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NASA: Probabilty of Alien Life in the Milky Way Increasing Exponentially

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Like the Age of Copernicus, the Kepler space telescope's survey of one small swath of the Milky Way is changing mankind's view of the Universe: dramatically increasing popular awareness of the likelihood that life exits beyond our Solar System. According to Stephen Kane—at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at CalTech —"not only are planets common in the galaxy, but there are more small planets than large ones. This is encouraging news for investigations into habitable planets."

The number of Earth-like planets is much higher than Jupiter-sized giants. The rough estimate is that there are at least 10 billion terrestrial planets across our galaxy alone --one of the estimated 500 billion galaxies in the Universe.

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50 comments // NASA: Probabilty of Alien Life in the Milky Way Increasing Exponentially

  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
  • kbshana
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      kbshana  
    • I want to meet the aliens, maybe spend a weekend on a far off planet. We need to get our shit together so they'll feel comfortable letting themselves be known

    • 4 months ago
  • eden49
  • BKsaysAction
  • thedirtman
  • savroD
  • fiberbundle
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • If aliens [from following our probes] and they offer simple but thorough HEALTH CARE THAT MAKES SENSE I'll throw my citizenship papers in th' nearest furnace. That is, if I had citizendship papers.

      It they cover nutrition supplements I'll fight to the death to be accepted.

    • 4 months ago
  • wally60
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  
    • NASA LIES...

      The probability hasn't changed one iota... Our perception, knowledge, and understanding has improved....

      Nothing has "increased exponentially" the probability.

    • 4 months ago
  • rerushg
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      rerushg  
    • Anonmaly:

      Precisely true.
      I think they're trying to get us psyched up to distract us from our droll existence here on Earth. NASA does excellent propaganda.
      Remember Bush was trying to get us to go all in for Mars. Reality got in the way. Not WMD reality. Reality reality.

    • 4 months ago
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  
    • Anonmaly:

      It is not a lie so much as it is poorly worded. Yes, the actual probability of alien life in the Milky Way is the same as it was before this announcement, but our understanding of that probability has greatly improved revealing to us that it is much more likely than we previously thought that alien life exists.

    • 4 months ago
  • remanns
  • 2warsoffbooks
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      2warsoffbooks  
    • Anonmaly:

      Nice to hear someone with a logical understanding.

      What is the limit for the probabilty of extra terrestial life given 10 billion planets in our galaxy and 500 billion galaxies?

      Are there any statisticians out there?

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Wel-l-l-l... now that the Pope has joined your side what can we say? After all, the Pope is always right ~HAHAHA~ and holding his Bible power over all of ya quite intact >>> FOREVER.

      You're stuck with a line of papal fools NO MATTER WHAT THE TELESCOPES SAY. HAHAHAHAHA This planet remains a ship of Bible toters no matter what your scientists "discover".

      Just think. Everywhere the Enterprise of tomorrow travels it takes a full ship's compliment of Gideon Bibles to the aliens. I'm so funny I can't stand it, and you all are so screwed you can't stand it.

    • 4 months ago
  • CalPal
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • CalPal:

      Do you require a building to fall on you? This is so obvious. The Pope's cut a deal. Like always. He backs the men in power so that they keep HIM IN POWER.

      Captain Kirk of the future wears a red robe and his Science Officer Spock is his Minister of Science heh heh heh. All the women on the ship are nuns.

      And off they go whisking into the future all carrying a Bible to alien worlds where they definitely do interfere.

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
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      jimstoner  
    • Gravity_Man:

      It seems to me that populations on this planet that came into contact with Christianity for the first time didn't fare so well. What makes you think we might not come across an alien civilization that is more technologically advanced then us? Couldn't they use our own tactics against us, and force us to convert to their religion? What if the galaxy is teaming with intelligent life, who's technology allows countless worlds to live in peace and comfort, but they are bound by their own laws to ignore worlds that still have religion?

