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How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the Drake equation
- LaneRendell 12y agoWhat a fascinating read. Very cool that "life" may be as close as ten light years away.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoLife may be much closer than that. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa/multimediaimagedetails.cfm?Subsite_IM_ID=8421&SiteID=4 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa/multimediaimagedetails.cf...
- thret 12y agoI 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-europa/ http://www.astronomywise.com/articles/could-life-survive-on-...
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoIt 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.
- martythemaniak 12y agoIf you're looking for extra info, NOVA did a documentary on Kepler: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/alien-planets-revealed.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/alien-planets-revealed.ht...
- pathikrit 12y agoSlightly misleading title - its not changing the equation per se but filling in more confident values.