The most interesting thing about exoplanet Kepler-186f is that it might have life as we know it. It is within its star’s Goldilocks Zone, and it’s not freakishly large. Of course, we can’t really tell just by looking at it. It took an amazing space telescope, and a lot of notations and calculations, even to know it was there. We are discovering new exoplanets almost daily lately, but this science is still in its infancy.
So, if we were to find ‘technological life,’ people who can communicate over long distances and maybe even have spaceships, on Kepler -186f, it would be a major miracle. It would be a home run in our first at bat, a hole in one in our first golf swing, a strike on the first time we throw a bowling ball – ever.
Hontas Farmer
This is the first exoplanet we’ve discovered that might have life, and to actually discover it there would be mind-boggling. It would be a serious indicator that there is life all over the place, on millions of planets in our galaxy. That’s going to have to change our view of things a bit.
Still, at that distance (500 liight years), and our primitive state of technology, the only way we’re going to know there’s intelligent life there is if they send us a signal.
One scientist, Hontas Farmer, believes there is a 50/50 chance they already have. She is basing that on radio waves coming from that part of the sky which are not random. I don’t know, they looked random to me, but what I don’t know about science would fill the space between here and Kepler-186f. If she’s right, that means there is a civilization on Kepler-186f that discovered radio at least 500 years ago, and is at least 400 years totally over their reality TV phase. And if we can just fine tune our radiotelescopes, we’ll be able to watch their TV programs. That would be cool.
If it turns out that Doctor Farmer is correct, however, we’re going to have to find a catchier name than Kepler 186f.
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