"Calling it a mission that may fundamentally change humanity's view of itself, NASA on Friday prepared to launch a telescope that will search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/03/06/n...sa.kepler.launch.planets/index.html

reading...

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

I believe that there are other planets like ours out there. Hopefully this telescope finds them.


ps: you will get a kick out of the flat earth society haha

old news is old.

glad to hear they're finally launching this fucker. been hearing about this for years. NASA needs more funding, IMO. this is the future of the human race

OH HEY GUYS MY NAME IS ARILLIUS AND I LOVE COMING INTO THREADS AND POOPING ON THEIR PARADES.

I thought you were retired from posting?

I thought the same thing heh. glad he's not gone. this rules. carina and I are heading to kennedy space center now.

I guess certain topics are more important than retiring.
But haha, when did I poop on it? I commend Fims for posting this.
They had specials on this on NatGeo and the History channel a while ago when it was first planned. They've also been discussing it in Popular Mechanics, Astronomy, and others for quite sometime. I've been waiting this damn launch for a while. 100% disclosure of the truth of our known universe in our lifetime will make me happy

i posted that after just seeing your old news is old. didn't see your post with an actual comment lol

WHAT?!

yep. unless the most perfectly thought out troll in the history of trolls its a cult of people who actually believe the earth is flat.

wait till we discover how string theory is close to being correct and how multi-universes with multi-dimensions exist and one can trascend beyond each dimension which defies some laws of physics but totally makes sense when you really think about it and read about it and listen to brootal new england bands

i read one line of that and my head almost exploded.

this NASA thing is great and all, but lets try and get out of our financial crisis before we dump money into it.

I wouldn't say "dumping" money into it.. just changing the ratio of where our money goes. Right now we need to 1.) end the war on drugs 2.)take some of the military R&D developmental funds (we spend waaaaaaay more than other countries) and trasnfer some of it to NASA, which has civilian purposes and could benefit the human race. Obviously they want to solve the housing crsis and other things which are holding us back. But the fact remains that more money needs to be sectioned off for space exploration and colinization. Right now their goal is to send people to Mars by 2030. Sigh.

2030? that's ambitious.

We will never make it to Mars. 2012 and the Earf gone be done.

one can only hope

we don't even have any underwater cities or sealabs or yet either..
talk about LACK of funding

GARGANTUA 1 FTW

heard it on npr, sounds badass, they said most likely they will find life, even if just at the smallest level

lets hope they find it at the most gigantic level.

Of all those "superearths" they've been finding in the past few years in a relatively small area of outer space (can you imagine a planet 10 times the size of earth with it's own water cycle?) there's countless others out there undiscovered. Earth just happens to have the perfect conditions for life as we know it, with water, organic compounds, a suitable temperature range, and time being the ingredients. These earth-like planets are composed of many earthly compounds, but of course other elements and compounds which are rare or non-existent here, and combine that with unknown or harsher environments, and a longer geological timeline, I cannot imagine what may come to exist. We're well on our way to finding something in our lifetimes.

THE TRVTH IS OUT THERE.

we're all fucked.

there was a cool program on either the history channel or discovery that showed what life could look like on other planets based on their possible conditions.

That was Star Trek, dude.

Exactly...we're only self-aware because of a genetic mutation, we have evaded natural selection because of our capability to build things and convey ideas...who's to say that beings on other worlds are not 'beings' but fierce highly-evolved predators like that big guy. Then we'd just nuke them, and colonize when the rads are gone.

I love being human.

being human is awesome

i bet the Tarrasque is nuke-proof.

it probably eats depleted uranium for breakfast

It would be better if it just ate Mexicans.

SRSLY, I consider this stuff way more important than jobs, houses, or the economy. We're still stuck on this stupid rock, and the clock's ticking - if at least a couple hundred of us don't manage to get something started somewhere else before somebody here does something stupid, it's game over for teh peoples. (You guys would be terrible Civ II players. LOL)

I hope they find a planet inhabited by a bunch of walking vagina creatures.

YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE SPICY SHIT

I LOL'd so hard at this it caused me a coughing fit and I almost choked on all the mucus in my throat from having a cold.

im in ur nasa stealing ur 3Ds.

why dont the fucking fly around the world

did i hear a hint of DMT in one of Arils' comments? I think i did.

oops misquote