What Yoda Found in Space for us to F**c Up

[Dice]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

Pretty cool stuff.  I always love news of "out there" discoveries.  We should have packed a while ago, but y'know.  
Maybe that's why sci-fi is a lot of fun, where "this kind of stuff" has already happened. =)

Ah well, enjoy what you will.  Obviously a lot of issues with it still.

[Yoda]

I'd love to be the guy at NASA responsible for artist's renditions of planets we'll never see.

That dude thinks he's batting a thousand

[Dice]

I'd love to be the guy at NASA responsible for artist's renditions of planets we'll never see.

That dude thinks he's batting a thousand

It's be so awesome if the planet was shades of purple and pink and orange..  None of the blue and green hogwash.

[Yoda]

[Dice]

Fuck off, Earthling bitches.

source.

[Yoda]

Nice work Dice.


If I looked through a telescope and saw that I'd lose all control of my bowels and bladder

[Dice]

I'd want to live in his beard.

[Yoda]

naw, too close to his mouth. Too noisy in that 'hood.

[Raze]

Who's to say that keplar 22 doesn't have one big continent shaped like the batman symbol?

[Dice]

Who's to say that keplar 22 doesn't have one big continent shaped like the batman symbol?

Then the reputation of a new and proper Earth-like planet would be ruined.... or made.  Hmm.

[Yoda]

http://www.gearfuse.com/jupiter-in-the-moons-orbit-off-the-scale/

[Hathen]

We should have packed a while ago

Kepler-22b is located 600 light-years away

space shuttle must reach speeds of about 17,500 mph (28,000 kilometers per hour) to remain in orbit. The exact speed depends on the space shuttle's orbital altitude

Assuming that speed and our magic fuel, we would only need 201,000,000,000 23,007,827 (Corrected, I am mathing very goodly today) years to get there, better start packing!

EDIT: Oh yeah, Earth-like planets really arn't anything new, I remember hearing about one very, very close to us by comparison: the planets of the Gliese 581 are candidates for this, and they're "only" 20 light years away. Only in quotes,of course, since that'd still take us about 770,000 years to get there at current speeds.

I'm still holding out hope that they'll announce that Alpha Centauri has habitable planets someday- that would only take a couple thousand years to reach!

[Hidoshi]

Time to get that Orion Project into production!

[Hathen]

i'd like to see the look on those filthy extraterrestrials' faces when their visitor from the sky results in decades of nuclear fallout

that'll teach them for existing

[MeshGearFox]

Man i'd bang me one of them dang ol' space ladies with them dang ol' big boobies and green skin i tell you and the eep-eep-orp-ah-ah all over man, dang ol... dang ol antennas in my bed and I'm just, hey man. just go with it. i tell you what.