NASA: Finding Planets all over This Milky Bitch

So NASA's Kepler planet-hunting satellite. NASA reports as of Wednesday they have found 1,202 possible planets circling other stars in the Milky Way, tripling the planets known to humans. 50 of the planets are in the habitable zones of their stars. You know what that means! There are probably some green peeps over there getting their green on or whatever aliens do. NY Times article here.

But of course in true NASA fashion it's now going to take them like three years to confirm all this shit the Kepler is spitting out. But they assume about 90% of the objects it detected are real. And although some of these planets are in the habitable zones of their stars, none seem to be quite similar to Earth, which is of course our only model for a life-bearing planet.

Kepler planet-hunter

Alright the one thing I don't like about NASA is that it is essentially a money pit. We just through billions of dollars to them to build these huge things like Kepler, and all they really do is find stuff that barely matters. Say we do find an Earth with life on it out there somewhere. We cannot go there. The technology is just too advanced for our little brains. So what the fuck is really the point in all this? I mean if we just took the NASA annual budget and like, helped feed the hungry or did something else that helps humans, it seems like that would be more constructive. But what the hell do I know? Those nerd-bags from MIT need a job somewhere I guess.