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1 posted on 02/20/2016 12:04:02 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

OK. Have we found 2 planets, other than Earth, that are remotely alike ?


2 posted on 02/20/2016 12:22:19 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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If I recall correctly from the book “The Life of Super-Earths” by Dimitar Sasselov, about half of stars sampled by the Kepler Space Telescope showed evidence of planets in the general ballpark to possibly support life (temperate enough for liquid water to exist, 1/2 to ten times Earth’s mass, etc.).


3 posted on 02/20/2016 12:53:39 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: LibWhacker

The problem is that so many people can’t tell science fiction from science. People want so badly for Star Wars or Star Trek to be real that they don’t think logically.


4 posted on 02/20/2016 1:20:02 AM PST by ozzymandus
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Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special after All

It's all a matter of perspective.

At the Conference of Xenobiologists of Omicron-II, scientists agreed that the recently discovered planet dubbed "Earth" was a fluke, and probably couldn't support life as Omicronians know it. "The planet is nowhere near the 'sweet spot' of temperatures between 250 and 350 degrees F and pressures of between 90 and 150 bar known to be necessary to support life," explained the leading scientist, Dr. Xfht-6, as he expanded his gill arches in a gesture of disappointment. "And its atmosphere is a poisonous cocktail of oxygen and water vapor." But perhaps the most damning argument against the development of intelligent life on Earth is the fact that, as of yet, no sub-quantic communications have been detected coming from the planet. "All of the thousands of intelligent species belonging to the Galactic Confederacy have relied on sub-quantic communication since time immemorial. Other technologies - like electromagnetic radiation, or 'radio waves' - are simply too weak to penetrate the hundreds of kilometers of ammonium crystals and liquid methane in which all inhabited planets are awash, let alone to then traverse the vastness of space, which is why we don't bother looking for them," the scientist concluded.

Regards,

6 posted on 02/20/2016 3:13:06 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: LibWhacker

“700 million trillion terrestrial planets”
This means many more episodes of Star Trek!


7 posted on 02/20/2016 11:35:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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