe I've been reading they have begun to be able to get spectrometry of atmospheres of exoplanets. Maybe they found one with similar conditions to Earth.

Which would be very cool, considering one thing I read yesterday stated there are no known naturally occurring processes, other than life, that create Oxygen (In a free gaseous form). I haven't checked in on that, but off the top off my head I can't think of any process that would, other than plant respiration.

So if they were able to get a spectrometry of an atmosphere, and it showed oxygen in sufficient quantities, then that would imply a really damn good chance of life.

And a good chance this newly found mud ball is just as screwed up as this mud ball we are stomping on. :haha:

AVGWarhawk
07-23-15, 11:00 AM
The burning question being....Is the moon made of cheddar or edam?

https://wallaceandgromitinternational.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/wallace_gromit_cheese_thumb1.jpg

Wolferz
07-23-15, 11:28 AM
The first concern, I would think is, does the planet have a core similar to Earth. In order for any planet to have a snowball's chance of producing life, it would need a magnetosphere to shield it from the solar winds of its star. Otherwise any new life would be microwaved to a crisp before it even got started.

mapuc
07-23-15, 11:59 AM
After I had postet this thread and the link, I closed my computer.

After I was thinking about this announcement and I came up with two scenarios

scenario 1

At NASA press room

Some leader from NASA speaking

It is so great we have found a planet equal to our own-Oxygen, CO2 etc and the planet have the same size as our, same distance to their sun, as our planet and their sun is like ours

jump 2-3 days ahead

Same person standing in NASAs press room
I'm so ashame. it turned out Kepler was looking to wards our own planet-We down know how this could happen.

Scenario 2

We have found a Earth like planet-with CO? and oxygen, same distance to their sun, same size as our planet etc

Markus

Betonov
07-23-15, 12:04 PM
Secretely I wish it would be about NASA developing the FTL drive physics and sharing the basic principles. Then we could have another space race.

FTL is easy. Relatively.
It's powering it that's the development block.

Another space race would be lovely though.

Oberon
07-23-15, 12:08 PM
There are some but I don't think there is one that would look like the moon. But that is just part of keeping the bases secret as no one would expect the moon to be of German cheese.:shifty:

Well, NASA did get to the moon with a fair bit of help from a certain German, so....

STEED
07-23-15, 12:47 PM
A reptile defector from NASA comes clean? :shifty: :o

This will boost David icke's book sales. :03:

Rhodes
07-23-15, 12:59 PM
"
The SETI Institute and NASA have confirmed the discovery of Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet ever encountered. Located in the Goldilocks zone of its host star, this planet would have “just the right” conditions to support liquid water and possibly even life. This extraordinary world was spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope and is the first confirmed planet among over 500 potential candidates being added to the mission’s catalogue (http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/).
“Kepler 452b takes us one step closer to understanding how many habitable planets are out there,” said Joseph Twicken, SETI’s lead scientific programmer for the Kepler mission.
The planet is 1,400 light-years away from our Solar System and orbits a star astronomers call our Sun’s cousin. While this star is four percent more massive and ten percent brighter, the distance between it and Kepler 452b is approximately the same as Earth’s distance from the Sun. The planet itself has a radius 60 percent larger than Earth and is suspected to be rocky, with a thick atmosphere and a significant amount of water.


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Bahhhhhttp://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/mistytigergirl/Faces%20And%20Smileys/Disgusted.gif, more of the same!:hmph:

vienna
07-23-15, 03:52 PM
So, how long before the open a Starbucks or McDonalds there?...


<O>

STEED
07-23-15, 03:54 PM
So, how long before the open a Starbucks or McDonalds there?...


<O>

30 seconds from now.

vienna
07-23-15, 03:56 PM
As long as they don't have haggis...


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mapuc
07-23-15, 07:06 PM
Maybe my imagination ran away with me

I was thinking Contact and our own old religious story

We make contact-we ask them if they believe in God, Allah, etc

they say what is God, Allah ?

We tell them

they say we do not need to believe we know how stuff works

We send a huge military force to "knock some religious sense" into their head.

Markus

STEED
07-24-15, 04:50 AM
As long as they don't have haggis...


<O>

Sold out they are now doing deep fried Mars bars.

Jimbuna
07-24-15, 06:31 AM
Sold out they are now doing deep fried Mars bars.

LOL :)

Gargamel
07-24-15, 06:56 AM
I think this is very cool, but damn NASA gets excited easily.