Darn it I can not find the right link. Lol..

http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html

Very cool

sounds like they didn't discover aliens, just a bunch more planets where aliens might live.

... or at least that's what they want us to believe.

DUN DUN DUN.

Yeah I got to excited ...kepler confirms 1284

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/10/1...ng-spacecraft-kepler-1284-new-planets?ref=yfp

michchamp said:

sounds like they didn't discover aliens, just a bunch more planets where aliens might live.

... or at least that's what they want us to believe.

DUN DUN DUN.

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Rocky worlds in habitable zones, the universe is teaming with life IMO it's everywhere, and we are the aliens!

tigermud said:

Rocky worlds in habitable zones, the universe is teaming with life IMO it's everywhere, and we are the aliens!

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I agree but I also think the universe is teaming with civilizations all over the place and in varying degrees of advancement.

a textbook-busting announcement by NASA, the space agency confirmed the discovery of a whopping 1,284 new exoplanets found with the Kepler telescope.

The plethora of newfound worlds constitutes an enormous increase in the number of known exoplanets, which now totals around 3,200.

Although the vast majority of the new exoplanets are unlikely to be able to support life, NASA noted that around 550 of them may be similar to Earth in rocky composition and a tantalizing nine reside in the elusive 'habitable zone.'

"This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth," NASA scientist Ellen Stofan said at a press conference.

And, as more exoplanets are discovered and confirmed, it helps astronomers refine the process of looking for them and, hopefully, finding the rare worlds where life may actually exist.

Credited with discovering nearly 75 percent of all exoplanets, the Kepler telescope was lauded for possibly fundamentally changing our understanding of the universe.

Observing that exoplanets were fairly mysterious until the launch of Kepler, NASA astrophysicist Paul Hertz marveled that, thanks to the telescope, "we now know there could be more planets than stars."

As the search continues, perhaps we'll find the exoplanet we've been looking for all along: the one where someone is down there looking for us.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/nasa-announces-bevy-of-new-exoplanets-found/

Kepler is just so cool.

Is our time up ?

The theory of the great filter

http://qz.com/681059/why-the-discov...ell-doom-for-humanity/?utm_source=YPL&ref=yfp