[QUOTE]NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
The research team used a technique called verification by multiplicity, which relies in part on the logic of probability. Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates. If the candidates were randomly distributed among Kepler's stars, only a handful would have more than one planet candidate. However, Kepler observed hundreds of stars that have multiple planet candidates. Through a careful study of this sample, these 715 new planets were verified.
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[URL]http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza/#.Uw4tIBaZbPU[/URL][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Just watching the NASA live feed.
[URL]http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-arc?rmalang=en_SG[/URL]
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This almost doubles the number of exo-planets that we have verified.
Interesting to note that Earth is a low gravity world in comparison to other planets.
ok let's go
Somebody build a distress beacon, I'll foot the bill for the silver bars.
[QUOTE=Antlerp;44056250]ok let's go[/QUOTE]
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need to put more funding into FTL research.
Shame most of these exoplanets lie outside the habitable zone.
Something hopefully the Plato satellite can rectify.
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need to put more funding into FTL research.[/QUOTE]
Just need to send a Stargate over there on a probe ship. Problem solved.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44056355]Just need to send a Stargate over there on a probe ship. Problem solved.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure The Ancients had FTL before they started littering galaxies with celestial phone booths.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44056355]Just need to send a Stargate over there on a probe ship. Problem solved.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Xystus234;44056249]Interesting to note that Earth is a low gravity world in comparison to other planets.[/QUOTE]
The data from Kepler is a bit biased, since it's easier to detect planets the more massive they are.
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I'm still not over the cancellation of SGU ;_;
Last I heard from Kepler, it was broken with no plans of fixing it.
So when did they fix it? (Or am I mixing up two different satellites?)
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;44056302]need to put more funding into FTL research.[/QUOTE]
Unless something radical changes in physics sometime soon we really don't.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44056494]Unless something radical changes in physics sometime soon we really don't.[/QUOTE]
If we stop giving physics attention it'll just go away.
Physics works like bullying, right? It's always keeping us down or telling us what to do.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;44056551]If we stop giving physics attention it'll just go away.
Physics works like bullying, right? It's always keeping us down or telling us what to do.[/QUOTE]
'Eppur si muove!'
pls
[QUOTE=themooselord;44056320]Shame most of these exoplanets lie outside the habitable zone.
Something hopefully the Plato satellite can rectify.[/QUOTE]
I didn't see it say that in the article but I might be blind, so. Different size and type suns have different habitable zones and what might not be habitable now might be once we reach them.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44056494]Unless something radical changes in physics sometime soon we really don't.[/QUOTE]we should use the Warp instead, or preferably, the Webway
[QUOTE=Joazzz;44056602]we should use the Warp instead, or preferably, the Webway[/QUOTE]
As long as nobody calls up the attention of the Ruinous Powers, that sounds like a swell idea.
Only we ain't got no Astronomicon or God-Emperor, much less suitable voidships and psykers to spare for it.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44056628]As long as nobody calls up the attention of the Ruinous Powers[/QUOTE]
You're no fun.
At worst the possibility of good ol' generation ships remains, at least that doesn't involve any violation of physic laws :v: Now the biggest problem would be to find volunteers.
About Kepler, if I remember right it's no longer functional, but its data is still being analysed at this point.
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;44056669]You're no fun.[/QUOTE]
I subscribe to what the Eldar think. At least they (and their dark Eldar counterparts) have the common sense to stay under the radar of Slaanesh.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44056743]I subscribe to what the Eldar think. At least they (and their dark Eldar counterparts) have the common sense to stay under the radar of Slaanesh.[/QUOTE]
dats heresy yo
[QUOTE=Xystus234;44056249]Interesting to note that Earth is a low gravity world in comparison to other planets.[/QUOTE]
It's not most planets are bigger, it's that anything smaller than Earth is too small to see in a telescope (read: detect using transition methods and such), at least with today's instruments.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44056781]dats heresy yo[/QUOTE]
Sometimes, you have to know what rules you can break before breaking them. Varro Tigurius wasn't exactly a martinet about rules either, not even after his appointment as Chief Librarian.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44056390]Pretty sure The Ancients had FTL before they started littering galaxies with celestial phone booths.[/QUOTE]
which came first the FTL or the celestial-pay-phone, we'll never know cas universe was cancled
anyway, we just need to launch 715 big broadcasting satellites into orbit and have them all start transmitting our cable television to them
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need to put more funding into FTL research.[/QUOTE]
Why waste money on FTL research when we just have to get to Mars and access the Prothean archives?
[QUOTE=booster;44056461]Last I heard from Kepler, it was broken with no plans of fixing it.
So when did they fix it? (Or am I mixing up two different satellites?)[/QUOTE]
they figured out how to use solar pressure and its orbit to keep it oriented, though ya its mission is probably done finding exoplanets like this
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here's a good chart on what it will be doing from now on
[QUOTE=Forumaster;44057032]Why waste money on FTL research when we just have to get to Mars and access the Prothean archives?[/QUOTE]
But then we'd be playing right into the Reaper's plans
I say we hire Dotor's Shaw and Fujiwaka to get to work on Slipspace drives
[QUOTE=DaysBefore;44057059]But then we'd be playing right into the Reaper's plans
I say we hire Dotor's Shaw and Fujiwaka to get to work on Slipspace drives[/QUOTE]
or we just let free market decide and let Zephrim Cochran to build us a warp drive so he can make $$$
I love how many nerdy space references we can think of when we put our minds to it
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