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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by LaneRendell on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:12PM (#8738529)
What a fascinating read. Very cool that "life" may be as close as ten light years away.
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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by IndianAstronaut on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:32AM (#8738934)
Life may be much closer than that.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa/multimediaimagedetails.cf...

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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by thret on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:38AM (#8739691)
I hope so. It would be quite a blow if Europa doesn't hold any life but has all of the conditions we think are necessary for it.

http://www.astronomywise.com/articles/could-life-survive-on-...

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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by IndianAstronaut on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:53AM (#8741148)
It will give us information. Right now we have very little idea about abiogenesis. We don't know if it happens often or rarely. We haven't been able to do this in labs.

If there is life on Europa, life is probably everywhere in the universe. If not, it means life will be hard to find. It also means that we are very rare and unique and need to work hard to preserve the earth and what we have.

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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by martythemaniak on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:40PM (#8738595)
If you're looking for extra info, NOVA did a documentary on Kepler: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/alien-planets-revealed.ht...
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Re:How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the ... by pathikrit on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:34PM (#8742532)
Slightly misleading title - its not changing the equation per se but filling in more confident values.
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