Comments on: The Kepler science team today revealed an additional 461 candidate exoplanets, with four being less than twice Earth’s size and in the habitable zone. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-kepler-science-team-today-revealed-an-additional-461-candidate-exoplanets-with-four-being-less-than-twice-earths-size-and-in-the-habitable-zone/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Perry Phillips https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-kepler-science-team-today-revealed-an-additional-461-candidate-exoplanets-with-four-being-less-than-twice-earths-size-and-in-the-habitable-zone/#comment-81818 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:19:58 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=21338#comment-81818 So where is ETI? When planets were thought to be few, one could make good arguments why we have not seen ETI; but now that planets in the galaxy are as ubiquitous as cockroaches, doesn’t this put a huge constraint on whether ETI exists?

]]> By: Chris Kirkendall https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-kepler-science-team-today-revealed-an-additional-461-candidate-exoplanets-with-four-being-less-than-twice-earths-size-and-in-the-habitable-zone/#comment-80962 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:58:23 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=21338#comment-80962 Wow – amazing news. I especially like this comment (which echoes my own thoughts):

“It is no longer a question of will we find a true Earth analogue, but a question of when.”

…and I have a feeling the “when” is rapidly approaching – possibly imminent…

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