Over 700 new planets found

[owly]

706 more planets like Earth just found!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUE58c72IUM

Alien Disclosure is Near!!!

[Nagash]

Indeed so! I found a related vid: it's the buttworm from below!

[owly]

Over 700 hundred planets found is a little hard to believe but they say so

[Nagash]

Yet they also say it's the buttworm for below, in my link. Click it and see for yourself.

Your link doesn't work for me, so I can't try to trace the source, but as it's not on any major news channels it's 99,99999999999% certain to me that it's a hoax.

[owly]

A hoax? it very well may be they went through great lengths to exocute

[bvaughan]

Yet they also say it's the buttworm for below, in my link. Click it and see for yourself.

Your link doesn't work for me, so I can't try to trace the source, but as it's not on any major news channels it's 99,99999999999% certain to me that it's a hoax.

That link goes to a youtube video and its from fox news. i would consider that a major news channel

[Gerien]

That link goes to a youtube video and its from fox news. i would consider that a hoax news channel

fixed

[bvaughan]

That link goes to a youtube video and its from fox news. i would consider that a hoax news channel

fixed

I knew that was going to happen, i could feel it as soon as i hit "submit" and i will give you that one i dont much care for fox news, but regardless it is still a major news outlet

[owly]

i stake my reputation on it being a real news cast however if they're right or wrong is yet to be decided by me.........

[Nagash]

Yet they also say it's the buttworm for below, in my link. Click it and see for yourself.

Your link doesn't work for me, so I can't try to trace the source, but as it's not on any major news channels it's 99,99999999999% certain to me that it's a hoax.

That link goes to a youtube video and its from fox news. i would consider that a major news channel

The link didn't work for me (been a while since I clicked an owly link and this happens ).

Still, I haven't seen it on real news outlets (you are quite right that 'major' was poor choice of words ). You'd think it'd be breaking news all over.

[Gerien]

If the 750 objects are indeed planets...

NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrasolar Planets

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/keple ... index.html

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes as part of an ongoing search for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Astronomers will use the new data to determine if orbiting planets are responsible for brightness variations in several hundred stars. These stars make up a full range of temperatures, sizes and ages. Many of them are stable, while others pulsate. Some show starspots, which are similar to sunspots, and a few produce flares that would sterilize their nearest planets.

Kepler, a space observatory, looks for the data signatures of planets by measuring tiny decreases in the brightness of stars when planets cross in front of, or transit them. The size of the planet can be derived from the change in the star's brightness.

The 28-member Kepler science team also is using ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to perform follow-up observations on a specific set of 400 objects of interest. The star field that Kepler observes in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra can only be seen from ground-based observatories in spring through early fall. The data from these other observations will determine which of the candidates can be identified as planets. That data will be released to the scientific community in February 2011.

Read more

[Gerien]

Hundreds of Possible Alien Planets Discovered By NASA Spacecraft [emphasis added]
By Denise Chow
SPACE.com Staff Writer
posted: 18 June 2010
04:54 pm ET

NASA's Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky.

If all 706 of these objects pass the stringent follow-up tests to determine if they are actually planets, and not false alarms, they could nearly triple the current number of known extrasolar planets. They were announced as part of a huge release of data from the mission's first 43 days by NASA's Kepler science team this week.

The Kepler space observatory monitors stars for subtle changes in their brightness, which could indicate the presence of alien planets passing in front of them as seen from Earth. Astronomers will use the newly-released data from Kepler to determine if orbiting planets are responsible for the variation in brightness of several hundred stars.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/k ... 00618.html

[owly]

Good find Gerien thanks for sharing

[Mickal Redwater]

LoL i'll post in a few days if you want. I AM at a workshop called "Exoplanets and Habitability" and one of the speakers IS one of the PI's on Kepler

I'm back this weekend so i can let you know the truth.

[Nagash]

Do enlighten us then

[owly]

i would love your feed back, i wonder what are the chances are from 700 planets what percentage are earth like, i say atleast one out of the 700........

Edit/You know how people own islands maybe in the future people will own whole planets

[owly]

in all fairness, man. i hope we don't find other planets cus as soon as we do we know there's gonna be fucking missionaries trying to build rockets to go over there and convert peeps to christianity.

edit/
rules of conquest in unknown lands:
1.)can I freak it?
2.)can i enslave it?
3.)can i kill it?
4.)can i make money off of it?
5.)can i convert it to my beliefs?
6.)if i freak it, will it create hybrid offspring?
7.)can i eat it?
8.)can it eat me?

edit 2/
9.)Can i fuck it?
10.)Can it fuck me?

lol

edit 3/
"Greetings! Welcome to Earth.....uhhhh.....OH GOD, what is it doing to my leg? what IS IT DOING TO MY LEG?!?!?!!..get it offfff..........OFFFFFFFF! DOWN BOY!!!!!

*rolls up newspaper*

[MoP]

I should make 'I need some of whatever you're using' my sigline...

Or Kaz, can you install an auto-reply function to owly's posts? 'I need some of whatever you're using' when he makes a regular post, 'I'm not clicking that' if he posts a link.

[Nagash]

in all fairness, man. i hope we don't find other planets cus as soon as we do we know there's gonna be fucking missionaries trying to build rockets to go over there and convert peeps to christianity.

That quote was golden though.

[owly]

bump lol i'm still waiting on redwater to post i love his post on this type of thing...........