Newly Discovered PLanet, in Habitable Zone

[rodsky]

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Don't be easily convinced by the "artist's impression"...the photo that you see accompanying articles about Kepler 22-B. As the name implies, it's just an "impression"...



...wala pa'y actual picture sa Kepler 22B, it's very far away. Did you know that we don't even have a decent photograph of the dwarf planet Pluto? Sa 2016 pa ta makakita ug surface photos of Pluto, once the New Horizon spacecraft reaches its vicinity. Unya, just think, wala gani'y klaro nga photos of Pluto nga it's much closer to us than Kepler 22B, and now you're excited sa itsura sa Kepler 22B nga most of that is guesswork and speculation?

My hunch is the artist was instructed by media (perhaps even NASA? lol) to make it blue green colored so that mas "sellable" ang news item sa mga news networks etc. Politics and economics at work na sad (kay if wala'y interest ang public sa kani nga news item, the lesser chances for additional funding ang mga scientists/astronomers...now just think, if dili lagi unta ing ani ang systema sa kalibutan (i.e. dependent ang scientific research sa funding) then mas daghan unta tang mga na discover ron...unsaon man kay bati kaayo atong setup for science in the world today.

As to Kepler 22B, to sober up your excitement, the surface color MAY NOT actually be blue or green or bluegreen...it can range from looking like Venus (cloud covered) or looking like Mars (desert planet) or it may even look like Neptune (just blue gas)...so again, ayaw mo AUTOMATICALLY pa dala sa inyong excitement when you see the picture--it's an artist's IMPRESSION and NOT a photograph.

-RODION

[Maylyn]

nice discovery but the question is WHEN?can be human live there? >.<

[ace_82]

pila kahay plete padong didto noh?

[pinoyhd]

another nice reading.

[badzmeapn]

pila kahay plete padong didto noh?

Naa na'y jeep padung ngadto 99Z Opon-Kepler

[badzmeapn]

Pero btao jokes aside, TS is right. It might not even be really habitable, maybe just for public recognition. Crappy systems today.

[kit_kat]

amazing.. who knows in 10 years time-- ordinary civilians will be able to travel into space nah can't wait for that...

[jairoh_]

unsaon mana nato oe kung di sad ta kaara dra kai tungod sa kalayu. abi nakog duol rana dah kai ako tang i.date akong crush dra.

[windupbird]

Don't be easily convinced by the "artist's impression"...the photo that you see accompanying articles about Kepler 22-B. As the name implies, it's just an "impression"...



...wala pa'y actual picture sa Kepler 22B, it's very far away. Did you know that we don't even have a decent photograph of the dwarf planet Pluto? Sa 2016 pa ta makakita ug surface photos of Pluto, once the New Horizon spacecraft reaches its vicinity. Unya, just think, wala gani'y klaro nga photos of Pluto nga it's much closer to us than Kepler 22B, and now you're excited sa itsura sa Kepler 22B nga most of that is guesswork and speculation?

My hunch is the artist was instructed by media (perhaps even NASA? lol) to make it blue green colored so that mas "sellable" ang news item sa mga news networks etc. Politics and economics at work na sad (kay if wala'y interest ang public sa kani nga news item, the lesser chances for additional funding ang mga scientists/astronomers...now just think, if dili lagi unta ing ani ang systema sa kalibutan (i.e. dependent ang scientific research sa funding) then mas daghan unta tang mga na discover ron...unsaon man kay bati kaayo atong setup for science in the world today.

As to Kepler 22B, to sober up your excitement, the surface color MAY NOT actually be blue or green or bluegreen...it can range from looking like Venus (cloud covered) or looking like Mars (desert planet) or it may even look like Neptune (just blue gas)...so again, ayaw mo AUTOMATICALLY pa dala sa inyong excitement when you see the picture--it's an artist's IMPRESSION and NOT a photograph.

-RODION

The world today is about making a profit. So as a rule of thumb, if something is not marketable to the public, it won't get any sort of funding from the big corporations. The problem with this kind of mentality is that science stagnates or moves in a radically different direction in order to appeal to the masses. It also means there will be less freedom for innovation and we might be in for more incremental upgrades to things that are already working fine in the first place.

Jonas Salk never made any money off his research into the polio vaccine but he saved millions of people and made a profound impact on mankind for generations to come. Nobody ever told him to alter his research for the purpose of selling it to the public for money. That is exactly the problem that science is facing right now. There are too many people with their own interests sticking their noses in where it doesn't belong. And now it is going to start happening again with this new "super earth", kepler 22b. It's only going to get worse when they find something there worth exploiting.

[madcutter]

mga datu ray maka adto didto bah..