If you guys don't know what i'm talking about heres a link to the channel ...
http://www.youtube.com/user/SonOfTerra92/videos
This blog is supposed to act as a supplement to my YouTube channel, My name is SonOfTerra92, just a mild mannered college kid at the time of this writing. A college kid that just turned twenty a week back. Well the world whirls and twirls and we're stuck on it ... unless of course we're an advanced space faring type 2 civilization, in which case I would happily celebrate my birthday On Kepler 22b very promising candidate for a human Home away from Home ...
Ok now i'm getting ahead of myself, anyways . Did you guys know that what can comparatively be called the "E3 of astronomy" the Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) abbreviated double A S is going on now. Its probably over by the time of this posting but i've been following some of the posts by fellow intrepid space explorer Tony Darnell (link to channel below). A lot of the stuff that's been coming out of the conference is really set to change our current perspective on the universe. One bit of news in particular that really caught my attention was the whole average 1.6 planets per star thing. In our current Golden age of exoplanet discovery our very perception on our own milky way galaxy changes every time we hear about a kepler finding, but recent findings using an alternative unbiased method (that we have to thank Einstein for wink wink) shows that our galaxy may be populated by more planets than we think. More from the video by Tony below and a really awesome pic =)
If there is any sort of validity to the results proclaimed by the grav lensing (forgive the lingo, I believe that's how the kids would be saying it these days) method of planet hunting then we've just collected another factor to which we can modify the famous Drake / Sagan Equation that's the equation to which we can estimate the probability of intelligent alien civilization in a certain sample of stars or whatever. It all depends on the variables you pluck in. If planets are common how much more likely are we to find ET or some other basic life form occupying perhaps a dusty rock in another far flung spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Which ever way you look at us each finding humbly dispels our species from position of cosmic center stage. I feel that its a rather charming reality to live with actually.
As we look out upon the universe with our trinkets and instruments ... could "something" else also be looking back at us equally as curious ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtXkbnXFQgc&lc=bJOb-MwTsXBuMjSkF795VitvWokiYwcQrlKjPeRX7cM&context=C354f7d8ADOEgsToPDskJZYNMFnFzrBkf5eX6rz-7v
http://www.youtube.com/user/tdarnell
1.6 planets per star, I'm really looking forward to a real life Pandora hehe !!!
Well thats all for now this is just a first post after all, will try to update weekly if I can. Catch u guys later.
Start thinking and start living =)
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