The “earth Twin” has already been found. It resides in the electronic bytes of all the EBT cards held by the alien leeches in this country.
A bit of sensationalism in the article. Perhaps sensationalism is needed to compete with global warming for funding.
"Humanity" is conscious? Does it have a blog in order to pose this reassessment? Will it be able to be accessed by all the alien civilizations out there? What if some of them are Islamic? So many aspects to this are ignored by this report.
I wonder what kind of McDonald’s this “twin earth” has? Walmart?
I can assure you: if “scientists” pre-conjecture, pre-conjure and pre-conceive what they will find (i.e., because it is part of their new style of agenda-science), I have every confidence they will “find” it.
That is because many of their number are obsessed with “finding life” out there.
But that isn’t science. That is wishful thinking.
What is science? Exploration and discovery (and extrapolation, if warranted), and letting the chips fall where they may.
I am for that. Find what’s out there, and report it. Just the facts, ma’am.
And they find that it has an alien population roughly the size of the U.S. alien population and the alien worlds leader has a the strange sounding name of Amabo Kcarab.
2013 might be the year Eva Longoria starts stalking me demanding I father our love child. Hey, it might be.
“While astronomers have found a number of exoplanets over the last few years that share one or two key traits with our own world....”
Yes and I thought in each of those now dozen or more cases the accompanying news story said they’d found an alien Earth. Guess maybe I misread the news at the time.
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez went further in his book, "Privileged Planet", making odds that there is probably not another earth-like planet around any star in the observable universe. Gonzalez, a pioneer of the "galactic habitable zone" theory, gives good reasons for this (in my estimation).
So, MSNBC, the chances are VERY GOOD that NO earth-like planet will be found in 2013.
Even if they find one, unless there is going to be an advanced ion drive probe headed in its direction, that would take probably 400 years to get there (assuming it’s 20-50 light years away), and another 20-50 years just to let us know what its found, it’s pretty academic.
If you see the politicians pushing for a GAFTA treaty (Galactic American Free Trade Agreement) you will know that not only did they find another earth, they found that those residents work cheaper than the Chinese.
And then again, it might not.
I’ll bet that they will not find it. That is because our Earth is dependent on a very rare colision that made the moon and made the earth with a very thin crust and a larger than normal Iron core.
Basically two large objects collided so that the earth got most of the cores and the moon got most of the crust.
This just is a very rare event.
The moon stablized our orbit and the thin crust allows for carbon recycling and plate techtonics and the big core allows for a beefy magnetic field.
We are just not going to stumble on another earth.