Do you believe there are aliens?. 1,000 possible new planets found

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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/02/science-space-kepler-planets.html

NASA's planet-hunting telescope is finding 1,000 whole new worlds of possibility in the search for alien life. An early report from a cosmic census indicates that relatively small planets and stable multi-planet systems are far more plentiful than previous searches showed.

NASA released new data Wednesday from its Kepler telescope on more than a thousand possible new planets outside our solar system — more than doubling the count of what astronomers call exoplanets.

They haven't been confirmed as planets yet, but some astronomers estimate that 90 per cent of what Kepler has found will eventually be verified.
Small planets outnumber giants

Kepler, launched in 2009, has been orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars, conducting a planet census and searching for Earth-like planets since last year. It has found there are more planets that are much smaller than Jupiter — the biggest planet in our solar system — than there are giant planets.

Some of these even approach Earth's size. That means they are better potential candidates for life than the behemoths that are more easily spotted, astronomers say.
While Kepler hasn't yet found planets that are as small as Earth, all the results are "pointing in the right direction," said University of California Santa Cruz astronomer Jonathan Fortney, a Kepler researcher.

Yale University exoplanet expert Debra Fischer, who wasn't part of the Kepler team but serves as an outside expert for NASA, said the new information "gives us a much firmer footing" in eventual hopes for worlds that could harbour life.

"I feel different today knowing these new Kepler results than I did a week ago," Fischer said. NASA will be holding a news conference early Wednesday afternoon on Kepler's latest findings.

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[NobodyRoxas]

ET exists arty: :.

 

[parodoxx]

logically I believe we have accept that there is life out there.

Whether or not it is more advanced than us is open to debate however.

 

[Ox CHERRYLiCiOUS* xO]

Aliens and strange creatures are on my----

:na:

 

[Andre]

They are on this board too trust me!!

 

[Pompal 09.]

LOL, I know! Invasion of the trolls:

 

[Justsurfinthru]

I think that if they know we exist they are really worried about the crew of the minnow and if they will ever make it home

 

[Pompal 09.]

[video=youtube;t4yUQJeKZNs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yUQJeKZNs[/video]

 

[Alex G]

The RayFinkel is proof positive aliens exist