SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

So, last night I'm out playing with my telescope and amazed at how well everything is playing together.
When this little message box opens down in the lower right corner. It sez:

Google,
"NASA WARNS: An Exoplanet outside our solar system is contacting Earth."

Anybody heard anything about that?

I mean, I don't care, I was having the best Automated N.I.N.A. session ever! So I clicked it away like I was shooing a fly. NINA was being spot on and banging away on all 8 cylinders.

But it might have credence. https://youtu.be/LBxm7DzeJKs

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

I have been interested in exoplanets for years and actually wrote a javascript simulation to go along with the pre-launch of the Kepler Mission. However, since I am retired I have not stayed up with the news in ths area.

However, scanning through some sites just now, I am sure that no alien civilization has been found. Over the past year or year and a half, various space telescopes have located a couple of Earth-sized exoplanets which orbit their mother star in the habitable zone. But there are many more criteria that will need to be satisfied for an intelligent alien civilization to begin and to survive.

I have not updated my web simulation for some time, but herre is its URL to my four major simulations for physics and related labs.
https://www.edtechbybowman.net/PhysAstroSims/

--Richard

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA