In 1995 we started to find other planets outside of the milky-way, but no New Earth yet,?

Question

Do you believe we will find a New Earth like planet soon, we have found over 250 planets so far, isn't this exciting ?

The Bible mentions many creatures that fly and such, and it does not say that there is not another Earth, what are your thoughts ?

http://www.spacetoday.org/DeepSpace/Stars/Planets/FarawayPlanets.html

I did mean solar system thanks for the correction :)

Answer 1

my thoughts are we have enough problems here without getting involved with some aliens ...

Answer 2

First of all, we haven't found any planets outside the Milky Way. We have found planets outside our solar system, but every one of them has been in this galaxy. As galactic standards go, they've all been pretty close.

Secondly, we find those planets by making close observation of their parent stars. The mass of an orbiting planet will cause the star to "wobble" a bit, and it's that wobble that we detect. It takes a fairly massive planet to do that and have an observable effect - at least, with the tools and techniques we have available. I think the smallest planet we've found is something like three times as massive as the Earth, and most of them are Jupiter-sized or better. Part of the reason we haven't found a "New Earth" is that the things would be just too darned small for us to find at this point.

I have no clue if there's another planet capable of sustaining life out there, and I don't think anyone else does at this point either. It would be wonderful to find one, but we have a lot to learn before we'll be able to do that. Given the massive public support for space programs, I'm sure that'll happen real soon now. (/sarcasm)

Answer 3

The prophetic books are filled with information about the
millennial kingdon, but they tell us very little about the new world to come. Most of our information comes from Revelation 21-22. It begins:

Isaw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away [Rev. 21:1]

What will happen to the old world-system? It will burned to ashes in the aftermath of Satan's final attach [Reve. 20:7-10]

Peter described it as follows:

The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,in which
the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, but the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up [ 2 PETER 3:10 ]

Answer 4

My thoughts are that there are probably thousands of planets just like earth, but the chances of man discovering these planets is slim to none. Even if they discovered a planet that could possibly support life, they would never know because of the vast distance between them and the Earth. I also believe that we have already found some of these, but we don't know that they can support life.

Answer 5

In time they will find another planet like Earth. It's just at this time our technology is not extremely sophisticated to locate planets easily.

We currently look at stars to see if they "wobble". From these we can search for a planet or planets orbiting it.
In time we will be able to locate other planets and its just a matter of time again till we can find a planet with the same make up at the correct distance from its sun.

Answer 6

Very advanced space telescopes are being developed specifically to look for Earth like planets. I think it's only a matter of time.

EDIT: Also, I think you mean our solar system, not the Milky Way, which is our galaxy. There is a massive difference.

Answer 7

Eventually yes. When you think about it, with all the possible orientations and makeup of planets, having an earth-like planet is like a 1 in a billion shot. But luckily there are trillions and trillions of planets in our milky way alone.

Answer 8

a. gas giants are far far easier to detect than small rocky planets

b. we have found some rocky planets but still far bigger than earth

c. why in the wide world of sports are you already lamenting that we haven't found a new earth when it's been literally 12 years? come on, give us a friggin break.

Answer 9

I'm afraid, 250 is scratching the surface. As our techniques improve, we will gain the capacity to find more and smaller planets.

Answer 10

There has to be another Earth-like planet out there. I'm sure that god didn't stop at just one.

Answer 11

Meh. We were promised bubbles under the ocean to live in, ray guns, and flying cars by the year 2000. Don't have any of those, I don't hope for interstellar exploration anytime soon.