Spock: Jim, it appears to be yet another earth-like planet--3rd this month.
Kirk: The series is on a tight budget these days. They can't afford the more elaborate special effects.
No wonder that scientists (and the media) buy into global warming if they get this anticiparyily excited about a (suspected) habitable planet that 33 THOUSAND YEARS AWAY FROM US! Geeeeze.
Spock: Jim, it appears to be yet another earth-like planet--3rd this month.
Kirk: The series is on a tight budget these days. They can't afford the more elaborate special effects.
Science uses a pretty wide definition of “earthlike” that would include everything from Mercury to Mars. I wish they would use another term but that’s the only one the media is interested in.
To me these planets are no less interesting but the idea of finding a truly “earthlike” planet is nearly astronomical. “Life supporting” or “potentially habitable” are better words.
I’m sure for a few hundred billion tax dollars the science scammers can find a planet several thousand light years from Earth that no one can ever get to to prove their guesses wrong. It’s government subsidy for those who do not believe in God, the Creator, and want us to pay for the employment of their secular priesthood.
The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez is a fascinating read. Life as we know it is possible only within an extremely narrow set of parameters. Distance from the sun/star, size & type of sun, size of planet, moon and size of moon with gravitational pull, liquid H2O, liquid iron core with magnetic field, plate tectonics redistributing crust materiel & building mountains (dry land), etc.. Any number of variables determine whether there’s an atmosphere and the planet keeps it.
For 85 years we have a great deal of speculation about a planet within our own solar system, Pluto. Turns out a lot of that stuff was wrong. You’ll pardon me if I’m skeptical of what they think of this latest discovery.
It’s not Earth 2.0. Small minds seize upon this discovery and construct an image of Earth’s sister planet, just like Earth in every way.
Little is known about it. Little more will be known about it. Talk about settling there is ridiculous and stupid.
The article didn’t mention that it’s 1,400 light-years away. It’s impossible to travel at the speed of light, so a round trip would take much more than 2,800 years.
Is it possible that all the hype is because this is sure to “disprove” the biblical account of creation?
33,000 years away from here? These stories are always stupid. For all they know the planet isn’t even still there.