BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA
NASA’s Keplar space telescope confirmed the existence of the 1030th known planet. Even more staggering, it’s the closest thing NASA has found to being Earth’s closest relative. Keplar-452b revolves in a “habitable zone” around a sun-like star and has an orbit time of 382 days and is just 5 percent further than Earth from its parent star. NASA estimates that the planet could be rocky based on its size. Keplar-452b is 60% wider than Earth. Since it began, the Keplar mission has detected 4,696 planets, 1,030 of which have been confirmed. To accept the possibility that Earth is the only host to intelligent life is to remain blind to overwhelming probability. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at SETI Research explains why:
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