17 Billion Earth like planets

[theclearspot]

According to this article regarding the Kepler telescope there are approx 17billion earth like planets in a similar vicinity to Stars. Looks like we are certainly NOT alone. Discuss.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20942440

 

[Skip]

The aliens are all around us...

We are alien to this planet.

Life is everywhere, in many forms still not recognized.

 

[Midnight Tokar]

Dang, who had the daunting task of counting them all?

 

[lost in a sea]

yeah but even that is based on completely wrong science,, the actual number of planets that can support life as we know it is in the trillions..

 

[cody2white]

I bet theres a chuck norris even more badass out there

 

[mean mr.mustard]

I'm moving to a smarter one!

:friends:

 

[lost in a sea]

which would be anyone lol

 

[Kcar]

Which probably means that travel faster than the speed of light is impossible.
With all the radiation we've been beaming into space for the last 50 years, you'd think
we would have been visited by now.

 

[lost in a sea]

yeah but even if the had for some reason got space travel or the means to decipher our paranoid self indulgent chatter they would instantly know how many weaknesses and mental instabilities our species have and stay well away just assuming we will wipe ourselves out.. because our species is fucking retarded..

 

[Iffy]

Which probably means that travel faster than the speed of light is impossible.
With all the radiation we've been beaming into space for the last 50 years, you'd think
we would have been visited by now.

That's propably the entire reason why we haven't been 'overtly' visited. Who'd wanna come to a dying planet?

 

[Stoner4Life]

That's propably the entire reason why we haven't been 'overtly' visited. Who'd wanna come to a dying planet?

same kinda folk as go to nascar races for the crashes.......

 

[robodawg]

HA!
good one stoner

 

[Storm Shadow]

Planet Vegeta is where my people come from

 

[ZoSo]

Which probably means that travel faster than the speed of light is impossible.
With all the radiation we've been beaming into space for the last 50 years, you'd think
we would have been visited by now.

Space is...really...big.

Not to get all geeky on you, but a 100 lightyear bubble of radio signals is nothing compared to the 100,000 lightyear milky way galaxy. (.1%, actually)

Even if the galaxy is densely populated it'll probably be 1000 years before we even have a chance of being heard. (2% woohoo)

 

[rasputin]

We're living in the multi-verse. Belie dat.

To 'rasputin' on Earth-734 ... What up, son!

 

[miniman]

doesnt life depend on the habitable zone not the size of a planet ?

 

[Terroir]

bet were the only ones with weed.

 

[vostok]

According to this article regarding the Kepler telescope there are approx 17billion earth like planets in a similar vicinity to Stars. Looks like we are certainly NOT alone. Discuss.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20942440

Yes Yes But how many can you actually GROW on...? lol

 

[thcglory]

17 billion you's clear

 

[trem0lo]

Sure there are 17 billion earth-like planets in the "Goldilocks" zone (not to hot or too cold) but not necessarily all of them have water or an atmosphere, and the chance that life as we know it exists concurrently with us is very small. Intelligent life may ebb and flow, either dying out or evolving into something greater. Our existence is but a mere speck in the grand scheme.

For signs of life we don't have to look much further than our own solar system. Mars is right next door and once had an atmosphere and water while Earth was primordial. Since it's half the size of Earth its core burnt out sooner and its protective magnetic field went bye bye, along with any sort of life that may have evolved. Titan has lakes of liquid methane and an organic material covers the surface. Enceladus is covered in ice and shoots water volcanoes from its south pole. There is almost certainly a huge, warm underground ocean.