Nasa has discovered a new habitable planetary system. Needless to say, calling the new system part of the Kepler-11 is mildly ironic considering what is being sent to orbit the pitches and dressing rooms of the approaching Cricket World Cup. But we won’t go there and that’s not what this is about either, it’s much more important.

This is about Simon Gear’s awesome tweet he tweeted yesterday morning: “Only 0.0025% of the sky searched and 1200+ planets found”. Simon Gear is a very knowledgeable environmental man in South Africa and could be likened to having properties of Chuck Norris joke proportions when it comes to matters concerning the climate. Nasa press releases are also not high up on my reading agenda and so I rely heavily on Simon for his powers of knowledge distribution.

What does it all mean for you and me?

Do you see that little decimal he used there when relating the actual amount of sky searched to a percentage? That is a very https://www.topambienonline.com small number. It’s a quarter of a percent. What that means is that you and I were lied to when we were younger and were forced to believe that there were only 9 planets in total. Utter kak, clearly, given the number of planets now known to be in existence.

This is the headline Nasa used to break the story: “NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System”

“Habitable Zone” in case you were wondering means there could be water on the surfaces of these planets.

You could say we know nothing yet really about the universe and that James Cameron is probably not far off imagining the kinds of things he does. But ultimately you should be excited because Richard Branson probably already has something in up his sleeve.

Nasa administrator Charles Bolden had this to say about Kepler: “Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today’s reality”, that he… I mean, that it has.

[thanks Simon Gear]

[source: Nasa]

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