NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
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Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#2Live audio here http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html?2015-07-...
And slides here (currently on Figure 10) http://www.nasa.gov/keplerbriefing0723
EDIT booooo - audio stream has gone down
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Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#3Live audio here http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html?2015-07-... And slides here (currently on Figure 10) http://www.nasa.gov/keplerbriefing0723 EDIT booooo - audio stream has gone down EDIT yay!
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Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#4There was an older article in the #1 slot with well over 200 upvotes and a ton of comments, but I don't know what happened to it? Perhaps the mods removed it for some reason?
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#5At 2 billion years older than Earth, I can't begin to imagine what kinds of things could possibly be living on this planet. Given, of course, that it's got the right ingredients for life to arise. What if it's suffered huge extinctions recently? What if there's a domineering species out to conquer the planet just like humans? What if there's a society there more sophisticated than us? It's a very exciting discovery.
Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#6What's next??? How do we find out if there is life?
Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#7What's next??? How do we find out if there is life?
More money spent on science and technology.
Re: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
#8There was an older article in the #1 slot with well over 200 upvotes and a ton of comments, but I don't know what happened to it? Perhaps the mods removed it for some reason?
It plummeted down off the front page, and is now a bunch of pages deep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935198
I guess it hit some metric in the ranking algo!
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#9There was an older article in the #1 slot with well over 200 upvotes and a ton of comments, but I don't know what happened to it? Perhaps the mods removed it for some reason?
It plummeted down off the front page, and is now a bunch of pages deep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935198 I guess it hit some metric in the ranking algo!
It was probably just user-flagged since it was kind of a lightweight submission.
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#10To rephrase another comment in the other submission - how do we know/can we infer so much about a planet so far away when we are just now getting reasonable pictures of Pluto?
Looking at the images (aside from the artist interpretation), it looks like they're just guessing based on size and location?