To: Olog-hai
“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.
16 posted on
12/30/2012 5:41:53 AM PST by
John W
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: John W
Yes and I thought in each of those now dozen or more cases the accompanying news story said theyd found an alien Earth. Guess maybe I misread the news at the time.
Those who write the stories generally aren't the scientists. If a scientist uses the term earthlike, he uses it as a generality and anyone with a more than passing interest in science knows that "earthlike" means a rocky planet that could be anything from Mercury to Mars.
17 posted on
12/30/2012 6:14:19 AM PST by
cripplecreek
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