NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by ratsimihah on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:16PM (#9937125)

Maybe we are them. We used to live there, and conditions reached a point when we had to leave, and we came to present Earth. Haha.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by logicfiction on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:01PM (#9938137)

Plausible, but what would be explanations for sending ourselves back to the stone age instead of carry advanced knowledge along?

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by evilduck on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:48PM (#9938730)

Maybe they tried and failed? Maybe they arrived on a sterile Earth 3.6 billion years ago with supplies and huge tomes of knowledge, promptly died off within a couple hundred years of arrival, tectonic movement subsumed their landing ship and all other physical records of their existence here and we're all just descendants of their gut flora?

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by krapp on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:00PM (#9939026)

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by mod on Friday July 24, 2015 @10:44AM (#9942312)

Can you explain that?

I wouldn't have expected every possible situation to have occurred given the finite history of the universe.

But I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so my request is serious.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by krapp on Friday July 24, 2015 @11:40AM (#9942720)

It's a reference to the plot of the recent Battlestar Galactica remake.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by lberger on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:20PM (#9937157)

Good sci-fi material here.

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