NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone

[PokemonCrazyCards100]

There is way more then a billion habitable planet, they don't know that because they did't found at.

[s0012823]

In the universe perspective, I wouldn't be surprised that we are at the level of bacteria for other life forms.

[stratocaster1986able]

1100 planets? Geez.

[sbergman27]

@AngeloNiklis I can make a pretty good case that it's not even likely that they/it/whatever would be biological, but artificial descendants of an ancient biological species which evolved naturally. We've had technology for only the blink of an eye, and our machines are already improving far faster than we are. Over arbitrary time, a vastly more capable replacement to Homo Sapiens will likely emerge. Something that does not share our cognitive evolutionary baggage because it missed the savannah.

[sbergman27]

@AngeloNiklis Look. The title of this story is "NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone". Discussing possible attributes of hypothetical ET civilizations is within the realm of relevance. But your agenda, whatever it is, clearly belongs in a different thread under a different story. If you have something at least remotely related to the topic, say it. Otherwise I'm not playing. It's both a waste of my time, and rude to the rest of the forum. You're just so far off the ball.

[sbergman27]

@AngeloNiklis You're saying that religion isn't the only primitive institution that has caused us strife. Fine. That's not a get out of jail free card for religion. Sometimes religion is the first cause of the strife. Sometimes just a convenient tool. (Why don't you just say "Guns don't kill people...")

I don't think you understand science. Or the extreme danger superstition poses in the hands of a newly powerful civilization. Think "natural selection". The irrational "advanced" civs are gone.

[sbergman27]

@AngeloNiklis Make up your mind. Is it religion, profit, or political influence? You're all over the place. At any rate, the church has been the 1-stop shopping spot for all 3. At any rate, even though you've careened in all directions... you still managed to miss addressing my points:

1. Science has been very gradually eroding religious metaphysics for centuries.

2. Advanced civilizations are likely to have left religious superstition behind long ago, if they ever had it at all.

[shardsofsteel]

Why do we talk about what could or could not happen. Whether there may or may not be life or religion there. Why don't we just go for it, set the conversations aside that have no real relevance, set the scientific speculation aside as well... and GO for it! we bemoan a lagging economy world wide when we have a universe of possibility yet we turn away because of "something somebody stated". Can we not start thinking for ourselves?!

[milo88100]

@xknowledgeisfreex and karlfeldtsplatsen1 people will still be beleiving in God no matter what, and what if they on other planets too believe in God...? you never know...if there is a planet like earth we might even meet buddha!! or our re-incarnated ancestors!! :)

[sbergman27]

@milo88100 "what if they on other planets too believe in God...?"

Highly unlikely. Statistically, they would almost certainly be far older than our civilization. Religion is & has been the #1 cause of war & disharmony in our history. If their civilization is enduring, they'll have dropped religion long ago. Also, it's clear that religion has been gradually losing out to science since about Newton's time, the rate picking up notably after Galileo's. They won't believe in silly superstitions.

[karlfeldtsplatsen1]

xknowledgeisfreex you right if we found another planet with life in it then good bye god and all religions but i belive that other life exist.

[ProgrammingNewbie]

@karlfeldtsplatsen1 you are right on this....I been telling many of friends in my social network that this is going to rock the world in which we dream. Largely due our potential and long-term existence in harnessing the power of stars and elements in the Universe. But I believe humans to live for billions of coming years..

[xknowledgeisfreex]

The moment we find life on another planet, all religions will die in an instant.

[sbergman27]

@xknowledgeisfreex No. The people who deny well established science today, because it threatens their silly "faith", will simply have 1 more thing on their already rather long list of things to blindly deny. In fact, if anything, I'd expect a few new fringe religions to spring up worshiping the alien life. Ignorance & stupidity won't go away just because JWST detects O₂ (an almost sure sign of life) in the atmosphere of a distant planet. Hell, 20% of the US thinks the aliens are already here.

[interstellarwonder]

they found planets ,why not aim radio sats at them?to see if there is any radio freq's that may be alien.

[inewkiller]

bin laden hiding there!!!

[beswick1111]

it wont be long before we find life beyond our own miserable planet, and i bet in the next 50yrs we will find intelligent life, unless nasa keep it a huge secret, now that will be awesome, if we find intelligent life it would be greater than if stephen hawking stood up and said HA HA im actually 100% normal my wheelchair thing was just a stunt to get more funding, ROFL!!!!!!

[jazzx251]

@beswick1111

I hope there's intelligent life up there, because there's bugger all down here.

[fascinatingnews]

@jazzx251

....called PAPER-HEADS, like the Norwegian primer Jens Stoltenberg and his fairytale government, the mixture of Israel-haters; and marxist-leninists, and LOVERS OF JULIAN ASSSSSSS-ANGES (Imagine all those victims he - Asange - has lured into his trap; those traitors submitting to him all kind of documents....)

[elatus]

@fascinatingnews

I can't imagine why you would post a comment like that on a video about NASA finding planets. If your trying to troll you are doing it wrong...

[fascinatingnews]

@elatus

We do not understand your view, with reference to your very own statement; BUGGER DOWN HERE..

The Norwegian primier Jens Stoltenberg is MORE THAN A BUGGER, he is a SATANIST!!!

ed

[elatus]

@fascinatingnews

lol, calm down... breath...

You clearly need some prescription drugs to keep those voices at bay. 

[ps3fanboi1]

awesome