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1 posted on 03/06/2015 5:22:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Besides a stellar goldilocks zone, there’s a galactic one that most astronomers disregard. Terra is on the outer surface of the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way. Any deeper in is insufficiently conducive to life. This by Ball State astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.


55 posted on 03/06/2015 7:43:49 PM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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22 light years?

No problem.

If we could figure out how to travel back 22 years in time, we could get there in no time.


57 posted on 03/06/2015 7:49:04 PM PST by adorno (a)
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“Rocky world”
Surprised the Vols aren’t here serenading us.


62 posted on 03/06/2015 8:07:39 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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twice the size of Earth.

The gravity would be more Papa Bear than Goldilocks

65 posted on 03/06/2015 8:13:52 PM PST by Poison Pill
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If the Voyager spacecraft, launched in the ‘70’s had been sent on an intercept course to Alpha Centari, the next nearest star to the Sun, it would take almost 100 thousand years to get there.


71 posted on 03/06/2015 8:22:14 PM PST by Clay Moore (The future SHOULD belong to those who slander Muhammed.)
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74 posted on 03/06/2015 8:32:44 PM PST by Dallas59
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a habitable planet 22 light years away, eh?

where do we nominate astronauts to send there (like corrupt or sold-out or seditious WashDC office holders)

indeed, it would be just fine with me if the place turned out to be uninhabitable


77 posted on 03/06/2015 9:09:51 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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Some key words from the article:

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You may commence your stoning of this heretic.

82 posted on 03/07/2015 4:20:31 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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