NASA astronomers discuss Kepler-186f

Elisa Quintana and Thomas Barclay are both research scientists at the SETI Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center and the astronomers who discovered the planet.

Speaking from Mountain View, California, they discuss what makes the planet earth-like and what are the chances it can sustain life.

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[nopseudosleft]

This is fascinating, hurry up science, I want to find out more about this in my lifetime!! :D

[Hellsaint]

If this planet is millions of light years away, how can we be sure it even exists anymore let alone has the same composition that we see in it now?

[TiberiusHassius]

Atleast 120, 000 years going at the speed of light.

[robincunanan]

Fascinating, if only i could live long enough to see humanity colonize other planets(which is probably thousands of years from now). or even discover how to rip space fabric that would be awesome.. 

[moeezS]

Do astronomers go with the assumption that any lifeforms would be carbon-based, going off that mention of biomarkers for element composition?

[MrTerryforsyth]

Well they haven’t had radios in the last 500 years or we’d have picked up their signals.

[zebonautsmith]

it would only take you 500 years to get there at light speed through normal space. There are likely faster ways....

[Bozewani]

WOW! next step analyze the environment we're in teh front line

[DZFEVER]

What if we borrow star trek spaceship... it is the fastest that I've seen at the mean time... all u have to do is say the magic word... it nasa...