NASA finds 7 Earth like planets orbiting one star

[He-Man83]

Expect the waters in those planets in the goldilock zone to be teaming with life,just imagine if dinosaurs are roaming around on them.

[Furn]

There could be oil on those planets.

Send in the troops.

[New England]

No way man, we learn so much from all of this. Plus, our survival of our entire species depends on space exploration. It's essential that we continue to learn as much as possible, as quickly as humanly possible, so that we can start colonizing our own solar system and hopefully behond.

I know it's hard for many people to look past our own lifetimes and that looking beyond that seems pointless and so far away, but really it isn't far away at all. 1969 we landed on the moon and the first man flew an airplane in 1903. In such a short amount of time technology has advanced at such a rapid pace. In 50 years we will likely have walked on Mars possibly a couple of times and 50 years after that it's possible colonies will be living on Mars! Think about how amazing that is and what it means for mankind. The more we learn about exoplanets the faster we can advance which ultimately will continue our species existence.

tell that to somebody who has to finance you int he context of the typical businss plan which is 5 years and has a very definite, real outcome. there's a reason why space exploration budgets go down, and it is practical in the short term in the context of a country with a huge, huge deficit, and that spends entirely too much money trying to police the world and maintain power.


if the state saw viability in space as a weapon, the way they did during the period of intense space and moon exploration, they'd have a real budget.

[Monaco Slim]

Interstellar travel won't even be a remote possibility until we discover a way to utilize nuclear fusion.

What does that have to do with space travel? We're not going to other planets using rockets or nuclear fusion, we'll be going there once our scientists figure out everything about gravity in about 1000 years.

[The Hammer]

Implying you're smarter than all of NASA.

No, NASA isn't making a big deal of this at all.

And NASA is looking at those star systems I mentioned. They are well aware of what kind of stars are most likely to have that truly habitable planets (that may have complex life).

The media is sensationalizing this story and misleading people as usual.

[-Kev-]

Expect the waters in those planets in the goldilock zone to be teaming with life,just imagine if dinosaurs are roaming around on them.

That would be crazy, although unlikely (to have exact exact dinosaurs), but still fun to think about. Since life on Earth technically formed from all types of **** forming the Earth and evolving/adapting to the environment, whose to say the same thing didn't happen on another planet with a similar environment and dinosaurs never got extinct because of a disaster and still roam?

When Earth formed it was by gravity, bringing together gas and asteroids that eventually created planets/the sun and those planets where habitable with life. How many other times did this happened some where else? Probably more times than not. So I think it's fun to 'think' that dinosaurs and humanoid-like species evolved in other planets.

[DARKSEID]

What does that have to do with space travel? We're not going to other planets using rockets or nuclear fusion, we'll be going there once our scientists figure out everything about gravity in about 1000 years.

Well what energy solution do you propose would sustain a craft, its living conditions and propulsion over multiple years to decades of travel without radioactive emissions?

Once humanity unlocks Nuclear fusion that's the next step of our evolution, and would effectively sever our dependence on fossil fuels.

We could sustain the entire planet without destroying it and would have unlimited energy to colonize our solar system.

Scarcity is what creates wars, and humanity is its own greatest enemy. Imagine what would happen if there were no scarcity of energy.

[Monaco Slim]

Well what energy solution do you propose would sustain a craft, its living conditions and propulsion over multiple years to decades of travel without radioactive emissions?

Once humanity unlocks Nuclear fusion that's the next step of our evolution, and would effectively sever our dependence on fossil fuels.

We could sustain the entire planet without destroying it and would have unlimited energy to colonize our solar system.

Scarcity is what creates wars, and humanity is its own greatest enemy. Imagine what would happen if there were no scarcity of energy.

LOL @ the thought of guys in 1000 years time using the same technology that we've got now to travel in space.

We're not travelling to other planets with primitive ways like nuclear energy or traditional rockets, that's a waste of time and beyond ridiculous, they would have to travel for millions of years, its simply impossible.

If we ever go to another planet it will be a highly advanced way that takes advantage of gravity / anti gravity or some other thing that we have yet to discover and it will be extremely quickly or instantly.

[DARKSEID]

LOL @ the thought of guys in 1000 years time using the same technology that we've got now to travel in space.

We're not travelling to other planets with primitive ways like nuclear energy or traditional rockets, that's a waste of time and beyond ridiculous, they would have to travel for millions of years, its simply impossible.

If we ever go to another planet it will be a highly advanced way that takes advantage of gravity / anti gravity or some other thing that we have yet to discover and it will be extremely quickly or instantly.

Ok so i'm talking about potential technology based on physics, and you're talking about imagination and fantasy.

Regardless of whatever propulsion system you choose to adopt, it's going to require energy. That's thermodynamic law. The energy created by atoms fusing together is enormous with negligible harmful emissions.

Finding out a way to utilize nuclear fusion will effectivily grant us near unlimited renewable energy. It's the relative equivalent of man discovering fire for the first time.

[Monaco Slim]

Ok so i'm talking about potential technology based on physics, and you're talking about imagination and fantasy.

Regardless of whatever propulsion system you choose to adopt, it's going to require energy. The energy created by atoms fusing together is enormous with zero harmful emissions.

Finding out a way to utilize nuclear fusion will effectivily grant us near unlimited renewable energy. It's the relative equivalent of man discovering fire for the first time.

The only imagination and fantasy is your idea that people are going to spend the next million years on a one way journey to another planet, having a thousand of generations of family on a space craft without running out of food / water or going insane and killing each other.

Nuclear fusion just isn't practical for star to star travel, we need something to bypass the speed and time limits.

Gravity is real, radiation is real, electromagnet fields are real and we've not discovered everything yet, including all elements. There's plenty of alien elements on other planets, moons and asteroids that we may need to discover first before being capable of powering a machine capable of star to star travel.

This is going to take such a long time that oil, nuclear fusion and all the other stuff that we're using today or will be using in the next 500 years will become redundant due to advancement in technology.

I feel like you don't have a clue exactly how far away these planets actually are, even the closest ones.