Amazing.

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I think its nice finding potentaily inhabitable planets with life , but its a bit of a cock tease no chance in hell will we ever go to one of these places not in the next 1,500 - 3000 years I doubt we will get a visual light spectrum view of them for at least 300-500 years , and maybe some detailed direct radio observation for 150-200 years.

Its actually prity meaningless/useless finding these planets other than confirming that the universe has many planets and high probability of many earth like planets , but I think we knew that prity much for certain maby 20-30 years ago.

Don't get me wrong I Think of Astrophysics of massive importance and a scientific imperative to persure as it will have tangible ramifications on earth evan if unpredictable ones.

Seems to me that you can learn so much more about space and the universe with exsperments on earth such as being done with the LHC , or observations of how mater is spred out in general and those kind of observations.

still would rather have kepler doing its shit than spending money on wars , and i bet kepler probably only costs a small % of all the communications and media satalites we launch so for the relative cost its probably worth it just for shits and gigles.

I think observation is going to be much sooner Westy.

"Oh oh oh oh oh... shhiiiiii t t t t t...."

@ 46:40 - Evidently Seth Borenstein was sucked into a black hole at that exact moment.

That was truly the best part of the talk!

Very interesting developments

OK now all you have to do is build a space ship that can go the speed of light, get on it, and ride for 587 years. sheesh!

>> ^zor:

OK now all you have to do is build a space ship that can go the speed of light, get on it, and ride for 587 years. sheesh!


Detection of intelligence on one of these will change all of humanity. We'll double our defense industry budgets and pool them Internationally to build interplanetary attack ships.

Oh, you mean this is a Nasa press conference about life that's actually interesting, compared to that bullshit one about life in a lake that lived in acid... except probably didn't and their finding were terrible.

So this one is a proper finding then?

(I don't have an hour to watch this)

Nasa needs a new more flashy room....

>> ^zor:

OK now all you have to do is build a space ship that can go the speed of light, get on it, and ride for 587 years. sheesh!


Actually, if you hop on a space ship that goes the speed of light, to you no time at all will pass. It'll only be that long for the people hangin' out back on Earth.

^On what day did the Lord create butt-raping reptilian alien demons, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?

@dystopianfuturetoday I've read the bible a couple of times and my interpretation was that god was the butt-raping reptilian alien demon.

>> ^shinyblurry:




They ignored option #4 (I wonder why) which is far more likely and in accordance with the evidence, that the human brain is an imperfect evolved organ that is predisposed to see patterns in everything and is easily prone to false-positives & attributing significance to anything which confirms an existing bias, because second guessing whether that shape in the grass is a lion or not isn't worth the risk of death.

It's better from a survival/stimuli-response perspective to detect and act on any false pattern than suffer the possible consequences of a missed pattern. The mechanisms that help us survive aren't necessarily the best at helping us arrive at truth, as the post-hoc bunkum slingers in your video unwillingly and unknowingly demonstrate.

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From my understanding of relativity and space-time continuum, 587 light years at close the speed of light wouldn't take very long to those on the space-craft because of "time-dilation". However, to those not on the spaceship...well, they'd be LONG gone. Somebody want to back me up on that? Maybe somebody smart? >> ^zor:

OK now all you have to do is build a space ship that can go the speed of light, get on it, and ride for 587 years. sheesh!

Ever stop to think that this is what you have to believe?

>> ^AnimalsForCrackers

They're fallen angels impersonating aliens..many UFO researchers have concluded (even secular ones) that UFOs are not interstellar but interdiminsional.









>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:^On what day did the Lord create butt-raping reptilian alien demons, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?

they call it New California.

Natalie is super sharp.

Sweet! Now what's 3600 Trillion miles divided by 25,000mph?

Well, traveling at 100,000 mph, it would take a mere 93 million years to reach it. The solar probe on close approach to the sun can reach about 200km/s, so only about 864,000 years that way. I doubt we'll be able to travel faster than that in interstellar space in the next few hundred years.

Yea, we're not going to these planets any time soon. Let's hope for our inter-dimensional friends to hook us up with some loopholes to travel faster, eh?

>> ^spoco2:
So this one is a proper finding then?
(I don't have an hour to watch this)
Then don't expect anyone taking an hour to explain it to you. If all you wanted was a simple "yes" or "no"...



Yes and no.

>> ^rottenseed:

From my understanding of relativity and space-time continuum, 587 light years at close the speed of light wouldn't take very long to those on the space-craft because of "time-dilation". However, to those not on the spaceship...well, they'd be LONG gone. Somebody want to back me up on that? Maybe somebody smart?

That's true, but the problem is getting close enough to the speed of light to make an appreciable difference. I read in one of the science mags recently (SciAm or Science, I think) that traveling at 99.9% the speed of light would allow a crew to travel to the edge of the known universe and back in about 57 years, ship time. Not an exact quote, but it was something pretty insane like that. Unfortunately, we haven't even begun to dream of a propulsion system/energy source that would allow us to reach anywhere near that kind of speed.


Small moves. Let's get to Mars first.