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Message 1175952 - Posted: 5 Dec 2011, 23:26:01 UTC
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if we point at number one we might get a signal !!????
(using telescopes not our fingers) ;)

http://gu.com/p/33pfm
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog


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Message 1175982 - Posted: 6 Dec 2011, 1:40:00 UTC
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Its a good one John,
So next thing you know, there will be Real Estate company's selling plots of land on these planets. It will be a land-grab, first come first served!

I want a little Island on one of those planets and i'm calling it "Johnneyland" :)

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Message 1176056 - Posted: 6 Dec 2011, 10:13:51 UTC
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ATA is up again:
ATA to search Kepler
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Message 1176077 - Posted: 6 Dec 2011, 14:15:37 UTC - in response to Message 1175982.  

I'll call mine johnland, so we will have to pick different planets so visitors don't get confused ;)
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Message 1176847 - Posted: 9 Dec 2011, 19:10:04 UTC

Here's a list that seems to be all the identified exoplanets, so far. http://exoplanets.org/table/
By clicking on the large "+" in the upper right corner, you can add additional columns such as the RA and DEC. I think it's interesting that some of the Jupiter-sized planets have orbital periods that may put them in the habitable zone. While the planet itself might not harbor life, it may have moons that could...
Hopefully, the ATA can be targeted at these soon...

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Message 1180422 - Posted: 24 Dec 2011, 10:53:06 UTC

using my new found skill of turning words blue on the message boards

voila !! http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/list_esi

it will still take you to the same site as the first post ,but it's a bit
easier.

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Message 1180571 - Posted: 25 Dec 2011, 3:40:31 UTC - in response to Message 1180422.  

We only have 5 billion years to find a way to get to these other worlds. The sheer distance alpha proximy 4.5 light years. At current capibility about 60,000 miles per hour about 5-6 miles a second. At that rate to get to the nearest star wouls take about 73,ooo years one way!.... and nothing detectible there.
Why would they bother with a populated world when they could get to others. We are so far from other stars, its a curse and a blessing. We miss the chaos of closer together stars. I can only wonder if they have a way to travel enormously large distances in a life time.
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Message 1180704 - Posted: 25 Dec 2011, 23:44:31 UTC

This is interesting.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/24/opinion/urry-two-earths/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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Message 1180710 - Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 0:14:10 UTC - in response to Message 1180704.  

Yeah good one i have copied their link and will have a proper go at it tomorrow.
they were asking us to look for planets using keplar data , but tonight all i can see is stars. 8)
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Message 1180805 - Posted: 26 Dec 2011, 18:09:28 UTC

thanks again steve.

HELP SEARCH FOR PLANETS.

http://www.planethunters.org/

You never know, you might find the next planet.

(i thought at first it was going to be a bit like seti but its not)
but it is still interesting and engaging all the same.

have a go !!!!

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Message 1189687 - Posted: 29 Jan 2012, 12:39:19 UTC
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The Habitable Exoplanets Catalogue is about to be doubled in size !!

One of the links on the page takes you to the
University of Vienna's EXOLIFE page.

http://www.univie.ac.at/EPH/exolife/



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Message 1189884 - Posted: 29 Jan 2012, 22:23:42 UTC - in response to Message 1189805.  

one step at a time :)

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Message 1189954 - Posted: 30 Jan 2012, 2:19:17 UTC

Chris S, on the EXOLIFE post above I was trying to post
one of their diagrammes but failed.

A pity really as crayon is such a wonderful medium,
and so underused on scientific/university websites.

A bit of thread trawling later (and thanks once again to Vic)
and hey presto another work of art shared with the masses. ;)


I shouldn't really laugh as it shows the
UNIVERSITY of VIENNA is not an ageist organisation,and
allows 8 year old children to assist with their webpage design
(although it is obvious that a grown up has taken over and
drawn the arrows and done a bit of typing etc,)

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Message 1201259 - Posted: 1 Mar 2012, 3:50:03 UTC

To offer a good read on the various senerios of Earth-like
planets, in the "goldilocks" zone of their respective stars:
"What if the Earth had two Moons?", by Nicholas Carr.

Who knows, what will turn up, in our life-times, but the law of
averages might favor one of those mentioned. . .


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Message 1201300 - Posted: 1 Mar 2012, 9:26:37 UTC

Interesting, a diagram of the hydrologic cycle here on earth.
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Message 1201379 - Posted: 1 Mar 2012, 15:06:52 UTC
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"Habitable" needs to be more fully defined and quantified. It cannot be based on one or two parameters. In the near future we should be able to more thoroughly search and measure neighboring star systems.

perhaps we should create a family of EXO 's if they do not already exist.

exo-biologists
exo-physicists
exo-chemists
exo-geologists
exo-microbiologists
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Message 1201767 - Posted: 2 Mar 2012, 16:49:10 UTC - in response to Message 1201379.  

Hello DADIO

I'm pretty sure there are already Exobiologists,(mostly dealing with microbiology
so that would cover the Exomicrobiologists bit.
The Exochemists could probably fall into the category of the experiments which
already take place in space ( On the space station ).
The only one I think doesn't fall into a category already existing is Exophysics.
At this moment we think our understanding of physics covers the entire universe,
including black holes or multiverses.
In reality nobody has been through a black hole and returned to see if the Theory
of relativity does hold up , or if there are other universes,so could theoretical
physicists be classed as Exophisicists (trying to understand how things work and if
they are any different from our perception here on earth),or because their theories
are based on earthbound observations would they not be classed as Exophisicists.

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Message 1201844 - Posted: 2 Mar 2012, 20:49:45 UTC - in response to Message 1201767.  

I'm pretty sure there are already Exobiologists


Perhaps one of them could put forth a list of the conditions and their parametric ranges for the evolution of intelligent life to be contemporaneous with us in terms of electronic transmissions.
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Message 1214379 - Posted: 5 Apr 2012, 21:40:17 UTC
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Nice new page on the site listing KOI planets (Kepler Objects of Interest),
giving easy to view size and temperature comparisons :)

http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/media/kepler


One or two seem very earthlike when comparing mass and temperature,and i'm
sure they will be investigated more thoroughly in the future.

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edit : I forgot to mention that these are only candidates and are yet to be fully
confirmed as exoplanets,but I would bet they are 99% sure(as they have been
publicly disclosed)
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Message 1214657 - Posted: 6 Apr 2012, 16:57:38 UTC

A small P.S to my above post,

These(although unconfirmed) planets are all "rocky" earthlike planets,
so the chaances of them being brown/red dwarfs,or small binary stars
are very slim.
Those green ones are in what we consider to be the habitable zone,and could therefore have liquid water on or just below their surface.
They are at this moment in time the only places outside our solar system,
where life (as we understand it) can posibly exist, although life beyond
our existing parameters for survival could theoretically exist elsewhere.

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E.T has to live somewhere !!

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