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Originally Posted by Its That Dude
Originally Posted by SHUGES
Yep!Originally Posted by NavyBoy24
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I have been thinking like this all my life. Like seriously why do they believe other forms of life need the same natural sources as us in order to survive?
Scientists have never ruled out the possibility of different lifeforms, so I don't where you guys getting that idea from??
The news here is that we have a more accurate estimate of how many planets there are and how many that can be inhabited in our galaxy based simply on its distance from its "sun" in its solar system. It's basically like how Venus is too hot to inhabit, Mars is too cold to inhabit, and Earth is the perfect temperature.
So far Kepler has found 1,235 candidate planets, with 54 in the Goldilocks zone, where life could possibly exist. Kepler's main mission is not to examine individual worlds, but give astronomers a sense of how many planets, especially potentially habitable ones, there are likely to be in our galaxy. They would use the one-four-hundredth of the night sky that Kepler is looking at and extrapolate from there.
Thanks for clearing this up for these guys. I was going to respond but just sighed heavily.