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • jimstoner:

      Obviously if such a dastardly trick of the Universe like that played out we would have to be the Klingon Evil Twin Empire. Subsequent to alien contact attempting to force Bibles on them they destroy us in a battle reminding one of the Borg Battle.

      However, the Borg had Time Travel drive and we did not.....

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
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      jimstoner  
    • Gravity_Man:

      Didn't have time to contemplate what Christianity has done to populations they come into contact with for the first time on this planet I take it? It was just the conjectures that caught your eye.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • jimstoner:

      Actually, if you read Chapter 18 of Revelation you will see that John projected all the mainstream religions are to be tossed under a bus soon... for the very reasons you mentioned PLUS MANY MORE. John called them a whore, because they are supposed to be engaged to Christ Jesus to be his Bride [Class].

      But they formed alliances with politicians and joined with Merchants (international corporations). Those False Religions' day is coming soon. In fact, they get their bowl of punch right before Armageddon. The Pope's Cult is at the top of that list. The reason for that is a very serious infraction. They deny important parts of Revelation.

      The important thing for people to do now is identify the ONE GROUP that has God's Favor because they are shown in Rev. Ch. 7 as the only group protected through Armageddon.

      We don't cherry-pick which scriptures we believe like they do.

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
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      jimstoner  
    • Gravity_Man:

      You still have not answered my question about the genocide and enslavement Christianity committed on populations they came into contact with for the first time over the past 350 years.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • jimstoner:

      But I did. The Roman Catholic Cult has never been "Christianity". And the Protestants that broke away shoot, they kept most everything the RCC believes except for the Papacy and a few quibbles.

      They're all feathers on the same bird that needs to be gone. The time for them to be judged and buried is very close. And any of their "priests" or preachers who harmed indigenous peoples will very probably not even warrant a resurrection. In which case they have already had a severe justice meted to them => Everlasting Dead.

      I don't know what else I can answer you. I am certainly not trying to avoid you. I'm being very explicit and thorough. If my replies fail to satisfy you it is likely because you lack our in-depth Bible knowledge. What we know gives us COMPLETE FAITH that all false Christians who were a party to harming those people under the banner of Jesus' name are to a man damned. They will never see the light of day again NOR WILL THEY LIVE ON IN A FIERY HELL EITHER. THEY'RE BLOODY GONE. PERIOD.

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
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      jimstoner  
    • Gravity_Man:

      O.K. I think I understand what you are saying. You are pointing out that any belief system can be bastardized by those who claim to be it's interpreters. I myself am not a spiritual man. But I would fight to the death for the right of others to be so. I think we are in agreement that it is the false believer that shines an unclean light on true believers. I truly hope that you find peace in your beliefs.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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  • freehit
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      freehit  
    • If we ever do discover signs of life elsewhere, keep in mind, what we find most likely died out long ago as what we see is the far past. It takes a long time for the light to get here. The farther away the star, the farther into the past the event occured. Our own sun could have exploded just now and you wouldn't know it until 7 minutes after the event occured. (Lucky for us it's too small to go bang without the help of those anal probing dirty greys' sun exploding bombs!)

    • 4 months ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
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    • freehit:

      Think wormhole, think folding the universe which allows travelling in a short instant to what normally is tens, hundreds, thousands, and even millions of light-years away.

    • 4 months ago
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  
    • Vierotchka:

      That looks like the thing my dog owns. No wonder my power bill has increased in spite of all the low power consumption appliances I've invested in. I'm going to have to invest in geothermal or something. I wonder where it leads...

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • LivingPong:

      Capitalism = Economic Cannibal System (aka "dog eat dog"). One application of that principle is how all the country's Power Companies are shoving too much Voltage into your "low power appliances", forcing them to chew up excess "Trickle Current".

      Their dog eats your dog => it's the Capitalist Way. You can stop it by flipping off all the breaker box switches to large appliances you can... BUT ESPECIALLY the one to the Dishwasher. Flip off the breakers for the Washer & Dryer, stove, hot water heater, and the circuit that handles most of the home TV's.

