NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

[Kryten]

I mean enviromental wise. If it is habitable then who knows what the locals have done. Asteroid impact, global warming, lot\'s of things can happen.

I mean that we have no way of knowing if those things happened millions of years ago, never mind at the current time-we don\'t even know if this planet has a solid surface, never mind a habitable one-any environmental factors are completely unknown.

[Newe6000]

You should also remember that this was 600 years ago. Something could have happened since then.

So if their is life, to them are we still weirdos obsessed with wiches and beheading?

[CarolRawley]

Pretty much.

[Newe6000]

Pretty much.

ONLY A WICH WOULD SAY THAT! BURN HIM!

What am I thinking? BEHEAD HIM!

[JupiterII]

So if their is life, to them are we still weirdos obsessed with wiches and beheading?

If they had telescopes powerful enough to view earth\'s surface then they would see us in the 15th century, so yes.

[nasa123]

minecraft worlds are still bigger then earth and karth

[Luigibro606]

Conspiracy alert;

Project Bluebeam

lol

[Newe6000]

Conspiracy alert;

Project Bluebeam

lol

That sounds like something a wich would make....

[CarolRawley]

Conspiracy Alert

Project Lets-blow-this-sonofabitch-up.

lol

[Key of door]

I would name it : Didyaseethatnewplanet?

'Hey did you see that new planet?'

'No what is it called'

'Didyaseethatnewplanet?'

Repeat until everyone hates you.

[NovaSilisko]

Kepler-22b\'s Earth Similarity index is estimated to be between 0.64 and 0.79. Earth is, of course, 1. Mars is 0.70, and Mercury is 0.60. However, one candidate object observed by kepler but unconfirmed is KOI 736.01, with a rating of 0.98.

Source is wikipedia so take all of this with a large grain of salt.