A whopping seven Earth-size planets were just found orbiting a nearby star

Popular Science ^ | February 22, 2017 | Sarah Fecht

[C19fan]

To bodly go...

[tired&retired]

I always was a fan of the Trappist beers....

[Ciexyz]

Gene Roddenberry is smiling.

[cicero2k]

The demotion of humans, as special beings; continues.

[Java4Jay]

Let Liberals go there and they’ll screw that up too

[rktman]

Road trip! Who’s bringing the beer?

[LonePalm]

Earth First! (We'll strip mine the other planets later.)

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[bobcat62]

Can these planets support Democrat-based life forms?

[DannyTN]

I claim dibs on the planet with the best women.

[max americana]

can we send the libtards there?

[laplata]

Earth First! (We’ll strip mine the other planets later.)

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I had a bumper sticker that said that. A mining engineer friend had a bunch of them made up.

[RedStateRocker]

The God I worship is quite capable of creating, and loving, redeeming creatures every bit as wondrous as humans on a planet (or planets!) surrounding every star of the 100 billion in this galaxy and every one of the other 100 billion plus galaxies, too.

[Emergencyawesome]

Scenes like this sure to follow

[Crucial]

Seven class M planets? Mr. Sulu...

[from occupied ga]

To bodly go...

TO go maybe but to get there? like never.

39ly = 2.29E+14 miles. The fastest space craft we have is the pioneer which is going 82020 miles per hour. That works out to 2.79E+9 hours. Divide by 8760 hours in a year and you get 318,624 years for a one way trip.

[Phlap]

Near by being a loose term. Cosmically speaking, there is nothing near by.

[dp0622]

Maybe they are meant for our future domination as a gift from God but He was waiting to let us know at a future date since our ancestors wouldn’t have understood :)

Just because there might be life out there doesn’t mean it’s more advanced than us.

If one looks at the astronomical occurrences needed to have happened for life to exist here and advance as far as it did, I’d say we’re pretty special :)

[corkoman]

Got them right here:

[Crucial]

Thirty-nine light years away? That would take us what, two thousands years to reach at our present technological level?

[beethovenfan]

I’ll explore ‘em when I have my new body.