First habitable Earth like planet outside Solar System discovered

Zeenews.com ^ | April 24, 2007

[Sopater]

Cool.

[HeadOn]

I don’t know about “habitable”, though. I’d weigh 1000 lbs!

[Egon]

Wake me when they discover that it's suffering from GlobalWarming™.

[Spktyr]

Now we need an FTL drive to get there.....

[Neville72]

“However, unlike our Earth, this planet takes only 13 days to complete one orbit round its star”

Wow, a 13 day year. The IRS would love it.

[Brilliant]

I was going to say that Al Gore would find this as good news, but if you’d weigh 1000 lbs, he’d probably weigh 5,000.

[Dreagon]

The problem is that red dwarfs are rather unstable stars and prone to sending out large bursts of Xrays from time to time.

[Chicos_Bail_Bonds]

Wake me when they discover that it’s suffering from GlobalWarming™.

You beat me to it, that is exactly what I was thinking. LOL

[Hegemony Cricket]

We could leave right now, and still not get there by breakfast...

[sully777]

How about dat.

[cripplecreek]

Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim. Interesting story anyway.

[Waverunner]

I suggest we immediately send Al Gore on a space shuttle to investigate.

[Gorzaloon]

According to the research team, the host star, Gliese 581, is among the 100 closest stars to us, located only 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra (“the Scales”).

Oh GREAT! If they have decoded our transmissions, they are now observing:

German lands airplane on Red Square, Moscow

Thatcher re-elected (again)

The INF agreement between the US and the USSR

Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.

Artists protest the ongoing Sistine Chapel restoration.

Condom commericals begin to appear on TV for the first time.

US budget reaches the trillion dollar mark.

Robert Bork was denied a Supreme Court appointment after opposition to his involvement in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was raised.

Jessica Hahn is implicated in the Jimmy Bakker scandal

[Izzy Dunne]

Wow, a 13 day year. The IRS would love it.

Wow, I'm almost 1500 years old!

[Red Badger]

I hope it’s water, because I’d weigh 300 pounds on that planet...........

[BibChr]

It’d be interesting to know how much of this is sheer speculation. 99%? 100%?

The nice thing about theorizing like this is that you will never be disproven in your own lifetime.

[Chena]

Now maybe we’ll find out where all those UFO’s park. ;)

[Sopater]

Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim.

I agree. I think that they only call it "habitable" because of the temperature. That is ignoring a whole host of things that could render it "inhabitable".

[TC Rider]

If it’s not M-Class, it’s not squat!

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Not to be Americentric or anything, but I'd like to read NASA's take on this group's findings.

Seems like there's more speculation than science.