Cool slide show.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...1.html#gallery

Why can't I see the last page here?

Some kind of exoplanet NASA announcement coming up soon.

EDIT: Guess its tomorrow.

Probably aliens....

NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Details of these findings are embargoed by the journal Nature until 1 p.m.

Limited seating is available in the NASA TV studio for media who would like to attend in person at the agency’s Headquarters at 300 E Street SW in Washington. Media unable to attend in person may ask questions by telephone. To attend in person or participate by phone, media must send an email with their name, affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by noon Feb. 22.

Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

Would be awesome if they found something truly earth-like.

Should be interesting for sure. I'm guessing it has to be something along those lines, but sometimes they do press conferences for stuff that is really exciting to the geeks but not so much for the masses. We'll see.

Something is definitely a little wonky with this thread.

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. NASA talks stuff up sometimes that isn't that appealing to Joe Schmo citizen. I mean, I am one of the geeks that you speak of but I'm hoping its something that's really awesome.

"However US tech publication CNET claims to have seen the findings and said: 'Let’s just say it could very easily provide us with new settings for many future works of science fiction.'"
- from The Sun UK. Can't post links yet.

^ That gives me hope.

We need to start throwing serious cash back at NASA again. We are SO overdue.

SpaceX is nice and everything, but they don't have the muscle of the greatest nation to ever grace planet Earth.

Time to start taking the next steps.

Yep. It's bizarre to me that we haven't already. And what benefits NASA benefits all of the other guys too - SpaceX wouldn't be where they are today without a ton of support from NASA.

If I was guessing, I'd guess that it's something like, "we've discovered the smallest planet yet so far, which is 20 times the size of earth and possibly not a gas giant". Which is really cool, but probably not lifechanging.

They've already found over 20 terrestrial planets in habitable zones. Whatever it is I hope it renews serious interest in NASA.

So the rumor on Reddit is that 7 earth sized planets were found orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Possibly multiple planets in the habitable zone. Take it for what it's worth.

I bet that's made for some interesting wars between planets.

We need to get on development of fusion or something similar to power our ships so we can get to those places.
.until we figure out how to travel at near light speed, we just can't get to these places.

Or we figure out how to bend space on itself.....