Kepler finds 4 potentially habitable worlds

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story imageKepler has found 700+ worlds, 100 of which are roughly earth-sized, and 4 of which are both earth-sized and in their sun's Goldilocks Zone, and thus are potentially habitable. The BadAstronomer enthuses eloquently.
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About time, because this one is getting screwed (Score: 5, Funny)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-03-06 12:47 (#9R)

The BadAstronomer is a great site - I love almost everything they post. Way to go, kepler: find us some inhabitable worlds quickly, because we're trashing this one as fast as we can! While you're looking, I'll be standardizing my petroleum-rich lifestyle by consuming only pre-packaged things wrapped in non-biodegradable packaging, because science will save my ass!

By the way, each time I log onto this site, there's new functionality. Not sure how this new posting thing works, but it sure looks interesting!

Re: About time, because this one is getting screwed (Score: 3, Insightful)

by sleazyridr@pipedot.org on 2014-03-06 19:17 (#A1)

I'll be standardizing my petroleum-rich lifestyle by consuming only pre-packaged things wrapped in non-biodegradable packaging, because science will save my ass!


Hold your fire on that one just yet, we know where they are but actually getting to them is going to be the tricky bit...

I'm with you on loving this site. I've no idea how much will be here eventually but it's all so clean and smooth it's just great!

Re: About time, because this one is getting screwed (Score: 2, Insightful)

by danieldvorkin@pipedot.org on 2014-03-06 22:56 (#A6)

Hold your fire on that one just yet, we know where they are but actually getting to them is going to be the tricky bit...

Yeah. As a biomedical researcher, I'm uncomfortably aware of how wide the gap is between what we do in the lab and what we can actually hope to bring to patients, but at least we don't have any overarching theory comparable to general relativity telling us NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.

Re: About time, because this one is getting screwed (Score: 2, Funny)

by darnkitten@pipedot.org on 2014-03-07 00:15 (#A7)

By the way, each time I log onto this site, there's new functionality. Not sure how this new posting thing works, but it sure looks interesting!

Yeah, It's like /., only working right.--Anyone know if and where the devs are reposting the improved code?