I hope wrer not alone, it would be awesome to meet extrasolar life forms.

Oh man this will be so cool if something turns up with these planets. What are their names. Does anyone know.

The downside to this method, however, is that it does not tell us anything about the atmosphere's of these planets. Eclipsing methods can enlighten us to this.

Still, it's a very neat way to discover new exosolar planets.

Also keep in mind that these systems are on the magnitude of thousands of light years away, which makes contact through any means known to us highly unlikely. For example, if the system in the article were to harbor intelligent life, they would have had to have sent out radio signals toward Earth 5,000 years ago in order for us to hear them today. Our hypothetical reply would then reach them in another 5,000 years...

5000 years. That's pretty short.

it would be awesome to see what extrasolar organisms are in andromeda, our nearest galaxy. only 2000 light years away though!!!

Some one needs to get some Ansible working.

But it is true that communication with another intelligent species is, probably never going to happen due to the space between us.

-Word.of.Warcraft

The speed of light will be proven to be not a real barrier eventually. In the initial creation of the universe it expanded from a singularity to half it's present size in 1 second, vastly exceeding the speed of light, of course there were as many as 11 dimensions and no matter. It will take finding a way to change the present laws of physics, as they are understood, something that may start to happen at CERN starting this summer, to allow greater than light speed travel. I'd say from 50 to 100 years until this happens!

i think it would be so cool to meet an alien!

Well guys all i can say is the probabily of there to be alien life is highly likely. Either from the religious or scientific points we cannot be the only once because that would otherwise be just plain stupid.....We are the most intellectual beings on THIS planet, why would you think it's only you in this infinte space??? Area 51 probably has some intresting facts about aliens, however we, the public, may never know what really is going on there. There are alot of scientific factors that curently stop us from actually communicating with other solar systems. As stated above one of them is the speed at which we travel. We are SLOW, extreamly SLOW (compared to the forces in the universe). To ever have a chance of exporing its vast space we will have to travel fast or even faster then light it self. The fastest known object in the univers today. I assure you that if we continue to progress IF we do not blow our selfs up before that, we will be able to obtain such speeds. I mean look at 100 or so years ago. People said it was impossible to break the sound barrier, yet today we do so some 2 to even 20 times over! The fastest man made object to travel was a little unmanned satellite, and it traveled with speeds of up to 180,000mph! Yet still nothing compare to the speed of light's some 630 million mph. THE FUTURE IS WILD, lets all just take is along as it comes in one big BLAZING fast ride to come.