NASA estimates 1 billion ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone

[Skull and Bones]

It means 1 billion more religions!!!! Damm!!

Intelligent species don't need imaginary friends to circumvent their insecurity.

 

[thesolar65]

It means 1 billion more religions!!!! Damm!!

We have .....may be some 500 religions (including sub religions). So it makes 500 billion religions!!

 

[mpk1988]

and humans believe in their gods and religions man universe was made for hums you are living one one peace of sand grain of all sand of earth

Exactly.. That's the funniest part of all this. In some fields and matters we have progressed so far, and yet there are retards out there believing in sky beings with beards who command ultra microscopic dust like us not to masturbate.. apparenlty because it is a sin!!! LMAO..
I hope they find life on atleast a 100 different planets and rational people are able to move there and establish utopia's. Leave behind the religious nutjobs to rot and cry on this planet.

 

[Imran Khan]

one wonders if the inhabitants of other 1 billion are all atheists why still they havents reached earth or contacted us with their science ? -

and they cant be still in stone age since they dont have any supernatural entities or beings to worry about - all facts and science -

and if they were 1 bn religious why not they finished their planets with sucide blasts

 

[Levina]

There you go!!!
@Skull and Bones do you still believe there's no intelligent life form beyond Earth??

 

[ranjeet]

Spare this one for Sharabis !!!

 

[Zibago]

what if they never evolved and are still micro organisms or worst case scenerio they are mullahsauruses

 

[thesolar65]

@AUSTERLITZ , Thank You.

 

[Skull and Bones]

There you go!!!
@Skull and Bones do you still believe there's no intelligent life form beyond Earth??

I'm certain that there will be many technologically advanced species in the universe. And intelligence is a relative term, there are many animals which are more intelligent than humans in some cognitive senses, while we are technologically superior.

 

[Levina]

I'm certain that there will be many technologically advanced species in the universe

You're contradicting yourself.

There was thread on PDF where you and me had a "discussion" over aliens, you had flatly refused to believe in the existence of ETs.

 

[Mr.Nair]

I don't give a damn how many "Earth like" planets there are when I cannot get there. Let me know when we have the capability to reach them in short period.

Depends on from where you want to go their.If you want to go From US,Russia,China,India etc there is a possibility, buy if you want to go from Pakistan then even after 1400 years you will stick stuck in Pakistan

 

[Echo_419]

There are a billion Earths in this galaxy, roughly speaking. Not a million. A billion. We’re talking 1 billion rocky planets that are approximately the size of the Earth and are orbiting familiar-looking yellow-sunshine stars in the orbital “habitable zone” where water could be liquid at the surface.

That’s a billion planets where human beings, or their genetically modified descendants, as well as their dogs and cats and tomato plants and crepe myrtle trees and ladybugs and earthworms and whatnot, could plausibly live.

The estimate comes from NASA scientist Natalie Batalha. Let’s go through some background information to see how she got to that number.

As Rachel Feltman reported Thursday, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a bunch of new planets, including one, Kepler 452b, that scientists described as the most Earth-like planet ever found outside our solar system. It’s something like 60 percent bigger in radius than the Earth (the exact size is hard to measure because it’s 1,400 light years away and cannot be directly imaged). But it’s probably rocky, and it's in the habitable zone of its parent star, which is like our own sun, a G-type “yellow dwarf” star. The parent star is 6 billion years old, roughly (everything’s “roughly,” unfortunately).

A few important reminders about our cousin Kepler 452b:

No one has seen it. Only Kepler has detected it — it’s too far away and dim to be detected with other instruments so far. So there’s a lot we don’t know about it. We don’t know for sure whether it’s rocky. We don’t know whether it has an atmosphere or water at the surface or anything like that. We’ve seen only the dimming of the starlight from the host star. The pattern of that dimming gives us a good measure of its orbital period (385 days) and, less precisely, its size. We’re not even sure of the exact size of the host star. These objects are very far away.

NASA discovers bigger, older Earth-like planet(1:40)
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the "habitable zone"—the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. (NASA Ames Research Center)
We also shouldn’t obsess over this one particular planet, nor over any of the intriguing Earth-like planets found by Kepler so far. Kepler is looking at a narrow cone of our galaxy. It’s not an all-sky survey. The main purpose of Kepler was to do a census of a small patch of sky to get an estimate of the abundance of planets. That’s been a huge success: We now know our galaxy is lousy with planets. They’re everywhere. And they come in all sizes.

During the NASA newser Thursday, I asked whether the latest Kepler data offered any new insight on the abundance of Earth-like planets around sun-like stars (the shorthand for this formulation is "eta-Earth"), and then followed up with an e-mail to NASA. Batalha, an astrophysicist who is the mission scientist for the Kepler telescope, e-mailed her answer:

Previous estimates of eta-Earth suggest that 15-25% of stars host potentially habitable planets. These estimates are based largely on discoveries of planets orbiting the cooler stars called M dwarfs. These new discoveries suggest that the statistics for sun-like stars are roughly in-line with estimates from the cooler M-type stars. So how does that translate to the number of planets in the galaxy? M, K, and G dwarfs comprise about 90% of the stars in the galaxy. Conservatively speaking, if 15% of stars have a planet between 1 and 1.6 times the size of Earth in the Habitable Zone, then you'd expect 15% of 90% of 100 billion stars to have such planets. That's 14 billion potentially habitable worlds.

M type stars are the most common in the galaxy comprising about 70% of the population of Main Sequence stars. Here's how the star types break down for the solar neighborhood within 33 light-years:

357 stars total

248 of those are M dwarfs

44 K dwarfs

20 G dwarfs

That means "only" about a billion of the 14 billion I mentioned above are orbiting G stars. Ha!

Thank you, Dr. Batalha! Keep in mind, she is using conservative estimates. So 1 billion may be a little low.

Before we make plans for colonizing these other Earths, we should pause for a second to note that there are two "Earth-like" planets orbiting our own sun and much, much closer to home than any of these extrasolar planets. Getting Venus in shape for habitability would be a terraforming challenge of the first order. Mars is potentially more congenial, but still an unpleasant place by our standards. Before we colonize Mars, we'll probably colonize the bottom of our shallow seas. Your scribbler will avoid going into a full rant about people who think there's a do-over in space for when we ruin our own planet.

NASA estimates 1 billion ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone - The Washington Post

Time to develop.tech for reaching those planets

 

[Skull and Bones]

You're contradicting yourself.

There was thread on PDF where you and me had a "discussion" over aliens, you had flatly refused to believe in the existence of ETs.

Nope, I'm firm in the existence of ETs.

And I'm not contradicting myself, you need to get deeper to understand what I said. The single biggest achievement of the human species is to have a communicative language, which let them to quantify their learning and experience, and pass on to others. For a chimp, you can teach him all the alphabets and English words, but it will fail to pass on to it's learning to the successive generations.

So, that doesn't make a human child more intelligent that a chimp, a human child can gather the experience of previous generations, while a chimp has to start over in every successive generations.

 

[Jungibaaz]

That's like trying to point at a subatomic particle with a bargepole.

Check this out, to give you a more accurate description:

100,000 Stars

And here's also another one of my favourites:

The Scale of the Universe 2

 

[Mr.Nair]

Time to develop.tech for reaching those planets

Who knows they are on their way to us.