Posted on 03/13/2009 5:27:10 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The space telescope Kepler blasted into orbit last Friday with a simple mission: Find another Earth. Or, in the best of all possible worlds, so to speak, a lot more Earths.
Since 1995, when the first extra-solar planet was discovered, after centuries of searching and an uneasy sense that there might not be any, astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets beyond our solar system.
The problem is that they were Jupiter-like gas giants orbiting rapidly and close to their stars. Now, with the aid of Kepler, astronomers hope to find rocky, smaller planets orbiting their stars in the "Goldilocks Zone," far enough from the star so it's not too hot yet close enough that it's not too cold to be habitable. Just like Earth, in fact.
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I still think we should send prominent Liberals on a mission of peace. It would get them off the planet and make them somebody else’s problem.
I just hope we someday find AlGore's home world so we can send his Fat GloBULL Warming Ass back there.
Douglas Adams wrote about such a plan. It was Brilliant.
If we accept an “infinite” universe, then there are an infinite number of planets just like ours. Finding one in the vastness is another matter.
Webb...Hubble. : )
No reason the liberals should have all the fun. We conservatives should go and leave the liberals here to “perfect” things.
We can say “Hi” to any intelligent life and eat anything that isn’t intelligent.
Calling all Class B Golgafringents!
It took 2 W Bush administrations to finally convince NASA that Earth is FRACKED.
Liberals already live on another planet, one with Plastic Reality where the only thing that counts is good intentions, and the law of unintended consequences has been revoked. It is a very sad place, full of self loathing and self denial.
Amen....
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I saw the second book in the bargain books at the bazaar...electronic bazaar ...otherwise know as Frys'
Thanks for the ping.
Better just to eat both.
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