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Posted: 2/21/2017 4:14:32 AM EDT

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What we expect: "Aliens!"

What we get: "We have detected the chemical signature of cyclohexane in the gas and dust in a planetary nebula around a nearby star."

Posted: 2/21/2017 4:24:17 AM EDT

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Posted: 2/21/2017 4:33:58 AM EDT

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NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

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Wonder what it could be?

NASA announcement

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A Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) about exoplanets will be held following the briefing at 3 p.m. with scientists available to answer questions in English and Spanish.

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Posted: 2/21/2017 5:22:35 AM EDT

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Poltergeist - They''re Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOoonxL7EK0

Posted: 2/21/2017 6:03:44 AM EDT

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One of the new planets they discovered has an island with a circular depression under a Gloxnar tree.

Could it be the location of the Ark of the Covenant wrapped in Shakespeare's manuscripts?

Posted: 2/21/2017 6:21:33 AM EDT

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NASA knows how to build up excitement over nothing, looking forward to the let down

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Betting on this.
Dreaming of intercepted alien transmissions...
And titties.

Posted: 2/21/2017 8:05:55 AM EDT

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Considering the number of known exoplanets today, the only things I can think of worthy of a big news conference right now are if a habitable exoplanet was confirmed at the Alpha Centauri binary, or one of the terrestrial exoplanets at Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani was confirmed in the habitable zone.

Any of those would be huge news; all three of those systems are reachable in reasonable time periods without ever developing FTL.

EDIT: Actually, if they have any new major finding about Proxima Centauri b that would be big too.

Is that the one where they all commit suicide simultaneously to join the aliens behind it?

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Considering the number of known exoplanets today, the only things I can think of worthy of a big news conference right now are if a habitable exoplanet was confirmed at the Alpha Centauri binary, or one of the terrestrial exoplanets at Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani was confirmed in the habitable zone.

Any of those would be huge news; all three of those systems are reachable in reasonable time periods without ever developing FTL.

EDIT: Actually, if they have any new major finding about Proxima Centauri b that would be big too.

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two gay planets found orbiting non binary gender star.

You forgot the Muslim comet.

Is that the one where they all commit suicide simultaneously to join the aliens behind it?

Oh, SNAP!

Posted: 2/21/2017 8:18:36 AM EDT

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Nibiru is true and is heading for Earth.

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Cyclical destruction!

Posted: 2/21/2017 8:26:28 AM EDT

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Probably one rocky exo with water, another with O2.

Can't get there, don't care.

Now if they find chlorophyll....

Posted: 2/21/2017 8:55:06 AM EDT

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From question/answer piece promoted in the article, it sounds like it will be about an exoplanet. Maybe they found one that is in some way unique compared to all of the others already found.

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:02:55 AM EDT

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That's no moon!

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:24:22 AM EDT

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Where is the thread or the member who was betting everyone something was going to happen? he had some sort of inside knowledge?

members were betting left and right with him. Whatever came about from that?

link?

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:40:48 AM EDT

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Posted: 2/21/2017 9:43:44 AM EDT

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Tag .......................

Posted: 2/21/2017 10:00:45 AM EDT

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The James Webb space telescope should finally be online late next year and should be able to detect if there is water on exoplanets, it won't be able to see any details at that distance but it should be useful for composition analysis

Posted: 2/21/2017 10:19:07 AM EDT

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One of the new planets they discovered has an island with a circular depression under a Gloxnar tree.

Could it be the location of the Ark of the Covenant wrapped in Shakespeare's manuscripts?

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Bravo! Well played!

Posted: 2/21/2017 10:37:00 AM EDT

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its nothing. its always fucking nothing.

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This.

The piece will be about some scientific INTERPERTATION of some data that they have collected.

Posted: 2/21/2017 10:51:37 AM EDT

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Where is the thread or the member who was betting everyone something was going to happen? he had some sort of inside knowledge?

members were betting left and right with him. Whatever came about from that?

link?

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http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1955899_wanna-make-a-bet-.html

Posted: 2/22/2017 2:29:47 PM EDT

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star

Posted: 2/22/2017 2:37:58 PM EDT

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star

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Huh, 3 planets in the habitable zone, and four more Earth-ish size, and thus exploitable. That place is likely to be valuable when we develop warp drive.

Dibs.

Posted: 2/22/2017 2:49:25 PM EDT

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Huh, 3 planets in the habitable zone, and four more Earth-ish size, and thus exploitable. That place is likely to be valuable when we develop warp drive.

Dibs.

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Dibs on what?

I need at least one space babe with three tits to make the trip worthwhile.

Posted: 2/22/2017 2:52:56 PM EDT

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The dude with the thick accent was cool as hell. Some moron asked what we are going to name them, and he said something like "if I had my way, we'd name them after good Belgian beers."

Pretty good discovery. Multiple rocky planets in the habitable zone. My head must have been under a rock, I hadn't heard of the James Webb Space Telescope. Pretty cool that in 3-4 years we'll have detailed analysis of these stars. Since they're 40 LY away, I wonder what the JWST could detect/see of the exoplanets around Proxima Centauri, or *thumbs through Wikipedia quickly* about 9 others that are closer than TRAPPIST-1.

Posted: 2/22/2017 3:31:41 PM EDT

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This system sounds really amazing, it's a dwarf star so all the planets are close to the star and to each other, the planets would appear bigger than the moon when the orbits coincide, so you could potentially be standing on a habitable planet and see another in detail.

Great target for a colonization mission someday.

Posted: 2/22/2017 10:42:03 PM EDT

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Damn. Okay, that really was a press conference-worthy discovery. That's pretty amazing.

Posted: 2/22/2017 11:06:02 PM EDT

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What do you consider a reasonable time period?

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With current tech literally thousands of years. Some plausible theoretical tech could do it in 40 years but the costs would be in the trillions. This is for Proxima Centauri. Fourty light years is far enough away that I'm confident in saying humanity will never reach it.

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