      Do all that and you can reduce your next month's electric bill by 40-50%.

      What you want to do is turn the setting UP on your hot water heater. That way you only need to flip the breaker switch back on a couple times a day to keep it up to heat level, and then turn it on right before using hot water, for showers, dishwasher and so on. Mine is set on 150 degrees and my bill before Cold Weather hit was $57 a month.

      Of course without a family around it works better. Another thing you want to do is take a stopwatch to the refrigerator! I found out mine was running 6 times every hour, 32 minutes every hour even when the door wasn't being opened. An older fridge the compressor fluid gets to leaking into the other side, destroying efficiency. When I began turning the fridge OFF it caused the balance to be restorede so now it is back to being efficient.

      Ultimately you need a Gravity Wheel device to run a home generator and get off the grid out from under the sheister's heavy thumb service. Solar, Gravity, Wind, shut em down.

    • 4 months ago
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I used to turn off all the breakers but now they've replaced my meter box with some fang-dangled digital bullshit contraption that displays utterly useless garbage with no relevance to current consumption of their fossilised electrical supply.

      My hot water system is instant and runs off gas. I turn off everything not in use but my stupid state government has increased electricity charges. I'm also wondering if this new digital electricity meter has some kind of peak and off peak metering or if they just base their billing system off of average consumption for the area I live in.

      I have no air conditioning, own a gas stove, no dryer, no heater, one small television, a laptop and a PC. I also have a small fridge, electric kettle, microwave (which I rarely use as I think they are shit) and my lights are all low powered fluorescents. I'm going to invest in some solar panels, even if there is no feed in tariff and I might start looking into some kind of negative temperature entropy system or drill a bloody great hole down through the earth's crust now that the water table is falling. I don't think I'd get approval to build a wind tower in my backyard, as it would probably violate some kind of altitude or residential zoning laws. I could utilise some of my own hot air, but it's far too valuable in it's current role of shooting flames at arse lickers and tool-bots (I'm referring to corporate stooges, most politicians, nazi or politidicks, useless bureaucrats, politicians, some lawyers and sock puppets here). Right now I'm channelling last night's 30 degree Celsius temperatures at my keyboard but the keys are obviously tolerant of such piddling temperatures. I'd type using hammers but I would most probably fail at delivering my message across the great expanse of the interwebs. #EXPLICIT CURSING AT RANDOM RANDOMNESS# F@rKlng 1,500 years to the next ice age f@rKlng f349ck it!

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • LivingPong:

      You shouldn't be having a very high electric bill with so little usage, depending of course on where you live. The beauty of having a Gravity Wheel system is it goes inside the house where people can't walk off with it like solar panels. And since the neighbors wouldn't have to LOOK AT IT that base is also covered.

      And it doesn't swat bats out of the air, or honeybees.

      I worked on different designs for 20 months beginning in February 2009. By the time I figured out how to make them work I had spent up all my money on the parts and tools. So I have em licked and they have all my money! hahaha

      I should've used plastic bolts, washers & nuts to save on weight...

    • 4 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  
    • JanforGore:

      I never meant to get stranded here. A friend of mine wanted to try their new Tom-TOM Galactic Voyager 5 Trillion and died in the wreckage when we crashed. I think they are still trying to dissect him with their antiquated hacking devices in some crappy military barn somewhere. Anyway we were headed to the Sirius system but he turned left because that stupid piece of junk told him to. And I thought our version of Backwardsstupidia was bad, then I landed on this lonely rock. Nice scenery in places, but what's up with the fashion of letting the most ignorant make all the decisions? We had people on our planet who were convinced you could survive eating only money, so we let them.

    • 4 months ago
  • JangoFetish
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      JangoFetish  
    • It is more likely than not that life exists elsewhere. I dont believe we are God's only project. However, ever meeting them is very unlikely.

    • 4 months ago
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