Ezechiel
Paranormal Adept
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/nasa-kepler-planets.html
Find one in the goldylocks zone and we have our first candidate
... one in 700. Cool odds !!!
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The San Francisco gates reports this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/16/MNDH1DVI2P.DTL&type=science
Holy guacamole.... 156,000 stars every half hour
In the first release of data since the mission began 15 months ago, the Kepler team said it has discovered 706 "viable exoplanet candidates with sizes as small as that of the Earth to larger than that of Jupiter." The majority of the planetary candidates are the size of Neptune or smaller, they said
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/nasa-kepler-planets.html#ixzz0rCb2xcq5
The key here is: as small as that of the earthRead more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/16/nasa-kepler-planets.html#ixzz0rCb2xcq5
Find one in the goldylocks zone and we have our first candidate
... one in 700. Cool odds !!!---------- Post added at 07:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 AM ----------
The San Francisco gates reports this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/16/MNDH1DVI2P.DTL&type=science
"The team is working around the clock to process the data," Marcy said. "They're measuring the brightness of 156,000 stars every half hour, achieving a precision of a hundredth of 1 percent - an utterly unprecedented achievement.
"The Kepler observations will tell us whether there are many stars with planets that could harbor life, or whether we might be alone in our galaxy," he said.
Holy guacamole.... 156,000 stars every half hour