New Earth-Like Planets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Telescope | TIME

NASA's Kepler mission discovers three earth-like planets existing in their star's "Goldilocks zone. "

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New Earth-Like Planets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Telescope | TIME

[MaximusDEmentis]

We only have a few billion years before our sun goes nova.  So we better explore and figure out how and where to go!

[janvanderkruyk]

The nearest star is at 4.3lj. It will take about 78 thousands years to get there with the current speed of rockets. So why looking for exo planets even hundreds of times farther away far beyond our reach? What's the point?

[ryankvernevig]

they should raise tax dollars if they want to go there

[CloudOmegaVII]

Telescope 1.5 Billion pixels can't even catch images like google earth. Only on galaxies.

[lbmshall]

sick of these computer generated images! I've been looking at images of space and there doesn't seem to be any stars in them, and not long back was in one of the darkest places in the UK and had a great view of the milky way, why don't they ever show this from the iss, am I missing a trick here, please let me know if I'm being really thick,

[chockletgem]

We aint going nowhere unless God wants us to....

[lbmshall]

just realized it's old this! shite!!

[rickeychilders]

From my study of human history we fall down and stumble due to the collapse of civilization. I feel it is arrogant thinking to assume we are just going to be smart enough to make a space ship to escape when the sun goes red giant. What if the knowledge of high science was lost due to calamity in some future dark age.
As a species we are ultra intelligent as compared to majority of creatures on earth. Intelligence is our advantage but it can also be our undoing.
What if we are supplanted by another earth species.
I could see four foot super intelligent bee people having to solve the problem if we don't get it right.
My point is that we needed to work harder to solve our problems here on spaceship earth and learn to treat one another better. This religious fighting gives me the blues. Until we get over it I figure any aliens wouldn't want us in space for fear of infecting the galaxy with our crap.