Earth like Planet

Alibaba

To hell With the Budget people,

The Euro,

Enda,

There is Hope ,

Check this out.. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/kepler-22b/

PS. No Politicians need apply

Dotrel

Alibaba wrote: »

To hell With Budget people,

The Euro,

Enda,

There is Hope ,

Check this out.. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/kepler-22b/

PS. No Politicians need apply

Alternatively....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0gm7eNHjA

eth0

It's in the 'habitable zone' but other than that it could be a wasteland. Probably not even an atmosphere we can breathe

If this planet has a surface, it would have a very nice temperature of some 70° Fahrenheit [21°C]

If it doesn't even have a surface it won't be much good to us.

Conor108

Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., says the habitable Kepler planets are prime targets for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), carried out with the dedicated 42-dish Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. “We’re taking everything we can get from our Kepler colleagues to look for techno-signatures” that might betray the existence of an alien civilization, she says.

So far, the question about extraterrestrial life is very much open. “We don’t know whether Earth as it is, and life as we know it, is very unusual or very common,” Tarter says. However, if scientists find a second place in the universe where life once got started, it will be obvious that life must be widespread. Says Tarter: “In this field, the number two is important. We count one, two, infinity.”

So far away though 600 light-years, bad times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

Gunmonkey

If it is similar to our planet, would be interesting to see how animal and plant life has developed there. Would we see creatures resembling ones on Earth or would gravitational and atmospheric differences create vastly diverse morphology.

Pity at 600 LY away we will never see even pictures from it in our lifetime

Alibaba

eth0 wrote: »

It's in the 'habitable zone' but other than that it could be a wasteland.

God, after today's Budget and what's to come tomorrow we might have a lot in common with it.