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NASA finds new planet Kepler 22b.

Originally posted by Washington Post
NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside the solar system that could have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported :

The search for Earth-like planets circling other stars is heating up, but the latest discovery is not too hot at all. It’s not too cold, either. Instead, the temperature on the newly announced planet Kepler-22b could be just right for life — about 72 degrees, a perfect spring day on Earth.

The new planet — named Kepler-22b — has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and at just about the same distance. The planet’s year of 290 days is even close to ours. It likely has water and rock.

The only trouble is the planet’s a bit big for life to exist on the surface. The planet is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It could be more like the gas-and-liquid Neptune with only a rocky core and mostly ocean.


Link to article.

Pretty interesting. It would take a really long time to get to the planet, seeing as it is outside the solar system. I'm just curious to find out if there is any life on this planet already.
It'd take us 22 million years to get there, eh? A little long, but I can wait.

I hope we discover life there, I really, really do. I also hope we manage to make communications with that other life, and find out if they are religious or not. Maybe then we'll see if there is a god or not.
I bet that many people think that they could go living on that planet when the earth goes down.

I also would like to see activities by things on that planet which are a bit like humans.
Now all we need is for scientists to discover teleportation/warp drive/wormholes/huge-ass fuel tank/something so we can actually get there.

like thats gonna happen any time soon
Later.
Wow, they found another rock!
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This rock has water though, which makes it important.

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So dose Mars!(and its closer!)
And dont tell me Mars is cold, all it needs is some Global warming!
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Someone really needs to fire the guy that makes the names for these planets, seriously.

Anyway, I'm generally pretty sceptical when it comes to looking for other planets with life on them, but this is making it wane a little bit. Whilst I still doubt the possibility of it, this does show that there is a chance (somewhat) that there could be other things out there. Although some of the guesses people make for other possibilities of life are ridiculous; they'd likely be something similar to us, after all, we're looking for a planet which is similar to our own, so surely it will have beings who need the same things to survive as us. If there really is life in other places, I expect its probably not in the places we're looking in.

Not blue.
Originally posted by Sniggerb0bble
Someone really needs to fire the guy that makes the names for these planets, seriously.


Question for ya. Tell me a witty name for it huh!
They have discovered hundreds of planets, and you expect them to give each and every one of them a witty name. Come one man, it's common sense.
You'd be surprised how often NASA finds these sorts of planets. Don't get your hopes up; Titan or Mars (Titan especially) are much more exciting leads. There is at least evidence of livable conditions. We really don't know anything about most exoplanets and even if we do, it's after a year minimum of study. This planet, if I recall, was first spotted in like late 2009.
I wonder if there would be a land with grass, trees, and plants. But it might not be safe to breath in the air of the planet Kepler 22b. I wonder if there would be the same story of Kepler as Genesis in the Holy Bible.
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Originally posted by Sniggerb0bble
Someone really needs to fire the guy that makes the names for these planets, seriously.

Gotta agree with you there. They should just hire George Lucas and a bunch of the country's best science-fiction writers to name the planets. Seriously.
Originally posted by CJtheLesser
Originally posted by Sniggerb0bble
Someone really needs to fire the guy that makes the names for these planets, seriously.

Gotta agree with you there. They should just hire George Lucas and a bunch of the country's best science-fiction writers to name the planets. Seriously.

Again, they have found hundreds of planets out there. You expect them to come up with a witty name for each and every one of them? They name them this way because they can be classified easier. Plus, they name them by their position in space, and sometimes what constellation they're found in.
Originally posted by SJackSJ
Again, they have found hundreds of planets out there. You expect them to come up with a witty name for each and every one of them? They name them this way because they can be classified easier. Plus, they name them by their position in space, and sometimes what constellation they're found in.


Oh really? I don't really follow astronomy so I didn't know that, but I guess that makes sense. Still, to those of us who barely hear a thing about what goes on outside our planet it does just sound like someone barfed a load of numbers and letters up to make a name for these things.

And for the record, I wasn't asking for 'witty' names, just names that seemed to make either more sense, or merely sounded nicer overall. I just think that for someone with barely any basic knowledge of outer space names such as these will completely break people's minds and will become pretty unmemorable for them.

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For suposedly being more advanced than all the previous civilitzations in history, we shure suck ALOT more at naming things than them, I mean, they named nearly every dam star they saw in the sky with a name that made sense!Really, if we keep on like this, people wont have names any more, only and identification code.
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There aren't infinite names to fit the infinite amount of stars, unless you count stuff like "sgsvhycvgggggf" which is even hard to remember, so naming them after their position and other data makes the most sense.
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What's wrong with Kepler? How is it stranger than, say, Neptune?

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Originally posted by The Secret Exit
What's wrong with Kepler? How is it stranger than, say, Neptune?

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Kepler makes sense, Kepler was an astronomer who made the planetary laws of motion.
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I do agree that the names are a little annoying to try and remember. But, this is how they categorize them.