[Red Badger]

Webb XO Planet Ping!................

[jerod]

So... When do we leave, and how long will it take us to get there?

[faithhopecharity]

i hope we find some habitable plants soon
the politicians are destroying our lives on this one

we either move up there, or perhaps easier and less costly...we just shoot the politicians up there in a nice big rocket ship and be done with them

[faithhopecharity]

and as for the Arab and Iranian terrorists and their enablers and supporters, let’s send them right away to a far=away planet WITHOUT an atmosphere

[Magnum44]

[dead]

It’s 40 light years away, so our current fastest spacecraft could zip us there in about 68,000 years.

[Nateman]

Mercury was once believed to be tidally locked with the Sun. Tough call for something 71 light years away.

In order to be warm enough for life you have to be relatively close for a red dwarf star. Problem with that is that it close enough to be burned with occasional solar flares.

[Candor7]

An eye in the sky.

[The Louiswu]

I think what the author is trying to say is that true “Earth Like” planets are rare, and are so far away as to be little more than curiosities to us here on Terra Firma.

while I whole heartedly applaud searching the heavens, exploring Gods creation in depth and detail, it is wise to understand that for the foreseeable future and possibly forever we are more or less trapped on this Earth and within this solar system and we’d better find away to take care of what we’ve got and to get along with all the other residents of this little blue marble.

[Karl Spooner]

US think tanks are already planning for war.

[Rurudyne]

“Oh give me a home where the asteroids roam, and the pleebs and the fuzzy mugs play, where gravity’s low, and the water is so and the desert winds blow you away! Mars! Mars is my home! Where everyone’s short just like me! I wish I was where there is not so much air, and two moons would shine down on me,” — Spaced Invaders

[Tell It Right]

So in the goldilocks zone of distance from star. Good.
Perhaps has an atmosphere. Good.

Does it have a molten core producing a magnetic field?

Is the parent star close enough to the center of the galaxy to have enough heavy elements, but far enough away to not be bombarded with galactic radiation?

Many more examples of properties that have to be fine tuned are at https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/fine-tuning-for-life-on-earth-updated-june-2004. So, neat find? Absolutely. Proof that advanced life can happen by freak accident? Count me skeptical.

[rktman]

Attention hollyweird and dems!

[x]

Looks nice, but the commute is probably a b!tch ...

[fso301]

It is another sterile wasteland.

[edwinland]

Wouldn’t “The Best Planet To Look For Life” be Earth?

[InsidiousMongo]

Well if it’s anything like LV426, I’d say send all liberals there.

[BigFreakinToad]

I’ll go to get off this shit show of a planet

[Seruzawa]

At least it’s not LV-426.

[Alas Babylon!]

So it has an atmosphere. Is there any oxygen in it? You know, we need at least 19% or so to survive.

Our Earth is 21% O. The rest is mostly Nitrogen, with water vapor, less than half a % CO2 and Argon, among other trace elements.