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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-that's-all-of-them-now dept.

kef writes:

"NASA's Kepler mission has doubled the number of known planets outside of our solar system. In what can only be described as a "bonanza", 715 new planets have been reported thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. Using a new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by dublet on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:19PM

    by dublet (2994) on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:19PM (#7992)

    It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
    -Douglas Adams, "Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:58PM (#8022)

    Funny, but of course infinity minus a finite number is still infinity.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:01PM (#8026)

    The visible Universe is finite. It's tens of billions of light years in a single direction, but still finite. Yes, I have heard of, "The Hitchhiker's guide to the universe".