So NASA’s Kepler just discovered a planet that resembles Earth – dubbed the Kepler-452b, and it revolves around a G-type star like ours.
The Kepler-452b is 60 percent more massive than Earth, and this is a good thing – previous discovered planets which NASA considered to be habitable, weren’t. Mainly due to them revolving around a cool star, or having no solid, rocky surfaces.
This is starting to shape-up like the intro to one of Asimov’s Foundation books.
This exoplanet Kepler-452b, NASA thinks, has a gravity twice that of Earth’s, and thicker, and more cloudier atmosphere. Which the average Joe can only think of meaning more rain. Rain equals water. Water equals life. Boom. We just discovered aliens. I would like my money now Stephen Hawking.
If we’re lucky, there might be life starting to frolic around under those dense clouds. If we’re unlucky, the exoplanet is home to a highly-advanced alien life form which doesn’t take too kindly to other beings visiting them.
The Kepler-452b is slower than our Earth. Consider this – our year consists of 365 days, theirs might be 385.
Alas, this isn’t the first time that NASA announced that the Kepler found an exoplanet that might be habitable. It may prove to be just another lifeless planet. Sure, we can’t be the only ones in this vast universe.
NASA boasts that it has discovered, to date, about 4,675 possible planets, and they will be adding new fancy high-tech telescopes to their arsenal – they will be equipped with a 3,200 megapixel camera, and they are called Large Synoptic Survey Telescopes.
” On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most closely resemble the Earth and our Sun. This exciting result brings us one step closer to finding an Earth 2.0.” noted John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Earth 2 might just exist, but is it okay, for humanity, to find other life-forms? Even Stephen Hawking says no. Think of it this way. When Columbus, and Amerigo Vespucci, discovered the new land we call today America, they went on a crusade of killing every single human that inhabited the continent. After many years, European colonists did the same. Who’s there to say that otherworldly being won’t do the same? And who’s there to say that we won’t do the same?
Will we become the hunters, or the hunted in this new space era?
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