NASA/Kepler Discovery: "Earth 2.0" May Have Been Found.
Discussion
Eric Mc said:
And drawing their plans against us......
It is 1,400 light years away so if they are looking at us through very powerful telescopes, they will be observing the rise of Islam (first time round) and Vikings carrying out raids on the coastline of the British Isles.
So Yodel won't have blinked in to existence yet - there's still hope!It is 1,400 light years away so if they are looking at us through very powerful telescopes, they will be observing the rise of Islam (first time round) and Vikings carrying out raids on the coastline of the British Isles.
Following on from the "life out there?" Thread, they could be listening with radio telescopes, and come to the conclusion that there is nothing on Earth,because the signal hasn't reached them yet. Similarly, they could have been broadcasting for a thousand years, and we wouldn't have received it yet.
SpudLink said:
Following on from the "life out there?" Thread, they could be listening with radio telescopes, and come to the conclusion that there is nothing on Earth,because the signal hasn't reached them yet. Similarly, they could have been broadcasting for a thousand years, and we wouldn't have received it yet.
Be a bit of a shock tomorrow if they just happen to have been broadcasting for 1399years, 11months and 6days :-)Assuming our overloads are advanced how might they first detect us? Their current view pre-dates mass farming and building, pollution and nuclear weapons, would the amount of burning wood, coal and turf be a sign of intelligent life? Would lighting and dousing of the fires of nomadic hunters be enough of a hint?
What signs did Earth emit at which time that would be hints which cannot be explained away by known natural causes? Clearly when the industrial revolution reaches them they might notice as we started to emit lots of gases and light into the atmosphere.
This all assumes hugely advanced telescopes and spectroscopy but they've got 2billion years on us so lets give them the benefit of the doubt? :-)
ash73 said:
1,400ly distant
That's the trouble with space, too fNASA said:
Kepler 452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years from now, as the Sun ages and grows brighter. The increasing energy from its aging sun might be heating the surface and evaporating any oceans. The water vapour would be lost from the planet forever.
Poor souls, they will be regarding the Earth with envious eyes...
king big! I also heard that gravity means we'd weigh twice as much there, fk that too!TX.
Dizeee said:
Its amazing news, I am loving the pace at which these planets and possibilites are now coming through. Would be great to imagine that we arrive at some definitives before the end of my lifetime ( 33 now so hopefully at least another 30 years ).
I genuinely think I would die a lot happier if there was some sense madeof the universe that was made explainable and understandable to a layperson such as myself.
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